[TheForge] Fall <grin> winter project.

[Larry Brown]

Give your self a break ;-)
Actually sit back and relax a bit and don't try to put the arm back in 
service too soon. When casts and what ever else they stick on you get off 
try to get some stretching exercises to do to help healing and repair the 
muscles. Do this before you start being a hard headed metal worker who 
cleans the shop, changes the heating system, fixes the car, etc because 
your bored after a week and the doctor won't clear you back to work.

Just saying this cause I get stupid when I'm bored and take care of the 
things that I think I can (I usually set the injured part back unintentionally)

Take care heal up and then get back in the swing of things
Larry Brown


At 12:40 PM 9/24/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>Two tuesdays ago I was loading an excavator on a tilt top trailer at work 
>and somehow fell off it, pile driving my left arm into the ground. I 
>shattered my humurus into nine useable pieces and got to spend 8 days in 
>the hospital, returning home last wed.
>
>There were two surgeries, the first, the day of my injury to stabalize 
>things, stop bleeding and repair or mitigate damage. I was equipped with a 
>metal tinkertoy looking thing called an external fixator and 4-5, 6"+ long 
>bone screws to act as a splint. Being an open fracture there was a serious 
>risk of infection, compounded by my diabetes so they had to leave it 
>accessible to drain, monitor and treat.
>
>The second surgery was a week later after the antibiotic round, swelling 
>and bruising had gone down and the reconstructive surgeon git back to 
>town. <grin> This surgery lasted around 6 1/2 hrs. and according to the 
>doc went well. His biggest priority was to make the two piece joint as 
>good as possible. He says it went together easily leaving a smooth contact 
>surface and is well aligned. The rest of the bone went together well, 
>though he had to move a nerve to avoid damage.
>
>It'll be a few weeks before I'll be worth much as anything except to keep 
>an easy chair from blowing away. Even typing is a PITA, I'm used to 
>writing around 50wpm and am now in one hand hunt and peck. I'll be mostly 
>lurking because typing is such a pain so please don't think I'm snubbing 
>anybody, I'm only up to a little if this at a time.
>
>Be careful out there will ya?
>
>Frosty
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