A few weeks ago I was route setting in the gym and messed up my left shoulder. I went to the doctor who believes that I tore my rhomboid (the muscle between the shoulder blade and spine). It's an injury I've never heard of a climber getting before but I suppose it doesn't seem to far fetched either. I've been icing it and "taking it easy" for the last 3 weeks or so.....
By taking it easy, I mean I've been using my right arm for everything. I set a new route at the gym called "Torn Rhomboid" that I set entirely with my right arm. My shoulder has recently started getting better and I decided to see how it would do with some "easy" bouldering yesterday. I think it held up pretty well and I haven't felt any pain in my left shoulder this whole day today. Needless to say, I am really psyched that it is healing. I was really worried that it would take like 2 months and I would miss some prime climbing weather. As it turns out, I've missed a few good climbing days but overall the weather hasn't really been that great anyway! I guess I'm lucking out.
I've had some recent urges to go crack/trad climbing. I don't have very many friends that do that kind of thing though :(.
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