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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: caps 999 on November 03, 2008, 07:15:54 am
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dam broken collar bones are painful had a come off yesterday and you guessed it collar bone is snaped in 2 >:( if any one is after me for any thing in particular i may take a bit longer than usal to reply just so youll know any one got any tips for more speedy recovery :D
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Tip.
Dont mess about with useless GP doctors and rubbish slings. Go straight to surgeon and get it plated. ;) Oh and get you neck checked. HVI can crack you neck too. Believe it, its well worth checking. :)
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yea snapped mine once going over the bars on a CR125M. ouch@! I knew I done some damage but I never realized what until I tried to pick up the bike..PHARK! :o :'( I abondoned the bike and walked home knowing full well a hospital trip was imminent. The good news is you'll rarely break it in the same place again :-\ hope you're on the mend soon mate ;)
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ouch! how'd it happen?
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Yeah mine has about a half inch overlap and took about 6 months to heal .Get it plated if you can .Bad Luck Caps
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Caps 999,
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Mrs Maico #54
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I hammered both collarbones when I rode the infamous Lobito into a drainage ditch while tapped out in top gear at Terry Hills back in 1970. I Dislocated my left shoulder and lost a couple of teeth as well. The shoulder still occasionally gives me a tinge on really cold days or when I sleep awkwardly. I agree with Quickys advice, get to a specialist for a proper repair. Get Well soon Caps.
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Just a thought too make life easier in the future,don't whinge,sigh or complain to your wife/partner,cause all they are going to say is SELL IT/DON"T RIDE THEN :-\
The surgeons will operate in about ten days ,when the swelling goes down,just to put you thought all the pain again. ;D
Take plenty of anti inflammatory tablets.
Remember always smile around the misses.
Take it easy and hope it knits well
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Bad news and luck Capps , agreed with others get it seen to by a specialist. Part of my eldest sons collar bone had impacted into his spine , results if this had not been seen by a specialist could have been horrendous. Mind your this was five days later when he was blue grey in the face choking from swelling and partial paralysis... this was not picked up by GP. Get well mate! maybe carefully.. look to some of your projects ;)
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got sent to royal melbourne had the xray clean breake no pins just sling :-\ had a major high side on the crf orver a tabler
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that is good news, mine had the overlap like YZhilly but I was a wee nipper and 16 at the time . It was 3 only weeks before I was back on the bike and 2 weeks before I was back at work so as I could meet the repayments on the RM400 I'd just bought. Fortunately I've always been a quick healer but I wouldn't particularly like to test out such healing prowess again at this age! I can still feel the pain from it and like Firko I also get the occassional ache in the cold of if I sleep in a weird position. The figure 8 sling is good for getting out of not wearing your seltbelt tho! ;D (as if you'd really want to!) I got pulled over driving my brothers HX wagon for not wearing the belt, showed them the xrays and the figure 8 sling and they let me go on my way no problems at all..I was only 16 remember..no licence check! my lucky day!! kinda.. :D
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got sent to royal melbourne had the xray clean breake no pins just sling
Thats good news. (No surgery and associated risks)
Take care and Take it easy and it will knit and you will be as good as new. (Physio will be very important when you prgress to that stage)
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thanks for the well wishes guys being quite possibly one of the youngest guys on the forum i should be right for healing ;D just gotta wait :-[
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yeah, thats the bugger of it Caps, the waiting. Well worth it though, my first break (ulna) had me whinging for a week that I couldn't regulate the clutch evenly. turns out the sprain my mum (nurse) told me would heal in time is later x-rayed and subsequently plastered, well putting up with poor clutch control was bad enough but not being able to grip the bars just wasn't on at all! within a week I had decided to soak off the cast in the rain barrel and live with the occasional stall, and avoid too much air time, but now the bone has set with a bump that aches from time to time. The moral of this story, try to avoid too much air ;D.
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Get well soon Caps :) dont try to come back too soon though , i got my cast off on wednesday and a moon boot put on. Went for my first ride yesterday :) but probably shouldn;t have as its a bit sore today.
wishing you a speedy recovery Bill :)
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Shite that is getting so meep and deaningful ! ???
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Bill was it the laps at Taupo or standing at the auction all night drinking piss threw a helmet?
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Riding partner in Masters enduro ....ended up with Broken colar bone - 4 broken ribs - punchured lung -LH little finger & broken shoulder when his bike fell on him :o :o
He had all the right protection gear on, just unlucky surgery next week
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Shite that is getting so meep and deaningful ! ???
yer,,, I pulled my post Tim,its all too hard :(
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geezas some club ;D!,i did mine 2 weeks ago at Southern Classic,(+5 ribs,punctured lung,spent a restfull week in the Northern at Epping,good drugs ::),highsided off P3 Ducati 350 when the poxy piston exploded,(think the use by date was definatley up), :P
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WARNING WARNING,those of you still nursing busted ribs,don't read Tim754's post to admin
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sorry to hear that Caps, get well soon sport !
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Ouch thats bad luck Matcho Mick ,How did ya get home i'm guessing the road trip wouldnt have been much fun .???
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haha wasent at bacchus missus said lets go 4 a ride out laverton wish i didnt go now >:( and once again thanks for the well wishes guys ;D
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nah hilly i trained it,about 15hrs worth,epping ,spencer then to armadale,back to spencer ,to sydney,morrisett,all for $70,bargin rates,slept most of the way,od on painkillers for the overnite trip,(sleeping uprights tricky??),binned the sling yesterday,going well (so far),cheers Mick
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Good too hear mick .Hope all you busted up old bikers get well soon .
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back on the bike now guy went for a ride the sunday only 3 weeks and back on the bike ;D (against doctors whishes) thanks again for the well wishes guys
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when the doctor says take 2 painkillers that really means take 4 and they waay better with bourbon/beer/scotch actually any booze
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good to read the positive results caps 999
still in a sling here for week number 6
Sidecar rider seeing surgeon Wednesday..
INSIDE INFO = when you get a sling fitted its best to get a wrap around, not the good old white one from the first aid box....oh plus bourbon for extended period. 8)
cheers Alison
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Glad to hear you've recovered enough to ignore the doctor! When I slid my BMW down the highway and broke my collarbone and shoulder blade, the stircrazies set in quickly enough and it was painful to look at the basement full of bikes I couldn't ride!
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I broke my collar bone, shoulder blade and nine breaks through seven ribs, starting from rib two. They put me in the intestinal surgery recovery room???? Then after five days of seeing no one they sent me home. I went to a specialist to see about getting it plated. He asked me if I could lift my arm and squeeze with my hand ect. All of which I could. He said most people with those injuries can't use their arm anymore and I'm very lucky. $280 thanks, see ya $280 later.
Anyway, hope you heal well and get used to that annoying lump.