I have titanium plates and a bovine (or perhaps porcine) bone graft in my neck. Plus a transplanted cornea in one eye. Could use one in the other now. I'm sure if we are the sum of our parts we have lots of company!
So glad you are on the mend. Cheery people heal faster; just thought you should know! 😊💜
glad you have been able to take care of it with a good doctor...sending you prayers for a speedy recovery...some herbs to assist tissue growth are slippery elm and white oak
I have 22 year old nerve damage (from the neck) in my right ulnar nerve - affects the outer half of that hand; mostly a half numbness kind of condition. Not gonna lie; if it is as hard to get used to in your 40s than it might be now you may need to adjust those expectations just a touch. I hope you have a different learning curve than I did. It was the dropping everything under a certain weight that got to me. Keys, pens, small things like cards and coins. Might want to tackle that mentally first. It could help. But no one told me back then.
It gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about a finger going into a blender blade! Is it encouraging or horrifying to the young that we old dudes still do dumb stuff!? Horrifying, I suspect. (My oldest brother sawed off his index finger in his retirement; wrapped a towel around it; and drove himself and the body part to the hospital 10 miles away. They could not reattach the finger in his case.) Godspeed to a full recovery!
I have always been clumsy and prone to stupid accidents. Even when I was young. I wish I could blame it on old age. But in my case that's a poor excuse for plain old stupidity.
While i was waiting for news from you, as i promised, i noticed the long time, which must've caused you worries.
But it seems to go end-good-all-good.
You appear to have received much more physical repairs than i have.
The only repair i got was a metal piece that keeps my once broken left collarbone together and causes many questions when i have to pass a control/check point.
I was on my bicycle (i like riding fast if possible), when a kid popped out from two parked cars on the side of the road here in Schagen. He had a bike and tried to ride onto my road, without looking.
Critical breaking + steering to avoid hitting him were too much for my front-tier, it blew up and i hit the road with my left shoulder.
I think you have to take care a bit more than you tend to do...
Those metal plates can be hazardous to normal living in a hyper frightened security environment. It is a pain. Just keep the scars visible for verification. And a no care attitude. Because dealing with that is tedious.
I work on machinery for a living. Unplug anything you are working on to avoid damage to life and limb.
Good advice for us all. Thank you
Take care Julian.
I wish you a speedy recovery.
Get better soon!
Take care!
Thanks a lot. Now if the doctors could just fix my brain…
Your brain ?
Anything wrong with it ?
Didn't notice that yet. ;-)
Sander
I have titanium plates and a bovine (or perhaps porcine) bone graft in my neck. Plus a transplanted cornea in one eye. Could use one in the other now. I'm sure if we are the sum of our parts we have lots of company!
So glad you are on the mend. Cheery people heal faster; just thought you should know! 😊💜
I love that comment about having lots of company! What did Walt Whitman say about being a multitude?
glad you have been able to take care of it with a good doctor...sending you prayers for a speedy recovery...some herbs to assist tissue growth are slippery elm and white oak
Cheers Julian, we warm ourselves on your flame. Flourish and never diminish.
I see you in me and me in you , a pair of sincere but daft old buggers. Get well soon.
I think that's the best description of me. So far
> Am I a zombie?
I would think so ... ;-)
Get well soon.
And perhaps an opportunity to train your left hand.
My left hand is pretty good but unfortunately it does everything backwards.
You are not by pure chance a retrained left-hander, are you ?
I am, and I only found out in my twenties that I'm quite good at mirror writing - with my left.
Which is easiest if I write with both hands at the same time.
But then, you probably would not have the right hand in this device when it unexpectedly started ...
While it's surely somewhat risky to put one's hand in an electrical device still plugged in, sh*t happens. I am guilty myself ...
Anyway, get better soon !
Wow! Yowch! Praying for a speedy, complication-free recovery 🙏🏼
Thank you so much. If I'm lucky I should get as much as 50% of the feeling back in the affected nerves. But that should be enough.
I have 22 year old nerve damage (from the neck) in my right ulnar nerve - affects the outer half of that hand; mostly a half numbness kind of condition. Not gonna lie; if it is as hard to get used to in your 40s than it might be now you may need to adjust those expectations just a touch. I hope you have a different learning curve than I did. It was the dropping everything under a certain weight that got to me. Keys, pens, small things like cards and coins. Might want to tackle that mentally first. It could help. But no one told me back then.
It gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about a finger going into a blender blade! Is it encouraging or horrifying to the young that we old dudes still do dumb stuff!? Horrifying, I suspect. (My oldest brother sawed off his index finger in his retirement; wrapped a towel around it; and drove himself and the body part to the hospital 10 miles away. They could not reattach the finger in his case.) Godspeed to a full recovery!
I have always been clumsy and prone to stupid accidents. Even when I was young. I wish I could blame it on old age. But in my case that's a poor excuse for plain old stupidity.
Wow.
You're lucky i suppose.
While i was waiting for news from you, as i promised, i noticed the long time, which must've caused you worries.
But it seems to go end-good-all-good.
You appear to have received much more physical repairs than i have.
The only repair i got was a metal piece that keeps my once broken left collarbone together and causes many questions when i have to pass a control/check point.
I was on my bicycle (i like riding fast if possible), when a kid popped out from two parked cars on the side of the road here in Schagen. He had a bike and tried to ride onto my road, without looking.
Critical breaking + steering to avoid hitting him were too much for my front-tier, it blew up and i hit the road with my left shoulder.
I think you have to take care a bit more than you tend to do...
Sander
Those metal plates can be hazardous to normal living in a hyper frightened security environment. It is a pain. Just keep the scars visible for verification. And a no care attitude. Because dealing with that is tedious.
I am jealous of your health care package :)
I wish you a speedy recovery and a full recovery of your hand.
I was a lousy pianist anyway
But hands aren't just for playing the piano. If only to stroke the cats for a long time.
You cannot repair electrical equipment when it is connected to a network. Moreover, a blender, a meat grinder, a circular saw...
Best regards for a gentle recovery.
hope you get better soon!