Gym Injuries

I injured myself in the gym and it's been a bit of a delayed process to reach the point I'm at now, which is surgery on June 2. Overall a minor(?) procedure, short operating time and a (mostly) unconcerned surgeon. I should have gone to the emergency room after it happened, but this injury is particularly strange in that there hasn't been any pain and no loss of mobility...so it didn't ever feel like an emergency. I made an appointment with my primary care physician as soon as it happened, but soonest available was two weeks after the fact. So then I was left for two weeks to hem and haw over the emergency room fee, the potential of just being referred to my PCP anyway, ... and again, no pain, no loss in mobility—I didn't know what was going on. Anyway, the surgery is on my left bicep, which is my dominant arm, and I keep having to remind myself that I won't be able to use my left hand for two or three weeks. This is hard to reckon, but the surgery is necessary; the options were either to have basically no strength in my left bicep or surgery. This happened just before I moved, which was a minor pain, so I would have stopped going to the gym anyway (and I certainly haven't wanted to go back since my injury), but the time away has let me reflect on what I'm doing in the gym, how I want to work toward my goals in the gym, and especially the kind of equipment I want to use. I'm simplifying everything once I can return. Going back to a focus on compound exercises and being more regimented about resting. I don't think I was overworking myself, necessarily, before, but clearly I pushed my body too much. (I injured my arm using the preacher curl bench and my injury is, like, the worst one on that particular equipment. So the move back to compound exercises is a move away from these kinds of isolation. Eventually, I will probably work in specific isolation exercises—that is, machines—but I will probably avoid most free weight, isolation exercises.) I don't know, it's going to be a long three to four months of recovery. Hopefully, after the first two or three weeks, I start up some, I don't know, running or something. I'm really doing no exercise of any kind right now, which I need to change. I don't feel a compunction to exercise or guilt or anything around it, just that exercising has been part of my routine for years now and I'd like to incorporate it again. The weather seems to have finally turned over to warm spring and (soon enough) summer, so I'll at least be walking around more.