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Hi all. I was hoping for a miracle from shangani at Reading A & E last night as I kind of fell off a ladder yesterday and fractured my elbow 
. I can't quite believe it and to make matters worse, I had a week off work this week and was going to go away for a few days in the 'Liz to take advantage of the good weather! Now all I can do is look at my car and wait for a few weeks before I get to drive it again..... Sorry for the "not really relevant to Lotus" post, but I was feeling sorry for myself and needed to share this. Any tips on quicker ways to heal a "Nondisplaced fracture of the radius bone in the elbow", shangers? Also, how long before I can properly use it again?
. I can't quite believe it and to make matters worse, I had a week off work this week and was going to go away for a few days in the 'Liz to take advantage of the good weather! Now all I can do is look at my car and wait for a few weeks before I get to drive it again..... Sorry for the "not really relevant to Lotus" post, but I was feeling sorry for myself and needed to share this. Any tips on quicker ways to heal a "Nondisplaced fracture of the radius bone in the elbow", shangers? Also, how long before I can properly use it again?Hi sorry to hear that. I have not been posting on PH for a little while. As it was a direct question, I think I owe you a response.
Firstly, sorry to hear about the injury. Secondly, I am on leave so could't check the xray. If it was an "undisplaced fracture of the radial head" ie the bit up by the elbow, they would have given you a collar and cuff or a sling. Essentially, we do not immobilise these fractures as they end up taking longer to settle. Usually a couple of weeks till the pain is settling and then progressive exercises to get your elbow back to being able to straighten. They usually settle without too much long-term mishap. I will pop into work and check your xray if you like - just email me your full name.
I would expect, depending on the fracture, that you will be settled in 6-8 weeks tops, though I know a few people who aggressively mobilised and were back to normal activities in less than 2 weeks. Not sure if I recommend that though.
Good luck.
Firstly, sorry to hear about the injury. Secondly, I am on leave so could't check the xray. If it was an "undisplaced fracture of the radial head" ie the bit up by the elbow, they would have given you a collar and cuff or a sling. Essentially, we do not immobilise these fractures as they end up taking longer to settle. Usually a couple of weeks till the pain is settling and then progressive exercises to get your elbow back to being able to straighten. They usually settle without too much long-term mishap. I will pop into work and check your xray if you like - just email me your full name.
I would expect, depending on the fracture, that you will be settled in 6-8 weeks tops, though I know a few people who aggressively mobilised and were back to normal activities in less than 2 weeks. Not sure if I recommend that though.
Good luck.
Congratulations buddy, you've done slightly less well than I did some years ago whilst celebrating a mates birthday.
I managed to fall/leap/jump/stagger (delete as appropriate) off a 3-foot raised pavement and onto a tarmac road whilst 'tired and emotional' en-route to a kebab shop. On landing my left arm was straight and connected with the road first, locking out the elbow joint which refused (quite rightly) to support my then 14 stone frame and promptly dislocated. During the dislocation, the socket part of the joint (shangers, medical name please) decided that it had had enough of the 14 stone also, and in protest, fractured.
Net net, I ended up sobering up in about a nanosecond and was lying in said road looking at my very busted arm, calling out to a mate to call a cab to get me to casualty. In his enlightened state he decided that I was just mucking about and the best solution was to get me out of the road... using my fractured, dislocated arm as the main point of leverage.
I have a vague recollection of a moment of intense pain whilst begging my mate not to do it and that all was not well... and then I woke up, some 5 or 6 hours later, with a sling, a groggy head, and wondering where the hell my shish kebab was.
Apparently I needed double the amount of morph usually required to knock me out while they relocated everything, and when they rang my old man, his response at 1am in the morning was "well the idiot can stay there until he wakes up, then I'll come and get him".
The bonus was that they put the whole thing in plaster after the swelling went down, and I had a full bavarian drinking arm for about 6 weeks while it healed. The downer was that the joint still feels weak to this day, and despite lots of physio I still don't have as much movement in it as I did previously... it's not that bad though. Good pub story too
P.S. don't listen to me, I'm an idiot missing his village
I managed to fall/leap/jump/stagger (delete as appropriate) off a 3-foot raised pavement and onto a tarmac road whilst 'tired and emotional' en-route to a kebab shop. On landing my left arm was straight and connected with the road first, locking out the elbow joint which refused (quite rightly) to support my then 14 stone frame and promptly dislocated. During the dislocation, the socket part of the joint (shangers, medical name please) decided that it had had enough of the 14 stone also, and in protest, fractured.
