Some surgery fun: Hup fixes his AC Joint separation

Posted By Hup | June 22, 2009

Over 3 months ago I wrecked my bike like an idiot (only a block and a half away from my apartment) and jacked up my shoulder something fierce. I don’t get injured a whole lot, but whenever I do it usually happens at the most unexpected times like it did this time. It never happens when I’m do something really stupid like ramping something, dodging a car or racing a scooter down a major city street — it happens when I’m simply riding my bike home from work, just wanting to get home to see Stephanie. Since I wasn’t wearing a helmet (like a real idiot), I’m just happy that I got away with just an AC Joint separation and not some type of head injury. Even though I had the worst possible case of AC Joint separation, it’s still much, much better than landing on my noggin’ and doing some serious damage to that big brain of mine.

Well, like I said, it’s been nearly 3 months ago since my wacky accident happened and about 3 weeks ago I had surgery to fix the AC Joint separation that I unexpectedly gave myself during the first week that we lived up here in San Francisco. The surgery went great and I’m finally healed up enough to sit at a computer for longer than 20 minutes, which means that I can thankfully start making some videos again (they take a little bit o’ time to put together).

To celebrate the fact that I’m finally healing up and that I can start playing seriously on the interwebs again, I thought that it was only necessary to put together a video of my fun surgery experience that Stephanie snagged some clips of before and after I went under the knife.  Check out the video of my surgery fun below or over here on YouTube and be expecting more and more videos from us again now that my shoulder is officially on the mend (and now that we have Frank!).

Filed Under Frank, adventures in bicycling, new/random experience, san francisco, video

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    4 Talkies! to “Some surgery fun: Hup fixes his AC Joint separation”

    1. Murray Newlands on June 22nd, 2009 3:13 pm

      Hey Hup

      Glad to see you are getting so much better. This blog is really kicking.

      Murray

    2. sarah on June 23rd, 2009 9:28 am

      Hey Stranger…I keep following your life via the blog…and holy hot legs in the hospital gown :) steph is a lucky gal LOL

      I think what you might need to get better is some YUMMY chocolate :)

      http://seriouslybysarah.blogspot.com/2009/06/cholive-company.html

      miss you…hope to make it out to SF sometime this fall!!

    3. Stephen D on February 11th, 2010 12:20 pm

      HI Hup.. are you gald you got the surgery? I did the same thing. My nub is frickin huge and uglEEEE!! did the surgery do the trick.. do you recommend it?
      Thanks..

    4. Justin Alcober on March 2nd, 2010 3:13 am

      Hi Hup,

      I was researching about AC Seperations surgery and your youtube video came up. Its kind of nice to actually see somebody go through the whole surgery and rehab in a positive attitude like you did. I’m a month in on a Grade III AC seperation and I’ve been contemplating wether or not to get surgery. I’ve been a bit depressed about the whole ordeal lately because I’m a pretty active person and sports and competition is everything to me.

      I was just wondering how your shoulder is healing up since the surgery? Is everything back to normal? Is the bump still present? How big is the scar from surgery?

      A response would be greatly appreciated and will help me out tremendously on deciding wether or not to have surgery.

      Regards,

      Justin Alcober

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