28/06/2005
Broken Clavical

I don't know about you but sometimes I am overcome with a powerful desire to do things which at least are bloody stupid and at times border on the insane. It is useless to try and ignore these devilish urges, and anyway, it's always far more interesting to unquestioningly carry out their demands.
And so it was Monday morning, after ripping may hands to shreds first by hauling buckets of gravel up to the second floor with the famous pully, and second by punching rocks in an attempt to smash them up with a hammer that simply refused to remain in it's useful form, I found myself staring up at the second floor and the pully device that was feeding it.
Is there need to say anymore? I stepped one foot into the bucket and began pulling myself up. Unfortunately, after two or three mighty tugs, my centre of balance evidently left the area immediately above the bucket, for with the next pull I hauled my foot out from underneath me, sending me toppling backwards while my foot was flying upwards. I made a desperate grasp for the rope to catch myself but I only succeeded in grabbing the wrong rope, and by pulling on it yanked my foot up even harder and so flew backwards and downwards with such force that when I landed on the unforgiving concrete below (on my head and right shoulder) I dislocated and fractured my Clavical.
Clever, eh?
Check soon for the full story, including a feature on Dr. Frankenstein's relocation to Riobamba, Ecuador.
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Posted by: hihi | 16/05/2007
hihi sucks bitches
Posted by: hihi | 16/05/2007
hihi sucks bitches
Posted by: hihi | 16/05/2007
I broke my clavical on my snowmobile. after surgery, with a steel plate and 8 screws, i was healing for 3 months, then to wake and find my left shoulder swollen, plate broke. in for surgery again, this time bone graft from left leg, and plate again with 8 screws, and wire. it is such a pain, trying to let it heal without wanting to use it.
Posted by: shell | 26/05/2007
Wow! I got off lightly, despite my unnerving experience in Dr Frankenstein's surgery! The two large pieces of my clavical were simply pushed together so that they were overlapping, and within a month I was able to to remove the by then useless cast and I was fairly strong. I broke it again 6 months later rugby tackling a plastic parking bollard (drunken tomfoolery!), but it healed up again relatively quickly.
The only real torture was a month of sitting next to a pool in 40 degree celcius Ecuadorian heat with this ridiculous plaster cast on!
Posted by: soulchaser | 26/05/2007
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