Net net, I ended up sobering up in about a nanosecond and was lying in said road looking at my very busted arm, calling out to a mate to call a cab to get me to casualty. In his enlightened state he decided that I was just mucking about and the best solution was to get me out of the road... using my fractured, dislocated arm as the main point of leverage.
I have a vague recollection of a moment of intense pain whilst begging my mate not to do it and that all was not well... and then I woke up, some 5 or 6 hours later, with a sling, a groggy head, and wondering where the hell my shish kebab was.
Apparently I needed double the amount of morph usually required to knock me out while they relocated everything, and when they rang my old man, his response at 1am in the morning was "well the idiot can stay there until he wakes up, then I'll come and get him".
The bonus was that they put the whole thing in plaster after the swelling went down, and I had a full bavarian drinking arm for about 6 weeks while it healed. The downer was that the joint still feels weak to this day, and despite lots of physio I still don't have as much movement in it as I did previously... it's not that bad though. Good pub story too
P.S. don't listen to me, I'm an idiot missing his village
Hi again. Shangers, hopefully YHM - thanks very much for your offer. Also, sworks, I had that wincing, adrenelin rush feeling when reading your story.... (oh, and a good laugh, too - cheers!). When I broke the bad news to my other half who is away for a few days, her response was that I needed to find a, quote "one handed hobby" - cue the suggestions 
......!!!!!!
......!!!!!!Jonscz, feel sorry for you buddy. my story is quite good, cut the last third of my little finger off last year when my girlfriend got dragged by the power kite i had bought her for Christmas (thought it would be a good idea to try to help her by grabbing the line- yes at times i am a bit of a 
) made a mess of my other fingers and was lucky not to lose them all. looking at the elise was pain full for two weeks while everything healed then about one week later after having all the stitches out banged my stump cutting cheese, lost my temper, booted the wall and bust my foot, 4 weeks of looking at the elise again as i had to have a cast on (should of been 5 weeks but managed to get that cut down to 4 weeks). all in all about 6 weeks of not driving
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Hope it gets better soon. try to look at it in a positive way, while you are not using petrol, save the money and treat the old girl to a few extra mods.
All the best
Tanman
) made a mess of my other fingers and was lucky not to lose them all. looking at the elise was pain full for two weeks while everything healed then about one week later after having all the stitches out banged my stump cutting cheese, lost my temper, booted the wall and bust my foot, 4 weeks of looking at the elise again as i had to have a cast on (should of been 5 weeks but managed to get that cut down to 4 weeks). all in all about 6 weeks of not driving. Hope it gets better soon. try to look at it in a positive way, while you are not using petrol, save the money and treat the old girl to a few extra mods
. All the best
Tanman
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jonscz said:
Tanman......I don't know why and I'm sorry for saying it, but the quote "banged my stump cutting cheese" is one of the funniest things I've read in ages ......
...... No worries, thought it might bring a smile to your face! Yeh the knife slipped through the cheese and with 15 stone behind it it hurt quite a bit as the stump was rather sensitive!!!! When i put this on PH last year someone else said "sorry but that was funny" (even though it was not supposed to be). to this day i still blame my mate who is a Physio, he said "Tan, get back to normal ASAP. Don't think you can't do something just becasue your missing part of your finger". Who would of thought cutting cheese would have been so dangerous- and to your feet?
So be wary of physio's when you get back to normal, get one who is not your mate.
Glad to be of some help
Tanman
!!!!S Works said:
Congratulations buddy, you've done slightly less well than I did some years ago whilst celebrating a mates birthday.
I managed to fall/leap/jump/stagger (delete as appropriate) off a 3-foot raised pavement and onto a tarmac road whilst 'tired and emotional' en-route to a kebab shop. On landing my left arm was straight and connected with the road first, locking out the elbow joint which refused (quite rightly) to support my then 14 stone frame and promptly dislocated. During the dislocation, the socket part of the joint (shangers, medical name please) decided that it had had enough of the 14 stone also, and in protest, fractured.
Net net, I ended up sobering up in about a nanosecond and was lying in said road looking at my very busted arm, calling out to a mate to call a cab to get me to casualty. In his enlightened state he decided that I was just mucking about and the best solution was to get me out of the road... using my fractured, dislocated arm as the main point of leverage.
I have a vague recollection of a moment of intense pain whilst begging my mate not to do it and that all was not well... and then I woke up, some 5 or 6 hours later, with a sling, a groggy head, and wondering where the hell my shish kebab was.
