Shameless Request for Sympathy

[Tezcatlipoca]

Right, this is an utterly shameless request for sympathy. Why does Tez require sympathy? Check it out for yourselves:

 

http://www.wingedmonkeypress.co.uk/xry/

 

So start with the sympathy, dammit...

[MONX]

OMG! You poor thing!

 

Did you get a booboo?

 

I suggest the next time you want a sickie day, just have the common garden flu like the rest of us.

 

Perhaps throwing yourself under a car was a bit extreme! At least you will have fun going through the metal detectors at court or the airports!

[Lula]

judging by those xrays you needed those laxatives, cos you was bunged up as we say in the potteries

 

Hope you feel better soon you malingerer.

 

So come on then, what happened?

[Castlebest]

Castlebest throws down the newspaper onto his desk, the headline glaring up "Mayor Catlipoca whacked by a white transit van"...

 

Castlebest looks out at the scene from his grimy little office window, the sounds of sparing drifting up from the gym below, he turns away and mutters to himself "who do we know who is into cars?".....

 

 

[Tezcatlipoca]

Castlebest throws down the newspaper onto his desk, the headline glaring up "Mayor Catlipoca whacked by a white transit van"...

 

Right, you now owe me a new pelvis; the previous one having shattered due to the laughter that resulted from your post.

 

judging by those xrays you needed those laxatives, cos you was bunged up as we say in the potteries

 

Damn right. I had 9 days of zero 'movements'.

 

So come on then, what happened?

 

I don't actually remember, to be honest. I'm told by the police that I was cycling down the road (on my way to work). According to witnessness, I was cycling safely (as I always do), indicated a right turn with my arm, checked for traffic, then executed a perfect right-hand turn...

 

...the only minor flaw is there happened to be a transit van in the opposite lane. We met. I went flying.

I can't account for why I didn't see him, and, apparantly, he can't account for why he didn't see me indicating or starting my turn.

 

The police say they've closed the incident down as one of those that happens from time to time where it was nobody's express fault, just lapses of concentration. That I can accept, but the simple fact is that - as a cyclist - I will always come off worse, regardless of what happens.

 

All this is based on what the police have told me, as I have zero recall. I can remember leaving the house that morning, then I remember waking up in A&E in lots of pain.

 

It should be said that the bike came off better than I did. The frame and gearing systems - the most expensive part of my half-grand bike - got off with a few minor scratches; that's it. The back wheel 'looks' ok, but I can't tell until I get back on the bike and test it properly. The front wheel is not just bent; it's comedy bent, and the saddle has been half sheared off, in that it now sits vertical.

Edited October 20, 2008 by Tezcatlipoca

[Bookworm]

Ok, so now you have an excuse for having disappeared off this here forum for so long with no warning. I'll let you off. I take it that now you're back with nothing much else to do but make contact with the outside world a la James Stewart, you're going to be haunting this forum at all times of day and night for the foreseeable future?

 

I do have to ask, however, because once I saw what I thought I saw, well that's all I can see (if you see what I mean): On x-ray of your broken femur, on the left hand side, just below what looks like the bar of your bike (damn careless of them not to remove that before taking the x-rays, actually! )... Is that...? ... What I think it is? Or merely the shadows of the x-ray machine playing tricks on my deluded mind?

[Tezcatlipoca]

Is that...? ... What I think it is? Or merely the shadows of the x-ray machine playing tricks on my deluded mind?

 

Far too small to be what you think it is...

 

...actually, I'm not too sure, to be honest. There is a clearly a small white screw in it (blazing white in the X-Ray), and just above the screw is what looks to be some kind of horizontal band. It's evidently some sort of medical-type device, either plugged into me or lying on me and getting picked up by the X-Ray.

 

Perhaps some sort of 'name that device' competition is in order?

Edited October 20, 2008 by Tezcatlipoca

[Bookworm]

I don't mean that bit!

 

Higher. Yes, higher still. Do I have to cut and paste and risk the ire of CAGBot?

[SOD'EM]

Look on the bright side. You could have been on your way HOME from work as opposed to going to work.

[Night Owl]

Well done Tez for surviving the NHS without catching some hidious hospital aquired bug!

And well done for surviving a horendous accident - a fractured femur can cause a very large blood loss.

The ring on the X-Ray on the top of your femur is a Thomas Splint. It imobilises the fracture to prevent further tissue and nerve damage until surgical options for fixation are carried out. It does have nuts and bolts attatched but I think Bookworm is looking for other nuts and bolts!!!!

 

Good luck for a speedy recovery.

Great X-Rays and great final fixation.

Thanks for sharing the pictures with us.

Night Owl

[Tezcatlipoca]

And well done for surviving a horendous accident - a fractured femur can cause a very large blood loss.

 

Indeed. I don't remember any of it, but apparantly they stuck 3 bags worth of somebody else's vitae into me when I was first admitted into hospital.

 

It's a week and a day at home now, and things seem to be going fairly well, except for the pain from the old leg as it rebuilds itself (the pain isn't excessive or unbearable, just endless and - by extension - annoying).

[tiglet]

Poor you (hugs)

[pinkduchess]

ouch!! .....hope youre mending satisfactorily

 

i agree with the last paragraph...having recently spent a couple of days in hospital (unscheduled:rolleyes:) i can only praise the service that was provided from the GP to the doctors, nurses, cleaners, etc.

[The GodMother]

well loved the way u put it together made me laugh a bit due to some of ur comments and those scans are brill.

 

I hope u get better soon and dont need another holiday at the resort hospital brighton.