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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: Bad Day :( Reply #60 - Mar 6^th, 2006 at 4:44pm Thanks - yes, chocolate heals all wounds! Here's the Xray of my ankle after the surgery. You can almost see the break just under the 3rd screw from the top.
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Lisabelle Stardust Offline Kami wa onna no inochi - A womens hair is her life Posts: 2797 Southern Ontario, Canada Gender:	Re: Bad Day :( Reply #61 - Mar 6^th, 2006 at 6:54pm Oh my! All that hardware I hope your feeling better.
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Beesan16 Diamond Offline Posts: 677 st. louis, MO Gender:	Re: Bad Day :( Reply #62 - Mar 6^th, 2006 at 7:28pm I'm glad your feeling better
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rodent Emerald Offline Greetings! Posts: 344 Missouri Gender:	Re: Bad Day :( Reply #63 - Mar 6^th, 2006 at 8:37pm Do those screws stay in forever? That HURTS just LOOKING at it!!
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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: Bad Day :( Reply #64 - Mar 6^th, 2006 at 9:20pm Most people leave the screws in, but they can be removed after a year. Some people react to the metal in the body, but the doctor said I probably would not have any more of a reaction than what I already experience from the screws and rods in my back. (I guess that is ONE positive note 8) )
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Reply #65 - Mar 7^th, 2006 at 1:47am

Wowsers, I can see the crack. You poor thing! I'm glad healing is progressing as expected. So is that a rod or a plate that they put in there?

As far as taking the "parts" out, no one I know has had that done unless there has been a problem (who wants to go through surgery again!) My co-worker had a plate removed because the edges of it rubbed against the inside of skin.

When I get tired and whiney, I ask my boyfriend for back rubs, and claim that "my back hurts - my screws are falling out". He just rolls his eyes.

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Reply #66 - Mar 7^th, 2006 at 5:42pm

Khrome;
It is a plate used to align the screws and provide strength while the bone is healing.

I've never used the line about my screws falling out, but I do refer to them as "rusting" when I ache, which is usually during damp weather. Grin

I suppose now I will ache even more with the changes in weather. Undecided

Maybe my next career should be a weather forecaster?

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khrome Stardust Offline 1bM/Ciii Posts: 1035 santa barbara, ca Gender:	Re: Bad Day :( Reply #67 - Mar 7^th, 2006 at 7:31pm Quote: I suppose now I will ache even more with the changes in weather. Maybe my next career should be a weather forecaster? Yes!! And you can broadcast it through the AM channels on your teeth fillings.
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PreciousLocks Diamond Offline Turning my gold to silver one hair at a time Posts: 812 Gender:	Re: Bad Day :( Reply #68 - Mar 7^th, 2006 at 11:20pm Beautiful ankle, BB!! Sorry, there goes my awful health-care-provider sense of humor -- actually I really am admiring the X-ray, love to look at 'em and figure out the anatomy etc. Anyway, hope your ankle recovers rapidly and painfree...and chocolate helps with everything!!
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Reply #69 - Mar 8^th, 2006 at 12:14am

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Beautiful ankle, BB!! Sorry, there goes my awful health-care-provider sense of humor Roll Eyes

-- actually I really am admiring the X-ray, love to look at 'em and figure out the anatomy etc. Wink

Anyway, hope your ankle recovers rapidly and painfree...and chocolate helps with everything!! Grin

Oh, I LOVE the humor. Actually, I'm already tired of telling everyone I slipped on ice, so I've been coming up with creative causes for the break. The nurses, etc. loved it and started coming up with their own. Most of them revolved around Olympic sports. My favorite is I broke it doing an 720 on the half pike and scratched. (Just imagine a dumpy 50 plus old lady on a snow board in the half pike!!! Shocked

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Khrome - Hubby would prefer if I could improve the HD reception for our TV - AM radio is sooo boring. 8)

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wishing4longhair Emerald Offline it just keeps growing Posts: 427 Gender:	Re: Bad Day :( Reply #70 - Mar 13^th, 2006 at 10:21pm Hee, hee. I'm glad you still have you're sense of humor. My dad has screws in his knee and a beautiful scar to match. I hope you heal nicely. Meg
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Reply #71 - Mar 14^th, 2006 at 11:27am

My dad had 2 metal valves in his heart. Back in the 70's when they were installed, the technology was not as perfected as it is now, using smaller, plastic values. Basically, his valves were metal cages with metal marbles going up and down for the valves.

To complete the picture, my dad was a thin man - 6'2" and 140 pounds when his weight was UP!. So there was not much insulation on him to "hide" the sound of the valves. He also had a slightly irregular heart beat.

All this adds up to a person walking around sounding like a bad watch! The ticking was noticable in a quiet room or if he exerted himself. We often joked about his traveling and someone thinking he was a walking time bomb. Today that would not be so funny, but this was BEFORE 9-11 and the increased security. After he died, my mother had a hard time sleeping - initially we all thought it was just the loneliness, but then realized she was used to hearing his heart. So we bought her a wind up alarm clock to set by the bed. She was soon able to return to normal sleeping habits!

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Reply #72 - Mar 14^th, 2006 at 3:31pm

BB this braught back some memories for me!!! When I was about 3 my grandfather had his first open heart surgery by the doctor that operated on Pres. Eisenhower and the doc used pig's valves on my gramps. Talk about old technology. I remember listening to his heart,that sounded; I dunno know, maybe like an old watch and a sucking hose sound!!! He was 6'4'' and thin too,but not as thin as your dad was.......
Ah,memories................ Undecided

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PreciousLocks Diamond Offline Turning my gold to silver one hair at a time Posts: 812 Gender:	Re: Bad Day :( Reply #73 - Mar 15^th, 2006 at 12:07am LOL Curlgirl -- your gramp's valves may have come from my dad's pigs -- at least I think some of them ended up in that program. BB -- I remember seeing pictures of those artificial heart valves. Cutting edge technology at the time, as were pig valves. Hearing your grandfather's heartbeat -- wild! What a great memory.
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