Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 8, 2013 - 08:57am PT
Back home - finally. My many friends pulled me through this epic. I'll jot out a few hospital chronicles once it all comes back to me. For now, thanks for all your good will and support. That's a life saver, of that you may be sure.
Fact is, once I got some Lynnnnnnnnnny love I was restored.
Was also in the hospital for over a month when I was 10 (double tib/fib compound-fracture, skin graft, etc).
I distinctly remember how great it felt to be out in the sun again, and to feel the breeze of fresh air.
Look forward to read more of your writing. Cheers!
Hey, we sure do miss you around here. Super glad your recovery is going well. The healing mechanisms of the body are amazing, yes? Hurry back and start posting up! :)
May each passing day be a little better than the one before.
May your recovery progress to the point that, in the future, you'll have occasional moments of uncertainty as to which leg it was that suffered such injury.
Hurrah! Was just saying I was going to bug you to see how you are. Glad to see you got out. And look forward to seeing more of you around here. Best wishes!!
Congrats on being parolled. Must have felt like the Count of Monte Cristo in the forsaken Chateau d' If.
Your accident may save many of us from a similar fate man. I for one am keeping an ever more diligent eye on myself and my partner in the gym and on the stone these days.
Hope your escape continues to be full of well wishes and snide remarks about blue speedos.
Glad you are back home. For a whole lot of reasons, don't want to be in the hospital any longer than absolutely necessary.
Good luck with the continued recovery.
Just below your thread is a Warren Harding one: Park Rat says:
Here is some more background to the picture of Harding in the hospital.
It was originally in the Sacramental Union Friday, September 19, 1969
One of Harding's comments on stepping in front of a pickup truck.
"All I know is this is the silliest thing that ever happened to me"
What he didn't know at the time was that his shattered leg and knee would have to be re-broken and set again in December with various pins added.
Come to think of it Harding always approved of adding a few pins not to mention a few bolts.Our intrepid climber would be back on the mist Trail in late May 1970, not only hiking but carrying a huge pack."" (End of Quote from her thread)
So, if his shattered land and knee had to be rebroken, et. all and then later he was back on the trail with a huge pack, you can do it too.
Very glad to hear that you have surpassed this significant hurdle. As you probably know or have heard by now, extended hosptal stays can lead to aquiring a contagious and ultimately fatal disease such a pnuemonia. It is what first crossed my kind when a patient was not responding, or taking longer than normal to the post-op restorative therapy which was required, as far as enabling them to transfer out. Big resposibility which layed primarily on the therapist shoulders. Next stop (often as short as 4-7 days post op) was a rehab/nursing home where it (contagious diseases breed with a vengence).
Anyway, welcome back society and best wishes on the road to full recovery, big guy!
From those thigh scars looks like you got a gracilis free flap and a split thickness skin graft for medial coverage.
Hope the healing continues to go well.
Glad you are on the mend John. Hopefully getting home will help speed things along (festering in the hospital sucks, as many of us know). Hope to see you up and about and around some of the old haunts soon.
When I destroyed my knee in '86 my doctor told me my riding days were over.
Two years later I earned number one division plate in open class desert racing.
As strong as you are, I think you will continue following your passions sooner than later. Best of luck!
-wayne
John, if it is any consolation the entire climbing world are now checking their tie-in a little more thoroughly. Might even stop someone else hurting themselve ... for the next six months or so.
That picture of Lynn and John is kind of ironic. Both took long falls due to pilot error, lived to tell the tale, and are the poster children for checking the knot.
A reminder to play safe.
Plus Donini's recent incident with the rap sling. Kind of makes you want to trust your instinct and throw in a backup. I know of 2 incidents in the Cdn Rockies where very experienced climbers put in a backup to the belay anchors as an afterthought only to have the main belay fail and saved by the backup.
So it's been awhile since I've seen any news on how you are doing, Dude.
How are you healing, what's happening and anyway the folk here at ST can help?
Cheers and Best Wishes from.....a bunch of us. lynne leichtfuss and friends.
Let us know!