Walt, That's some video! Hope all goes well for your son. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Walter Hamler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My son, 25, broke his wrist a little over a month ago and has had 2 > of 6 pins removed so far. Hopefully tomorrow or the next week they > will take out the two main ones and the other two smaller ones. Here > is a youtube video of what they did to him, except his break was > worse; lots more chips to remove.. It is not for the weak stomach to > view! > Your daughter should mend faster as it sounds like a clean break. > > http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=X4jrLabnF7g&feature=related > > Walt > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:18 AM, frank theriault > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Not me, but I wish it was. >> >> Yesterday my eldest (she's 26) was riding home from school (she just >> started an intense ASL Interpreter course at a local college) when her >> back wheel got caught in a streetcar track. She went down, landed >> awkwardly on her leg and fractured her tibia (shin bone) just below >> her patella (knee). It will require surgery (plates and screws and >> all that) and she's just kind of hanging around (as an inpatient) >> waiting for an operating room. Othopaedic surgeries are done >> mid-afternoon to about 11pm, but due to the non-life-threatening >> nature of her injury, she's not too high on the list it seems; >> hopefully in a day or two. >> >> She's heard different stories as to the timeframe for convalescing, >> anywhere from 6 weeks to 3 months. >> >> Luckily she's young and in pretty good shape, so her prognosis is >> good. It could have been worse to be sure, and she's taking it like a >> trooper, but she's not too comfortable right now. >> >> I feel responsible, being a PDML member. Obviously the PDML Bike >> Curse is communicable (or perhaps genetic)... >> >> ;-) >> >> cheers, >> frank >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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