Linda_K
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posted on March 25, 2006 10:39:22 AM new
...that I broke both right leg bones near my ankle?
Now THAT was fun too.
LOL
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Bear1949
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posted on March 25, 2006 11:05:14 AM new
Ouch, I can sympathize. Hope it wasnt an open compound fracture like mine was, requiring SEVEN seperate trips to the OR.
"“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
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piinthesky
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posted on March 25, 2006 11:10:13 AM new
When and how did this happen, Linda? 
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Linda_K
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posted on March 25, 2006 11:15:07 AM new
Thanks bear.....I was expecting to have some here say "NO!" 
ER doc said it would need pins for sure...at least two, maybe three.
ALMOST a compound fracture....one leg bone was just about ready to break through my leg skin....with my right foot going much further to the right than it normally does. Leg bones totally detached from my foot and it was just hanging there. YUCK....
Haven't had surgery yet....still haven't been able to get in to see the ortho surgeon. Small town..only has ONE and he's pretty busy. LOL
So...I'm in a temp. cast taking max. dosage of oxycondone every 4 hours. Still feeling the pain.
Thanks for the sympathy....lol I needed that.
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Bear1949
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posted on March 25, 2006 11:17:03 AM new
That will teach you to stay off that skateboard.
"“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
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Linda_K
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posted on March 25, 2006 11:18:15 AM new
WHAT? No sympathy from you Pi? I'm feeling sorry for myself. lol
How? Oh just trying out some of KD's sexual positions....didn't work to well for me. 
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Linda_K
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posted on March 25, 2006 11:21:36 AM new
lol bear.
Yeah, skateboarding on all these gravel county roads IS difficult for this old granny.
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Bear1949
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posted on March 25, 2006 11:26:06 AM new
So thats why Classic has been MIA...
"“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
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Linda_K
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posted on March 25, 2006 11:37:44 AM new
Nope....I've never been one to take 'sloppy seconds'....and IF I remember correctly Classic said he'd already been with crow.
YUCK...can't even believe he admitted THAT.
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classicrock000
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posted on March 25, 2006 11:47:23 AM new
"When and how did this happen, Linda?"
yesterday....she was busy kicking some sense into bigpeapa,evidently she got over exuberant with her endeavor
and no that was NOT me that admitted that he got sloppy seconds from crowfart. I don't want to mention any names here-however since he DOESN'T post hear anymore,I might as well
It was Yellowstone-ya know that dude that had the motorcycle in his kitchen with grease on the floor too match....his interior decorating leaves something to be desired.
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dblfugger9
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posted on March 25, 2006 11:51:45 AM new
.his interior decorating leaves something to be desired.
LOl classic...and we all know how you feel about curtains and stuff.
You know when they came to repo my car and bounty my mona, that ahole busted in my house and then is talking to me about the art on my walls. How bizarre is that?
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piinthesky
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posted on March 25, 2006 12:04:16 PM new
'WHAT? No sympathy from you Pi?'
What, didn't you see the [frown thingy at the end of my post]? Used to express sadness about something that another is going through, also in a way, sympathy.
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fenix03
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posted on March 25, 2006 12:23:13 PM new
Ouch! Sorry to hear that Linda. Hope you get in and get it taken care of quickly.
I found out awhile ago I "broke" (actually just fractured) mine about a year and a half ago. Luckily it wasn't too bad and was higher up on the leg than it sounds like yours was. Only lasting efects I have is that it's still discolored with a small lump and the hair on my leg grows twice as fast in that spot.
Better have the razors ready when they get that cast off.
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kraftdinner
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posted on March 25, 2006 12:30:12 PM new
Are you serious, Linda? That's horrible news. What on earth happened??
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Linda_K
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posted on March 25, 2006 01:16:00 PM new
Sorry....think I dozed off there for a minute or two. ----
Sure Classic.....blame it one someone else now.
Thought you said something about about being with her for 45 days....hmmmm....well...I'll let you out of it this time - but only under these 'special' circumstances.
Would have been a better reason for breaking it [kicking peepa] but I'm  embarassed to admit I was just being a clutz. Tripped over a step stool that my friends grandchild had just moved from where it normally sits.
