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Broke my right wrist, the good arm. Any ideas how long this breakage goes on?

and make sure to take some supplements... calcium and vit D, i seem to recall. helped me beat the Docs predication by several months when i pulverized 2 metacarpals (motorcycling related)
If what the doctor and nurse told me rings true that would have hurt muchO with all the nerves there in the hand. I eat cheese everyday and I did take up drinking milk again. I have no idea why I stopped actually. Welcome back too. :D
 
But the that what the Doc's told me about motorcycle riding after the 4th time I broke my L ankle.
Are you (or have you considered being) in Guinness Book of World Records?
I had my left-wrist break by a left-turning putz on a phone. The last thing I recall - before passing out on the ground - was seeing my left-wrist looking like a Z!
Some whiz-bang doctor put a 2" triangulated titanium plate to reconstruct my wrist. If it was not for a 10cm scar, I would not know I am carrying a Ti-plate. :)

OT?:
"The People Getting New Knees and Hips in Their 40s: The population of patients under 65 getting joint replacements grew by about 200% over the past two decades"
Such replacement surgeries are said to have become relatively inexpensive and require minimal (if any) overnight stay at a hospital.
 
Are you (or have you considered being) in Guinness Book of World Records?
I had my left-wrist break by a left-turning putz on a phone. The last thing I recall - before passing out on the ground - was seeing my left-wrist looking like a Z!
Some whiz-bang doctor put a 2" triangulated titanium plate to reconstruct my wrist. If it was not for a 10cm scar, I would not know I am carrying a Ti-plate. :)

OT?:

Such replacement surgeries are said to have become relatively inexpensive and require minimal (if any) overnight stay at a hospital.
It's absolutely amazing that hip and knees replacement. :D
 
Having seen a lot of post-op complications and tend to advice use your old bones as long as sufficient mobility is guaranteed.
Worst cases are implant's infection that result on functional amputation (explantation- months of antibiotics- re-implantation).
 
I am more worried about the arthritis in my tailbone caused by wheelieing my dirt bike and flipping it thus landing on my tailbone and breaking it. It hurts like a mother if I sit on it too long without a special pillow. :D
You think it hurts now? Wait till your 74. LOL
But I'm sure that won't change your path, it never did mine and wouldn't have even it I knew the costs..
Keep enjoying the adrenaline rush while you can. There will come a time when all you can do is sit and watch. :mad:

I eat cheese everyday
Naw, I won't say it. :p

Are you (or have you considered being) in Guinness Book of World Records?
LOL, That poor ankle, only once on my Harley, once watersking, once on stairs and one coming down a ladder at work. :facepalm:
 
I f8cked-up my knee ligaments and the doc advised I quit skiing.
I nearly f8cked-up my ear w/barotrauma - during PADI certification - but that did not stop me.
After 3+ cat-lives, I finally quit riding motorcycles, so that I am not called a total f8ck-up.
Nowadays, all I gotta worry about is that statistic about those @60+ year old f8ck-ups that are falling down from ladders.:cool:
 
A newly published study 'might have observed', that aging is no linear process, but happen at certain ages, so around 44 and 60.
So @60+ secure terrain (besides ladders and motorcycles)
:p
 
Old-skool scuba certification used bare-bone instruments and ours took place in a deep/frigid quarry.
I had the sniffles the week before; so, I used some Afrin up my schnoz.
When, we dove-in for the final check-out, I got to about 10ft and my head felt as if in a vice.
By about 20ft down, I signaled the 'cut-throat' hand signal and he urged me to come down.
I did the opposite and went up to the surface!
I got the PADI cert. anyways that day because he said something about "I knew my limits" after he saw I was not letting blood.
:confused:
 
Old-skool scuba certification used bare-bone instruments and ours took place in a deep/frigid quarry.
I had the sniffles the week before; so, I used some Afrin up my schnoz.
When, we dove-in for the final check-out, I got to about 10ft and my head felt as if in a vice.
By about 20ft down, I signaled the 'cut-throat' hand signal and he urged me to come down.
I did the opposite and went up to the surface!
I got the PADI cert. anyways that day because he said something about "I knew my limits" after he saw I was not letting blood.
:confused:
I have several dozens of dives under my belt. Never wrote a PADI exam. I studied the dive book, memorized stuff and started diving in the Columbia River out to ~70 feet deep while hanging onto a 1" steel cable that we strung out into the river and then weighed down the end with a old engine block. Then I was diving in North Saskatchewan with Pike. Large fish that are curious. I did complete a 154 foot dive at the City of Victoria British Columbia at the breakwater. I timed everything but exceeded the max safe dive depth and took my time returning to the surface and I had no issues that I am aware of. What I found is if my ears would not clear sometimes is going feet first instead of head first into the depths. The ears clear very easily and no painful experience that way. :D
 
I struck-out the BlueHole bucket-list entry way before I was too old to be able to do it. :p
Yey!
 
Old-skool scuba certification used bare-bone instruments and ours took place in a deep/frigid quarry.
Ah, thanks for the reply.
I would have know that if I would have also googled what a PADI cert was. :facepalm:
 
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Sorry,
PADI=Professional Association of Diving Instructors
It used to be that if you did not have a certificate from a 'licensed school', most dive-shops would not rent you gear, for land-shark protection.

Remember when nothing was digital?
While in Hawaii, an impromptu decision to go diving had to be done with some extra under the table palm-greasing because we did not have our "PADI cards" w/us.;)
 
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