[TheForge] Forgeing limits after surgery (& outher safety hints)

[peter fels]

On Jul 28, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Ron Childers wrote:

> Was it a herniated disc?
Those plus bone spurs and cartilage and some other stuff where the spinal chord outa be, at several locations.
The good part is all that hardware meant i could avoid fusion.
> I just had one worked on and the MRI also
> showed a 4.4cm "mass" on my kidney to go with the herniated disc. You
> guessed it- malignant. It had to be taken out the old fashion way with
> 1/3 of my kidney.

Hoo boy!..You've the pathology report by now and know that it was contained, i trust.
If so, you lucked out brother bear!!! Pleased!

> That was Wed June 22, 2011; the day after poking the
> herniated disc on the 21st. I was run out of the hospital Monday and
> back at work on "light duty" Tuesday. I didn't do any forging 'til
> Saturday and then fairly light duty. The doc said, "If it hurts, quit".
> 
> The 25# lifting limit for a few weeks is for a reason: Even tough nuts
> like me have to have time to heal. If you get hurt you better follow
> doctor's orders and not rush it too much.

That's the word...no BLT ( bending, twisting or lifting)..i get to work up to 15# over the next 5 weeks.
> Taking a little time to be
> safe can pay dividends in saved time later. I admonished a friend to
> cover a sharp blade with duct tape while buffing a knife handle: he
> wouldn't- it went flip, grab, snatch & slice then to the ER. He lost a
> month of work and I had to show him how to forge with one hand, as his
> dominant hand was almost useless....
Ah, involuntary educations again.
I'm a little amazed that knife makers have any fingers left at all.
Delighted you dodged that one Ron!


> Ron C
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:15 PM
> To: paul at fongkong.net; Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
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> 
> Neither Paul;
> It's painkillers...just had my lower back rebuilt..
> The X-ray looks like a hardware store check-out counter.
> Poptarts, just puttem in the toaster, and they come out....
> mmmmmm, nice and warm with a creamy filling!
> 
> On Jul 28, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Paul Tomlinson wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Must be forge fumes - or perhaps its "that time of the month!"
>> 
>> <Confess i think "Poptarts" is a better name for some sort of
> inflatable sex toy,
>> and the common usage always gives me pause.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> - 
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