08-25-2018, 01:18 AM
Darn! In my experience things hurt the second day that didn't the first but all the "minor" stuff settles down in a week or less.
Ribs: These things take months to heal up. Mostly due to the lack of blood flow and all the softer tissue takes a while to heal like cartilage. Figure 6 months for that - with the danger that being near the spine "may" refuse to heal. I had a customer with two broken ribs like that that didn't want to fuse. Couple years later I was looking at the same thing and I healed up just fine (several years ago my clavical didn't - go figure). Rolling over in bed, hard pulling action (like adjusting forks on the fork lift for example) will remind you things are not right.
Internal stuff - no advise on that, have not suffered those yet but I suspect organs heal up fairly quickly if you do your part. Internal bleeding has been a silent killer but I think you are out of the woods regarding that.
In PE in high school they taught us some tumbling; something that instictively kicked in on several accidents I've had saving some serious injury ( and didn't on two others - go figure!) so maybe you need to practice falling. :poke:
Get well, enjoy the sponge baths!
Ribs: These things take months to heal up. Mostly due to the lack of blood flow and all the softer tissue takes a while to heal like cartilage. Figure 6 months for that - with the danger that being near the spine "may" refuse to heal. I had a customer with two broken ribs like that that didn't want to fuse. Couple years later I was looking at the same thing and I healed up just fine (several years ago my clavical didn't - go figure). Rolling over in bed, hard pulling action (like adjusting forks on the fork lift for example) will remind you things are not right.
Internal stuff - no advise on that, have not suffered those yet but I suspect organs heal up fairly quickly if you do your part. Internal bleeding has been a silent killer but I think you are out of the woods regarding that.
In PE in high school they taught us some tumbling; something that instictively kicked in on several accidents I've had saving some serious injury ( and didn't on two others - go figure!) so maybe you need to practice falling. :poke:
Get well, enjoy the sponge baths!