Injured now with pics! - Back racing!
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so some pics. Having seen the Dr today i had my stitches taken out, and a new cast fitted. Fingers crossed if i heal as well as i have done these past two weeks then I can possibly start physio in 2 weeks!!!!
I've linked them rather than post them as they are big images and some of them are gory!
At the scene of the accident
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... hyqjlw.jpg
In the hospital
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... gssbdc.jpg
First cast/brace
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... s0ay2w.jpg
Stitches out, it appears i've been zoro'd
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... mepztj.jpg
My new cast 8)
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... kojidz.jpgBMC TM01 - FCN 0
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Ouch. Good work having someone else hold your leg up so you can get a good pic though. A lesser man would have been unconcerned with providing snaps for the interwebs
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It's just a flesh wound....0
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leg had to be held up and straight to try and stop the bleeding and because i knew i'd done some real damage. ive done this before on the other knee (well the gash anyway, not the ruptured tendon part) so i kind of knew what to do!BMC TM01 - FCN 0
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Yikes - I didn't realise it would be *quite* that bad. Sending you a virtual bottle of Vimto (it cures all known ills) and a Mancunian Get Well Soon
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Reminds me of a pal who thought she'd just nicked her pinkie finger until she realised she couldn't bend it. Yup - sliced tendon, similar zig-zag stitching and a monster cast for a while.
Hope it heals well - and that the physio works for you afterwards. It's taken her a good 6-8 months to get more or less full motion back in the finger.0 -
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Ouch indeed. Good luck with the physio, make sure you do everything asked of you to speed up the healing process.0
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Good work from keeping the claret away from the white giro's."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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Ouch.
Pics of the bike and car?0 -
Lovely rapha pink cast - get someone good with calligraphy to sign that bad boy with the right text
I guess your shaved pins helped a little too. Heal quickly - for such a seemingly small wound it's a doozy - though I went through the pics of the surgery itself and the carnage is quite impressive due to what they have to do.Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
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Why is there an arrow drawn on your shin?
"This is the one that needs repairing, just in case you didn't see the giant gash."?
"Remove stitches from here. As opposed to the knee with no stitches in it"?
"This way up"?0 -
When I broke my arm I had to have pins and wires inserted. When I in hospital to have the metal removed, they gave me the anaesthetic and as they were wheeling me to theatre and I was starting to go under, one of the doctors asked me "just as a last check, it is the left arm isn't it?". No, it's the right!!! All the paperwork said left arm, so they hurriedly scribbled over the paperwork and then got a big, black marker and wrote "THIS ONE" on my right arm.PBo wrote:Why is there an arrow drawn on your shin?
"This is the one that needs repairing, just in case you didn't see the giant gash."?
"Remove stitches from here. As opposed to the knee with no stitches in it"?
"This way up"?
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its a ridiculous fail safe i guess.BMC TM01 - FCN 0
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Isnt the NHS the best health service in the world...."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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I had 3 operations on my broken leg and each time when they consented me, they got out the big black permanent marker and drew a big arrow to the injury. It is meant to reduce errors.0
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rubertoe wrote:Isnt the NHS the best health service in the world....
They in my experince rock if it's serious, it's the niggling stuff and orgnsation that they are pants at0 -
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rubertoe wrote:Isnt the NHS the best health service in the world....
Yeah, they're pretty damn good. I'd rather they drew stupid-looking patterns on you with a big marker than say get the wrong knee/elbow/eye/liver.
(you get drawn on if you go private too, but they use more expensive pens)Sometimes parts break. Sometimes you crash. Sometimes it’s your fault.0 -
This, all the major stuff they are absolutely brilliant at. Can't fault them for that. Little and non urgent stuff can be frustrating. But, obviously I far prefer them to prioritise the important stuff.roger merriman wrote:rubertoe wrote:Isnt the NHS the best health service in the world....
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for A&E the NHS are fantastic.
for appointments with drs/physio/check ups not so muchBMC TM01 - FCN 0
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Not here, had loads of physio and other appointments and i was never more than 5 minutes after my stated time0
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spasypaddy wrote:for A&E the NHS are fantastic.
for appointments with drs/physio/check ups not so much
My GP referred me to the wrong group, who essentially said no your not our sort of thing, but who referred me to a place where I was their sort of thing.
GP was good, though the physo has been fantastic, my walk and balance has improved increadably. I clearly am a intresting case so have a number of student physo helping/following.0 -
I had the same with my knee recently all the paperwork said right knee yet all of the eight people i saw in A&E knew it was the left, eventually the surgeon took a marker circling the wound and drawing a masshoof black arrowRule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
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I said that with toungue firmly in cheek, every one knows that yhe nhs is amazing, its the bs bureaucracy that sucks."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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I understand arrows as a failsafe for internal stuff that any be seen...it just seems OTT for he visible stuff...0
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I understand arrows as a failsafe for internal stuff that any be seen...it just seems OTT for he visible stuff...
You come off your bike, your right knee hits the chainring/sharp bit of car/roadsign etc and gets a big gash. Meanwhile your left knee gets wrenched around and does a load of tendon/ligament damage without any external wound.
The theatre team then prep and operate on your right knee because it's 'obvious' which one you've hurt....
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bails87 wrote:I understand arrows as a failsafe for internal stuff that any be seen...it just seems OTT for he visible stuff...
You come off your bike, your right knee hits the chainring/sharp bit of car/roadsign etc and gets a big gash. Meanwhile your left knee gets wrenched around and does a load of tendon/ligament damage without any external wound.
The theatre team then prep and operate on your right knee because it's 'obvious' which one you've hurt....
Good point, well made!!0 -
