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Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 15, 2014 - 08:25am PT
My x-ray shows that I have 8 fractured ribs..........ouch-ouch !
......................steve
wivanoff

Trad climber
CT
Mar 15, 2014 - 08:32am PT
Whatever you do, don't sneeze.
Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2014 - 08:36am PT
Thanks Ron I also have a bruised lung contusions to the pelvic bones and please no one make me laugh !
Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2014 - 08:39am PT
sneeze !!!!!! holy cow !!!!!!!!!!!! I did a few times and thought I was gonna DIE
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Mar 15, 2014 - 08:41am PT
did you fall thru floor joists?

ahh man, that's painful.
just breathing, hurts.
even sex sucks.

when i built our home,
i started out by falling thru the floor joists
while gabbing on the cell phone.

i never got x-rays but i f*#ked myself up.

i gobbled anti-pains and kept it up,
i had to.

my wife was pregnant and we were essentially homeless
and she wanted a home birth so i kept swinging the hammer
as that growing belly chased me down my dream.

about 4 months in, the pain was mostly gone.
take care juan
Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2014 - 08:41am PT
I'll say this ! it was done in j-tree nat. park ???
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Mar 15, 2014 - 09:01am PT
whoo 8 of them eh? That's a lot. I cracked 2 last month, hitting a tree skiing.

What everyone else said. Coughing, sneezing, you'll feel like your lungs have a hole in them. But you'll need to carefully get that crap up and out or you'll get pneumonia.

They're all interconnected so a stress in an uninjured place will hurt the injured place.

I had to sleep on my back. Sleep on my side, and I felt like I was being peeled from inside. I didn't go crazy on the Advils, but 4 of them and I felt great. Got down to 3 2 and none.

Good news is, only 6 weeks. Three weeks and I could run slowly. The running seemed to help, otherwise other parts of your body start to cramp up.
Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2014 - 09:12am PT
Not that I do !!!???? but don't smoke any harsh sh*t
.............toke, cough, burp
MisterE

climber
Mar 15, 2014 - 09:53am PT
Man, sorry to hear that Steve - heal up fast Buddy.
Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2014 - 10:02am PT
the doc's give me 13 to 14 weeks to heal........say bummer !
MisterE

climber
Mar 15, 2014 - 10:05am PT
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StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Mar 15, 2014 - 12:52pm PT
Steve!!! Dude

8? Sounds kind of epic.

Hope you heal up soon.

Rob and Deb
Magic Ed

Trad climber
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Mar 15, 2014 - 12:56pm PT
Are you gonna tell us how you managed to break 8 ribs?

I've had 3 at a time (+ collarbone, scapula and punctured lung) so I sympathize.
klk

Trad climber
cali
Mar 15, 2014 - 12:57pm PT
liquid diet
Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2014 - 01:41pm PT
Magic Ed ...........thanks to friends ! how it happened ? will show up soon fur shur
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Mar 15, 2014 - 01:45pm PT
hey there say, sioux juan, oh my... :O
say, get well soon as you can... do the right things and take proper
care...

prayers and a god bless to you...
say, and the always 'thought for the day':

thankful it WAS NOT worse!!!...

Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2014 - 01:46pm PT
klk...............liquid diet would be the bomb !!!!!!! but I stopped drinking booze too soon .......another bummer lol
Jingy

climber
Somewhere out there
Mar 15, 2014 - 01:47pm PT
ok, just try not to laugh too much in the next few weeks/months

take care

P.S. - Not drinking is not a negative thing... it's just not intoxicating
Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2014 - 01:48pm PT
Yes neebee.......and thank you
Bullwinkle

Boulder climber
Mar 15, 2014 - 02:00pm PT
Can't keep a good man down
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