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Finally saw ortho hand surgeon yesterday after finding out I broke my thumb in a crash on the 13th. Having surgery monday to realine fractured bits and wire into position. Then cast for six weeks. Six friggin weeks!!! He says no riding (obviously) no gripping ( like handlebars or anything else), no lifting, no training (sweat inside cast makes for unsanitary funkiness), no sweating. Then after six weeks cast comes off wires come out and wear a splint for another six weeks. Still no riding, no lifting, but I can resume stationary workouts. Which means by about July I will be ready to race. Oops all the races will be pretty much done by then. Guees I will focus on the fall TT seies this year. Which will toatally screw up next year. Plus I will go nuts sitting around getting fat. Oh I can go back to playing all those guitars in my closet. Not with a cast on your left hand!!! Is it more pittiful to have no life once you cant ride or to think that you had a lfe to start with because you did ride?
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String your guitar lefty. Then, I don't know...come up with your own fingerpicking technique, become super famous for it, and get more money and chicks thrown at you than you can handle. When life gives you AIDS, make lemonAIDS! :-D
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Medicine sure has gone backwards. 35 years ago they had fiberglass casts that would allow athletes to train. I know because a High School teammate of mine was the Los Angeles City champion in the 50 freestyle (swimming) two weeks after getting out of the cast he had after knee surgery. He trained all season in a cast!
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Originally Posted by Keith99
Medicine sure has gone backwards. 35 years ago they had fiberglass casts that would allow athletes to train.
Believe it or not, medicine has progressed in 35 years.
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Since when does no sweating mean no training? Lotsa stuff you can do without soaking yourself...
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Originally Posted by curiouskid55
Finally saw ortho hand surgeon yesterday after finding out I broke my thumb in a crash on the 13th....
Didn't they just apply leeches 35 years ago?
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Originally Posted by Bacciagalupe
Very sorry to hear about your injury. If you don't want to get fat, take lots of walks, and start running once you get the cast off.
Didn't they just apply leeches 35 years ago?
Didn't they just apply leeches 35 years ago?
I thought they still used leeches on occasion even now
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just be happy it didn't happen to your collarbone a week after finishing your first year of college & you were made to lay down (not sitting up, even) almost an entire summer after that $#!tty first year of college...
sorry 'bout the mini-rant. i know how it is, man. it sucks. bad.
at least i got an awesome story & an even better battle wound to show off.
sorry 'bout the mini-rant. i know how it is, man. it sucks. bad.
at least i got an awesome story & an even better battle wound to show off.
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it is thumb and hand surgery not a broken ulna or radius. it is much more complicated to get right and limit your range of motion and activity so that you don't screw it up during the healing process.
stop whining and suck it up or it will never heal properly and be unrepairable.
stop whining and suck it up or it will never heal properly and be unrepairable.
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When I smashed my hand to bits in a bike wreck (kinda over dramatizing) I trained. I had pins and screws put in my hand but was told not to ride outdoors. Crap, I lifted weights, and ran, and everything else. My cast stunk like a mule's *** (don't ask how I know this) but it kept me sane.
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Never happy just to break bones ,when I break something it has to be a joint. Tried holding the steel for my square neck, no dice. Plan on doing lots of walking. And having to spend a lot of time in meetings smelling like a mules butt is not an option. I was hoping someone would suggest a good cheese to go with my whine.
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Originally Posted by curiouskid55
Plus I will go nuts sitting around getting fat.
-Bullseye