How'd it go today?

Been a bit busy for the last couple of months cutting containment lines for hazard reductions with work. Getting to see places that I would normally not head to unless I had a purpose for the trip. Getting a few tree jobs here and there. Got a nice 1.5 day job to do soon with another job in the pipeline waiting on the client to put some paperwork in to council. Got some bad news on Friday that my horse riding school is closing down due to issues with the property that they operate out of so Ill have to move riding schools. My last lesson is this Saturday so a few of us will be shedding some tears as all the horses and ponies are heading to new homes and the place felt like a second home to many of us. It'll be hard saying good by to my cheeky horse that I have formed a good bond with. I have plans to stay in contact with him as he is retiring at my instructors place. Ill post a few pics from the current job tomorrow and a few of my cheeky boy.
 
Not today, but storm damage from our last noreaster. My housemates car (where I usually park) got super lucky! Big overextended white pine branch I've been meaning to get to for a few years finally let go. Branches on either side of her car.
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The containment lines are used as access routes around the proposed hazard reduction area. some can be as wide as 4m. They are also used to protect assets like cattle fencing and power lines. Ill try to get some photos of the trail that Ill be working on next week as I forgot to get some this week.
 
State wide vertical rescue training weekend. White Water Wall in the Freycinet National Park. Beautiful day Saturday...peezin rain and wind on Sunday, showed my team a bit of basic tree climbing setups...then we went home.
 

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More maple wrecking, over a fence and propane tank, and retaining wall for good measure. Speed lining and natural crotch self- lowering. Groundie managed brush, homeowner to clean.

Thought we'd put on a rigging show before bidding the doctor's work next door.

Alders on the chopping block tomorrow, figuratively. Beating leaf out.
 
Went to the hospital today to have my broken wrist rechecked.
Bad news.
It has come completely apart.
Pieces of bones going every which way.
The x-ray looked like a puzzle that the kids dropped on the floor.
So thursday I go under the knife and they try to put the pieces together in the right order and place by the help of some titanium plates and a lot of screws.
frig!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On the way home I got to thinking about how lucky we are to live in countries were they can do that.
I don't even have to pay for it, since I already did by paying my taxes.
Insurance will almost cover the money our company loses by not having me around to screw things up for the next 6 weeks.

I wonder if I'm ever going to be able to punch somebody with that hand again.
 
No idea.
They say it can happen for no apparent reason.
I woke up one morning because it hurt like crazy.
Kept hurting all day.
My guess is I rolled on top of it during the night, hard enough to go through the cast.

The surgeon told me that they sometime have people who come in much later, when it has gone to pieces.
His take on it was: " Shit happens, we'll fix it".

But that sure took care of my whole spring.
 
Ask about calcium, if not already discussed with the medical staff.

I think that cooking greens in cast iron helps get the calcium available, because of the iron, or something.
My friend's broken thumb didn't heal in 6 weeks, much at all, because of too little bio-available calcium, IIRC. Vegetarian, backpacking guide, fwiw.
 
I eat a LOT of cheese.
That ought to take care of the calcium.
Hopefully.
 
Sounds like what I was taught is called a comminuted fracture. Glad you have folks to handle it. You're the specialist for trees...now you get to let other specialists do their thing.

Good luck with it...pulling for you here.
 
Yep.
I told the other specialist that I wouldn't ask him how to do a tree job, likewise I'd simply follow his advice on this " Put the puzzle back together" job to the letter.

I asked him why it hurt so damned much.
Believe me, I am no stranger to pain and have a high threshold for it, but this REALLY hurts.

Answer was, This is not broken, it is imploded.
So all the soft tissue in the wrist has taken one hell of a beating, we just can't see that on the x-ray pictures.

Didn't make it hurt any less, but knowing why helps me a lot in coping with it.
 
I wonder if I'm ever going to be able to punch somebody with that hand again.
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I didn't thought of this point.
I guess that many people would be glad about that:D
That ought to take care of the calcium.
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It isn't enough to work. You can drink or eat calcium all day long, you will get no effect if vitamin D isn't at its right level. It's mandatory to bio-process the calcium.
 
Gary, I just looked up Comminuted fracture.
Exactly!

The end of my Radius bone fractured into 4 pieces.
When they did the x-ray right after it happened, they were all in place, snuggled up cosily nhext to each other.
Now they have split onto two groups and are nowhere near the place where they should be.
So Titanium plates and screws to the rescue.
 
I’ve got those in my ankle and arm from a car crash 28years ago.

Still in there, I guess they’ll sift them out of my ashes when it happens.
 
But 4 pieces sounds "doable"....pulverized is what is bad...basically powdered into slivers. I think they will be able to use the hardware to keep them close enough so they can do the natural mending process and fuse together.

IF you can keep from doing handstands or makiwara training for awhile!!
 
Wow Stig...but you're right, they ARE the experts and it's amazing what they can do.
I'm always a wee bit leery of completely trusting Dr's, tend to do a lot of background research around what they tell us, but fractures and X rays are pretty cut and dried. Titanium rocks.
 
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