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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
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Misery loves company! Here's a 'sympathy wound' from my little accident.
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ElCapPirate
Big Wall climber
Reno, Nevada
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Ammon, how many bones have you broken over the years?
It would be easier to list the ones I haven't, ha ha. More dislocations, though.
Misery loves company! Here's a 'sympathy wound' from my little accident.
Thanks for sharing! You as well, Largo.
This thread kicks ass!!!
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Ammon should post the X-ray from his tibial plateau fracture last year. From Ammon's photos (Sept. 2012):
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
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WRT, Ammon's tibia plateau fracture, I shattered about 3-5" of my tibia just below the plateau. They used wire, 10 pins, 11 screws and a 9" SS plate to repair it. Here is the hardware after it was removed. They wouldn't let me have the metal pins as they were 'too sharp.'
Ammon,
is that hardware still in there? The doctor gave me a special card I had to use to get through airport metal detectors.
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photonez
Big Wall climber
San Jose, Armpit of the Bay!
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Some nice hardware shots! I'm hoping to get one of my plates out and use if for a nice keychain.
The gap in my fibula was filled with a bone graft from a much appreciated tissue donor.
Ammon's wounds look gnarly, true pirate scars will remain.
-Ez
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TwistedCrank
climber
Bungwater Hollow, Ida-ho
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Were there hammers involved?
Or was the surgery hammerless?
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ElCapPirate
Big Wall climber
Reno, Nevada
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Were there hammers involved?
I think they sent it clean but pretty sure they did some hand placements in the scars.
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Deekaid
climber
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good friggin god that is gnarly!
hats off to guys like dr. David and Riley who dedicate themselves to that type of work
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Keep the healing and the smiles goin', Ammon! Get well soon!
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Worth repeating!
We often use donor bone from a bone bank, quite similar to blood from a blood bank, but the donor is dead and donated their body to help others (put that dot on your driver's license and be an organ donor; after you are dead, you really have no heed of it and someone like Ammon does).
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D.Eubanks
climber
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I hope the best to you Ammon on your road to recovery.
Get well soon!
Dana
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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Wow,
Glad you are going to be ok.
Your attitude certainly saved your life, and probably your leg.
If you have ever smoked, don't do it again, smoking kills circulation, especially in the legs.
Best to you Ammon !!!!
You'll be back climbing next year!!!!!
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tinker b
climber
the commonwealth
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You'll be back climbing next year!!!!!
meaning 2014. ammon says he hopes to be ready to do some one legged toproping when i swing trhough mid january! keep healing bro, you are the one.
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go-B
climber
Hebrews 1:3
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F#^a me, your doctors are amazing!
Cheers!!!
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T2
climber
Cardiff by the sea
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Hey Ammon does that blister on the inside of your heal bother you? That thing looks like it hurts.
: )
You look great my friend!
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Wow. That is looking a zillion times better than it did. Amazing.
OK. To cheer you up, here is what I did my first BASE jump with, a Stratostar 5 cell main, a Wonderhog (preceeded the Vector series containers) and a 26 foot navy conical reserve. The belly band is where the Velcro runs to your container pin. If you twisted the belly band, you would get a pilot chute in tow, so that didn't last long. It was pre-3 ring release, and used R-3's, which were two releases that you pulled at the same time to cut away. I had 4 skydiving reserve rides on this piece of sh#t until I scored a sweet rig from a dead guy. No kidding. I still have his reserve packing card.
The Stratostar was one of the original square parachutes.
Here is another one with one of the original BASE rigs. Probably one of the first ten or so. Our pilot chutes were way too big to fit in a stow.
I think that this was one of, or the first, naked cliff jump.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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You're a tough guy, Ammon. Heal well.
You are a role model, also, for apparently thinking ahead and preparing financially for the aftermath of an accident.
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ElCapPirate
Big Wall climber
Reno, Nevada
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Thanks for the blast from the past Mark. Always love and respect what you guys did to pioneer the sport back in the day.
7th and last surgery today went very well. I was going to say better than expected but I think they are expecting the best, at this point, haha. I'll be released in five days and will continue updates, periodically, until I fully recover and do my first comeback jump.
Here's the patch of skin the doc borrowed from my thigh to do the skin graft:
Just got a stack of reading material from Alpinist Magazine and wanted to give them a huge thanks. Thank You Alpinist!!!
Hey Ammon does that blister on the inside of your heal bother you? That thing looks like it hurts.
Hi Tommy!! I can't tell if this is a joke, you being sarcastic or not, ha ha. It ALL hurts. But, are you talking about the hole in my heal? That is where the rod was drilled into my bone for the external fixator. I don't even notice it compared to everything else going on, ha ha.
I have a ton of amazing visitors and should have made an on-going list because I couldn't possibly name them all without leaving someone out.
I do want to mention Malcolm Daly, however (Thanks for the visit, bro). He was one of the first people who I thought about (also a few others like Sean O'Neill and Chad Jukes) on the ledge when I thought I was going to lose my foot. The one fact that I continued putting foremost in my mind was these guys are still get after it, THEY ARE ANIMALS, and did not let their disability get in the way of following their dreams. As long as I kept remembering that, I knew everything was going to be ok.
So, thanks Mal, Sean and Jukes... and all the Paradox guys who refuse to listen to what their limits are and prove to us what they can be.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Now be honest- that square patch was where you had been storing the emergency duct tape(to patch the canopy as mentioned upthread). In all the excitement, you forgot to remove it and finally a nurse had to say, in their sweetest voice, "Now this may sting a bit." and....rrrrrriiiiiippppp!
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roadman
climber
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Nov 10, 2013 - 01:00am PT
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So psyched for you Ammon!
Really amazing how great you are taking all this. Reminds me to be more positive and keep a sunny outlook.
Heal well.
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