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Thanks man, means a lot.

Seriously though, its 2:45 am and I am sitting here eating a popsicle crying ever so slightly due to the fact that my shoulder is twice the size its sposed to be.

So here is what happened to the best of my knowledge.

They gave me a nerve block which was sposed to prevent me needing to be put totally under, but the dude didnt block it along the dermatome that the surgeon cut, so my only thought is the way they found this out is by slicing through my goddamned skin and waking me up, though I do not recall this.

Then after the procedure the doc came out and told my wife and ma that they could see me in 5 minutes but 2 hours later they still didnt, why you ask, because my o2 was low and my vitals dropped to dangerously low places.

So once again, I dont remember any of this, but down went a tube into my airway to pump my ass with oxegen.

The pain is so fucked that percocets arent even glazing the surface.

Oh well life goes on, I just figured you folks in VBBF world would enjoy a good read

I will get a pic, I tried uploading one to photobucket but it wont let me right now for some reason

Seitan was invented by buddhist monks, anything good enough for them is good in my book

I am down for DC, hopefully we can get out to portland too.

kick ass dude, is there anything I could do to help with$$$, maybe I dont know, I am high on percocets and in mad pain right now so I cant think of anything, but if there is let me know.

Tom

VBBF waterbottles?

I want one

Fuck my shoulder hurts

I have got surgery today so I didnt ever beat gfxlonghorn, didnt even try due to my camera man being on a freight boat on the great lakes.

So the winner is gfxlonghorn, congrats dude, now lets see someone challenge this dude

on a side note please check out my surgery posts, I will be getting a post cut up shoulder shot soon

I did right before surgery today, which blows, my arm is now useless.

One way to train for it is to be able to do mad pullups, then you can grab the bar with say your right hand, and grab your right wrist with your left and do pullups, and eventually you can just use the right

I stopped helping kill cute fuzzy and soft creatures that make me smile and giggle like a little kid when I see em.

Oh yeah, and I get to piss people off daily when wearing my VBBF shirt

It seems through my readings that only the synthetic form is used now because Melatonin derived from animals carrys the risk of disese transmission, but I wouldnt take it untill I called the company or emailed and asked where they get the ingredents

Thank you my Canadian friend

Well I just finished my last workout

Here are the chest day and ab and arm day results, fuck I am sad.

Flat bench dumbell press-70*4 60*10

Incline dumbell press 55*6

Decline dumbell press 50-15, wouldve done more but fear of shoulder popping out kind of intense at this point

Flat dumbell flyes 30*10

Incline machine single arm 70*8

Abs

Side bends 45 lbs plate *15 each side

Standing rope crunch 120*15

Seated twists holding a 12 lbs dumbell 15 each side

Low abs crunch 25 per set

arms

Barbell curl for size 90*4

for stamina 70*8

Seated barbell curl 60*10

Concentration hammer curl 30*10

Wide grip curl 70*10

Skull crusher 70*8

Tricep press 150*10

Rope press 110*10

wrist curls (flexor group) 30*30

(extensor group) 20*15

Thats it before surgery tomorrow.

Posting some final pics from the last workout just to remind myself of the shape I was in

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b215/zinzen/0907081132.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b215/zinzen/0907081153.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b215/zinzen/0907081847.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b215/zinzen/0907081857.jpg

I appreciate all the comments I have gotten, and all the views also, for some reason this has been very very stressful for me, none before really have been.

Lifting has been my life solid for about a year and it makes me horribly sad to know that I will watch some of this progress go down hill, which is why I started this log.

Either tomorrow or the next day I will have a pic of the damage done from the surgery, untill then I sit and wait.

Peace,

Tom

Exess skin with eventually remodel itself just like the rest of the body, but unfortunatly this could take a long long time.

There are no quick fixes here, I am sorry.

Surgery is all the quick fix you will get, congrats on loosing enough fat to have the loose skin though

Ok todays the last day before I get cut, 7:30 am tomorrow.

Shoulder day yesterday, I took it easy since my shoulder can fall out whenever it deems good to do so.

Shoulder dumbell press, arnold style- 35*10

Lat raises- 20*10

Rear delt raises-10*10

front delt raises- barbell- 70*10

shrugs-230*10

seated shrugs dumbell machine-140*10

Thats it for the last shoulder day

dude thoracic outlet syndome aint shit man, we in massage fix that all the time, I gotta tell you it would be much better for you if that was the problem, all it is is releasing your scalene muscles.

dont listen to people who dont know what they are saying, itll just scare you.

Awesome question, for I have no damn clue how to pose for this one

free gift huh, hmm i aint got much of a body but i sure do like free

Hey man I feel for you, I dont know what your feelings are on alternitive healing but I know personally of people who got a lot of relief of lyme disese with acupunture.

Besides that I think you can do a lot of good with the lifts you can do I just feel you are getting in the way of you, you dig?

Sometimes we gotta learn to get the hell out of our own ways

Ok so I had what I figure will be my last back day so here are my best lifts for back.

160*1 for lat pulldowns, 145*10 normal lat pulldowns.

100*10 close grip bent rows

140*10 rows

Then I do lower trap work that I cant really name but it used close grip pullys above my head and thats 35lbs for 15

And I also do middle trap rhomboid work using a row machine and thats 70lbs each arm for 15

Single arm rows 70*10 each arm.

And thats about it for back folks.

On a side note Pantera is the greatest band ever

are you saying my legs and abs need work joe?

Ha they really do though, well my abs are strong as shit, just pudge over em, but I have been holding off on leg workouts for about a month and a half to focus on building everything else, simply because I knew thats all I would have.

I will be after this last shoulder is done.

Thanks for your cares people.

Lets see, this is my 3rd shoulder, I had 2 catarac surgeries, tonsils, wisdom teeth, umbilical hernia, inguinal hernia, some weird thing where they stuck a massive needle in my stomach, stuck a needle in my toe and cut it all open, and 2 that I dont really want to talk about.

Yeah needless to say its kinda hard to get painkillers that work now

yeah and that was as simple as i could make it sound

Im down for vaca in pitts