the leg
 

I started PT today Dr said everything looks good.... He admired his work on the screen yesterday..... haha I told him Ive fixed a few table legs in my day ,,,,just glue and screws.

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You'd crap yourself if you saw what was in my leg.

my neighbor is an orthopedic surgeon and he is always telling me they are the mechanics of the med field . looks like your second toe was broke at one time.

Frem I can say I feel for you brother... After this little ordeal I can only imagine what you went threw. Ive only been recliner bound for 8 weeks and now I'm just getting around.

Phat I never had a broken bone intil this one that I know of maybe that toes from climbing trees when I was little or mabe when I get on ladders roofs or scaffolds over 30 feet my toe nails grow like mad..... and my rear end puckers like a frogs.:you:

we should have a contest....

Contest?...I can throw in the rod they put my femur back together with...single piece went from hip to just above the knee right down thru the marrow...

this is getting like the scene in jaws where quint, hooper, & brody are comparing scars in the galley.

lol true.

I got a rod coming up through my talus midway up the fibula, then screws from the calcaneous? (heel bone) to the talus, and then screws from that other bone in front of the talus to the talus. total fusion, after 6 operations.

maybe yours may be longer, but I got more...

(old people contests rule)

rkc

That's nothing, I got a titanium plate across three vertebrae in my neck with six titanium screws, two in each vertebrae.
Amongst my many little boo boo's

I can probably still get the broken one from my first femur operation. It was a 2 piece 11MM titanium that broke right at the neck where the 2 went together. Maybe he still has the 3 pins and wire they took out from my first shoulder surgery. Then theres the now 14MM stainless 2 piece in my femur now, and about a 6" plate with 4 screws in my shoulder still. They wanted to do alot more to me, but at some point I had to say enough was enough as I wasn't really getting any better and I was tired of being laid up in bed and a wheel chair. I am about due for a hip replacement though as mine is dislocating on me every so often.

ouch, that don't sound good...

I'll take my fused foot over that no question...I get around pretty well. Just not "light footed" when dancing (which I don't do often). "Friends" call my dancing the "Sasquatch".

A few of my buddies got new hips, very happy with the results...

rkc

I don't dance anymore to say the least. Shortly after having my femur fixed I could, but not no more. It sucks because sometimes when walking the joint will hang up or my leg will just come out from underneath me and I go down like a rock. The worst is the muscle spasms in my shoulder. I look like a fish flopping on deck sometimes from my shoulder spasming.

Oh...I forgot about the screw in my left metatarcel...

Hey you old Fart: When I first read your post I thought you said a screw in your Metamucil :you:

Might you have read it last night...oh, I'd say about half past wobble-water??...:party:

Mr. Krinkle, wobble water, the two just don't go together:beer:

Damn, Im feeling better now after reading this. Tore my ACL and some ligaments 6 months ago on the right and now my left knee is aching and poping...back is killing me from moving some rediculously heavy furniture a week ago. I felt like I was falling apart till reading this thread. :nut:

You are doing fine my friend, comparatively speaking

Sorry we kinda jumped off track, Slinger...here's hopin yer back on that leg soon and runnin' rabbits just like in the old days...:clap:

I started PT on friday and man does it hurt ........ Ice and motrine:fight::fight::fight::fight::fight:But I guess no pain no gain.

PT will have a guy sweatin' bullets for sure...no need for water-boarding...just put captured terrorists in PT...they'll TALK!!...

Dang, yall make me feel lucky! A guy crushed my left hand against a tractor with a 16 lb. sledge hammer years ago but it works fine now and dosen't hurt. Guess I've been really lucky, swamp logging for 20 years and industrial maintenance for the last 13 years. Lumber, hope all turns out OK!