I had gone up to her house for a long weekend - playing cards/visiting/etc...and to celebrate her daughter's 37th BD with them. We'd volunteered to sit with her grandkids so her daughter and SIL could enjoy her special day 'out' by themselves. Right when they were due home I tripped.
Nothing to grab a hold of to 'catch' myself so down I went with my foot still caught under the step-stool.
I'm brused all over and my chin looks like someone 'sucker punched' me. Swollen bumps here and there ....lol....when I do something/anything I do it VERY well.
But you all would have been proud of me....the First Responders and then the ambulance crew kept telling my friends and I what a 'trooper' I was. Said they'd had grown men crying and screaming out in pain when this happened to them.
Told them I was to busy to cry or scream out....I was using the breathing method I was taught when giving birth to my sons....and it really realieved my pain.....at least put it to a bearable level. The hardest thing was seeing my foot going the wrong way.
But when I was in the ER and they gave me a shot of morphine and then twisted my foot back to a 'normal' position I thought I was going to pass out.
Felt SO stupid - still do. ------
Okay Pi....you're off the hook too. Guess that's all the emotion I'm going to get from you. lol Thank you too.
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Linda_K
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posted on March 25, 2006 01:23:36 PM new
Sorry fenix....
lol on shaving the leg. Kind of a related story....I had to come home in order to get a refill on my pain killer so my girlfriends daughter was teasing me when I said I wanted to shave my good leg before we did.
She said, "You're kidding, right?" Told her no....couldn't go in to see him with hair on my leg. lol
Thanks too for your concern.
So that makes three of us here who have broken their leg.
How'd you do yours?
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piinthesky
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posted on March 25, 2006 01:33:31 PM new
'So that makes three of us here who have broken their leg.'
No, I think that makes four because Classic broke his short leg after tripping over it when he first met Maggie and now he's got a benty, or so Maggie says.
Humor is the best medicine, get well soon.
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fenix03
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posted on March 25, 2006 01:44:58 PM new
Well, you know how they say that smoking is bad for your health?
I was coming back from a 4am cigarette run. Had my headphones on and was paying no attention while I cut thru a parking lot. Tripped over one of those concrete parking blocks and when I went down I brought my shin straight down on the one right behind it. Next day most of my lower leg was purple and there was a huge lump on my leg but I had a ton of things going on at the time so I never got it checked out.
I kind of figured it was more than a bad bruise when it still was swollen and bruised after a month but there wasn't much I could have done at that point. My mother dragged me into her old department for an x-ray a few months ago and confirmed it.
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Linda_K
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posted on March 25, 2006 02:12:42 PM new
Oh brother....I can feel your pain. OUCH.
Now it's going to be a 'weak' point.
With it taking this long to get in to see the ortho doc....I'm just hoping mine hasn't started to heal by the time they get ready to do the surgery so that they won't have to break it again to set it properly.
Guess one of the bones also split down the middle...
That was another fun part of the ER visit. [not]
After they put my foot back where it belonged...they set my leg from my knee down to my toes with a temp cast/half cast. Then they x-rayed it again and said they were going to have to take that off and re-do it again as one of the bones still wasn't in the right position.
fun fun fun
So....time will tell....but what a thing to have to go through when I wasn't even doing something fun like water or snow skiing.
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profe51
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posted on March 25, 2006 04:30:20 PM new
Sorry to hear it Linda. Get better soon. Can you walk?
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Linda_K
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posted on March 25, 2006 05:28:52 PM new
Thanks profe.
No, not really. They sent me home, to my friends house, with crutches....I was hopping around but it hurt the injured leg so bad I just couldn't do it. So we borrowed a wheelchair...and I'm tooling around my house in that for now.
Hoping after the surgery they'll put a walking cast on me....or a walker do-thingie on the bottom of my cast so I can be upright once again.
