How’d that all work out for you? I had a tear repaired in the left shoulder in 2008 another in the right in 2010. It is painful, but it is just the shoulder, everything else will work good so you can do many of your normal activities while you recover.
For me, it didn’t stop there. Both rotator cuffs so badly trashed in 2014 I could see it in the x-rays and I had known x-ray to be useless for that up until then. I had a total reverse joint installed in the right shoulder because it was my dominant arm. Once that was done, my left started feeling better since it no longer had to do absolutely everything. Still gotta get that one done, waiting for Medicare next year.