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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jul 26, 2012 - 09:12pm PT
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she's in San Carlos, seems super competent, and my spine doc (who winces when I even pick up a shoe) said it's worth driving down there because she's the best.
milk that for all it's worth, dude.
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Jul 27, 2012 - 01:15am PT
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dillies help.
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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2012 - 01:13am PT
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Slow but steady improvement here, leering at rocks. You all?
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Sam E
Boulder climber
Malibu
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Tore up my ankle bouldering at Stoney. Been out for about two months. Was climbing almost everyday. At least my fingers can recover. I can just now get a few pitches in before it swells and stops working so good. Hopefully be back in shape for Rocktober in the Valley.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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The best rehab for that is vegan sushi on the high plains land of the earth born spirts.
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Not me (just a little off-and-on shoulder bursitis here), but I'm excited that a friend who blew out her ankle in Yosmite early this June is finally back in commission this week!
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CalicoJack
climber
CA
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Sprained ankle while retreating through talus field last weekend (talk about kicking myself while I was down!). Doc says grade 1 & was always able to walk on it, so i'm hoping to be back on granite in a few weeks or so. Ligament injuries are always such a drag!
CalicoJack
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Anastasia
climber
InLOVEwithAris.
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Injured my neck, shoulder and back in a car accident. Around four years out and then I finally went to physical therapy which did wonders. It will never be like it was but this is a great improvement. My injuries are not seizing anymore and now... After pregnancy, I'm lazily working on it. Small steps improvement. Bill is happy so I'll just keep going. Give me a year... Yeah, probably would be a lot faster if I wasn't being so dang lazy. :)
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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I average one full-on face-plant a year trail-running.
My mind wanders, I stop paying full attention, and a root gets me.
So far, nothing more than contusions and torn clothing for me...
Hope you heal up quickly.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
los gatos. ca
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Pretty sure I re-tore my ac ligament in my shoulder yesterday :( when I woke up this morning and it was still hurting I was pretty bummed :,(
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scuffy b
climber
heading slowly NNW
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Seven weeks off for me at this point.
I keep thinking just a little more rest is required.
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
the green triangle, cali
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f*#k life sometimes. car accident last week. broken fibula, tibula. fractured neck. dislocated knee, torn MCL, severeley stretched PCL, quadricep tendons needed to be reattached as well in this ghastly open wound. ortho surgeon says i wont climb again but time will tell. unknown timetable specifically. atleast im 25 and fit.
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kathydeee@yahoo.com
climber
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Yikes, that sounds awful. Good luck with the recovery.
I have a ganglion cyst & a torn ligament in the right wrist - no idea how I did it. It requires surgery if I ever really want to climb again and I'm avoiding the knife.
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frank wyman
Mountain climber
helena montana
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After surviving four helicopter crashes I all ways counted my blessings,(yeah!! i'm messed up but you should see the other guy,attitude)Time is catching up with me, Back with pinched nerves, Gimped elbow, eye scared, but at "58" I can still do the things I cherish, spend Quality time with wife and dog,
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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I was hoping to get my surgeon's go-ahead to resume climbing (and running and jumping) last week, but they want me to hold off a couple more months -- even though they say my recovery from late January surgery is way ahead of schedule.
Rgold, I can identify with your comment about face plants while running. About 45 years ago, while running in a cross-country meet, I had a collision with a palm tree, caused by inattention and some unexpected mud. At that time, I used to run without my glasses, and it was well-known that I had about 20/400 vision unaided, so everyone who saw the incident (including my coach and almost all of my teammates) concluded I must not have seen the tree.
John
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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The wife is on it now.
She was at her first show in 20 years or better although she has intermittently ridden non competitively all that time including jumping.
Got bucked off Saturday and snapped her tibia about 3" below the ball.
5 hrs of surgery to install all the hardware yesterday. She feels much better now that her leg is pointed in the right direction. Even massive amounts of Dailudid wasn't touching the pain till it was set.
Spent the day getting the house handywhapped accessible.
It's gonna be a long six weeks and a whopper of a bill even with the insurance.
Fortunately she ended up at a major trauma center in south Orange County with an ortho that gets plenty of practice on motorcyclists and mountain bikers.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Man, there is some awful crap going on for you people!
I've been down a bunch of times over the years from injuries and accidents and the only thing I can say that might be helpful to everyone is, after the very first injury I decided that I had to look at all the adversity as an opportunity for SOMETHING. Crosstraining, time to read, time to adjust a mental framework about reality, time to make progress at work, whatever. Hope each of you finds even a sliver of a silver lining in your troubles.
xo Phyl
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Daphne
Trad climber
Black Rock City
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I send big love to all my fellow hurt compatriots. I've had 3 months of down time to find my silver linings with 3-6 months more til full recovery. My injury isn't anything compared to some on this thread. I wish all good health, quickly.
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Even massive amounts of Dailudid wasn't touching the pain till it was set.
Maybe she might out to switch to Dilaudid gear? (hydromorphone 7mgs = 30mgs morphine) Better yet; Numorphan (oxymorphone). Suggest big rigs...26 ga.
Note to all: you shall each and every climb again.
Some time ago, I had but no choice but to undergo a laminectomy.
A surgery whose origins remain enshrouded in the mists of time, it involves the replacement of the lumbar spinal with prosthetic hardware. Titanium is the best way to pass airport TAS checkpoint, but bits and scraps of lumber or firewood will do for lack of anything better, like the time I was stranded in the South Fork of the Upper Ubangi Creek.
This procedure proved exceptionally painful; it was administered under a local, since the night porter at the hospital had shot up all of the morphine for kicks.
The Dr. entered the surgical theater like a ballerina prima donna; whipped the scalpel into my back from a 30 yard range like an ninga star.
"Now," he announced to an observation balcony filled with young interns observing his technique,"the origins of this procedure are lost amoung the veils of history.
"As far as we know, this surgery has no practical application whatsoever.
"Some believe it's been an artistic performance from the very beginning; at the very last moment, just before the patient dies on the table, the surgeon, working with incredible skill and speed, pulls him back from the very verge!"
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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TGT,
Three years ago, my wife suffered a tibial plateau fracture in a bicycle accident. She didn't fall off, but discovered that a Flintstone stop has its own adverse consequences.
She and you have my sympathy, and best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.
John
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