Day after tomorrow (Wednesday) will be 9 weeks since I took a 10-foot fall in a South Austin cave. Ten fractured ribs. Today was pretty much the first day I've put in more or less 8 hours of working about the place--lifting and toting of things maybe 50 pound max. My back is tired. Have been virtually pain free from the beginning unless I twist.
Good luck on a successful recovery On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Sheryl Rieck <sheryl.ri...@gmail.com>wrote: > Good grief! That sounds awful. Wishing you a speedy recovery. > > Sheryl > > Sent from my iPhone. > > On Sep 30, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Charles Goldsmith <wo...@justfamily.org> > wrote: > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: <imoca...@comcast.net> > Date: Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:26 AM > Subject: Re: SHARING THE LOAD > To: Charles Goldsmith <ad...@caves.org> > > 50 years of some pretty hard-core caving without incident, but I climb > a10-ft ladder to scrub mildew off the siding and give myself a major f'up. > Bad break of the R femur w/ 4 displaced pieces, requiring a 10" SS rod down > thru the marrow & an offset screw to reattach the ball. Virtually no use of > the leg now, but it's coming back slowly. Rehab complicated by having also > broken 3 bones in my R wrist, now immobilised and not weight-bearing. All > that was done by intanglement in the ladder, before I ever hit the deck. > Then there's the full-body bruising and scraping associated with the fall. > I'm one sore puppy! Looks like I'll be discharged to PT today, likely for > 2+ weeks. > > > Alex Sproul > NSS 8086RL/FE > Webmaster > >
