Supraspinatus repair, month 14 update, overhead press is back

Month 14 after supraspinatus repair. Full thickness tear, degenerative, no single incident. 57 years old, retired fire service, wanted to press overhead again and was told by two people that I should let that goal go. Timeline, short version: - Six weeks in a sling. Miserable. Did the passive range work exactly as told, mostly out of boredom. - Weeks 6 to 12, active range. Slow, discouraging, could not reach a top shelf. - Month 3 to 6, strengthening. This is where it turned. Band work, then light dumbbells, then actual load. - Month 6 to 12, boring consistent progression. - Month 12 onward, pressing again. Not what I lifted at 40. More than I expected at 57. Peptide part, since this is that forum: started a compounded peptide around month 4 after a telehealth review, with my surgeon's office aware. I cannot tell you it did anything. I can tell you my range progression from month 4 to 7 was ahead of the printed timeline I was given, and I can also tell you I did every single rep of my home program which is apparently rarer than it should be. If you are two weeks post op and reading this at 3am in a sling: it gets better, it takes about a year, and the sling weeks are the worst part psychologically and the least important physically.