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Beating a "Frozen Shoulder" Diagnosis in 10 Days

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Advance Note: This post is for self reference later on, and maybe story telling purposes. I may have gotten lucky, or I might have done the right things with the right caretakers. But it worked, I am ecstatic, so writing down what happened.   For a little while this August we had a rougher time. Rougher than "just" a global pandemic and working from home with school-age kids and a 9 months-old baby to care for. Surprising baseline, right?  Now, we are doing veeeery well - thank you for asking! Grandma Tammy is visiting and things are smooth and happy. But the ill-fated conjunction of many things at once over a few weeks, combined with longer-term reduced self-care due to baby and pandemic times, triggered the surprisingly painful episode in today's blog post. How did it start? In short, Greg was taken out of commission due to surgery (he's fine now!) for over two weeks. He was strongly forbidden from lifting the baby, plus extremely tired and lying down for many days