Gotta love hospitals!

[MOTOXXX]

here is a game you can play to pass the time cookie.

fill in the gaps

tha_ _ a B_ R_

[Crasherfromwayback]

crasher... why would the offroad section rule you out? i thought it was neat,

Simply because my ankle still can't handle being jarred or bashed. Jumps are out of the question at the mo!
Pity, because I come from a Moto-x backround, and normally I'm all for it.

Sorry to hear of your knee injuries...they're a bugger of a thing!

[Sparky Bills]

here is a game you can play to pass the time cookie.

fill in the gaps

tha_ _ a B_ R_

HAHAHAHAHA!
With friends like you...
Eat shit cookie!

[Goblin]

Well I guess considering how nasty it was...yeah!

I can't post my ankle x-ray again so I'm told...but I'll put it up as my home picture.....see what you think!

I think they're gonna do the off road section at Wangas again, and that'll rule me out. If not, I'll be back this year!

That is nasty! OUCH!
Hope you do get to race again.

i said at the time of the accident that i wanted to go to work [thats where i was headed, after a gym session] and i honestly think that would have been a better option than what im stuck with.

Sorry to hear your healing didnt go so well. Kind of damned if you do and damned if you dont. I now expect the worst from doctors and so called health professionals. That way if I come accross good ones, i'll be pleasantly surprised.

[inlinefour]

Turns out when I dislocated my shoulder, that I broke my arm too!
So there they were pulling and twisting my broken arm trying to put it back into place!
NO WONDER IT HURT SOOO MUCH!!
Luckily for me, the broken part (broke the very top of my arm, the ball part of the bone) fell back into place. So they dont have to operate. YAY for me!

Has anyone else had any problems like this before?
Im out of the Winter Series for at least another couple rounds.
Id be keen to hear from people in the know. How long did you wait etc?

Been just about a month since I was discharged. Dunno about liking hospital when I was there, but its OK now I'm no longer an inmate...

[T.W.R]

Gives you the shits when you find things out like that SB, knowing something isn't right and having it confirmed.

A mate got T-boned by a car many years ago, got sent to ChCh A&E checked over and sent home with a a supposedly what had been a dislocated shoulder. He went to stay with his parents for a week at Geraldine, went to the local GP to get it checked because of the pain only to have the GP inform him it was actually broken. he ended up having to have it set and 2 pins inserted.

My elbow got destroyed in a crash, and now many years later I live with permanent dislocation, restricted movement, and a non union of the ulna ( permanent break) because the original surgeon used a plate that was to light which ended up breaking and by the time the powers that be realised why I was in so much pain the only possible repair was to patch & hope for the best or the drastic measure of fusing it in place. 12yrs on, 7 separate operations just to try and remedy one screw-up at the start.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Ouch!!!!!!!

[Shadows]

I know somebody who dropped a bike on his foot.

When he went to the hospital and told them that he thought he had broken his foot, they ridiculed him saying if he had broken it, he wouldn't have been able to walk through the hospital doors unassisted.

Weeks later they finally did an x-ray as there was no improvement, sure enough, it was badly broken.

[sunhuntin]

Simply because my ankle still can't handle being jarred or bashed. Jumps are out of the question at the mo!
Pity, because I come from a Moto-x backround, and normally I'm all for it.

Sorry to hear of your knee injuries...they're a bugger of a thing!

ahh, ok. i thought it might have been a thing set up by the organisers [ie, you cant do this race if you dont do that race]. bugger. hopefully one day youll be able to do the dirtrack here.

goblin.... thats why i avoid doctors like the plague. last time i went to a doc was 2003? for glandular fever. got a script for medicine, which then blocked up my plumbing!! hmmm... too weak to get out of bed, and now that i cant shit, thats not such an issue anymore! was out for a month, during which time, my body healed itself. the meds went down the drain. at that time, i was also doing the hard out gym thing, so being bed ridden for a month was my worst nightmare.

shadows... that happened to me as a baby. 2 years old, pulled the tv down on my left leg [poor old lefty takes all the knocks!!] docs told mum it wasnt broken. i went around for something like 6 months with a broken leg and no cast. lol. no lasting damage except for a small dent.

