It has been over a year since my shoulder surgery in Spring 2021 to repair a torn labrum, and I’ve spent the past couple months reflecting on that harrowing experience. To give some background, for many years, my right shoulder had been bothering me after a volleyball injury. The labrum is a thick piece of tissue deep in the shoulder joint that keeps the ball of the joint in place, and the tearing had led to continual discomfort, inability to do several activities and exercises, and the pain was even to the point that sometimes I would simply turn over in my sleep and wake up feeling like my shoulder…