AntonioGG Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 1 hour ago, Yosmithy said: Hope your surgery was a total success today, old man! Make sure you get on here with some good drug induced post-surgery deep philosophical manifesto about mountain bike riding and tire choice...those area always the best 🙂 Take care, dude! I second this remark. Also, have someone take your credit card away while on the meds! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafeend Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 I second this remark. Also, have someone take your credit card away while on the meds!Speak from experience? Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidingAgain Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 On 7/14/2019 at 1:01 PM, throet said: Well sure..... guess I could have ended up dead or permanently disabled. "Good news is that it came off the bone clean and will be easy to anchor it back on surgically." I was just agreeing with your above thought. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRider3141 Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 3 hours ago, AntonioGG said: I second this remark. Also, have someone take your credit card away while on the meds! 2 hours ago, Cafeend said: Speak from experience? Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRider3141 Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 Man, these injury threads really make me second guess my willingness to leave the house! For those of you are recently injured or still recovering: Keep up the PT, listen to you Dr's and PT's. If they aren't pushing you, find a different one. I had a pretty nasty Bucket Handle Tear on my meniscus on top of a partial MCL tear on the same knee back in 2011 and recovery sucked. I skipped leg day for too long and didn't keep my PT up. It took years instead of months before I would say I was 100% again. It's actually one of the big reasons I got into MTB because the pedaling motion helps my joint and was a good way to build strength. If I had stuck with my PT I think I would have recovered and been more active much sooner than I was. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 Home resting comfortably with loving wife, which is a reminder of what's truly important in life. Surgeon told her that the procedure went according to plan. Really got to think about the details with these things. The one question I had was how the hell am I going to be able to sit on a toilet? Surgeon said good call out and had the nurse arrange for my wife to pick up an apparatus that attaches to the toilet, raising the seat 4.5 inches with upright handles on the side. Haha can't wait to try it. Thanks all for the well wishes and good humor. A real must for getting through these things. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 (edited) 10 hours ago, RidingAgain said: "Good news is that it came off the bone clean and will be easy to anchor it back on surgically." I was just agreeing with your above thought. Yep all good. The procedure was completed in an hour with no need for grafting a new tendon. Unfortunately it's still a brutal recovery though and probably not something I can ever be 100% after. The one hamstring that stayed on the hip nearly ripped in half at the muscle/tendon junction, which will mean a lot of scar tissue forming where there should be muscle. Will probably be susceptible to cramping once I return to full activity and the reattached tendon on the other muscles will likely be at greater risk for coming off again. I think that would be more of a risk for sprinters, basketball players, football players, etc but welcome feedback from anybody who's had a serious hamstring injury and returned to mountain biking. Edited July 16, 2019 by throet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 6 hours ago, AntonioGG said: Also, have someone take your credit card away while on the meds! Darn when the doc said he was giving me Norco I was already planning to hit their website to browse the latest models. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioGG Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 2 hours ago, throet said: Really got to think about the details with these things. The one question I had was how the hell am I going to be able to sit on a toilet? Surgeon said good call out and had the nurse arrange for my wife to pick up an apparatus that attaches to the toilet, raising the seat 4.5 inches with upright handles on the side. Haha can't wait to try it. Thanks all for the well wishes and good humor. A real must for getting through these things. At least it's not a wiping hand injury. Wiping with the wrong hand, it's so awkward! (Try it). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarneytx Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 16 minutes ago, AntonioGG said: At least it's not a wiping hand injury. Wiping with the wrong hand, it's so awkward! (Try it). Gotta practice those offhand drills. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yosmithy Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 After multiple arm and shoulder surgeries I learned to become wipebidextrous 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docscotty Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Pop a couple of norcos, get out that credit card and get one of these. Literally saved my ass after I broke my thumb at Reveille Peak a few years ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 The biggest mistake I made in our last remodel was not getting an outlet installed behind the toilet. I wanted a Japanese toilet, wife said no. If I had the outlet I'd have the ability to easily do it in the future once I wore her down a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafeend Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Never ceases to amaze me how topics just segue into the oddest diversions you dont see coming Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yosmithy Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 2 hours ago, Cafeend said: Never ceases to amaze me how topics just segue into the oddest diversions you dont see coming Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk It's only natural any injury related thread is going to transition to a butt cleansing discussion 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notyal Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Shit just got real. 2 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anita Handle Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 3 hours ago, notyal said: Shit just got real. ...real clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Most of you probably don't know Jay (853) but he busted his collarbone at Muleshoe back in the day. He told me the biggest challenge he had working through the injury was 25 years of always wiping his ass with his right hand. As a precautionary measure, I might start trying to alternate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yosmithy Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 I was serious...for once Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridenfool Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 5 minutes ago, Yosmithy said: I was serious...for once I hope you learned your lesson. Don't do it again. 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yosmithy Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 6 minutes ago, Ridenfool said: I hope you learned your lesson. Don't do it again. 🙄 I took it off my bucket list 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted July 23, 2019 Author Share Posted July 23, 2019 One week post-op. Still mostly just laying in bed since I can't sit comfortably. Getting around pretty good on the crutches though when I do decide to move. Finished all of my pain meds and just taking ibuprofen now. Trying not to think too much about my prognosis in relation to mountain biking, but when I do think about it, it's worrisome. I've started looking at medical journals chronicling this type of injury, and while it seems clear that I'm better off having had it repaired than I would be otherwise, I'm still puzzled over where the science really is in re-attaching tendon back to bone, especially for something that stretches as much as the hamstring. I'll be asking a bunch of questions at my first post-op appointment later this week, and some are probably questions I should have been asking ahead of the surgery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioGG Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Stop looking at medical stuff. Just be ready for PT and watch this over and over, and have it in your head when you're doing your PT (I always do): 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted July 23, 2019 Author Share Posted July 23, 2019 2 minutes ago, AntonioGG said: Stop looking at medical stuff. Just be ready for PT and watch this over and over, and have it in your head when you're doing your PT (I always do): Haha what's $6M in today's dollars? I'm afraid I'll be falling far short of affording a recovery like that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree Magnet Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 15 minutes ago, AntonioGG said: Stop looking at medical stuff. Just be ready for PT and watch this over and over, and have it in your head when you're doing your PT (I always do): I agree with this. Practice going "nah nah nah nah" and trying to move in slow motion when you do something cool. Your body is different and your recovery will be different so all you can do is get serious about the PT and make it happen. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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