Mentor Away: Little or No Internet Access Until Monday

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The discussion revolves around a member's upcoming move and their temporary absence from the forum due to limited internet access. The community engages in light-hearted banter, joking about potential chaos in their absence and appointing a member as a "secret spy" to keep things in check. Amidst the humor, the original poster shares concerns about their moving process and the challenges of packing and relocating. The conversation takes a serious turn when the poster reveals they may have broken their elbow while moving, leading to discussions about the injury and the need for medical attention. Despite the injury, there's a focus on maintaining a positive outlook, with members expressing support and sharing their own experiences with injuries. The thread concludes with a mix of humor and concern, as the community rallies around the poster, emphasizing the importance of help and camaraderie during challenging times.
  • #51
This elbow was broken was I was 2 and healed wrong, so it was always on the verge of breaking again. This is a really bad time for this to happen.
 
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  • #52
Where are pics of the new pad?
 
  • #53
Good luck, Evo! :smile:
 
  • #54
Evo said:
I figured I would have the movers move the furniture and i would pack and move the rest. Except last night I slipped on wet grass and I believe I broke my arm at the elbow. There was a loud cracking noise and when I tried to move my arm with my other hand, I could hear and feel the bones moving.
A loud crack noise!? Either a break or dislocation.

I decided not to go to the emergency room because I'd already had such a harrowing day. I'm to the doctor in a couple of hours. I'm trying to figure out how to get this turtleneck sweater off.
Where is EC? Did you call her? Can you drive? Does the doctor have an X-ray machine or will you have to go to the radiologist/hospital for an X-ray anyway?

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
 
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  • #55
Ouch, Evo. Sorry to hear about your elbow. Sounds like a full arm cast for 6 weeks, unfortunately. Is it your writing/mousing hand? They shouldn't have to imobilize the wrist, hopefully, so you should still be able to write and use a PC.

Best wishes!
 
  • #56
Good luck, Evo.
 
  • #57
Evo said:
I'm to the doctor in a couple of hours. I'm trying to figure out how to get this turtleneck sweater off.

drumroll...

and the verdict is...(?)

(...and not about the sweater)
 
  • #58
Of course, most of us expected nothing less then a broken bone or stiches, either befor, durring or shortly after the move. Evo dosn't do anything, without putting her entire self into it.
Note: pull the good arm out first, then useing the good arm, pull it over the head from the good side. Lastly slip it off the bad arm. Hope it feels better soon.
 
  • #59
Hope you are OK, Evo. Maybe there will be a cute doc to patch you up! :!)
 
  • #60
Oweee! Hope you still have a good hand left for typing when you're done! Mend up quickly!

And no roast pig for math jeans after extinguishing our nice, roaring bonfire. There's a goody-two-shoes in every bunch, isn't there? :-p
 
  • #61
hypatia said:
Note: pull the good arm out first, then useing the good arm, pull it over the head from the good side. Lastly slip it off the bad arm. Hope it feels better soon.
Yep, that's how I got it off, with a little bit of screaming.

They took x-rays, but the radiologist wasn't there to read them, I have broken this arm before and my doctor said it looks like a fracture, so I'm scheduled to see an orthopedic surgeon Wednesday morning. What's funny is that before the accident, my arm was crooked from the first break, only noticeble if I held my arm straight, it looked like a bird's wing. Now my arm is straight. :rolleyes: Hanging limp and swollen, but straight. I'm in a sling right now.
 
  • #62
I am really so very sorry, hopefully they will just need to cast it.
 
  • #63
hypatia said:
I am really so very sorry, hopefully they will just need to cast it.
Awww, thnaks hypatia, I'm sure it will be fine. They don't want to repeat what they did to my fingers. Damn Dr Death.
 
  • #64
Oh my, poor Evo! I hope you feel better soon.

It wouldn't have taken a psychic to predict this. :biggrin:
 
  • #65
What do we have to do to ensure the Evo does not get injured? Encasing her in foam seems mild enough, but if you have to take her feelings into consideration, it might seem a bit cruel after 10-15 minutes or so... Can we whack her on the head so that she is disoriented, and then reprogram her? Seems a bit 1984 to me...
 
  • #66
I'm very sorry you are hurt Evo. The bright side is that you should have lots of company at your new place while your arm mends. All your things will be moved and you won't have to lift anything heavier than a glass of iced-tea.
 
  • #67
Huckleberry said:
I'm very sorry you are hurt Evo. The bright side is that you should have lots of company at your new place while your arm mends. All your things will be moved and you won't have to lift anything heavier than a glass of iced-tea.
News of the injury spread like wildfire, no one I know can be reached. :frown:

I still have boxes to pack, move and unpack.
 
  • #68
(maybe---everyone is at work?)
 