Apparently I needed double the amount of morph usually required to knock me out while they relocated everything, and when they rang my old man, his response at 1am in the morning was "well the idiot can stay there until he wakes up, then I'll come and get him".
The bonus was that they put the whole thing in plaster after the swelling went down, and I had a full bavarian drinking arm for about 6 weeks while it healed. The downer was that the joint still feels weak to this day, and despite lots of physio I still don't have as much movement in it as I did previously... it's not that bad though. Good pub story too
P.S. don't listen to me, I'm an idiot missing his village
I managed to fall/leap/jump/stagger (delete as appropriate) off a 3-foot raised pavement and onto a tarmac road whilst 'tired and emotional' en-route to a kebab shop. On landing my left arm was straight and connected with the road first, locking out the elbow joint which refused (quite rightly) to support my then 14 stone frame and promptly dislocated. During the dislocation, the socket part of the joint (shangers, medical name please) decided that it had had enough of the 14 stone also, and in protest, fractured.
Net net, I ended up sobering up in about a nanosecond and was lying in said road looking at my very busted arm, calling out to a mate to call a cab to get me to casualty. In his enlightened state he decided that I was just mucking about and the best solution was to get me out of the road... using my fractured, dislocated arm as the main point of leverage.
I have a vague recollection of a moment of intense pain whilst begging my mate not to do it and that all was not well... and then I woke up, some 5 or 6 hours later, with a sling, a groggy head, and wondering where the hell my shish kebab was.
Apparently I needed double the amount of morph usually required to knock me out while they relocated everything, and when they rang my old man, his response at 1am in the morning was "well the idiot can stay there until he wakes up, then I'll come and get him".
The bonus was that they put the whole thing in plaster after the swelling went down, and I had a full bavarian drinking arm for about 6 weeks while it healed. The downer was that the joint still feels weak to this day, and despite lots of physio I still don't have as much movement in it as I did previously... it's not that bad though. Good pub story too
P.S. don't listen to me, I'm an idiot missing his village
I did exactly the same and snapped the last inch off the bone before my elbow... jumping down the steps off the railway bridge on my Trials bike. Painful. I was more gutted about me watch than me arm though.
Hi, it's the "one armed bandit" here again!! Just a quick p.s. to this link to say a big thanks to Shangani for the chat and advice (and coffee!) today... Saw him on my visit to the fracture clinic at A&E today (what a top bloke). There is a HOWEVER, though, as looking at his car and the mods he's done and looking back at the video links he's posted, I can see how you can get seriously addicted to trackdays and this is a warning, Shangers, - if I end up spending £1000's in mods and tyres trying to equal your trackday fun and experiences, there is going to be BIG TROUBLE...!!! Do you hear...BIG TROUBLE 
Cheers, again, Shangers. Jon
Do you hear...BIG TROUBLE Cheers, again, Shangers. Jon
jonscz said:
Hi, it's the "one armed bandit" here again!! Just a quick p.s. to this link to say a big thanks to Shangani for the chat and advice (and coffee!) today... Saw him on my visit to the fracture clinic at A&E today (what a top bloke). There is a HOWEVER, though, as looking at his car and the mods he's done and looking back at the video links he's posted, I can see how you can get seriously addicted to trackdays and this is a warning, Shangers, - if I end up spending £1000's in mods and tyres trying to equal your trackday fun and experiences, there is going to be BIG TROUBLE...!!! Do you hear...BIG TROUBLE
Cheers, again, Shangers. Jon
Do you hear...BIG TROUBLE Cheers, again, Shangers. Jon
I forgot to tell you about the HID headlights!
You don't need anything done initially. Just put decent pads on the car next time you need brake pads. Will catch you for a beer soon - the left arm still up to knocking back a pint?
I would add that the most fun I have ever had at a trackday was at Cadwell Park on road tyres!
Funny you should mention Cadwell as when you posted, I was watching this thread... http://media.putfile.com/Cadwell-05-J ...superb
Oh, and yep...left arm is still O.K.!
Jon
Oh, and I see what you mean about Lotusnick....
Oh, and yep...left arm is still O.K.!
Jon
Oh, and I see what you mean about Lotusnick....
Edited by jonscz on Wednesday 14th June 18:13
jonscz said:
Funny you should mention Cadwell as when you posted, I was watching this thread... http://media.putfile.com/Cadwell-05-J ...superb
Oh, and yep...left arm is still O.K.!
Jon
Oh, and I see what you mean about Lotusnick....
Oh, and yep...left arm is still O.K.!
Jon
Oh, and I see what you mean about Lotusnick....
Edited by jonscz on Wednesday 14th June 18:13
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