I'll see your bursitis and raise you two torn rotator cuffs. Had one done in June and the other at the end of October last year, so was basically armless until around march or so when I finally started getting some significant strength back in the first one. Actually, the first one was a repeat. Tore it before 2013, got it repaired, then slipped and fell in November 2018 on my brand new composite decking stairs on my front porch (that I built that summer). If I tear the right one again, I'm lookin' at a complete reconstruction. I don't use the front stairs in the winter any more.
Roofing has NEVER been fun. Anyone that says it is must be a sadist. I'm not very far behind you in age. I can remember carrying shingles up the ladder when I was a kid to keep my step-dad supplied while he nailed them down on the additions we made to our house (as well as replacement of the old stuff). I dared not let him run out. No way could I carry a full bundle. It weighed more than I did at 14. I probably weight 85 pounds, soaking wet. I made a lot of trips up and down that ladder. But, I'm not a teenager any more.
Doing this work has actually helped with some of the stiffness in my left shoulder. It simply didn't want to get better with the normal exercises that I have become an expert on through Physical Therapy. I was a man of constant pain. But, seems I've just traded the shoulder pain in for the pain associated with desiccated disks at L2/L3, L4/L5, and a bulging disk at L3/L4. Some say pain is Mother Nature's way of letting you know you're still alive. Point made, MN, now BUGGER OFF!! Might be time for another trip to the moon room (epidural). I've had about a half dozen or so. Doesn't fix anything, but lets me live with a buggered up back a little longer before I have to get some shims installed to separate the vertebrae enough to stop 'em from pinching the nerves. Keeping my back from hurting is worse than keeping the valves adjusted on an old air-cooled VW.
Gettin' old ain't for sissies. I remember folks telling me "One day you'll be old enough that no one will have to tell you not to do that." They were right, LOL.
Roofing has NEVER been fun. Anyone that says it is must be a sadist. I'm not very far behind you in age. I can remember carrying shingles up the ladder when I was a kid to keep my step-dad supplied while he nailed them down on the additions we made to our house (as well as replacement of the old stuff). I dared not let him run out. No way could I carry a full bundle. It weighed more than I did at 14. I probably weight 85 pounds, soaking wet. I made a lot of trips up and down that ladder. But, I'm not a teenager any more.
Doing this work has actually helped with some of the stiffness in my left shoulder. It simply didn't want to get better with the normal exercises that I have become an expert on through Physical Therapy. I was a man of constant pain. But, seems I've just traded the shoulder pain in for the pain associated with desiccated disks at L2/L3, L4/L5, and a bulging disk at L3/L4. Some say pain is Mother Nature's way of letting you know you're still alive. Point made, MN, now BUGGER OFF!! Might be time for another trip to the moon room (epidural). I've had about a half dozen or so. Doesn't fix anything, but lets me live with a buggered up back a little longer before I have to get some shims installed to separate the vertebrae enough to stop 'em from pinching the nerves. Keeping my back from hurting is worse than keeping the valves adjusted on an old air-cooled VW.
Gettin' old ain't for sissies. I remember folks telling me "One day you'll be old enough that no one will have to tell you not to do that." They were right, LOL.