Feels like my thumb.....again
Slide out crossing a gravel path and my thumb got jammed in the shift lever. So stupid
This ER is jammed too, going to be a while. Wish I wasn't wearing contacts...
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Slide out crossing a gravel path and my thumb got jammed in the shift lever. So stupid
This ER is jammed too, going to be a while. Wish I wasn't wearing contacts...
That sucks.Feels like my thumb.....again
Slide out crossing a gravel path and my thumb got jammed in the shift lever. So stupid
This ER is jammed too, going to be a while. Wish I wasn't wearing contacts...
But you kinda nailed it on timing.
Yeah true. Though the trails here are absolutely perfectly mint right now.
We'll see. If it's busted, both the girlfriend and I will have useless hands. She's been off work since getting back from Tennessee. Balls!
Happy birthday @stoney !!!
Hfbd Stoney
I’m a sci-fi fan.
At the moment
Blake Crouch. “The Pines”
I like most of his stuff.
Ian Douglas “Star Carrier, Earth Strike book 1”
Just getting started, it’s ok so far.
That is one of my wife’s employees on a job site. She owns her own firm that maps and identifies landslides/mudslides/slope failures, etc. Needless to say they are super busy right now.
Waiting for the temperature to raise above 0 before going for a ride.
This is wild.
that reminds me...really need to get my toes/shoulder x-rayed....
Hyperextended ? I did that to a middle finger falling on a log while riding. It hurt.Results are in, it's a boy!
Why did we not get a 10 page thread discussing equipment choices before you ventured into triple black terrain over there?
HBD!
I dunno, maybe yeah. I think my thumb got torqued by the shifter paddle. 2nd time I've broken this piece of bone.
On the positive side, being a second go at it, I've already learned how to wipe with my left.
Recovering from neck disc replacement. I can go out and walk, so that's good. Not much pain at all, pretty amazing actually. Can sleep like normal too, don't have to wear a neck brace, etc. Way different from fusion from what I hear. Have to chew stuff small to swallow and voice is kinda fucked up, but again, almost no pain. Pretty f-ing amazing.
Did a bunch of overdue house cleaning. Taught myself how to restring a guitar. Grilling some burgers. Apparently the neighbors are having a vodka tasting party tonight.
That sounds suspiciously like an excuse just to get shit-tatered.
Back in grad school we would do shuttle snowboard runs on Lookout (from visitor center down the back toward 6) with my old scout. :coolstoryoldman:
There's two basic kinds AFAIK, one is "ball and socket" and just as you'd imagine, and the other is "captive" and flexible. My doc recommended the captive one for being active and everything. You can still rotate and flex your neck and everything, but supposedly this one is more stable/better for active people. Been through the MRIs and CT scans already. There was one particularly bad contrast-CT they have to do injecting crap in your spine, then they tilt you forward and it "runs through" your spine and up and the fluid feels "crushing". I never want to do that again. But I've had a lot of neck pain for a while and tried PT, epidermals, etc., no relief. Had two bulging discs that were pushing into the spinal cord, narrowing it significantly from what is considered normal. This is hopefully the source of it all.
Surgery wise, it's kind of a mind-f*ck for me, having been through quite a few surgeries, there is so much less pain than anything else I've had done. They lock your head in in a brace, flex your neck back, make an incision, "push all the soft stuff to the side", remove the bad discs, insert the new, close it up, and then wake you up. They had a drain in my neck and watched me for 2 days to make sure I wasn't draining too much, but again, very little pain. Could get up and walk around and everything. At the hospital you have to sleep in their bed, inclined, etc., but on release the doc said, "sleep normal, just make sure your neck is supported like normal" and don't have to wear a brace. It's swollen where they went through so I have to chew stuff small to swallow and I can't talk for very long due to the same, but doesn't really "hurt" either. Can move neck around, but not supposed to move to the limits and restrictions from anything hard, lifting, etc. Walking is encouraged though. But being able to sleep like normal and basically have no pain after a surgery is pretty crazy to me. Usually there's a ton of pain-management and trying to figure out how to survive, sleep, etc., for the first couple weeks, but doesn't seem to be the case here. They prescribe a few narcotics, a steroid, drugs to calm the nervous system, but the pain management stuff seems overkill to me.
According to the docs, it's like 6 weeks and then you an do "whatever you want", the basic thing is the bone has to bond to the insert, so that's the main recovery issue and then it's "run jump and swim" time. Then, PT, but according to my PT that's more for people who had significant weakness and got the surgery to fix the weakness, so rebuilding, but I'm sure I'll have some stretching and stuff, similar to the PT I was already doing, but I didn't have any weakness.
Quite a few people I know have had this with no complications and significantly improved QOL. That's what I'm hoping for. About 1.5 years ago I woke up one day and couldn't lift my head at all, it just hurt crazy. I also had one longer ride where it hurt so bad to lift my head and see the trail. Thinking back, this was probably one of the issues I was having on my "modern" geo Mayor where it basically tilts you forward and makes it harder to look up, plus a few other things. Since that first incident, the pain has been present, sometimes better, sometimes worse, almost always worse at the end of the day, but ran through all the normal options.
They said they don't really do many fusions anymore, except in specific cases where it's really warranted. I have a friend that is a PA at a spinal center who has competed with me in a bunch of endurance events and they really talked up this surgery too, as in "it's the best thing we do". So here's to hoping it works out.
Picked up our frozen half of a cow today. Local grass fed fancy deliciousness. Came out to $4.83/lb.
Reminds me of a question GF posed, "have you ever bought a cow before?"
I said "sure, in parts".
Happy birthday