Upon my arrival home I had to crawl from my front porch steps all the way across the cement porch and up the house stairs to get in initally. THAT was fun too. [not]
But my wonderful born and raised Arky neighbor-across-the-pond [about 6-8 acres to the right of my house] was here as soon as he saw us pulling up in the driveway and he built me a wheelchair ramp. So now I'm all set. Thank God for great friends and neighbors. I've been blessed, truly.
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Bear1949
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posted on March 25, 2006 06:20:34 PM new
Linda, I'll bet you will be on crutches or in the wheel chair for at least six weeks before they put you in a walking boot.
Hope you dont end up with one of these.
I'm not going to post the pic of my leg, but you can click on the link to see it. It isnt too gruesome, but I didn't want to gross anyone out that opened this thread and have it JUMP out at them.
http://www.uploadyourimages.com/img/738730p1010001.jpg
2 stainless steel screws in the tibia & 2 into the bone of the heel.
"“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
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Linda_K
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posted on March 25, 2006 06:54:04 PM new
Oh bear......that looks SO painful. Poor baby....and the bar and screws too, huh?
Did they ever put it in a solid cast?
I'll find out this Tuesday morning what his plans are for my injury.
I'm going in with no expectations and trying not to think about it too much until I have to.
The only thing the ER doc would say, not being an ortho guy...was that it would need screws until it attacted back to my foot bone and in the bone that had split vertically.
I was thinking he meant along the lines of screws INSIDE my leg/foot. But...ouch, darn it...that may be what he does to me too.
Then I'll REALLY be wanting/needing some sympathy.
I'll try not to whine too much. But this already has been so painful that I get sick to my stomach as it is.
How long before you could walk un-assisted again? [without crutches or a wheelchair?]
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Bear1949
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posted on March 25, 2006 08:10:15 PM new
Linda, eight weeks into recovery the bar & screws were removed. Doc told me even with a cast I couldnt walk in it. Told his "no cast", that way when it itched I could scratch it.
Good thing I didnt get the cast because 2 weeks later a major abcess ruptured & I wouldnt have know it until the "odor" became evident.
The next day I was back in surgery again & removed all the meat down to the bone & left it open for 2 weeks. (Have pics of that but will spare all the gruesome sight). If anyone is brave enough to view the other pics, ask & I'll post links to them.
In my case it was about 12 months before I could place partial weight on that leg and eventually wore out 2 of the walking boots. All in all it was about 18 months before I could walk without crutches or the boots.
I would imagine during your the doc's will use a plate or two to hold everything together. And since yours wasnt an open fracture, there is less chance of infection than was mine.
Keep that leg elevated & take care.
"“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
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classicrock000
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posted on March 25, 2006 08:31:27 PM new
" the hair on my leg grows twice as fast in that spot."
probably matches the rest of her legs........
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kraftdinner
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posted on March 25, 2006 09:54:31 PM new
Bear, that's funnier than anything! I'd love to see a picture of an open wound on your leg. Come on, show everyone!
P.S. You're next Linda. Get out the camera.
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classicrock000
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posted on March 26, 2006 03:17:25 AM new
funny?? Kraft-you're one very sick indivudual
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Linda_K
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posted on March 26, 2006 07:07:28 AM new
Bear, yes, I would appreciate seeing the pics of your leg. I've never been the squeamish type anyway. The medical field has always held my interest.
I know you've mentioned your leg injury before - quite a while back....and I realized at that time how severe it was. I'm sooooo sorry you had to go through all that.
My youngest son is getting married June 2...in California...and I'm hoping cast/bar & screws or not...that nothing will keep me from attending that special event. That's mainly why I was asking about your healing time. As a diabetic mine will most likely be longer than it normally is....diabetics don't usually heal as quickly.
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Bear1949
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posted on March 26, 2006 07:28:22 AM new
Kraft, didnt anyone force you to click on the link.
Linda, I'll post them later today and don't see it being a problem with you traveling to Ca for the wedding.
"“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
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irked
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posted on March 26, 2006 01:04:44 PM new
Linda K hope your healing time is better than most I have heard about in that region of leg. Sorry yo broke your leg.
I am suprised you are able to get on the PC You on laptop laying with leg up? Too painful with leg down I bet. Broke mine back in Army in 1971 and I still have pains at times.
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