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Post by AeroCooper on Nov 10, 2021 11:11:44 GMT -5
All of this because of a moment of carelessness... I'm constantly reminded how quickly things can change in life. Hope the recovery goes well.
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Post by anaix3l on Nov 18, 2021 18:50:22 GMT -5
... and go for a check-up in 7 to 10 days. When I'll get another set of x-rays, my leg will hopefully get de-mummified and then I can start recovery exercises. I get to slap myself for that optimism. Or even kick myself in the face, though I now need a bit of help from my hands for that. I don't know what you call that situation when a piece of information gets stored in your brain, but you don't really take it into account until you hit something else that makes you understand its relevance. "Hairline kneecap fractures are rare in the case of such an impact." I didn't think much of that beyond... I guess I got lucky and it's nowhere near as serious as it could have been? Except I didn't. It is. I guess it just didn't look much like it, especially from the outside. While I'm no circus contortion act, I'm still more mobile post-injury than the average human with no injury. The inability to move it from the knee was the one major red flag. I still have a good range of motion for straight leg kicks. It hurts, but I'm stubborn. And that's another part of it. I guess most people would avoid doing things that might cause further harm. I don't. If I really want to push it, I will, as long as it's physically possible. From the outside, I don't move much like an injured person. When I went for the check-up on Monday... at first, the doctor asked me why did I even come. I had walked in. I had the half cast on keeping my leg straight, so my walk was a bit penguin-like. But, throughout the entire week, I had felt comfortable with stepping on it a bit. Things changed after seeing my now less swollen, but still swollen knee underneath the mummy layers and the x-rays. Not allowed to bend it for an entire month. Not allowed to jump on it, put all my weight on it. Has to stay in a brace the entire time. Not happy with this.
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Post by AeroCooper on Nov 19, 2021 18:21:04 GMT -5
I spy a long lost member from Pittsburgh.
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Post by anaix3l on Nov 20, 2021 8:38:59 GMT -5
I do too! Bart, you're alive!
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Post by bartman2001 on Nov 21, 2021 14:55:11 GMT -5
Everything is fine, had some medical problem. anaix3l, aerocooper, Tomass,reduers76 and many others back in saddle again. Bart
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Post by fwanger on Nov 22, 2021 10:47:20 GMT -5
I just read about ana's injury. I hope you're healing well!
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Post by anaix3l on Dec 8, 2021 14:41:46 GMT -5
I guess this is the sad aftermath?
I'm out of the brace. Still not allowed to bend it beyond 90° (not like I could anyway) or use weights for the next 2 weeks.
My kneecap bone is fine, healing well and faster than in most people. That's something I also recall hearing 13 years ago when I got that humeral fracture after being assaulted. My bones form the hard external callus faster.
Also, probably due to being a maniac and doing 2 to 5 hours of straight leg exercises every day while I had my leg in the brace... muscle loss also isn't as bad as normally expected. Though that only makes me wonder... just how fucking bad is it supposed to be? My leg is now noticeably thinner than the other one and holy crap, the difference seems massive when I flex the muscles in both legs at the same time. And I cannot really walk normally. I either drag it like before, or walk super slowly (this is super obvious when crossing the street, everybody is faster than me now), or walk like I'm just about to fall/ like I'm drunk/ like a newborn deer, still unsure on those stick-like baby deer legs. I cannot go down the stairs normally. I have started to go down forward for the first time in a little over a month, but I cannot for the life of me go down normally by first placing the other leg on the lower step because then, while that leg is in the air, I'd have to have all my weight on my insecure leg while it's bent and that... just.does.not.work. Not for a level difference as big as that between steps. Going up normally while putting all my weight on my bent insecure leg is difficult, but not impossible.
This is the part where I guess everyone expects me to be fine, but I'm far from fine.
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Post by anaix3l on Dec 10, 2021 7:52:12 GMT -5
I just got scolded by a security guy in a store for going for the wine instead of the yogurt. I'm sorry I didn't ask if he would be fine with drinking yogurt instead of wine for the rest of his life.
I don't like yogurt. At all. Would never touch. Not a huge fan of wine either, but it's definitely not in the would never touch category. Plus this was for sharing with people who like wine.
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Post by anaix3l on Dec 13, 2021 6:39:08 GMT -5
I started the week draining the hot water lake created by the heater that decided to explode Sunday night around midnight. In a room I had barely cleaned over the weekend. Now it's cleaning the mess behind and hopefully the many wooden things in the room (floor, furniture, pipe covers) won't have bad long-term damage...
After the knee mess, this makes it the second time within the span of five weeks that things went from okay to disaster in a split second.
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Post by anaix3l on Dec 20, 2021 18:01:45 GMT -5
I have managed to get up in a handstand again tonight. 6 weeks after breaking my kneecap.
I barely held it a second, form was most likely iffy and it's completely ridiculous I can do this but not go down the stairs normally or other trivial things, but I'm so happy and relieved.
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Post by bartman2001 on Dec 25, 2021 13:22:30 GMT -5
Merry Christmas!!!
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Dec 25, 2021 16:48:11 GMT -5
Post by AeroCooper on Dec 25, 2021 16:48:11 GMT -5
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Post by ap on Jan 1, 2022 15:34:45 GMT -5
I wish you all a happy and healthy 2022.
Let's all hope it's not 2020 II.
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Post by AeroCooper on Jan 2, 2022 8:40:43 GMT -5
^ I agree
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Post by anaix3l on Jan 2, 2022 11:57:44 GMT -5
I somehow started the year with this song:
It's not one of my faves, far from it, though I can tell it's very polished and very well thought through. And so is the video.
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