Recreation co-ed softball last night, ankle busted

oh man...that looks painful! Here's to a speedy recovery!
 
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Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

Ive done that before skateboarding and I feel your pain man. How long until your heeled? I'm pretty sure all my ankle injuries took 8 weeks if I remember correctly.

I hope all is well now and wish you a speedy recovery :xyxthumbs:
 
Yeah, surgery on the 6th, and then he expects me to be in a walking boot the next week. Should be able to do light walking and ankle exercises in about 6-8 weeks.

100% recovery about a year.
 
Oh brother... I should have waited until tomorrow to read this. I'm on a men's league and tonight is our last double-header. It's bone dry out here, so at least I won't have to worry about slipping on any dew.

Here's to a speedy recovery! :cheers:
 
Y2KSVT said:
Oh brother... I should have waited until tomorrow to read this. I'm on a men's league and tonight is our last double-header. It's bone dry out here, so at least I won't have to worry about slipping on any dew.

Here's to a speedy recovery! :cheers:
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It was a pretty big fluke injury. I'm sure you'll all be fine. Enjoy, stay safe, have fun
 
brentech said:
It had to be done, it went well.

Anyways, went to the doctor today. Same guy that popped it back into place. He'll be doing surgery on me next Friday to get the bones back together. Said the swelling is down and I've been doing a good job elevating my leg since the the bruising has actually worked up towards my knee.

Got some of my X-Rays from the night it happened.

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In this one, my ankle was still dislocated. Shows it to the side of where it should be.

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This second one shows that he got it back in the socket. Also gives a better view of the fractures. There's 3 all together. 2 are pretty easy to spot.
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Sorry man. That's a bad break. Good luck with the surgery.
 
Sorry to hear about the ankle. I'm guessing the pain med that made you sick was dilaudid (hydromorphone), my surgeon and pharm claimed that people react better to it than morphine. I puked for hours when I had dilaudid, everyone I know who's taken it had a bad reaction to it. Just request a different med when they do the second surgery.

Glad to hear you felt well enough to wash the car. I remember after having hip surgery, I was in a wheelchair shovelling snow - just try shovelling without being able to plant your feet.

Final note: be glad it's summer, it may be hot and uncomfortable but you don't have to worry about crutches and ice.
 
brentech said:
Heh. I have ulcerative colitis. I have plenty of those around for various scope exams and general well being.

Got a little sick this morning from the drug they gave me at the hospital. Probably both that and the pain creeping back.
My percocet just arrived though.
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Do you wolf your food down? My mother always did. She would eat a whole meal in 5-10 minutes. She had ulcerative colitis her whole life. She wolfed her food down her whole life, too. I read that ulcerative colitis is caused by wolfing one's food down, and my mother's experience confirms this.

I broke my ankle once, too. Had to have a steel pin put in it for a while. When I woke up from surgery and the painkiller wore off, it felt like there was a dagger stuck in my foot. Worst pain ever. I don't like needles, but after the pain got bad enough, I eagerly accepted, begged for a shot. It worked. Wore a cast for 6 weeks.
 
Blackthorn One said:
Do you wolf your food down? My mother always did. She would eat a whole meal in 5-10 minutes. She had ulcerative colitis her whole life. She wolfed her food down her whole life, too. I read that ulcerative colitis is caused by wolfing one's food down, and my mother's experience confirms this.

I broke my ankle once, too. Had to have a steel pin put in it for a while. When I woke up from surgery and the painkiller wore off, it felt like there was a dagger stuck in my foot. Worst pain ever. I don't like needles, but after the pain got bad enough, I eagerly accepted, begged for a shot. It worked. Wore a cast for 6 weeks.
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Ulcerative Colitis is an autoimmune disease (the body thinks itself needs attacked like any common virus, and damages itself). I'm treated with Remicade, which weakens your immune system. Stops your body from attacking itself. Doing fine on it.

Nothing to do with how one eats, although I'm sure that didn't help her.
 
Brent so sorry to hear. I just tore my tendon in my right ring finger last week. On splint now for 12 weeks. No surgery... Hurt it playing softball too.

Peanuts compared to yours. So sorry. Rest up.
 
Apparently softball ain't no joke, lol.
Thought I was just filling out the roster for my brother-in-law, then it all got so real, ha.

A tear of the tendon isn't no big deal either. I got lucky in that mine didn't tear and only over pulled.
 
I love broken bones... Not on me, but on my patients, I'm an EMT. So broke stuff usually gives me something to do on the way to the hospital if I'm riding the call. :)

On another note: Feel better and rest up!
 
brentech said:
Ulcerative Colitis is an autoimmune disease (the body thinks itself needs attacked like any common virus, and damages itself). I'm treated with Remicade, which weakens your immune system. Stops your body from attacking itself. Doing fine on it.

