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Originally posted by the Watcher of the Moon, Watcher or All
...and that's only a single break!
In '78 I was hit by a car while riding on a motorcycle. I broke 34 bones in a single day (to quote from TLLDOB: Evel Knievel, you got nothing on me). My left leg was crushed into a 24 piece compound fracture. Many of the nerves and arteries and veins were severed. Many hours of neuro and vascular surgery took place before the leg was ever set. To this day I have limited sensation in the leg (made it really interesting to learn to walk again) and I get phantom sensations too... it feels like bugs crawling on your skin.
Anyway, back in those days they still used plaster. I had a full leg plaster cast for 2+ years. To hold the pieces of the leg in place, surgical steel rods were driven into each piece of the leg and held in place in the plaster of the full leg cast. The protruding bits of metal were covered with white rubber "test tube cork" like safety covers to keep me from injuring myself or others on the 1 inch "spikes".
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Well, I'll one-up ya again!
My break HAD to be worse, because though it took 3+ years to heal you in '78, they
were able to do it. In 2003, they thought they might lose my leg, and I was in fact told that if it had happened even ten years before, in 1993, I'd have lost the leg at the knee. The technology just wasn't there in '93. And if it wasn't there in 1993, it wasn't there in 1978. Oh, and my dad can beat up your dad.
PS,
I couldn't listen to 24 hours of GYBE! and Don Cab, but I've got no problem listening to Tarentel all day. I can see and understand the GYBE and Don Cab stuff, but not the Tarentel (with the exception of "Welcome.")