So update on all of this:
I underwent open reduction internal fixation surgery to repair an avulsion fracture of the greater tuberosity of the humerus along with a rotator cuff repair on 9/20.
And apparently I'm a total lightweight with respect to anaesthesia and was crazy nauseous from it.
And dang, nerve blocks are... wow. An experience.
And also, I don't really respond to narcotics... I must have responded to the fentanyl during surgery because I remember nothing until I woke up and then they put a nerve block in me. But once that wore off--and boy was that noticeable when it did--they put me on Roxicodone and an hour later, I was asking when that was supposed to take effect and they hit me with a small dose of morphine through IV and I was like, "cool, this should be like Trainspotting and I'm going to totally feel this" and again.. nothing. In fact, they put me on the oxy every four hours, but I didn't actually feel any pain relief until I added Tylenol to it. So after a day, I just skipped the oxy and have only been on Tylenol (and now Aleve) since the day after I came home, which is nice because I could skip out on stool softeners and I can drive, which is convenient.
I have to go to my postop meeting with the surgeon on Wednesday, where I guess I'll finally get to learn what the long term plan for recovery is. I'm hoping that the 4-5 months in this new sling was an overly conservative estimate.
Incidentally, I was really itching to throw today, so I putted a bit and then took my stack of sols and started a game of just flicking them off my finger (no body rotation, heavily reduced arm motion, about 60-80% power just coming from wrist and finger flick) and found that I could still get some decent distance and shot shape from them