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Well, Im still here, and the leg hasnt rotted off yet so thats the good news, lol. Go for preop tomorrow, they talked me into delaying the surgery for a week, said there was too much damage to the tissue to seal it up in a cast so if the pined it all last week I would have to ear a halo bloted to the bone for 12 weeks, the lots of physical therapy. Or I could wait till it healed up and they would go in and fix it. Heres the verdict: ACL and PCl are severed, MCL and LCL are torn and the LCL is attached to a free floating piece of tibia bone. 5 tendons in the calf, some nerve grafts, and some bone pins and I should be good as can be fixed. Wont ever play sports again, but I didnt do much of that before. Just glad to be here. Thanks for checking... I posted this on another forum Im on. Its what Ive learned since I learned that being eaten by a machine is no fun.... Today I learned that there are a lot of people all over the world, who I havent had the pleasure to meet face to face that care about me. Thank you for the well wishes.
1. There are no drugs that can make some pain bearable, sometimes all you can do is scream.
2. I am eternal debt to the vol fire dept, they beat EMS to me by 30 mins, kept me from going into shock, comfortable and carried me (and at 6'1" and 240 thats a job by itself) and the stretcher 100 yards from where I got hurt to the ambulance so I wouldnt have to bounce through gravel. I appreciate the EMS people, they were great and took wonderful care of me but they were getting paid, those 20 volunteer firemen werent. 3. Modesty goes out the window real fast when you are stuck to using a bedpan 4. Learning to walk again sucks 5. I took my mobility and independence for granted. 6. I've got friends all over the world that for too long I have taken for granted. Im sorry, and thank you, all of you, for you words of well wishes and concern. 7. Prune juice is gross My goal (which may differ from what the Doc and physical therapists think) is to try to go back to work the week after Thanksgiving, with a secondary goal of Christmas if that doesnt happen. They seem to think part time first of the year is reasonable.
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