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DR visit as expected...bad

scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
edited September 2006 in General Discussion
results of MRI
torn anterior cuciate ligement partial tear of posterier cruciate...torn medial meniscus....
off work for the foreseeable future...surgery... 4-6 weeks on crutches
6 months PT for rehab....hunting season begins tomorrow....and I have a head cold
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  • CubsloverCubslover Member Posts: 18,601 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ouch, sorry about your luck.
    Half of the lives they tell about me aren't true.
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  • jabronij3jabronij3 Member Posts: 4,686
    edited November -1
    man that sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![:(]
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That is impeccably bad timing!
    How did you hurt your knee?
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    hunt from the truck[;)]
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  • TwoDogsTwoDogs Member Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was that in Cambodian ??
    All I got was...off work, surgery, and cruthes.
    Sorry for the bad....knee ?? Foot??
    Too bad your laid up for huntin season..
    Head cold 2 shots of whiskey.
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bummer man....

    Howz-a-bout wrapping the crap out of the knee with ace bandages until opening day?????

    Nothing like a successful opening day hunt to take the sting out of orthopaedic surgery.
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    well...shave my head and call me Ishmael...suck it up and get out there in the woods scotto. If captain Ahab could sail half way around the world on one leg to hunt a great white whale you can hobble off into the woods for a few yours to kill a puny little deer.
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  • dclocodcloco Member Posts: 2,967
    edited November -1
    Switch to a Tactical 300 Win Mag....and a LARGE dog to bring the deer back with.

    Sorry bud.....good luck to you.
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Scott- you TRULY have my sympathy- have appt with my orthopod on Tuesday- meniscus. Should have listened to the Black Hat that kept saying "Keep your feet and knees together" Hoping mine will be a straight forward 'scope job. Had the other knee scoped 3 yrs back- Percocet is WONDERFUL stuff when you hurt like hell. Make sure the crutches are not too long- weight should be on the heels of your hans, NOT in your armpit. Good luck, bro[^]
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  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,077 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Are those "foundations" still around where they took the crippled/disabled out into a shooting house....then they would heard the deer toward them so they could "hunt?"

    That could be an option.

    I suggest you wear a yellow safety type bicycle helmet to the interview if you decide to try out for it.
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  • iceracerxiceracerx Member Posts: 8,860 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I feel your pain

    Got my new knee brace this afternoon. Cane (I'm thinkin' Cro-mo) is ordered and will be in Monday or Tuesday.

    Tore up the left knee (meniscus) last November. I think it finally let loose about 2:00pm yesterday (I was standing and it felt like someone stuck an ice pick in my knee).

    MRI is Sunday Oct 8th

    Taking Vicadon 750, Motrin 800 and some nuro blocker. Got some patches for the pain too. I'm limping around like a 2000 year old man.

    Still at work - going to the range Sunday to play with a 308 @ 300 yds. I'm just not going to hang targets.

    When are you going under the knife?
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was off and on with several kinds of knee braces for years. The knee especially didn't like twisting. Finally I had an mri and orthoscopic surgery. They fished out over 20 floating pieces, trimmed off a flap of torn meniscus and polished some bone. They packed some kind of pain killer in it before they closed me up. I never needed any prescription drugs or even an aspirin. The tiny scars have just about disappeared.
    The leg was stiff for a week or so, but really, no big deal and no crutches for more than a day. There was some crackling when the knee was bent but that disappeared and It's normal after about six months.
    It was done at UVA Hospital by a specialist in athletic orthopedic injuries.
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  • zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
    edited November -1
    No matter what it is ... it could always be worse ... sometimes a lot worse.

    Complain to the man with no legs.[B)]
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [:(]
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    Bright side....You get to become one with your keyboard.[:D] It'll go by quick!
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  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,077 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Zipper's comment made me think about something I heard my dad day to a customer one time.

    They were talking about some gun in the store. The buyer was trying to haggle (as usual) and there was my dad.....he said

    "I know a guy who would pay a THOUSAND dollars to see that gun"

    The man looked at my dad speechless. Then my dad said...

    "he's blind."
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  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    If'n your surgery isn't tomorrow, I'd be hunting tomorrow with our without a bum knee.

    About five years ago, I did a century bike ride (100 miles) with the flu. I had a fever. This ride was important to me because I had been training for it for close to a year, and it was the first century ride that I ever did (it was also the last). I was not going to let being sick get in the way of something that was important to me.

    Get yourself a metal knee brace, strap it on, and enjoy yourself. You'll be slow, it'll be uncomfortable, but if hunting is truly that important, just do it.

    Meanwhile, I'm sorry to hear about your bad news.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry about the bad news Scott, but glad it is not permanant! Hunt with JustC. He will sit you at a bench and you can shoot 'em 600 yards out. Yeah, me neither...
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  • beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by scottm21166
    results of MRI
    torn anterior cuciate ligement partial tear of posterier cruciate...torn medial meniscus....
    off work for the foreseeable future...surgery... 4-6 weeks on crutches
    6 months PT for rehab....hunting season begins tomorrow....and I have a head cold


    Those in the business call that particular injury the "unhappy triad". . .and its a bad one. Usually happens to football players who get tackled from the side.

    Anyway, I'd say the ability to walk well in the future outweighs missing one hunting season. Maybe you should go sit yourself at the range and shoot a deer target instead.
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  • plains scoutplains scout Member Posts: 4,563
    edited November -1
    Check with the game warden. YOu may be able to get a temporary handicap permit which in our state means you get to hunt from the pickup and shoot out the window (legally [;)])
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