Back on a bike

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

<turns green>
<reaches for wastebasket>

 

You must be stoked. I think you should celebrate by giving me the
'lovely Louise's' phone number. Tell her I'm your new carer if you
like, so I need to know all the details (apart from how to wipe your
arse).

Does bone generally take a rest from growing, or are you 'special'?

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1. She's married, with kids
2. Get in the queue

heh. I was warned by the original surgeon in the IoM that the trauma
could be significant enough that the bone wouldn't heal. Apparently,
with a clean break, when you put the bits back together, everything
lines up ok (blood vessels, etc), and it gets on and heals. But, when
the broken ends don't really match properly, then the process just
doesn't get started. Or something.

<thinks>

Why don't we have a resident orthopedic surgeon on ukrm?
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She'll leave him - they always do[1].

I'm a patient chap - I can wait 'til she's left all of them too[1].

I think I'll just stick with the 'special' tag - it's easier.

They have highly paid jobs & spend all day surrounded by nurses - what
would they want with us?

[1] Lemons have got nothing on me atm.

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**** **** ****. Back on the morphine for a while, I imagine :-(((

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Nice one, Champ. Feels good, doesn't it?

 

We don't need one, we have you and Frag to find these sort of things
out for us.

 

Well our 'resident accountant' can't count, and our 'resident
journalist' can barely string two words together. A surgeon would
probably kill all of AADP.

D.

 

Well done.

I got back in the car today, for the first time in 17 days. Felt odd &
good. Hurts like **** but at least it's physically possible now.

You gurt big blubbing pansy

 

Well, the disappointment was more than made up for by getting out of
the chair and onto crutches.

Actually, I doubt it. I imagine that it's a fairly straightforward
procedure - 3 days in hospital, I reckon, with a femoral block for 24
hours after the op, then ordinary painkillers after that. The femur
never hurt too much after the initial op, and most of that pain was
down to soft tissue damage anyway, I think. I mean, its not like
there's nerve endings inside your bones.

Thanks for the text, btw.

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**** yeah. Drove over to F's this afternoon, had something to eat,
chilled out, drove home again. Feel like a human being again.
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I prefer to think of it as 'comfortable with my emotions'.
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Nice one. You'll soon be up to fucking her in a swimming pool again.

We look forward to a full report.

D.

 

Cool. Small steps, and all that.

Well let's hope so. Amazing what they can do with internal
anaesthetics these days, innit?

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Indeed. Whilst I've only spent 17 days without driving it's nice to be
independent again, without having to use a useless Stagecoach bus or taxi.

 

I'd never heard of a 'block' before this accident, but I had one on
the femur, and then another one was used on my arm when they did my
hand surgery 10 days later. A quick google doesn't turn up any useful
layman's guides, but I can say that my experience has been pretty
positive.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_block
http://www.nda.ox.ac.uk/wfsa/html/u11/u1112_01.htm

 

Yeah, I found that, but it makes no ref at all to ortho surgery, and
seems to be all about short time periods.

That's more like it. It does say "It is recommended that all blocks
on major nerves be carried out on patients that are awake or only
lightly sedated", and have no memory at all of it, but I guess I could
have been lightly sedated for pre-op. Also, my recollection is that
it lasted at least 18 hours, if not more.
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There's another technique that's probably not just a 'nerve block'
which is not mentioned there. It involves inserting a catheter into
the vein and delivering small doses of anasthetic over a period of
time, effectively continuing th nerve block indefinitely. I first saw
it used on a young lad who pulled pulled his ACL off his femur while
skiing with us last season. They left it in for a couple of days at
least, IIRC.

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My brother is on one at the moment, after surgery.
His formerly pristine 180 Jota is still predominantly straight, just
scuffed to ****. He stacked it at Mallory at some vintage bike meet
a few weeks back and tore his rotator cuff very badly.