[Skookum]

i've shrunk, kinda.....
When the doc put the rod in my left leg they had to cinch it up a tad to get more bone for the screws to take. He told me i'd be an inch shorter in one leg.
The crazy thing is i've always been an inch taller in that leg. It's the reason i've got scoliosis and i've worn a lift in my right shoe ever since i was a kid.
Today just to double check i measured myself by standing on each leg and sure enough i'm totally even now.....
Funny thing was when people asked me how tall i was i'd always say, "depends on which leg i stand on." People would never understand that i was being serious, they'd laugh it off thinking i was just being my normal nerd-ball self.
i'm no longer 6'2'' on my left, i'm officially 6'1" on both legs now.....

 

[Toshi]

i've never heard anything like this before... er, congrats?!

 

[Skookum]

i've never heard anything like this before... er, congrats?!

haha thanks.... i think?

 

[Toshi]

it reminds me somehow of the movie gattaca, where characters would have their lower legs broken either to drop out of society or for stretching treatments to get taller

 

[Roasted]

Congrats...I think. Must feel greaton the ole-hips

 

[Honeywell]

it reminds me somehow of the movie gattaca, where characters would have their lower legs broken either to drop out of society or for stretching treatments to get taller

Actually I've heard of similar things being done in China. I guess being tall is the new status symbol

 

[stringcheese]

it reminds me somehow of the movie gattaca, where characters would have their lower legs broken either to drop out of society or for stretching treatments to get taller

actually the one dude who dropped out of society was in a car wreck or something and couldn't be an athlete anymore so he sold his identity to another guy, who had to become taller to be more like the other guy.

 

[JRB]

Congrats Skooks

 

[Toshi]

actually the one dude who dropped out of society was in a car wreck or something and couldn't be an athlete anymore so he sold his identity to another guy, who had to become taller to be more like the other guy.

the implication was that the car wreck guy had walked in front of the car intentionally...

 

[Skookum]

Rumors of me hooking up with Uma Thurman as a result of all this are untrue, but i can always hope......

 

[Tenchiro]

The important question is, how will this affect your log dancing career?!?

 

[Skookum]

The important question is, how will this affect your log dancing career?!?

i'm not worried if that falls thru, i can always sell crap on QVC.

 

[Greyhound]

So........does this mean you have to ditch the 165mm crank on the left?

 

[Skookum]

So........does this mean you have to ditch the 165mm crank on the left?

haha i guess so dammit!

 

[DBR X6 RIDER]

Wow, that's pretty nuts Tim! I guess busting yourself up turned out to be a good thing?!?

Hope to see you in the woods again real soon.

 

[TN]

that kicks ass. it would have sucked if they shortened your third leg.

 

[derekpearson]

congrats skookes!@#@!#

 

[oly]

See tim.... it was in the cosmos that you'd one day get that longer leg fixed.....

 

[SkaredShtles]

Hey Skookum. 1986 called and they want their phrase back........

-S.S.-

 

[Skookum]

Hey Skookum. 1986 called and they want their phrase back........

-S.S.-

aaahhh 1986 i was in art class making "JISM" brand hand lotion in commercial art class. No wonder i'm a roofer now......

 

[SkaredShtles]

aaahhh 1986 i was in art class making "JISM" brand hand lotion in commercial art class.<snip>

Whoa! Were you an "art model"? Was this "performance art"

-S.S.-

 

[Ciaran]

Hey Skookum,

Are you walking yet? Riding? I am finally walking without the crutches, albeit very slowly, but walking is walking. Glad to hear you're healing up with side benefits.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

that kicks ass. it would have sucked if they shortened your third leg.

Actually, I hear he's perfectly level now when in his tripod stance.

J

 

[Skookum]

Hey Skookum,

Are you walking yet? Riding? I am finally walking without the crutches, albeit very slowly, but walking is walking. Glad to hear you're healing up with side benefits.

Yah you're catching up to me. i've been walking around without crutches for over a week now. My tibia took a while longer to heal up, so then when that pain went away, i started getting pain in my knee from the split tendon. So i've been goin to phsical therapy and that's helping out alot. The swelling is just now starting to go down a little, but i still have to ice and elevate it. But right after this post i'm going to go for a road ride, first ride of taking the bike off the trainer. Walking and riding is still painful but if you want to heal faster you gotta keep working as hard as you can.

 

[Skookum]

Actually, I hear he's perfectly level now when in his tripod stance.

J

Haha no way, maybe that'll be true someday with my balls......