2nd surgery done- poboys amputation thread

Wow that sucks man. Sorry to hear but props to you for taking it so well.

As I read through I thought I'd be the first to ask if you had pics, but I'll just join the others now

Wow, those pics are something.

Since fair is fair, here's my pictures to offer for the injury trade show we have going on :





The doctor's arrow in this pic points to where my hand should be:


It was my dominant hand as well (of course!) so I definitely know what you mean about taking its abilities for granted every day, even with the simplest things.

No meds, wasn't even in the ambulance yet. My body was in so much shock I didn't even feel anything but a lot of pressure and tightness. There were lots of people standing around watching when it happened, and to this day most still can't believe I didn't make a peep, let alone scream, yell, cry, pass out, etc. Some almost passed out and threw up, and a friend of mine was in tears for me. I was just pissed.

Anyway, it didn't start hurting for about 30-40 minutes afterward, and didn't start really hurting for another 20 or so. Getting meds at the hospital was a real pain in the ass, I was not happy.

The 2nd pic is right before the bone specialiest reset the bones. This was quite the ordeal. He had it done, let go, and it fell out of place due to being so unstable. So I had to sit there and watch him manhandle my broken bones again to reset and splint it. Thankfully I couldn't feel pain at this point (meds) but again I felt lots of pressure. Splint goes on, I leave, go to pick up my Rx at the pharmacy and the meds wear off and I begin hurting badly. I was swelling into the splint. Went back to the ER, my specialiest had left, and the doctor who tended to me did absolutely nothing (due to how unstable it was, nobody wanted to touch the splint and risk it falling out of place again).

Took about an hour and a half for them to get me any kind of drug, too, and I was in agony until I got them. I picked mine up at the store but didn't use them because I didn't know whether or not I should be cognizant of pain while I went back. So that was fun. Anyway the original guy eventually arrived back at the hospital and loosened it up a little. The tightness was on an area that I didn't break, so it was pretty much unnecessary that I had to go through all that BS all night. It was about 10 hours before I was finally on my way home.

FWIW I was 'this' close to being held overnight for emergency surgery, but the bones were reset much better than expected and I was released. Had surgery the following week, but at least I didn't have to sleep in a hospital.

I broke both the ulna & radius, down near the wrist joint and ended up with a permanent plate (7 screws) that begins planted on them and spreads out to the wrist joint (kind of like a "T"). I also received 2 fractures in the wrist joint. It was quite the fall.

About a month after the cast came off, we had a huge snowstorm and slipped and fell on some ice, crashing right down backwards on the arm. It was like slow motion on the way down, but for some reason I couldn't move my arm in time. It hurt but thankfully nothing else happened to it.

I'd said the same for a long time, even throughout 10 years of hockey. You know what caused it? Falling down a ~10ft. slide from a bounce-house obstacle course

Doctor told me I'd recover at nearly 100%, and I'll be damned if I'm not almost there. There are some angles at which I can't yet put much stress on the joint, but I'm by far surprising myself and others with what I'm able to do thus far

So far so good. For a long time I couldn't even grip a soda can hard enough to hold onto it.

While I'm progressing very well, I'm sure it'll be a while before I can stand and hold 500lbs. in my hands again. Though I suppose I've got to have goals, right?