[Tortron]

i crashed a bike just before christmass last year, landed pretty hard on my shoulder, got carted off in the ambulance and all that. get to the hospital, dr says lift your arm up. I could get it to about 30 degrees lifted and then it just wouldnt go any higher. so she grabs my arm and moves it up - see you can do it, here is some panadol and antihistamine for the swelling... causing my response of your joking right, my shoulder is clearly at least 3 inches lower than it should be.

anyway got it looked at again a week or two after - likely that i tore the ligaments and that it might heal by itself, am getting it looked at again this week as im pretty much sick of constant dislocations, not really being able to do anything energetic with it etc

seriously panadol, nevermind the fact that i didnt think i could yell and scream that loud

[2_SL0]

Turns out when I dislocated my shoulder, that I broke my arm too!
So there they were pulling and twisting my broken arm trying to put it back into place!
NO WONDER IT HURT SOOO MUCH!!
Luckily for me, the broken part (broke the very top of my arm, the ball part of the bone) fell back into place. So they dont have to operate. YAY for me!

Has anyone else had any problems like this before?
Im out of the Winter Series for at least another couple rounds.
Id be keen to hear from people in the know. How long did you wait etc?

Yep, my wife did the same in a small MTB accident. Debs (my wife) ended up with stainless pins and screws holding her arm together. they took the pins out about 12 months later.
I can remember the day in A&E, not an experience I wish to repeat. They luckily new Debs had broke her arm. Pretty hard to miss, broken bone was pushing up on the skin, hadn't broken the skin so it looked like an alien was trying to bust out of her arm. Looked freaky, but kinda gross at the same time. They knocked her out before they put her shoulder back in.
Added benefit, Debs can tell when its going to rain, sa small dull ache in her before it rains. I have my very own weather forecaster.

[roadracingoldfart]

I hate hospitals........



They are full of fuckin sick people . ohh and patiants as well.
Yes the sick ones are the doctors and i have given up going to the A & E nowadays.

I spent 6 hours before even an xray with my nephew with what turned out to be a broken arm in 2 places at Wgtn and they gave him (12 yrs old) a script for pamol kids liquid and here , if it gets too sore for you this is the sling for you to use.
WTF, did i go off at them (yes they called security) and i had to leave a 12 yr old in A&E for another 2 hours while i waiting in the security wing room. Eventually the cops came and they sorted the pricks out and took action against the hospital with my sister for neglect of a minor. hahaha wankers.
when will they learn aye ??????

[discotex]

But I did it on riding my mountain bike. Maybe the same thing....?Both have 2 wheels, both crash lots.

Sounds like you did what I did at Easter. Came off a mountain bike at Woodhill and landed on my shoulder.

Fortunately my break was in such a way that the bone healed quickly (the ball got punched down onto itself rather than a snap under the ball). I was riding again after 4ish weeks. Still can't lift my arm over my head but I have full strength for countersteering and braking.

Depending on the break at 4-6 weeks you should be able to at least start sitting on the bike and trying to get your hand to the bars etc. The sooner you start moving your shoulder joint the quicker the recovery (as long as the bone has knitted ok).

As for riding.. My doc said falling on my shoulder again before 3 months would be very bad so I'm staying away from mountain bikes!

[Spuds1234]

My brother Gareth was in an accident just over 2 months ago. He shattered his left ankle, snapped his left femur, broke ribs, collapsed a lung, broke his left forearm, right wrist and chipped his spine. over 20 bones all up. We're not sure how many, he fell asleep as the ICU nurse was telling him. All because some moron in a cage didn't look.

Anyway he had absolutely no problems with the nurses and doctors at chch public hospital. In fact he had some really hot nurses, i was quite jealous of his sponge baths and showers

They did miss his broken forearm though for a couple days, but with so many other things hurting Gareth didn't even notice it was sore until they'd fixed a few things up!

The staff at the hospital were really fantastic. We can't complain about them one bit. It's the other patients that pissed him off. The worst one was a 98 year old alcoholic who'd fallen and hurt her spine. She'd wake up at 2:30 every morning and scream for the rest of the night because she didn't know where she was(you'd think she'd figure it out the first time!?!) when she tried to sit up the nurses would restrain her which would make her scream even louder. No one in the room got any sleep for 2 days!

The only other problem he had was after he got discharged and had home help coming round to give him a wash. He couldn't get on with one of his carers who came every weekday. He's a positive, look at the bright side kind a guy and she was a sad sally. He's sitting there going "3 days i get my arms back, can't wait to do things for myself!" she's saying "You won't be able to, your arms won't be able to handle it." LOL the day after he got his casts off he got up extra early, washed, shaved and cleaned his teeth, waited at the door for her just to say "I told you i would be able to do it myself!" The look on her face!

Now he's got another 2-4 months of rehab to go with a really good looking physio. the whole crashing thing seems to have worked out really well for him. Good pay from ACC, a really long holiday and he keeps getting hot nurses! If I had a crash it'd be just my luck to get the ugly ones !