Off the bike for a while, broken leg

[hedder2212]

only pic I could get GF to take.

 

[Katherine]

Ouch! Hope you heal ok.

 

[HarryTheDog]

What a calm post for a traumatic experience. Stiff upper lip and all that. Hope you GWS.

 

[hedder2212]

Got to look at the bright side. I can now justify spending money building a new bike/upgrading my bike to the girlfriend. I get some time off of work to play some xbox and I might spend some time tinkering with bikes.
Nowt point crying about it.

 

[buggi]

GWS

 

[middleman]

Ouch. GWS

 

[ClaireSaud]

Wishing you a speedy recovery

 

[Saluki]

Get well soon. Happy X-boxing and make sure you take the painkillers and any physio offered. You'll be back on your bike in no time - Well August or so anyway.

 

[Keith Oates]

Ouch, bad news indeed but I hope the recovery will quick and complete.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mugshot]

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only pic I could get GF to take.

"Go and take some pictures of my bike."
"Why?"
"I want to show a bunch of randomers on the internet that I scratched it"
"FFS, there we go."
"Could you take some pictures of the pedals too?"
"NO!"
"Oh, OK, thanks love."

GWS BTW

 

[Eribiste]

Sorry to hear your news, not nice!

Best wishes for the recovery and your return to cycling.

 

[raleighnut]

GWS. Upper leg or lower leg? Upper legs (femur) can be more traumatic at the time but if they pin it it is load bearing from day 1 and recovery can be quicker. Whichever it is, stay strong in yourself.

Sorry to correct you but having broken my femur I can tell you that I was 4 weeks non-loadbearing before I was allowed to partially weight-bear and after 8 months they decided to extract the pin and put a bigger one in. Now 18 months later I still cannot walk unaided for more than 200 yards and my leg still hurts like you wouldn't believe.
Pinning a femur is not 'walking from day 1'

 

[swansonj]

Sorry to correct you but having broken my femur I can tell you that I was 4 weeks non-loadbearing before I was allowed to partially weight-bear and after 8 months they decided to extract the pin and put a bigger one in. Now 18 months later I still cannot walk unaided for more than 200 yards and my leg still hurts like you wouldn't believe.
Pinning a femur is not 'walking from day 1'

Interesting. Do you know why they didn't let you load-bear straight away? Was it something about damage to the ends of the bone, or was there some reason why they couldn't put the right size pin in at the start? The usual line of reasoning is that the pin holds the two bits of bone aligned, the ends match up, and there's nothing to stop load bearing. But I am not an orthopaedic surgeon, merely a former patient, and there must be all sorts of special circumstances.

 

[raleighnut]

Interesting. Do you know why they didn't let you load-bear straight away? Was it something about damage to the ends of the bone, or was there some reason why they couldn't put the right size pin in at the start? The usual line of reasoning is that the pin holds the two bits of bone aligned, the ends match up, and there's nothing to stop load bearing. But I am not an orthopaedic surgeon, merely a former patient, and there must be all sorts of special circumstances.

No the bone did not break the skin or anything but the surgeon (who has repaired quite a few) did say it was a very 'nasty' break.
As for the bigger (stronger) pin that takes the weight completely away from the bone and was loadbearing from the time it was inserted (with crutches)

 

[ColinJ]

Heal well, hedder!

No the bone did not break the skin or anything but the surgeon (who has repaired quite a few) did say it was a very 'nasty' break.
As for the bigger (stronger) pin that takes the weight completely away from the bone and was loadbearing from the time it was inserted (with crutches)

If a surgeon intended to insert a pin in my leg using crutches then I would demand a different surgeon!