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Oil in Oil a lucky day
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Glad the locals gave some assistance.
So now you can have a few days to 'kick back' on those delightful beaches (but not Patong!).
Kata/Karon come to mind.
 
Hey Martin good luck with that knee and wwelcome to the (unhonorific) club....that's gonna leave a mark...Eat lots of veggies and drink fruit shakes to heal that tissue.

Richard, I already told you, you'r amazing.....Not even one word, much less a "MOTHERFUCINGSONOFABITCHGODDAM". Saintly.

And yeah Phil, you gotta warn people! That's pretty nasty looking..I'm tired of looking at it myself. 5 weeks down...not much to go now, more than 1/2 way there!

Ride hard ride safe!
 
What a demented pri-- that bastard is! :boxing
Glad you are OK though and that you got support.
Thanks for posting the info re the company (Bgk plate).

I've often thought many we share the road with are 'out to get us'!
 
2wheels said:
What a demented pri-- that bastard is! :boxing
Glad you are OK though and that you got support.
Thanks for posting the info re the company (Bgk plate).

I've often thought many we share the road with are 'out to get us'!
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I have always ridden as they are out to get me, but in Thailand more.

You had a lucky escape, I wonder what would have been the outcome if it was nighttime !
 
Glad to hear you are okay Jay, theres some real arseholes out there
 
Mr. Sneds gets a Rekluse elbow fitted

Jonny likes the Rekluse clutch so much, he saw on the net you can now get Rekluse elbows, so he thought he'd give one a try



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Seriously, Jonny was out with big Frank and went over the bars coming down "Soi 1"
 
Nasty injury mate good luck with it.

So this was done on the road?
 
Bloody hell.

Mine sounds pretty minor.... went out to start the '47 BSA that I brought back to Oz with me... after a few days of fixing things up on it. The kick starter pawl didn't engage and I ended up in a heap on the ground with an over-extended knee. Its twice the size of the other one and I've got about 10 degrees (max) movement with the knee. I get the feeling its going to need the knife.
 
Nice one JS...... bit more metalwork in your elbow than my paltry 2 pins an' a figure of eight wiring loop in me knee! Those staples are fun to take out with a pair o' tin snips!
 
Johnny, luckily it was your Super Arm & not the other one, it could have been a lot worse.
 
Maybe JS needs to take his hand bag next time, I think he should give the details of his hand bag shop to Big and Tall so he can carry my batteries on the boat over from Panama. Or is it big Franks hand bag in the picture?? :p:DD Get riding soon JS.

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Well, my tibia is broken and there's some fragments floating around in the knee..... from a broken friggin' kickstarter. First doc said 3 months, let's see what the specialist says tomorrow.
 
The Bigfella said:
Well, my tibia is broken and there's some fragments floating around in the knee..... from a broken friggin' kickstarter. First doc said 3 months, let's see what the specialist says tomorrow.
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You'll be back for rainy season (again)! Sorry to hear that Ian.
 
I'm booked in for a knee reconstruction and bone graft tomorrow. Apparently the damage is "serious" and will lead to a full knee replacement fairly soon. My femur drove part of the tibial plateau down into the tibia. I guess I'll get to post screws and plates photos too eh? Three months plus is the verdict.
 
Did you leap from a great height onto the kick starter?
I've heard stories of them breaking legs but you're the first with evidence.
 
I gave it a pretty hefty kick... but I had it on the centrestand and I was standing beside it. It was the leg whipping straight when the pawl slipped that did the damage. Think of what would happen with about a 20mm punch and hitting that into the upper end of the tibia.... driven by 115 kg of weight hitting it. Its punched the centre of my knee joint down into the bone. Bit yucky. Nice on the MRI though.
 
KTMphil said:
Jonny likes the Rekluse clutch so much, he saw on the net you can now get Rekluse elbows, so he thought he'd give one a try
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So is the correct pronunciation a fanny elbow ?? Or a fannys elbow ??

Grammar never my strong suit.
 
Bath time....

