This is 10 weeks post op.

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It actually looks like crap but is beginning to feel a little better. Very tight when I walk still but the only pain I get is when it rocks to either side. I've been going to PT now for a couple of weeks, and today they had to take an x-ray because my therapist felt something "funny" in my ankle. I was concerned because she wasn't laughing when she said "funny", so it wasn't ha-ha funny I guess. She frowned and started doing something else when I felt another pop. Didn't hurt but neither does a lobotomy I hear. Anyway, she called it a day and sent me hobbling off to x-ray.

I have what looks like 4 of those plastic things that hold the trim strip to the exterior door panels of a car. Those push-fit retainers with a sort of washer on one end. That's what is holding the new tendon to my bones. Well, new tendon to me, some poor dead sap had it first but I have it now. I asked if it was coming from a famous race car driver and the doc just laughed. That was ha-ha funny there I guess. The doc says that eventually they will have to come out, I asked him if they could wait for my autopsy. Again, ha-ha funny but he shook his head. I'm saying November, he's saying August. It's my foot, we'll see who wins.

I was wondering if you were up and around while building Sequoia with the ankle still on the mend! GEEZ Pete, take it a little easy and give the body some time to heal and rest, bro. I know you can't stand sitting around, but some times you have to do that in order to get 100%.

Glad its at least feel a bit better. Slowly but surely you will get back to 100%.

PD2:thumbsup:

It's actually pretty ugly in person. The bottom of the "J" is puckered in and will more than likely take more surgery (my dad is an orthopedic surgeon). The fact that he's walking at all after the VA butchered him is amazing....I also have a relative that's a malpractice attorney. ;)

Ugh.... thanks for sharing this with us.

Anyone up for some pics of my latest colonoscopy?

I hear that insturment was originally meant to look at Mars, but all they could see was....well, you know.

Just what I need is another lawyer.

and today they had to take an x-ray because my therapist felt something "funny" in my ankle.

Hell, I can tell you what's wrong, there is a big cut down the side of your leg.:rolleyes:

Sorry, hope you get well soon. I have to go in for my second cortizone shot in 2 months in my elbow on Tuesday. There always so much fun to get where there is no fat. Why couldn't they just give it to me in the stomach.:woohoo: I don't even know how I got Lateral Epicondilitus (Tennis Elbow)

I could suggest a cause for me getting it.... :X I'm fighting getting the shots, and I'm hating not taking more pain killers. But in the long run it will get better.

But the shots are so pleasent. In the elbow, they'll make you whistle Dixie for about 20 seconds. Sorry, I'm a great believer in modern chemistry.:woohoo:

Time for the Scar Talk show ... and who said that slot car drivers aren't real athletes?

Actually I got into slots, or rather RC and then slots, because the previous hobby banged me up too much. As soon as I mended from my ''big one'' I went and got my first RC buggy and have not been back on a BMX or any other kind of bike since.

The ''career ending'' crash was actually pretty flukey. Because of being tall I did not like to get down in the compression of a banked turn, I felt more fluid when higher up. But this time several others went with me and there was lots of shoulder shoving. Approaching and heading up the next jump I refused to give any ground as back then I had no fear. The result should have been a large-ish but not too bad splat to the ground, but I had a lot of momentum up and bad luck was present so I went through an open window of a burger van.

The upper part of the van was fibreglass, the approaching bike and person bigger than the opening and there was a guy standing there tossing burgers. Apart from burns he and I got just about every injury you can imagine such a crash would give.

My subsequent two hobbies, the injuries have been the usual punctures and cuts from amateur ''modelling'' ''skills'', but touch wood nothing worse so I will stick with it :)

Because of being tall I did not like to get down in the compression of a banked turn,


Are you the tall one on the left?:wave:



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Nah, I am not in that picture.

Sorry, I'm a great believer in modern chemistry.:woohoo:

I'm more a believer in 13th century chemistry, notably fermentation of grains and hops, sometimes fruits or honey as well.

I had my "big one" in February, I don't even ride in/on anything with less than 4 wheels now. My fear is I'll be quadding at Pismo and forget myself, put my foot down in a corner and have to go back for it when I rip it from my body. I have a Banshee that I've really thought about keeping even though it has had a for sale sign on it for months now. The next injury to this ankle will be life changing the doc says....yeah, like the last one wasn't.

Ugh.... thanks for sharing this with us.

Anyone up for some pics of my latest colonoscopy?

hahahahaha! Thanx no "Too"...just tell us if yer hats on straight.:hat:

Woke up in the middle of mine.:freak:

My fear is I'll be quadding at Pismo and forget myself, put my foot down in a corner and have to go back for it when I rip it from my body.

Ahh, hyperextension is such a nice word.:cry: