TT Injured Reserve List

“I'M OFF THE LIST! =D

Dr. said all activity can resume w/in my pain tolerance. Hiked two miles today and it was wonderful. Just a little sore tonight, nothing too bad.”

“Kudos -- !”

“Great.”

“A LOT sore this morning, lol. Stepped out of bed and almost feel over!”

“Watch out for that "too much, too soon"!

(yeah,Now we tell ya....)”

“You and Birch and my Mom.... ;)”

“well at least Abby didn't tell you that ... yet”

“Good going Sass!”

“So does that mean you will be hiking the #&%!$ route at Mammoth?”

“I don't know W.Knee. I'm going to do my best to get to the point where I can go as far as possible. I'd love to do the @sskicker route, but I'm going to stick with whatever I feel I'm most capable of. I'd hate to end up dragging. Got an email out to my PT uncle to see what I can do to get back to normal faster.”

“does self massage help with the leg pain?”

“No Comment.”

“If I massage my leg and foot it does. =D And I do.”

“You 'almost feel over" what? Or is that part of the massage?”

“Cool. Don't do too much too quick. I jumped right into 8 mile day hikes when the doctor released me and I crashed in about a week. Legs could handle it, but the ankle needed more time. I still have a lot of swelling, but the pain is minimal.”

“Bearmag, that was the typo part. As if I'd tell you guys about any self feeling I may or may not do. That's privileged information!

Thanks for the reminders to take it easy everyone. Birch made me promise I would NOT do the @sskicker route yesterday (even though it's a month away). So , I guess it'll be the middle route.”

“Stove Stomper had a stroke. He is in Singing River Hospital, 2809 Denny Avenue, Pascagoula, MS 39581. Room 4019.

It affected his right side, but he will be okay.”

“Jeez! Get well soon, Stove Stomper.”

“Damn, any idea how long he will be in the hospital?”

“I don't know...

He did say to yell at everyone on TT for him, LOL...”

“Thanks for the post Twigeater.”

“Thank goodness he can still yell!

Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.

I'm truely glad to hear good news after the bad.

Thanks, Melissa!”

“Oh my! We miss you here buddy. Get well soon.”

“Reporting for hangout duty...

I just picked up 6 cubic feet of crushed marble for a little yard project at Home Despot, and thought I was being careful enough hauling the cart of it behind me, but the slope of the parking lot caused the cart to speed up, roll over my left ankle and slam me down on my knees in the parking lot. I got up, kept on hobbling, unloaded all that s--t into HPM's car, and drove home, occasionally yelling expletives at the pain level that's still ramping up in my knee. I'm missing a JFK silver dollar sized patch of skin on my left knee, nice and bloody and puffing up. I didn't need this.”

“OUCH! That does not sound good.”

“I just had to hobble down the stairs to answer the doorbell... I should have grabbed a bag of frozen peas while I was down there. My ankle is throbbing in a way I'm not familiar with, so that's not a good sign. It feels like it's stiffening up and swelling behind the ankle bone. So much for me cooking a roast chicken tonight. ;P”

“Pain builds character:)”

“I'm just thinking how much that quantity of marble chips would weigh --- without the cart.

Hope it was mostly a glancing blow!”

“If that's he case we girls should have all the character one body can handle from giving birth once, no need for anymore, thank you.”

“Heh Sass, I was about to say something particularly rude about character!”

“treebait - Sounds like a rough one. Hope you get some medical attention, feel better soon and that you let the management at Home Depot know about it.

BTW, did all your Koi survive the move?”

““Pain builds character:)”
Nimblefoot
4:19:18 PM
4/15/07

Then I ought to have more character than the Pope.”

“Johnny Ratz??”

“Not so much the pain as how you respond to it, but it is true.”

“screaming is good”

“Four hours ago I knuckled under and popped a vicodin. Interesting how it is effective on deep pain, but does absolutely nothing for abrasions, contusions and burns. Vicodin does give me motivation, that's for sure. I got in a few hours of working on some pastel abstract drawings, more of a constructivist technique. Cool. Of course now I can't take it for a few more days or I'll start puking.”

“Dermoplast spray for abrasions!”

“Whatever happened to Bactine spray?”

“Bactine was enough to make me scream as a kid.”

“Bactine didn't last long, maybe 20 minutes and the abrasion hurt a heck of a lot again. Funny thing this morning, the abrasion hurts more than the deep pain, so I definitely got lucky yesterday. That could have been really bad. I'm still hobbling though, since Saturday I found a weird step in a barn the hard way and strained my quadruceps and other muscles in my right leg. Now both legs hurt and Laurel's mad because I won't carry her around like she wants. :P”

“treebait - does this mean you are considering a change of trail name to "Rolling Stone" ?”

“Since this took place at the home despot and not on the trail, nope.”

“I grew up as a Bactine junkie.”

“Bactine is wonderful stuff compared to the sting of mercurochrome, which is what I usually got when I was a kid.”

“Confession is good for the soul....”

“ever get the hydrogen peroxide treatment for scrapes as a kid?”

“Oh yeah. I think I became an H2O2 junkie when I had a couple of Plantars warts removed from my feet. Watching that stuff fizzing and seeing the tissue turn white fascinated me. That was in 3rd of 4th grade, I believe.”

“Hydrogen peroxide was my father's favorite cure for just about everything. I do not buy the stuff.”

“I can barely focus on anything now because of the pain from the abrasion. Man, that's as bad as a burn right now. I slathered it in neosporin and a large band aid last night, but I just peeked at it and it's all gooey from a non hardening scab. Time to wash and try to re-numb that thing.

I am amazed that my ankle didn't swell up, considering 6 cf of rock rolled over it and my boot. It's a little stiff but that's all. My hiking boot has a nifty abrasion mark on ankle cuff now too.”

“Iodine was the thing in my young days. It only burnt for a short eternity and it sure killed the germs.”