the Town’s Highway Department was, apparently, injured while lifting wheelbarrow loads of asphalt and suffered a “rare” rotator cuff tear – rare because the claimant is a young, healthy male.  The claimant treated for this condition, but never reported it to the employer, and even lost time from his employment; and when presenting his doctor’s excuse, did not inform the Town his lost time was related to a work-injury.  Whether the lost time and treatment were, in fact, related to the claimant’s employment could be debated, but the claimant took the position at trial that it was related.  The claimant also sought to prove that, although the condition had allegedly resolved, and then resurfaced months later during a game of basketball with friends, his injury was in the nature of an occupational disease, thus smoothing over the various breaks in temporal causation, and curing a potentially fatal notice defect as the claimant did not notify the Town of his work related injury until at least seven months after the accident