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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 10, 2013 - 08:07pm PT
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Me too babe ;)
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 11, 2013 - 12:45am PT
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Thanks Jefe. I was talking to a gentleman Trevor in here today, who went in for thumb surgery and somehow after the surgery during transfer ended up twisting his spine and not being able to walk anymore. My jaw dropped to the floor after that story.
Anyways we were talking about positive vs negative attitude and he was saying that most of the people that he saw here in gf strong who had positive approaches towards their recoveries were the ones who made the most gains, and the negative ones tended to stall out. I'm glad I have always leaned towards the positive side and that gives me even more incentive to stay that way!!!
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Relic
Social climber
Vancouver, BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 11, 2013 - 01:19am PT
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Dude, just don't get run over by a car inside a sushi joint and you be good to go.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 11, 2013 - 02:02am PT
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Haikus for Mike Who’s In a Cage Not a Rage--Even Acts His Age!
Even the odd egret
Errs egregiously. Even
Odder, otters.
Eager for egress
Even eagles examine
Every elevator.
What would be the odds
Of Big Mike making his bird
From there tomorrow?
Astronomical.
Nothing is impossible,
However, is it?
One day you’ll decide
That tomorrow and the doors
Will be opened wide.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 11, 2013 - 03:05am PT
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Dude, just don't get run over by a car inside a sushi joint and you be good to go.
Thank god ya'll were late, to save me from that fate.
Sick edit Kieran!! Thanks ;) Marc Andre right?
Even the odd egret
Errs egregiously. Even
Odder, otters.
Eager for egress
Even eagles examine
Every elevator.
What would be the odds
Of Big Mike making his bird
From there tomorrow?
Astronomical.
Nothing is impossible,
However, is it?
One day you’ll decide
That tomorrow and the doors
Will be opened wide.
Thank you mouse that's beautiful! I think I ill print it and put it on my wall!!!
One day I will fly again. And it will be in large part thanks to all of you folks!!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 11, 2013 - 03:55am PT
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Wow. Walking dream. Weird
Good sign?
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Gilroy
Social climber
Bolderado
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Mar 11, 2013 - 09:10am PT
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Hellz yeah, youth!
Every day, keeping at it 'til that dream comes true.
Persistence furthers the great man.
Pulling for you, Big Mike. Jale dura!
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Relic
Social climber
Vancouver, BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 11, 2013 - 11:46am PT
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Hell of a sequel that film is. I nearly pooped when he muffed up that heel hook. I think his gear would have held though so no biggie.
Bumpin soundtrack. Good olde rock n roll.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 11, 2013 - 12:17pm PT
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I thought it was a comedy.. Twin ropes and gear on a boulder problem?! LOL I was laughing all the way ho ho ho... ;) I also noticed he doesn't smoke on the more serious routes.. ;)
Every day, keeping at it 'til that dream comes true.
Thanks Gilroy
I will man!! More work today. I'm stoked!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 11, 2013 - 02:43pm PT
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Sunday mellow Sunday... Yesterday was great. A nice mellow start with 11.5 hours of sleep under my belt for a change. After breakfast I did some taco'ing and then Anders showed up and we had a nice conversation over my lunch. Then we headed down to the computer lab so I could post up my photos from Saturday night faster.
Anders lurking on the taco
We went outside for a bit, but it wasn't very nice out there, so we went back to my room because Tricouni was supposed to show up at any moment, but he had not arrived yet. Back downstairs again I bid Anders a good day and Tricouni showed up as we were parting.
Tricouni and I went upstairs and had an excellent conversation about the days of Squamish lore and showed me his u-wall pin, and his Dick Culbert: A Climber's Guide to the Coastal Ranges of British Columbia.
Which is in amazing condition and is being auctioned for my benefit. Current high bid is only 150 bucks! This historical treasure should go for way more. Go bid in on it!!
Then he asked me about my humble beginnings. After what seemed like a few minutes, but was actually a couple of hours he had to take his leave and I saw him to the door.
After eating my "pseudo dinner" provided by the good folks at gf strong I went back to my room and snoozed through the first period of the canucklheads game, and Scrubber woke me up for our real dinner meeting.
We cruised over to the little Singaporean eatery beside the sushi place which was recently converted into a drive in restaurant by an errant elderly driver the other night.
We were weary but the place was full of Asians so we figured it had to be pretty good. We had a very nice dinner and chat. It was awesome to get out of the institution for a bit of a change of scenery.
Me eating my sweet and sour pork "white man" special. ;)
No, I have no idea what is up with my left eye.. ;)
When the started turning the lights off, we figured it was time to skidaddle, Scrubber accompanied me back to my room, and gave me a couple posters to decorate my now not so boring walls. Thanks for dinner dude! It was awesome !!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 11, 2013 - 02:54pm PT
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No, I have no idea what is up with my left eye.. ;)
The old "smack eye" is a well known symptom of, er, "pain relief".
Baby steps. It is going to be all about baby steps.
The days get better and then the nights soon follow.
"Action achieves strength; moderation eventuates in charm."
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Relic
Social climber
Vancouver, BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 12, 2013 - 02:21am PT
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15 steps huh Mike? That's pretty sick!
Hey did you check out the new Indian Creek TR of cat wall? You are gonna love that thing, check it out!
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Mar 12, 2013 - 02:24am PT
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Hey Big Mike say hi to Anders for me!
Plaid
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 12, 2013 - 03:12am PT
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The old "smack eye" is a well known symptom of, er, "pain relief".
