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Mike's Cycling Surgeries |
Winter's here finally, all cold, dark and dreary, and I don't ride when it's below 30. So that gives me way too much time on my hands. That in mind, I thought I'd take this opportunity to share some of my surgical x-rays with you.
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So, here's the best, first. This is my leg. Well, this was my leg, with my femur in three pieces. I've still got the same leg, just without all this cool hardware in it. Thirteen screws, one plate, two pieces of wire. Check out that big honker screwed into the ball in the femur up top! (Click on the image for a bigger shot) A freak accident, riding at about 2 mph, turning around in the park. REMEMBER, don't put any torque on you leg if you're crashing. Bad, very bad.
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This is the same leg, just a side shot (negative).That IS a nasty screw up top!! Oh, my . . . looks like a zipper up there too. No more babies for me. So, all of the hardware came out after a year and it's all sitting in my closet (except for the wires <sigh>). The scar is pretty cool too, at about 12.25 inches. |
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So much for the old leg. On to the most common cycling injury, the broken collarbone. Not real bad, but hey, a broken bone is a broken bone.
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The weird thing about this was when they "set" it. They gave me some stuff that didn't make it hurt any less, it just made me forget the screaming and kicking I did when they "set it" without anethesia. |
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Yawn. |
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Wow, wasn't that great? I'm still trying to get some other surgical pictures to put up here. One of our club just had neck surgery and has a cool scar from that I'd like to show along with some x-rays. Someone else had this nasty bowel surgery and some pictures from that (but that may be going too far).