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mcblink said:
They do have the MX version too, but while it's fun to watch, that's a different type of riding than I've ever done!


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Depending on which side of the bike you put the hack on, you can keep your bad leg off the ground and out of danger. You just need a friend who is a glutton for punishme..., I mean wanting to be a monkey, and go out and have some fun.
 
Yesterday, I made the trek back to Seattle to visit my surgeon and team. My bone has so far healed up just like it was supposed to. The hardware is all intact, in place, no loose screws or anything, I had vascular ultrasounds performed on each leg, from groin to ankle, no clots or signs of clots were observed. I was then released from the chains of the Chair. I am allowed to bear weight. I can walk!

I am weak, and I must limp, but I walked to the toilet and had a wonderful....uhh, well, I did it all on my own two legs and under their own power. And it feels good. The knee feels a bit different, but it doesn't hurt much if any.

Now, this surgical wound on the other hand, is a gory bitch. Stitches came out yesterday. I no longer have the wound vac on, but I wish I did. I have to wash the wound out with soap and water, then pack the hole with saline-moistened gauze, then cover that up with some larger dry gauze, wrap it up with more gauze, then ace wrap around that. I change the bandage every day, the gauze has dried out and stuck to the inside of the wound. Peeling it out, it takes all the bacteria and nasty shït out, because it's all been stuck to the gauze. Then the wash, fresh gauze, wrap, etc...it feels just about like it looks.

So I can walk, and it doesn't hurt my knee, but it does hurt this open, grotesquely vagina-shaped, gaping hole in the side of my upper calf.

Yesterday, I took this picture. I am thinking about making a video of the process of changing the bandaging.

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mcblink said:
Yesterday, I made the trek back to Seattle to visit my surgeon and team. My bone has so far healed up just like it was supposed to. The hardware is all intact, in place, no loose screws or anything, I had vascular ultrasounds performed on each leg, from groin to ankle, no clots or signs of clots were observed. I was then released from the chains of the Chair. I am allowed to bear weight. I can walk!

I am weak, and I must limp, but I walked to the toilet and had a wonderful....uhh, well, I did it all on my own two legs and under their own power. And it feels good. The knee feels a bit different, but it doesn't hurt much if any.

Now, this surgical wound on the other hand, is a gory bitch. Stitches came out yesterday. I no longer have the wound vac on, but I wish I did. I have to wash the wound out with soap and water, then pack the hole with saline-moistened gauze, then cover that up with some larger dry gauze, wrap it up with more gauze, then ace wrap around that. I change the bandage every day, the gauze has dried out and stuck to the inside of the wound. Peeling it out, it takes all the bacteria and nasty shït out, because it's all been stuck to the gauze. Then the wash, fresh gauze, wrap, etc...it feels just about like it looks.

So I can walk, and it doesn't hurt my knee, but it does hurt this open, grotesquely vagina-shaped, gaping hole in the side of my upper calf.

Yesterday, I took this picture. I am thinking about making a video of the process of changing the bandaging.

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Well ... that put me in the mood for a roast beef sandwich!

Glad its coming along Blink!
 
LiveeviL2000 said:
Well ... that put me in the mood for a roast beef sandwich!

Glad its coming along Blink!
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I was thinking glad I’d finished my meatloaf sandwich, complete with ketchup slathered all over, before checking in on TTR.

I know we all do what we have to do…. But I still remember destroying the tip of my ring finger on my left hand. Drove myself to the doctor. Nearly passed out when the nurse started cleaning it.

I am happy things are progressing in a positive direction for you blinky. Glad you can finally walk to and stand to pee again. Hopefully this process of keeping the wound clean will be a short term deal.
 
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iblive said:
Hopefully this process of keeping the wound clean will be a short term deal.
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It's going to be a little while, but it should eventually fill itself in. There is a possibility that if it just doesn't want to close up on it's own, I will need one more surgery (skin graft) so that it can finish healing shut.

That would make 4 surgeries, all because one busted tibial plateau. So far it's been just the 3 surgeries... 7 incisions, 3 plates, 23 screws total, 20 of which remain implanted.

I am quite amazed at the amount of trauma I have inflicted upon myself from a relatively slow and non-violent accident.
 
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