Blog: It walks!

But both entries seem to be the same length.

 

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

He's photoshopped the X-rays.

You can tell, the shadows are all wrong.

 

Sweet, man.

Pinocchio legbones, that's what you need now. And lie a lot,
obviously.

Keep drinking the milk.

 

Good news

I am sure, and a tad relieved?

 

Seriously, that would be stupid, almost worthy of Bonwick. Don't risk
it. Quite apart from the pain that the cold would induce, I'm fairly
sure it would be very much frowned upon, wrt the healing process.

OTOH you should clearly now schedule a snowboarding trip. Shall we say
sometime in March?

 

"Good news, everybody".

Glad to hear you've finally turned the corner. Now just don't overdo
it - there's still a long way to go and significant risks of the
healing process breaking down, as happened to Frag and others of my
acquaintance, sometimes through overuse, somethime through sheer bad
luck.

But you're not out of the trees yet, so don't get all premature, eh?

 

Great news, well done that bone.

 

Good point - and/or a calcium supplement.

 

http://stuffucanuse.com/fake_moon_landings/moon_landings.htm

 

<Looks around, puzzled>

Where?

I'll be in touch.

 

Let's wait for frag to comment, as I can't remember the details, but
ISTR his healing process was going fine for a while, then the bone
just started to crumble around the implants or something.

OTOH, many years ago, I knew a couple of people in Notts City Hospital
(where my (now-ex) wife was being treated for a couple of years
following her near loss-of-leg when her BF collided with the front of
a turning car) being treated for major trauma to lower limbs, who were
just plain stupid and were doing all sorts of stuff they'd been told
not to, like driving, riding bikes, having accidents on them, and
generally ignoring all medical advice.

In at least one such case the net result of all this abuse was that a
leg that had undegone a couple of years' worth of surgery, and was
well on the way to making a good recovery, was eventually removed
below the knee. The guy was a twat, fair enough, but I still felt
desperately sorry for him in the end.

 

LOL! Nice one.

 

Good news!

OTOH, I'd always thought you had a screw loose...

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Dunno, they look pretty grey to me.

 

You're a gent and no mistake!

 

'Ace' wrote...>

The first three failures were simply due to the bone not healing fast
enough, combined with the docs telling me I could put 100% of my weight
on the leg too early on.

With no new bone to help support the weight, metal fatigue caused the
first IM nail to snap just above the bottom bolts.

Second IM nail, both the bottom bolts snapped due to metal fatigue (and
the IM nail then moved down, wrecking my knee joint).

Third time, the leg was held solidly in the Iilzarov frame with the
original break being squeezed together. Due to a bad infection the bone
still didn't grow enough to heal in the 9 months I had the frame on.

None of the docs can really tell me why the bone didn't grow for years,
in spite of two bone grafts. They suspect it was because of the trauma
to the surrounding tissue resulting in very poor local blood supply, so
that had to heal fully first, and then the bone could heal.

I just know I had to tell the MK lot not to take the leg off after the
second IM nail broke, and the Nuffield, Oxford lot telling *me* it was
worth putting the plate in (which finally worked) when I was that down
and depressed that it hadn't worked after 9 months in the frame.

But that x-ray look really good. Remember that as you walk along your
leg gets upto 150% of body weight through it because of inertia and
mass, and never, *ever* twist or put large bending forces through the
bad leg, cause both of those two are extremely good at breaking new
bone. Simple compression weight through the length of the leg is good.

 

So you'll be doing the double-diamonds already then?

FFS. I'm clearly in the wrong business.

 

I've always seen him as more of a Red Barrel kind of chap.

 

He's a drug dealer, not a bloody doctor.

And this would be less likely to either get your leg cold or make you
fall on it?

You're going. End of story.

 

'Champ' wrote...>

I was on happy pills a lot of the time to avoid that.

Glad I can be of some help. I don't like to sound negative but in my
experience a lot of docs don't volunteer information like this, you have
to ask them "And anything else I should look out for?"... "and anything
else...?"

Heh, not a field of expertise I would have picked 20 years ago, but
better than nothing