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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 26, 2010 - 11:44pm PT
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What's dat on his left hand, Crimpie?????
hee hee hee
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Oct 26, 2010 - 11:46pm PT
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Make no mistake, he is the cook in this house. Either he cooks, or we both live on toast. :)
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Oct 27, 2010 - 12:43am PT
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BN-
Good to see you "doing what you like best!" I'm afraid I will not make the shindig at Sherpas this weekend. Going out of town.
Cheers!
Rodger
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
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Oct 27, 2010 - 01:00am PT
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Toast & beer were made for each other.
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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Oct 27, 2010 - 01:45am PT
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I always hear that surgery is the only real option as well. I know a couple of people who had this happen. All full recovery and cranking.
If that had happened to me, and on the LEFT arm, I would have been a lonely dude.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Oct 27, 2010 - 12:00pm PT
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good to see you on the way to recovery!
step #1: recover ability to drink beer while executing other tasks with left-hand!
it's only uphill from here (or is that downhill? or is this a completely wrong analogy?)
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Disaster Master
Social climber
Born in So-Cal, left my soul in far Nor-Cal.
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Oct 27, 2010 - 12:06pm PT
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Keep on recovering. Visualize cracks and knobs. And when your down just remember: What ever doesn't kill us give's us scar-tissue.
OK that one sucks. How bout a Simpson's quote. "Broken bones heal and chiks dig scars."
Happy healing,
Paul
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Oct 27, 2010 - 12:09pm PT
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Hey Base104, there is an official Government pamphlet entitled "Masturbatory techniques for the handicapped". Just in case.
Good to see you on the mend BNuts.
Call me if you ever need a motivational talk from someone who has been around the block a dozen times.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Oct 27, 2010 - 01:54pm PT
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I liked this photo. It took these two women, and eventually the surgeon intervening to get the arm brace on properly. Awesome expression of confidence radiating from BN!
Maybe he'll get on here later. He can now type about 10 words a minute - it's almost a 100% improvement! :)
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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How's the gimpster doing?
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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BN-
The atrophy isn't as bad as rehabbing it oh-so-slowly. Take it easy at the outset; it WILL take some time...
Hope to see you and Crimpie this weekend at the get together for Silver...if the weather doesn't stay bad!
BDC
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Nov 10, 2010 - 05:16pm PT
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Good luck BN!
ZB
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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It's been a long time for an update. Since the brace went on, it has come off. Then he got to start doing some curls. The one pound curls were pretty funny looking though doing 100 in a row is not as easy as it sounds! He's up to 15 lbs at 50 curls at a time now.
In the interim, he's been taking lots of great photos, playing in the wood shop and just getting a lot of stuff done around the house. He's been really productive...that is about to come to a screeching halt I fear.
Why?
Today he got to climb for the first time! I've not got photos but we went to the plastic palace. He lead up to 5.9s and felt perfectly good. Said it felt exactly as he thought it would - a little weak, a little slow on the firing, but not painful. I do think the hardest part was a) being in the gym, b) having to climb only 5.9s, and c)getting a bit pumped on them!
I think he'll be back to 100% within a month. Here is to hoping he doesn't rip anymore muscles off his bone. And hoping none of you do it either!
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J. Werlin
Social climber
Cedaredge, CO
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Well, he's already surpassed me on the curls. But that's the difference between a .22 and a howitzer I guess.
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JohnRoe
Trad climber
State College, PA
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go Dave...
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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good work Dave.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Yes !!!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Happy bump for Mr. Brassnuts, photographuer excellente!
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2011 - 12:29pm PT
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Thanks everybody! It was a nice change to even just climb in the gym yesterday after 4 months on the horizontal plane only... Heading out for another plastic session tomorrow. I'll keep it light for a couple of weeks and see how the new bi responds, then ramp up a bit more. My advice is don't move heavy furniture for your neighbors ;-)
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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go Dave go!
on the other hand (arm?), stinkbugs don't need guns...
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