Kaleun injured on sick leave: ME!!

joea · 02-23-07, 07:19 AM

Well, gonna write this once and cross-post this to my fave forums. Busted myself up…in a stupid way. Was riding my bike home Friday evening when something got out of wack on the front fender and was causing the tire to scrape on it. I tried to kick it straight and somehow got my shoe, or jeans caught on the tire … the sudden stop shot me forward over the handlebars and I landed with my arms out. Damage: left wrist (radial) broken in 4 or 5 places and right elbow sprained, though the latter is better now. 3 days in the hospital and an operation (local anesthetic, cool how they found the 4 nerves in my arm with electrodes) to set the bones and fit a titanium bar and screws and resting at home since Monday. Good folks at the hospital, had food cut up for me too. Oh and you guys here will appreciate that Saturday, the day I was operated (noon) I got to watch Das Boot and my neighbour (I spent one night in a double room before I was moved to a large room) an old guy with a crushed disk was a sub nut and reading a book about August Picard.

Yes it is a pain doing daily stuff, especially as the right arm is still a bit sore and not 100% (much better than a few days ago though). My reading has indicated the bone is already knitting nicely. Zoned out on pain killers, at least til the stiches come out next Wednesday. Plus friends have helped / will help me with the cleaning getting easy food (ready to eat) etc. Work is cool too…plus they have accident insurance that covers everything (non-work related accidents as well). So idle for few weeks, and a cast for 6…but I should be free by my B-day on April 15th. Internet is ok, games, well I am grounded obviously, but can play SH3 and old hex games like Steel Panthers World at War. I can type slowly too. Need Velcro shoes though!! Pretty stupid really. Makes one appreciate good health and multiple limbs. I mean really.

SmokinTep · 02-23-07, 07:25 AM

I feel for ya. I broke my wrist back in November, was in a cast for 4 weeks. The hard part was the therapy after they took off the cast. Still not 100% but they said it could take 6-12 months before it was like it was before I broke it. Really hard trying to do things one handed.

GSpector · 02-23-07, 07:40 AM

Hope you're up and back to having fun again real soon, but not on a bike for a while

Hurt just reading about your accident

August · 02-23-07, 09:03 AM

Yeah but how's the bike?

AVGWarhawk · 02-23-07, 09:50 AM

OUCH!

Hope you get better soon!

CCIP · 02-23-07, 12:12 PM

Yes indeed, not a very pleasant thing. I had my share of bike accidents, man those things are dangerous if you don't watch out :p

Good luck with your recovery!

Sailor Steve · 02-23-07, 12:22 PM

Dang, Joe, you forgot rule #1: Don't kick the moving parts while they're moving!

Hope you're hale and hearty soon.

TteFAboB · 02-23-07, 12:58 PM

Get well soon.

Tchocky · 02-23-07, 02:31 PM

Sounds nasty, at least you got a Boot-viewing out of it........rest of us have to call in sick for that :p

sprained my wrist a couple of years ago, I thought I was fine so I didnt go to the doctor. For a couple of weeks

too......goddamn.......stubborn

U-533 · 02-23-07, 05:04 PM

OH MY!

I hope you get better soon.

flintlock · 02-23-07, 08:04 PM

Wow, that has to hurt. Wishing you a speedy recovery, joea!

joea · 02-24-07, 05:36 AM

Thanks folks, you know how it goes. The bike will have to be shot.

Buttons suck with one hand too.

Sh3 works with one hand (and fingers of the other) fine though!

02-23-07, 07:40 AM	#3
GSpector Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 676 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Hope you're up and back to having fun again real soon, but not on a bike for a while Hurt just reading about your accident __________________ Specter Last edited by GSpector; 02-23-07 at 01:49 PM.

02-23-07, 09:03 AM	#4
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,198 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Yeah but how's the bike? __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

02-23-07, 09:50 AM	#5
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	OUCH! Hope you get better soon! __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

02-23-07, 12:12 PM	#6
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Yes indeed, not a very pleasant thing. I had my share of bike accidents, man those things are dangerous if you don't watch out :p Good luck with your recovery! __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

02-23-07, 12:22 PM	#7
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Dang, Joe, you forgot rule #1: Don't kick the moving parts while they're moving! Hope you're hale and hearty soon. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

02-23-07, 07:19 AM	#1
joea Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: At periscope depth in Lake Geneva Posts: 3,512 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	Kaleun injured on sick leave: ME!! Well, gonna write this once and cross-post this to my fave forums. Busted myself up…in a stupid way. Was riding my bike home Friday evening when something got out of wack on the front fender and was causing the tire to scrape on it. I tried to kick it straight and somehow got my shoe, or jeans caught on the tire … the sudden stop shot me forward over the handlebars and I landed with my arms out. Damage: left wrist (radial) broken in 4 or 5 places and right elbow sprained, though the latter is better now. 3 days in the hospital and an operation (local anesthetic, cool how they found the 4 nerves in my arm with electrodes) to set the bones and fit a titanium bar and screws and resting at home since Monday. Good folks at the hospital, had food cut up for me too. Oh and you guys here will appreciate that Saturday, the day I was operated (noon) I got to watch Das Boot and my neighbour (I spent one night in a double room before I was moved to a large room) an old guy with a crushed disk was a sub nut and reading a book about August Picard. Yes it is a pain doing daily stuff, especially as the right arm is still a bit sore and not 100% (much better than a few days ago though). My reading has indicated the bone is already knitting nicely. Zoned out on pain killers, at least til the stiches come out next Wednesday. Plus friends have helped / will help me with the cleaning getting easy food (ready to eat) etc. Work is cool too…plus they have accident insurance that covers everything (non-work related accidents as well). So idle for few weeks, and a cast for 6…but I should be free by my B-day on April 15th. Internet is ok, games, well I am grounded obviously, but can play SH3 and old hex games like Steel Panthers World at War. I can type slowly too. Need Velcro shoes though!! Pretty stupid really. Makes one appreciate good health and multiple limbs. I mean really.

02-23-07, 07:25 AM	#2
SmokinTep Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Suffolk, Virginia Posts: 1,027 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I feel for ya. I broke my wrist back in November, was in a cast for 4 weeks. The hard part was the therapy after they took off the cast. Still not 100% but they said it could take 6-12 months before it was like it was before I broke it. Really hard trying to do things one handed.

02-23-07, 12:58 PM	#8
TteFAboB Admiral Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,247 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Get well soon. __________________ "Tout ce qui est exagéré est insignifiant." ("All that is exaggerated is insignificant.") - Talleyrand

02-23-07, 02:31 PM	#9
Tchocky Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,874 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Sounds nasty, at least you got a Boot-viewing out of it........rest of us have to call in sick for that :p sprained my wrist a couple of years ago, I thought I was fine so I didnt go to the doctor. For a couple of weeks too......goddamn.......stubborn __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

02-23-07, 05:04 PM	#10
U-533 Samurai Navy Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: On my Boat Posts: 594 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	OH MY! I hope you get better soon.

02-23-07, 08:04 PM	#11
flintlock Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,177 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Wow, that has to hurt. Wishing you a speedy recovery, joea!

02-24-07, 05:36 AM	#12
joea Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: At periscope depth in Lake Geneva Posts: 3,512 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	Thanks folks, you know how it goes. The bike will have to be shot. Buttons suck with one hand too. Sh3 works with one hand (and fingers of the other) fine though!