The Bar

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:36 pm

tony, I thought I told you I didn't have a cast. Just a rod of metal screwed into my bone

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:37 pm

G'night RG

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:38 pm

blueniteowl wrote:tony, I thought I told you I didn't have a cast. Just a rod of metal screwed into my bone

I know how you feel, I have a 8 inch titanium plate on my tibia, lots of fun huh.

tonytohono · Post by **tonytohono** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:39 pm

Oh, I guess I misunderstood you. I thought you had a cast until recently and that was why you couldn't go out. I thought that meant that you just had it taken off. Just my over active imagination trying to deduce where it ought not to be deducing!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:41 pm

mine was the femur, and I can't go out because I don't have a car anymore and no one wants to drive out a half an hour to come pick me up.

tonytohono · Post by **tonytohono** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:42 pm

See I am totally lost. That picture (x ray) hurts me just looking at it. Owww.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:47 pm

Blue what burb you in?

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:48 pm

I didnt walk for a year, it sucked. All better now, kinda

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:48 pm

Lino Lakes

tony, what are you lost about?

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:51 pm

Compass, GPS?

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:51 pm

heli, I was up right away, hurt like hell though. But I had my lovely walker with basket to put things in and then some crutches. Then I had a lovely limp and I'm mostly better too. My knee acts up sometimes and other times if I lay on my side I feel like I'm laying on a screw

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:54 pm

Broke tib-fib in 17 places August of 97, six surgeries including plate and bone graft, walked again August of 98, a goddam drag

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:55 pm

How did you break yours Heli?

tonytohono · Post by **tonytohono** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:56 pm

blueniteowl wrote:tony, what are you lost about?

I don't know where I got cast at, except for maybe I didn't catch the thing about the rod so I assumed that you had a cast. My mistake.

Anyway, I had a rod in my head once... but only for a few seconds... just in and out, right between my eyes at an angle going upward. Didn't feel a thing though.

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:57 pm

tonytohono wrote:
blueniteowl wrote:tony, what are you lost about?
I don't know where I got cast at, except for maybe I didn't catch the thing about the rod so I assumed that you had a cast. My mistake.

Anyway, I had a rod in my head once... but only for a few seconds... just in and out, right between my eyes at an angle going upward. Didn't feel a thing though.

Dude that's a lobotomy

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:58 pm

heli, that sucks. I think I'd prefer the femur to the tib-fib combo. I just always think of people with the cages holding everything together.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:59 pm

PARTY TIME IT'S 1500

blue hops up on the bar and starts to dance

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:59 pm

I'll join that club: tib plateau and fib, from snowboarding in to a tree at high speed. 2- 2" screws. Now out.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:00 am

Tony that sounds like the sort of thing I have just avoided a few times, how did it happen to you.

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:01 am

Geez, tony!

Heli, are you getting that plate out? I'd highly recommend it. Even just getting the screws out made a dif.

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:01 am

Zulegoona wrote:How did you break yours Heli?

Freak accident, I was long jumping, yep, at a zoo. The kids I was teaching were all jumping into the pit and there was a caricature of animals and you compared your jump to the animals. Well they wanted me to jump so I did, however the zoo had never prepared the pit for an adult to land. So I came down on my right leg, on concrete hard ground, flat footed all 210 pounds of heli and it shattered my tib-fib. Hurt like a sumbitch

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:03 am

well, at least you have a fun story to tell. Mine was just from a car accident. I would much rather it had been something freaky.

sparkle, what kind of difference did it make

tonytohono · Post by **tonytohono** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:04 am

helitack wrote:
tonytohono wrote:
blueniteowl wrote:tony, what are you lost about?
I don't know where I got cast at, except for maybe I didn't catch the thing about the rod so I assumed that you had a cast. My mistake.

Anyway, I had a rod in my head once... but only for a few seconds... just in and out, right between my eyes at an angle going upward. Didn't feel a thing though.
Dude that's a lobotomy

What? That's not what they told me... just a standard procedure... they even promised me. =O

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:04 am

that doesn't sound like any fun at all.

tonytohono · Post by **tonytohono** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:05 am

Zulegoona wrote:Tony that sounds like the sort of thing I have just avoided a few times, how did it happen to you.

I forget exactly, but I woke up in the big white room and the next thing I knew I was being wheeled into another room. Everyone had masks on and stuff. I forget the rest.

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:05 am

sparkletarte wrote:Geez, tony!

Heli, are you getting that plate out? I'd highly recommend it. Even just getting the screws out made a dif.

i'd like too but the doc is resistant to the idea. I used to telemark ski, doc said skiing is out. now someone special wants to teach me to snowboard. gotta do something

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:07 am

My doctor told me I could get mine out if I wanted to but it was no big deal to leave it in.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:08 am

I haven't broken anything My injury stories all involve routers, high speed bits and fingers,.. I was lucky I still have them all...

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:09 am

I've broken: skull, ankle, collar bone, and femur. No stiches though, just some staples from the leg 17 to be exact

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:09 am

It just feels better. Everyone I know who's had the hardware out says the same thing. I had less pain after getting them out. Lots of people around here have had metal (outdoor types that break things live here)- people told me before, get it out, get it out, and I thought, ah, what dif would it make. The aching stopped right away- and I'd them in for a year (they had to stay in that long). The weather doesn't bother my knee as much anymore either. Plus when they went in for them they tidied things up a bit.

Your bones are meant to flex- with the metal they can't move like they are suppossed to. Not to mention having a foreign body in your body. I wouldn't keep it in unless you absolutely had to. One of my friends had a rod along her tib, and she said the dif was amazing. I really think it's that flex that we need to have.