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Saw the surgeon. He's happy. Out of here on Monday. He doubts the physio's 8 weeks suggestion for riding... he reckons 12. I've got an artificial bone graft, one plate and six screws. Leg's just been adjusted from 20 degrees, as in this shot to 30 degrees. Had my first 20' hop on the big frame. Cannot fault the medical care or staff attitude at this hospital (The San, in Sydney).

I ended up with 5 tubes / leads overnight.... and managed at the last gasp to avoid the dreaded 6th (up the big fella). I had been given a deadline... pee or else. TMI?

They're on to me about sleep apnea now....

edit... they just came in and removed the drain. 19 staples. Scored some nice surgical scissors too. Bet they don't throw them away after a single use in Asia.
 
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Bigfella !!! You poor bugger. So sorry for your pain :(


Ally
 
Finally got some photos... here's the MRI, showing the 17mm tibial plateau area that was rammed down by 4mm. That was the best part of my knee joint.

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The fix....

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Not bad from a dud kickstarter, eh?
 
Bloody Smart Arse... ? Bastard, Start A?

Nah, I started to think about that, but the pills they've got me on are known as heroin in a pill.... and it would seem that stuff doesn't make you creative. I think Coleridge waon something else when he wrote Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Sure nails the pain though. I've got 20 of them (enough for 2 1/2 days) at home.... and I reckon they'd be essential for that jungle survival pack... provided I can ge a doc's letter to cover them. Endone. Same stuff as Oxycontin, etc. Good stuff, but dangerous, apparently. Don't think I'd like to get caught without the Doc's letter.
 
Bloody 'ell..... helluva price to pay for trying to kick a bike over! Bloody lovely scar though! :D
 
Some more progress today. The staples came out

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Two nurses to do this... well, one nurse and a student nurse observing. They were both very impressed with the quality of the wound. I take it that was a vote of confidence in the surgeon.

Now that Easter is over, I'm back on an enhanced exercise regime. Its into the wheelchair and off to the gyms twice a day now. I keep scaring the crap out of the physios, because I'm so much faster moving than the geriatrics they normally have, especially when I'm doing stairs on the crutches.... and also because I'm a lot bigger than them. They worry about me falling on them and them not being able to stop me. Believe me... I'm working on NOT falling. I'm using their heaviest weights.

Three docs called in today and were, I think, talking about me staying for 6 weeks. Um... no thanks. Home isn't too well set up for someone on crutches, but I'd go stark raving nuts here if I was in that long. Can't see any need for it... although a trip to the shower is going to be a rudie nudie trip from the bedroom to the bathroom and back. We'll see what the surgeon says next Monday.

Oh yeah... no more supplementary opiates. I'm still on the slow release Targin, but no Endone now for 48 hours. Can't see any reason to want it again. Not pain free, but not in any serious discomfort.
 
Unfortunately, Eric's broken leg has become infected, flesh falling off and the screws holding the metal plates onto the bone are exposed, this isn't good. He's rushed down to Bangkok fro some emergency treatment, wishing him a safe recovery.



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From Eric:


"Turns out, not so good. 3 drs agree, open hole w screw heads border on malpractice. Why did I even leave hospitol?

So now I'm on a train to Bkk to try and see a real doctor.

I been under the care of 6 drs, 1 Khmer, 2 Thai, 1 German, and 2 French. All with opinions and treatment varying from " go swimming whenever you feel" to " don't even get wet in shower, no water!" and everything in between.

Now the us embassy doc says get your sss to Singapore or Bkk NOW and find out why you have a screw visable thru a hole in your leg. Either something had shifted, was not put in correctly to begin with, or is seriously fucked. But no dr in his right mind would release a pt with a fucking screw head visable thru an open wound. There is in no way anything close to "ok" about this.


3 dr say GO IMMEDIATELY TO BKK OR LOOSE YOUR LEG".
 
Very best wishes for 100% professional treatment Eric, and a full recovery. :DD
 
Sheeeet. Eric, you just made me obey Doctor's orders here 100%.

Seriously mate.... Good luck. Don't stuff around with that.... not for one minute.
 
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