  • #69
rewebster said:
(maybe---everyone is at work?)
That could be and school also. Hmmmpf.
 
  • #70
time to get out that 'special box' of Evo bribing techniques for use only in dire circumstances
 
  • #71
turbo-1 said:
What do we have to do to ensure the Evo does not get injured? Encasing her in foam seems mild enough, but if you have to take her feelings into consideration, it might seem a bit cruel after 10-15 minutes or so... Can we whack her on the head so that she is disoriented, and then reprogram her? Seems a bit 1984 to me...

Just don't set her on fire...
 
  • #72
Evo said:
News of the injury spread like wildfire, no one I know can be reached. :frown:

I still have boxes to pack, move and unpack.

how's the pain today?-


-with one of mine (boxer's fracture), the pain began to grow worse the second day, peaked about the fifth day, and didn't 'subside'/tolerable until about the seventh.
 
  • #73
WHAT THE HELL!?

I come to this thread hoping how happy you are to have finished moving and now you have a broken arm! Dammit!

I want great news next time. :smile:

I hope all goes well. Like Hypatia, hopefully it's just a cast and it heals nicely. Keep us updated for sure.
 
  • #74
rewebster said:
with one of mine (boxer's fracture), the pain began to grow worse the second day, peaked about the fifth day, and didn't 'subside'/tolerable until about the seventh.
That'll cheer her up. :rolleyes: I imagine it's rather painful and difficult to sleep - well it's perhaps difficult to do much of anything. I had the same experience 2nd-3rd day when I busted a rib. Trying to shower (with one good side) or doing anything that required raising the arm on that side was rather difficult.

I hope all goes well at the orthopedist's and we all hope for a speedy recovery.
 
  • #75
busted rib--yep--that's was another one---med's helped on that one
 
  • #76
Astronuc said:
That'll cheer her up. :rolleyes: I imagine it's rather painful and difficult to sleep - well it's perhaps difficult to do much of anything. I had the same experience 2nd-3rd day when I busted a rib. Trying to shower (with one good side) or doing anything that required raising the arm on that side was rather difficult.

I hope all goes well at the orthopedist's and we all hope for a speedy recovery.
With all due respect to the broken bones of others, my worst broken bones have been ribs. I've had 2-3 of them busted at a time, and every breath was like getting stabbed. Sleeping in chairs sucks, but if there's no way to lie down without putting pressure too much pressure on the ribs, you got to do it.

BTW, Astro, nice avatar! Who was your photographer? :smile: You've got to come up again soon, so I can shoot you sampling the newest batch of habanero relish. This is a killer, though the season has turned off so cold that we might not get more than another small batch before the frosts move in. I've got to get my neighbor's partnership with his little greenhouse and big water-reservoir planters to get our habaneros started much earlier. They need maybe 3-4 weeks more than we can give them to yield mostly-ripened harvests.
 
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  • #77
Evo said:
That could be and school also. Hmmmpf.
I wish you lived at the summer home I picked out for you. I'd help you move, even though I still don't have power steering in my truck.
 
  • #78
turbo-1 said:
With all due respect to the broken bones of others, my worst broken bones have been ribs. I've had 2-3 of them busted at a time, and every breath was like getting stabbed. Sleeping in chairs sucks, but if there's no way to lie down without putting pressure too much pressure on the ribs, you got to do it.

and every cough or sneeze felt like being hit with a baseball bat

(for about four months)
 
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  • #79
I'll too throw in my hopes that it's something that can be simply casted up and allowed to mend nicely with no other fuss. I also hope you at least got some good painkillers out of the deal...it'll make the stress of moving SO much easier to tolerate. :biggrin:

Child of Evo better be helping you pack and move and unpack now. On the upside, as soon as you're into the new place, you won't have any need to do any yard work or maintenance, so you can just relax on your days off and use your good arm to type while you hang out on PF. :smile: Though, I was hoping you'd get out of the pit of doom before sustaining any further injuries!
 
  • #80
Thanks everyone for the good wishes. Maybe it won't be broken, I'm now seeing the specialist Thursday thanks to mandatory training that no one is excused from.

Dr Foofer made the move today. If was rough at first, but The Fruit Bat has put him under his spell. I swear that dog has Rasputin's power over cats. :bugeye:
 
  • #81
Every time I got hurt, it added a new 'perspective' to 'life'--

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("wet grass"?----it wasn't fruit bat by-products, was it?)
 
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  • #82
Evo said:
Thanks everyone for the good wishes. Maybe it won't be broken, I'm now seeing the specialist Thursday thanks to mandatory training that no one is excused from.
Too bad you couldn't get in today. With the popping or cracking sound, it certainly sounded like one had a break. Please don't put it off.

