Good news and sorta good news.
First the sorta good news. As noted in my opening post, I had a third operation on my left shoulder rotator cuff last September. All went OK until the first active range of motion therapy session where Therabands were used... sudden sharp pain. Ruh-roh! Over time the pain calmed down somewhat but around the 1st of February it suddenly started getting MUCH worse. Had an MRI done early this month and it confirmed that a small, full thickness tendon tear had occurred :banghead: so I stopped doing any physical therapy that caused me pain. Now pain is only present in certain positions, mostly involving the arm being straight out and above horizontal. I can live with that because otherwise, it's not bothering me that much. This is good news because the next step would have been to have a reverse shoulder replacement if this re-repair had completely failed. At least my shoulder is mostly functional.
Now the truly good news. So far I'm able to ride pain free. I've done three rides without shoulder pain. First was just 50 or 60 miles. 2nd was about 175 miles. Today I did almost 300 miles. So far so good. If I can work my way up to 500 miles in a day, I'll be happy as a clam and will consider myself fit for LD duty. :biker: