Try not to think about that. It's been two years for me and not even close to picking up a racquet yet.
No card for Mrs. Weldon but it is a lot of fun watching the scanners almost explode when she passes by. Have you seen an Xray of your wife's hip? The screws used are like 6" #18 screws. I guess there's no such thing as overkill when dealing with someone's inside but that seems extreme.
DPH:
That velodrome spill must have been something.
I only rode a track bike once. Never again. The owner of the bike challenged me to a sprint, him on my bike, me on the track bike. I toasted him for about 3 seconds, then darn near killed myself...I relaxed and expected the pedals to freewheel..luckily I did not damage the bike.
jn
That velodrome spill must have been something.
I only rode a track bike once. Never again. The owner of the bike challenged me to a sprint, him on my bike, me on the track bike. I toasted him for about 3 seconds, then darn near killed myself...I relaxed and expected the pedals to freewheel..luckily I did not damage the bike.
jn
There was a thing on TV over here about lat week about ‘The Toe Guy’ who is a podiatrist somewhere in the US. This guy walked in with two infected ingrown big toenails. How he could walk I couldn’t tell tell you. Anyway, a local anesthetic and the Toe Guy hacks into the nails and just rips them out. Put me off dinner. What a mess.
But I enjoyed watching it.
@DPH there’s a veterinary orthopedic surgeon here in the UK that grafts artificial limbs directly onto the bone stumps. The bone attaches (through growth I presume over a period of time) to the metal shaft and the dogs skin and flesh as well. The metal (I think it’s titanium) has special knurls on it so the bone and flash can grip onto it. So you an animal with a piece of steel coming straight out of the skin onto which a blade type foot prosthetic is attached.
Very weird to see. Dogs are fine with it and their doesn’t seem to be any infection issue. He has a TV show about it.
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Very weird to see. Dogs are fine with it and their doesn’t seem to be any infection issue. He has a TV show about it.
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It was a pretty big crash. I'll spare y'all the gory Xrays with the 11 screws into the plate. Track has a thrill (once you're used to the fact that you're bolted into the bike), but that thrill does not include going down at north of 25mph (40 km/h).
Andrew/Bonsai: yeah that's crazy! For a lot of these kinds of surgeries, we could probably do them on humans as well, but, um, we don't take kindly to experimental surgeries and treatments on humans like we do on animals. Obviously ethical violations of the past have a huge reason to do with our conservative nature around treatments, but there are no doubt costs. I don't pretend to know where that line between ethical treatment now and innovation in the future sits.
You and I both. I wish you a speedy and hopefully full recovery Jan.
Unfortunately shoulders can take quite some time to heal properly and that usually includes a lot of physio work after the sling is gone. My last shoulder
surgery (4 yrs ago) included a pin and re attaching tendons in RHS RC joint. >20 years of MTB riding and racing resulted in quite a few injuries and as
such learning how to deal with and recover from them.
I often wonder about GA's and the long term impact of having more than your fair share.
Hugh, GA's aside, it would be fair to say we are both lucky to still be here
having dodged pretty close range bullets.
I hope you are going well.
cheers
Terry
No, he was a BRILLIANT French Doctor.
Lots of contributions to Science and Medicine besides his famous hand operation.
Here in Argentina we follow French style Medicine, and have Hospitals and Research Centers named after him, go figure.
Back in my day, shoes with cleats and toe clips.
Not quite as locked as the current designs. But still, I went down twice and never left the pedals. Once at about 45 mph, bounced a bazillion times and came to rest face up, second a racer in front of me dropped so quick I couldn't react, rode over him and caught my front wheel in his handlebar.
Flipped, tucked my head to do a judo roll, and destroyed my shoulder labrum. (You can't roll if you're strapped into the pedals.)
Many times I wonder how any of us survived to grow up. Wait, I take that back....not grow up, just grow old.
I still refuse to grow up..
Jn
Not quite as locked as the current designs. But still, I went down twice and never left the pedals. Once at about 45 mph, bounced a bazillion times and came to rest face up, second a racer in front of me dropped so quick I couldn't react, rode over him and caught my front wheel in his handlebar.
Flipped, tucked my head to do a judo roll, and destroyed my shoulder labrum. (You can't roll if you're strapped into the pedals.)
Many times I wonder how any of us survived to grow up. Wait, I take that back....not grow up, just grow old.
I still refuse to grow up..
Jn
Back in my day, shoes with cleats and toe clips.
Not quite as locked as the current designs. But still, I went down twice and never left the pedals. Once at about 45 mph, bounced a bazillion times and came to rest face up, second a racer in front of me dropped so quick I couldn't react, rode over him and caught my front wheel in his handlebar.
Flipped, tucked my head to do a judo roll, and destroyed my shoulder labrum. (You can't roll if you're strapped into the pedals.)
Many times I wonder how any of us survived to grow up. Wait, I take that back....not grow up, just grow old.
I still refuse to grow up..
Jn
Yep, we always raced / ride clipped in. Generally racing, other riders are not to much of a problem just trees, rocks, man made features.. whatever you are
going to hit in the bush. 80% of the time you exit over the bars. Also racing we never wore protection except a helmet and gloves. Having said that I've
had a few head on crashes with riders on local trails that are narrow and fast, mostly newbs who don't yell out on blind fast corners. And then there is night
riding....
I've hit the occasional Wallaby at night that seem to just jump out in front of you. I've ridden straight over a huge Goanna but it was toolate. Snakes seem to feel you coming, haven't seen many, only one Eastern Brown.. luckily.
But we haven't got Mountain Lions or Bears... now THEY would scare the $%%t out of me.
At 60 I've become a little more conservative, coupled with
bikes that are much more capable and these days get offs are less frequent... touch wood.
You have to do something to keep sanity in this world!
TCD
I was asking about Jack, not the doctor. The condition is sometimes called the Viking disease, and is somewhat more common in Scotland, Ireland, and England (think Bill Nighy) than in, for instance, Mediterranean locales. My sister has had the surgery, and I've got one lump on my left hand, but haven't had any need for slicing and dicing. We're half Irish.
Jan, see what you started!
The way I phrase my interesting bits is:
The first time you think you are about to die, time slows down and your life flashes before your eyes.
The second time, time slows down and an update flashes before your eyes
Around the fourth time, you begin to realize that with time slowed down, you might be able to do something.
The seventh time, I was able to minimize the damage to me. (I lived!) It was recorded on video and one of the police comments was on how fast I reacted, of course to me it was slow motion. I refer to those results as "My year off."
I figure I have two more lives left!
The way I phrase my interesting bits is:
The first time you think you are about to die, time slows down and your life flashes before your eyes.
The second time, time slows down and an update flashes before your eyes
Around the fourth time, you begin to realize that with time slowed down, you might be able to do something.
The seventh time, I was able to minimize the damage to me. (I lived!) It was recorded on video and one of the police comments was on how fast I reacted, of course to me it was slow motion. I refer to those results as "My year off."
I figure I have two more lives left!
Clearly, the limits here are our own mental limitations. Nature is much more flexible.
Jan
That seems like a good way to found out what really matters to you versus what you thought was important.
First night I slept well without the lingering anesthesia effects. Before, when I drifted off into sleep all kinds of images floated before me. Most prevalent were Mouser order confirmations. Go figure.
Just now on the radio: in his Barcelona period, Gaudi heavily experimented with mushrooms. Go figure again.
Jan
Ï've had this happen a few times in other situations as well, non-threatening. A bit like experiencing a sort of epiphany in a heated moment, everything slows down, think, something just sort of "snaps" in place. Has to be something happening, usually related to dimensional understanding and physics IE where to be and where NOT to be, how to get there and the processes involved in order to do so.
One time it happened the slowing of time was completely useless, lost grip on a straight bit of road. Going slow at 27kmh on the speedometer so probably 4kmh less in actual speed. I said out loud to my daughter who was in the passenger seat "Now we lost grip, if we don't get it back we might crash over there, but I'm sure it'll be okay since that's a long way off." about 100m later we still had the exact same speed, braking light or heavy made no difference, turning little or much made no difference. Was like the car was some sort of air-hockey puck. The time slowing down thing made it a very long moment. Looking around after the crash it was evident the tracks on the tires where sated with a dense slush so they where like slicks, there was a transition in temperature so there was a completely flat thin layer of ice on the road and a thin layer of water on top of that. 15 minutes later there was no ice just water.
There was a somewhat small tree that hit the sensor box in the front square on, so the air bags went out, but it was completely pointless since we didn't even have enough speed to make proper use of the seatbelts. Just sliding sloooowly along, boom, "wonder why those triggered".
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