Post Shoulder Surgery, fails and successes

I've been out of post surgery for about 3 weeks now. Originally, I had surgery back at the beginning of May for a dislocated shoulder, torn labrum, and broke the head of the humerus. 2 weeks later, I had a Staph infection that caused me tons of pain resulting in the week prior to the 2nd surgery, I was given a shot of Diloded, Medical Fentynal, and Oxycodone within an hour to just numb the pain then I had another break of my shoulder. They took out 6 anchors and replaced them with sutures. I've been doing the pendelum swings gently 3x a day and within the last week have started to use oils and heating pad onto the shoulder to start working the blood flow into the shoulder for elasicity. I haven't gotten the go ahead yet on removal of my brace on my shoulder but about a few hours a day, I sit without it. How long should it be before a. I need to start PT (and I'm also going to be working with a Massage Therapist/Reflexologist) and b. once out of the immobilizer, will I just be in a regular sling? I want to be able to have strength back by October but don't want a relapse and trying to keep everything slow and easy but there's days like today I want to work on stretching the shoulder until i feel light pain (with the use of my other arm as a guider). Also, my shoulder by the humerus is so tight right now and it still feels like there's something very solid where the surgery happened. Finally, I noticed a while back that my shoulder muscle in the surgerical arm dips way down, like it isn't formed or solid. Is this normal? Thanks everyone in advance.

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