Bill, the night after surgery was about as bad as I've ever had for pain, but now 4 days later the pain is less than before the surgery. I've not taken any pain meds today at all. The biggest thing is the long recovery. 6 weeks with no use of the arm at all, 6 mos. to full recovery.
Fortunately, my job is one not many can do. My boss says to come back and just ride around and point whenever I'm ready, and he will have someone to drive me and do the work.
They did mine with the scope, repaired a torn rotator, a torn biceps muscle, and a broken collar bone. I'm all wired together now. He said if I followed direction, I should get back to 100%