Nothing to do with how one eats, although I'm sure that didn't help her.
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What I read was food that isn't chewed completely needs more stomach acid over a longer period of time which exposed the stomach and colon lining to more acid, which can weaken it, causing ulcers, if a person wolfs their food down on a regular basis. That is the body attacking itself, and it makes sense as far as being able to cause ulcers.
 
Sorry to hear what happened. I am on the dl this year for softball too. Tore my ACL playing basketball. 8 wks post op and all is going well. I know how you felt about washing your car, 4 days post op I did a little waterless wash :). About a week and a half after surgery I cut the grass (life has to go on). Rest up and et ready for therapy


Ryan
 
Blackthorn One said:
What I read was food that isn't chewed completely needs more stomach acid over a longer period of time which exposed the stomach and colon lining to more acid, which can weaken it, causing ulcers, if a person wolfs their food down on a regular basis. That is the body attacking itself, and it makes sense as far as being able to cause ulcers.
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Ulcerative colitis - PubMed Health

Again, not saying that eating like that doesn't hurt oneself, but it's not the cause of ulcerative colitis. Ulcers aren't even the main symptom, so you're quite off there.

Ulcerative Colitis is an inflammatory disease (like rheumatoid arthritis...in fact, the same drugs treat it).
Not going to argue about it, you should probably talk to a gastroenterologist if you're worked up about it.
 
brentech said:
Ulcerative colitis - PubMed Health

Again, not saying that eating like that doesn't hurt oneself, but it's not the cause of ulcerative colitis. Ulcers aren't even the main symptom, so you're quite off there.

Ulcerative Colitis is an inflammatory disease (like rheumatoid arthritis...in fact, the same drugs treat it).
Not going to argue about it, you should probably talk to a gastroenterologist if you're worked up about it.
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Didn't want to argue. Just thought I'd bring it up out of concern.

BTW, rheumatoid arthritis can be caused by food allergies which involves certain undigested food proteins entering the joints, causing an inflammatory reaction. As I recall, corn, milk, chicken, and wheat are among those foods that commonly trigger it for those who have it. There are a few other ones, I think. By eliminating these potential allergens from the diet, the arthritis goes away, and then these foods are gradually reintroduced one at a time, to see which ones cause a reaction. Many arthritis sufferers have gotten completely off of their medications under a doctor's supervision, by using this method. This basically involves never eating the thing that causes inflammation any more. Different things cause reactions in different people.
Since rheumatoid arthritis can be caused by food, I find it interesting that the same drugs that are used to treat it are used for colitis, which also is affected by diet, at least to some degree.



Hot Topics: Diet: The Only Real Hope for Arthritis
 
Blackthorn One said:
Didn't want to argue. Just thought I'd bring it up out of concern.

BTW, rheumatoid arthritis can be caused by food allergies which involves certain undigested food proteins entering the joints, causing an inflammatory reaction. As I recall, corn, milk, chicken, and wheat are among those foods that commonly trigger it for those who have it.

Really? I'd like to see a peer reviewed study on that.
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Robert8194 said:
Blackthorn One said:
Didn't want to argue. Just thought I'd bring it up out of concern.

BTW, rheumatoid arthritis can be caused by food allergies which involves certain undigested food proteins entering the joints, causing an inflammatory reaction. As I recall, corn, milk, chicken, and wheat are among those foods that commonly trigger it for those who have it.

Really? I'd like to see a peer reviewed study on that.
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There are many studies referenced in the link I posted, like this one.
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Molecular Mimicry
Another fate of the foreign proteins is they can cause the body to make antibodies that are not solely specific to that foreign protein, but also interact with similar human proteins. This mechanism is known as molecular mimicry. The body attacks itself and the resulting diseases are referred to as autoimmune diseases. Rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and the other inflammatory forms of arthritis are autoimmune diseases.
Molecular mimicry in rheumatoid arthritis has been identified with cow's milk. One analysis showed that the amino acid residues 141-157 of bovine albumin were essentially the same as the amino acids found in human collagen in the joints (Clin Chim Acta 203:153, 1991). The antibodies synthesized to attack the foreign cow's milk proteins, end up attacking the joint tissues because of shared sequences of amino acids between the cartilage and the milk proteins, that the antibody is directed to attack."




Again, here is the link.-

Hot Topics: Diet: The Only Real Hope for Arthritis
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This morning I had my surgery on my right ankle (opened up, insert plate and 9 pins due to 3 fractures). They sent me home with this medication ball hooked through a catheder in my leg. Numbs my leg from the knee down......side effect, it numbed my god damn fingers.

Doctor called, luckily he okayed clamping it off and seeing if I can handle the pain on Percocet alone. I'm hoping it works cause it's really irritating having to carry this bag with the ball in it, and I have freaking wires coming out my leg.

It's been almost 2 hours of being off the numbing agent now. Still tingles in the fingers and can't move my toes yet. This stuff really stays in ya. Hoping the pain will be tolerable so I can have this thing removed tomorrow. They told my wife she'd be pulling it out, but she doesn't think she could stomach it-- luckily we have a nurse friend that's willing to come over.
 
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