Meanwhile dring whole milk, eat creamed spinach (or other good sources of calcium), and take your vitamins.

And pleeeease be more careful.

I can send you my collection of cleats and you have all your shoes adpated for walking on wet grass. :rolleyes:

Dr Foofer made the move today. If was rough at first, but The Fruit Bat has put him under his spell. I swear that dog has Rasputin's power over cats. :bugeye:
How did JoD take it?

Well good luck with the rest of the move.
 
  • #83
Astronuc said:
How did JoD take it?
Jaws isn't coming, and she's FINALLY stopped chewing and calmed down. She'd be a great dog now. I have my pet limit already. Perhaps I can find her a home. It's very sad.
 
  • #84
Evo said:
Jaws isn't coming, and she's FINALLY stopped chewing and calmed down. She'd be a great dog now. I have my pet limit already. Perhaps I can find her a home. It's very sad.
Oh, dear. :frown:
 
  • #85
I just got back from the orthopedic surgeon, yes, I broke my elbow. On a positive note, it should be healed in 8 weeks. He said not to fall again before it heals. :rolleyes:

Turbo! You have that foam padded suit ready?

It's starting to look really cool, the entire length of my arm is turning purple, blue and green, with an odd white stripe up the back and it's so swollen it's disgusting.

Oh, and I must have hit the Fruit Bat, he has a broken toe. :frown:
 
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  • #86
So he said no surgery then?
 
  • #87
Math Is Hard said:
So he said no surgery then?
No, he said for the break I had he was amazed my elbow wasn't displaced. I'm a tough old bird. Poor Fruit Bat though. :frown:
 
  • #88
Evo said:
No, he said for the break I had he was amazed my elbow wasn't displaced. I'm a tough old bird. Poor Fruit Bat though. :frown:

I'm very relieved to hear you won't need an operation! Sorry to hear about the little fruit bat. I wish I could send him some canteloupe slices to cheer him up. The melons out here have been so good this summer. I've been buying these tiny ones about the size of a softball. They are just as sweet as can be, and you can eat a whole one in one sitting.
 
  • #89
Evo said:
I just got back from the orthopedic surgeon, yes, I broke my elbow. On a positive note, it should be healed in 8 weeks. He said not to fall again before it heals. :rolleyes:
I recommend not falling afterwards.

Sounds like the humerus broke?

Turbo! You have that foam padded suit ready?
Bubble suit.


Oh, and I must have hit the Fruit Bat, he has a broken toe.
Brave little Fruit Bat apparently risked his life in an attempt to save one.
 
  • #90
Astronuc said:
Bubble suit.
Yup! sneak into shipping department, "borrow" roll of 1/2" void bubble wrap and some packing tape and immobilize the old arm. :eek: Oops! Not that Evo's arm is old, or at least any older than the rest of her, which is definitely NOT old. :rolleyes: OK, looking at account suspension at the least...:cry:
 
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  • #91
Is this what it looks like?

http://www.sarpy.com/ema/moulage/burn-arm.jpg
 
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  • #92
rewebster said:
http://www.sarpy.com/ema/moulage/burn-arm.jpg
EEWWWWW! Not anywhere near that bad!

It was the tip of the ulna, the olecranon. The piece that keeps your arm from going backwards.
 
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  • #93
8 weeks?---healed just in time to carve the turkey----and, now, no excuses from those helping you move that you can't be the 'moving manager'
 
  • #94
Evo said:
EEWWWWW! Not anywhere near that bad!

It was the tip of the ulna, the olecranon. The piece that keeps your arm from going backwards.

OW! Right where the (not so) funny bone is!
 
  • #95
Moonbear said:
OW! Right where the (not so) funny bone is!

Should we test Evo with some jokes to see if she is healing properly?
 
  • #96
Math Is Hard said:
Should we test Evo with some jokes to see if she is healing properly?
I tweaked her just a bit.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=1437294&postcount=90

Nothing up-front, just a little elbow in the rib, you know. Not that I mean to mention the elbow, you know. It's part of that metaphor thing. Very innocent and all. It's very, very quiet here. I'm nervous, though I try to keep upbeat listening to Hollies records while field-stripping 10mm Glocks for time and points. I have pit bulls in the house and a Holstein bull in the front yard.:rolleyes:
 
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  • #97
Evo said:
EEWWWWW! Not anywhere near that bad!

It was the tip of the ulna, the olecranon. The piece that keeps your arm from going backwards.

That reminded me of an an article on this guy that got hit with a ton of hydroflouric acid:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/356/6/e5#F1
 
  • #99
the meds must be working---evo hasn't posted too much


Evo!---where (and how) are you?
 
  • #100
In pain, wondering how I'm going to to get everything done.
 

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