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[Mandrau_imp]

Sorry to hear of your injury ferret. Wishing you a full recovery. A reminder for me of how a day/trip/summer can be wrecked by a seemingly minor mishap at low speed. Last summer I almost dropped my bike at a gas pump. I say almost because as the bike was falling to the right side I caught its fall and placed it down gently resulting in torn muscle and ligaments to my right arm which became black and blue from shoulder to wrist. Couldn't put on my helmet or jacket by myself for weeks. It would have been better to let the bike fall but catching it was reflex, just as I imagine putting your hands out during a fall is.

[Bheezy27403_imp]

That's it. I'm not reading any more forum today. Every page is somebody eating it.

Heal quickly good sir.

[Jonz_imp]

Sorry to read the news. Is acupuncture anything you'd willing to try for the pain? Hope you can get some rest soon. - Jon Z

[LongRanger_imp]

I must confess that I intentionally did not take the bike out today, even though the weather is perfect and I'm not at work. Guess I'm feeling a bit spooked right now. Things happen in threes, right?

Ferret, very sorry to hear about the pain and throbbing. Been there, done that. Yes, please do get something for it, and keep us posted.

[the Ferret]

sorry it took me so long to get back to the thread, i've actually been sleeping in a recliner most of the day.

good news

saw the ortho doc this morning, actually an elbow specialist, he looked at the xrays, said it was fractured but not shattered, therefor no surgery required and removed the cast, and sent me home in a sling, and called in a script for pain that shouldn't mess with the colitis (however i feel pretty groggy). im actually supposed to exercise the broken arm some using the good arm to lift it up and down, but no pushing or lifting with the bad arm. i have motorcycle trip coming up oct 8 (fall mens trip..back to west virginia lol) and he said if i was in a cast for 6 weeks id never be able to straighten the arm for the trip. go back in 2 weeks for a progress check and re-xray.

[offroadfx4_imp]

My son had a displaced fracture of the elbow when he was four coming off a trampoline.

The doctor is right of course being in a cast for six weeks it was really terribly painful to try to get him to straighten his arm.....

Lots of therapy never got it straight until he was out getting his tonsils out.... then they manipulate his elbow while he was asleep .....that was the best thing that happened..... finally got it back within a few degrees of being straight.

One thing they told us which I still remember don't worry about bending it you have lots of big muscles that will make that happen.... just worry about getting it straight.

[pdedse]

sorry it took me so long to get back to the thread, i've actually been sleeping in a recliner most of the day.

good news

saw the ortho doc this morning, actually an elbow specialist, he looked at the xrays, said it was fractured but not shattered, therefor no surgery required and removed the cast, and sent me home in a sling, and called in a script for pain that shouldn't mess with the colitis (however i feel pretty groggy). im actually supposed to exercise the broken arm some using the good arm to lift it up and down, but no pushing or lifting with the bad arm. i have motorcycle trip coming up oct 8 (fall mens trip..back to west virginia lol) and he said if i was in a cast for 6 weeks id never be able to straighten the arm for the trip. go back in 2 weeks for a progress check and re-xray.

Cracked my elbow while I was living in Costa Rica nearly 30 years ago. They put it in a cast for 6 weeks. PT never could get the arm straight--lost about 20-25% movement--and one doc here in the U.S. said 6 weeks was too long, should have been 2-3 at most; another said it should never have been a cast at all, just in a sling that one could take off to extend the arm periodically. If it were me, I'd ask if the cast is necessary.

[the Ferret]

yea pdedse, he removed the cast today, and sent me home in a sling

[Lord Popgun]

More importantly Did the Ferret Cam survive?

[the Ferret]

no popgun. it broke. so a new ferret cam is in the cards.