Best of luck on the recovery, but from the reports sounds like a great start!Boognoss wrote:+1foo on patrol wrote:That's a great start!
Heal well Othy!!
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Postby othy » Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:23 pm
Feels good to be home. The trip was exhausting, dad drove and is from Brisbane and found Sydney traffic awful from gong, much more pleasant on a bike.
Thanks again. I spend a lot of time on this forum and your comments mean a lot to me.
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Postby CommuRider » Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:27 pm
Keep up us up to date with your progress as i am sure that writing about it will also help with your speedy recovery. A diary even.
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Postby othy » Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:31 pm
It's painful but I think of it like cycling intervals, which I took fairly seriously too. I've started logging my reps.
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Re: Othy down
Postby CommuRider » Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:39 pm
I would ensure that the food i have to force myself to feed with would all be my favourites. Throw caution to the wind and enjoy the limited pleasure i have: foie gras, oysters, salmon roe, mangoes, smoked salmon, my favourite pizzas etc regain the appetite and then aim to lose all that weight when i return to cycling.othy wrote:being forced to feed myself by my mean carers.
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BTW, Uncle ChopChop called, he wants that cup o' concrete back. Reckons you don't need it
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We are all here when you need a laugh.
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Postby mikesbytes » Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:45 pm
One of the lines I throw out there in the spin classes is "pain it temporary, results are for life"
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Re: Othy down
Postby Chuck » Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:28 pm
+1jules21 wrote:that's a serious crash... all the best, heal well Othy. the body is resilient.
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Postby ruscook » Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:16 pm
Sure it wasn't Mike and Mal?othy wrote:Thanks. Just had a visit from mike and mark. Feeling pretty positive today.
Good luck, and keep the spirits up and do what the physio says!
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Postby mikesbytes » Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:24 pm
It was good to see youothy wrote:Thanks. Just had a visit from mike and mark. Feeling pretty positive today.
Keep up the physio
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Postby MichaelB » Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:33 am
Keep up the movement and be nice to the carers They might force you to eat masshed brussel sprouts with anchovy sauce .....
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Postby othy » Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:39 am
Certainly a bit less beeping going on a home. I do miss the hospital beds.MichaelB wrote:Must be nice to be at least in a home environment rather than the contant noise of the hospital.
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Or getting woken up at all hours to get the vitals taken , and fed all sorts of stuff that is meant to be food....othy wrote:Certainly a bit less beeping going on a home. I do miss the hospital beds.MichaelB wrote:Must be nice to be at least in a home environment rather than the contant noise of the hospital.
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Re: Othy down
Postby mikesbytes » Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:47 pm
I posted this on my club forum about his bike
mikesbytes wrote:Lizanne and I visited Tim on Sunday morning, you could see the improvement over a week. A long way to go though.
The bizarre thing is the sheer lack of damage to his bike. There is a scratch on the right hood, a scratch on the rear derailleur and some minor damage to the seat. Excuse my crap phone camera photos. Click for biggies
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Re: Othy down
Postby othy » Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:23 am
Bilateral broken humerus's by othyb, on Flickr
Update time.
No more bandages or slings. Still can't move my arms much. Pain is well reduced, and I'm only taking some Panadeine Forte as required, which is basically just before bed. I can even sleep on my side for a small amount of time.
Doctor is very happy with how the bones have been placed in the sockets, and my current rate of healing. I still have another 4 weeks until a MRI and I find out if I have Avascular necrosis.
I have physio exercises that I do religiously 3 times a day. Light weights (and I'm talking 250g) that I do once a day. I also attend Hydrotherapy 3 times a week, which has helped enormously, if not just for the time spent buoyant.
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Re: Othy down
Postby CommuRider » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:02 pm
Glad to hear you're recovering well and thanks for the update.
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Re: Othy down
Postby foo on patrol » Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:29 pm
Hope you don't have that, (my nose bleeds trying to say it) but if you do, what can be done for the bone?
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Re: Othy down
Postby othy » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:55 pm
Not a lot can be done. The first thing is my ortho has recommended an experimental drug that is used to treat perthes' disease, but I'll need to visit another specialist to see if that is an option for me. If that fails then I'll likely need joint replacements, which is not a good option as I'm only 29 and their lifespan is only about 10 years.foo on patrol wrote:That's good to hear Othy.
Hope you don't have that, (my nose bleeds trying to say it) but if you do, what can be done for the bone?
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