Baby steps. It is going to be all about baby steps.
The days get better and then the nights soon follow.
"Action achieves strength; moderation eventuates in charm."
Nutin but pain killers on that face unfortunately ... ;)
It was all about baby steps today!!!
The days are continually more awesome and sleep is returning!
"Learn by doing" has always been the way for me. Trial by fire. Had another wicked day today.
The doctors finally came to check out my surgery scar and gave the go ahead to remove half the staples today , half tomorrow. Julius my fantastic nurse, pulled 14 of them today .
*WARNING* scar photo coming!!
My surgery scar
I get the rest out tomorrow. Beyond stoked. Pool time soon!!
I went to my pt appointment and we did some awesome leg strengthening exercises. Which tuckered me out pretty good. Then she asked if I wanted to do some standing! Yes please!!
I was doing good at my stands which lead to lifting one foot while standing on the other. My pt had to brace my left knee from going wacky on me, but I was able to accomplish this task pretty well, and learning to bend both knees again instead of just locking them. I got my left knee figured ok and then she asked me to put one foot in front of the other.
I could accomplish that pretty easy so then we started doing baby steps. Right foot, left foot. And so on. I started walking with her help for my left knee.
I did three lengths of the bars, and one backwards length to get back to my chair.
Needless to say I was ecstatic!!! When I got back to my room I used my dinner table to do a standing transfer to my bed solo-style and laughed my bag off like a little girl for about 10 minutes. I was pooped to say the least.
Then after lunch I did it again to get back to the chair!! I was so pumped!! I went to my ot and met up with him. We did some more standing first with chairs and then without. It was hard to stand up with my hands on my knees, but I got it done a couple times. Then we headed up to my room to practice some standing transfers, and I did one but he wanted it to be smoother and we ran out of time so we left it at that! My legs were poached!!!
After a bit of rest and an excellent visit from my buddie Nigel, i had a recreational therapy meeting where we discussed some of my options, and I signed up for the pool evening as well as wheelchair sports, and a tai chi course. We also had a very nice about how I ended up here and my lifestyle.
I went back to my room to post up yesterday's activities and then went to the kitchen to have some of Nina's amazing butter chicken for dinner, and it was excellent as always. THANKS NINA!!
My sister and Ryan and Jesse showed up and we hung out in my room. I was pretty darn tired so I just chilled I bed as we chatted.. They brought lots of nice snacks for me and I was quite pleased to have them. Ryand showed up around 6:30 and brought some amazing looking ribs and some nice looking veggies aka tomorrow nights dinner...
Tash and those guys took off not long after be showed up because they hadn't eaten yet.
Ryan and I had an awesome chat and he lasted till about 8:30 before he had to head back to squish. Thanks for coming !!!!
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harryhotdog
Social climber
north vancouver, B.C.
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Mar 12, 2013 - 03:25am PT
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Hi Mike glad to hear of your progress and your good timing on not having sushi.
Anders mentioned another restaurant fiasco,Dynamite Pizza on the sw corner of Broadway/Cambie.The guy was doing a real thorough job cleaning the ovens with gasoline = massive explosion that destroyed the whole corner both floors. He survived miraculously and nobody was hurt because it was 3 in morning. Darwin award candidate.
It's funny when I saw the brick wall in the games room I was going to say somebody should climb it and lo and behold my wish was granted. What was the grade.
Glad to see you are making the best out of the worst.
Oh that III movie was the bomb Brownie.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Mar 12, 2013 - 04:13am PT
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Yeah Big Mike, good to hang today & see you doing good man! You are on your way! I was gonna ask to see the damage but wasn't so sure so thanks for that shot, wow. Gnarly stuff man- but you are gonna be like wolverine when you get those wheels working again :-)
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 12, 2013 - 11:35am PT
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15 steps huh Mike? That's pretty sick!
Hey did you check out the new Indian Creek TR of cat wall? You are gonna love that thing, check it out!
Ya man!! Stoked. Pretty soon ill be running circles around this joint! ;)
IC eh!?? Mmmm sounds tasty!
Plaid I will but rest assured he lurks on this thread so you have just done the job yourself!!
Hi Mike glad to hear of your progress and your good timing on not having sushi.
Me too!! Holy f.. How many lives have I burned through now??
Anders mentioned another restaurant fiasco,Dynamite Pizza on the sw corner of Broadway/Cambie.The guy was doing a real thorough job cleaning the ovens with gasoline = massive explosion that destroyed the whole corner both floors. He survived miraculously and nobody was hurt because it was 3 in morning. Darwin award candidate.
Dynamite pizza eh?? He picked the right name!! ;) wow..
It's funny when I saw the brick wall in the games room I was going to say somebody should climb it and lo and behold my wish was granted. What was the grade.
Glad to see you are making the best out of the worst.
Grade? Probably 5.6/7 the bricks were dusty for added spice factor ;) of course someone had to climb something! ;)
Oh that III movie was the bomb Brownie.
Agreed. It was all cheesy Hollywood drama style ;)
Yeah Big Mike, good to hang today & see you doing good man! You are on your way! I was gonna ask to see the damage but wasn't so sure so thanks for that shot, wow. Gnarly stuff man- but you are gonna be like wolverine when you get those wheels working again :-)
Dude, always rad to chill with you man!! My nurse asked yesterday if I wanted to get a pic and I said ya sure!! Wolverine for sure!! Adamantium tailbone boy!!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 12, 2013 - 08:54pm PT
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Bump, I did my daily report last night and it's on the last page..
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