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xtremek

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I took Thursday evening off from working in the shop, but that it doesn’t mean I was a total slacker. Since I’m going to be laid up for the weekend, I drug in all of my old magazines. Just like my Playboys, I read them for the articles. Ok, I’ve never had a ******* magazine. I know, it was a bad Dad joke. But I do keep certain articles as reference materials, so I’m going through the stack.
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Are you doing ok?
I go Monday and get my stitches out.

Yeah, I'm fine. Interesting that I get my stitches out on Monday. I did walk too much yesterday, and last night it let me know I was a bad boy. Robin on the other hand is going to get really tired of taking people to get operated on. BiL has surgery this coming Friday, and my shoulder surgery is the following Monday.

When you get better, you need to burn the **** carpet with the blood stain. People will start to question some things. Good Luck with recovery.

Thanks Dennis. That's a piece of a cat toy in the picture, though if it were blood, the boss lady knows how to deal with getting rid of bodies, being a Biology professor.

Very nice of the 'driver' to avoid the mailbox!

Yeah, it was very close. I'm surprised they were able to drive away. The one tire hit the culvert dead square. They left me about 2/3 of the inner fender, a small piece of a lower grill, and what looks like a universal fuel filter (it doesn't smell of gas though).
 
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Ok, this officially *****. I'm pretty much stuck riding the couch. I can only stand so much FB before I go numb. Same with going back through my stack of magazines, or watching drag week/power tour vids. Finished "Artemis" by Andy Weir (good book, but "Martian" was better). I do need to go through turbodiesel 86's thread, but no pics at the beginning is making it dry. I can't wait to get mobile tomorrow, at least that's what I'm hoping the doctor says. I'm actually doing work for my day job, I'm so bored. Ughhhh. On the bright side, the toe isn't causing me pain, sore as all get out, but no real pain.
 

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Ok, this officially *****. I'm pretty much stuck riding the couch. I can only stand so much FB before I go numb. Same with going back through my stack of magazines, or watching drag week/power tour vids. Finished "Artemis" by Andy Weir (good book, but "Martian" was better). I do need to go through turbodiesel 86's thread, but no pics at the beginning is making it dry. I can't wait to get mobile tomorrow, at least that's what I'm hoping the doctor says. I'm actually doing work for my day job, I'm so bored. Ughhhh. On the bright side, the toe isn't causing me pain, sore as all get out, but no real pain.

Sounds like you need to get on youtube and watch some of the automotive/equipment channels. I can spend a lot of time watching Diesel Creek or Watchweswork if I'm not careful.

Don't push your limits though. I know of many people who couldn't stand being immobile and started doing stuff before they should have and ended up prolonging the recovery period.

Also, you should go buy a lottery ticket. That entire stretch of ditch and the driver picks right at your laneway to go adventuring yet doesn't hit your mailbox? You're a lucky guy.
 

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Extremek, I can set you up on a stool in the sugar shack. You can watch the sap boil and get a sauna treatment and a deep steam bath all at the same time?

Hope your back on the mend and find the youtube thread and go threw that and find some good channels to watch.
 
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Is the sap running good, Sub?

Toe seems to be healing ok.
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Robin has been playing taxi driver a ton. Took the BiL in for shoulder replacement last Friday. They did it outpatient, surprised the heck out of me. I couldn't let him have all the fun, so Monday I got my shoulder done, arthritis and bovine patch for the rottor cuff.
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And I did sort through all of those magazines for articles to keep.
 

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Is the sap running good, Sub?

Toe seems to be healing ok.
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Robin has been playing taxi driver a ton. Took the BiL in for shoulder replacement last Friday. They did it outpatient, surprised the heck out of me. I couldn't let him have all the fun, so Monday I got my shoulder done, arthritis and bovine patch for the rottor cuff.
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And I did sort through all of those magazines for articles to keep.
If those joints weren't so regular I would have thought you cracked the mirroro_O
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Is the sap running good, Sub?

Toe seems to be healing ok.
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Robin has been playing taxi driver a ton. Took the BiL in for shoulder replacement last Friday. They did it outpatient, surprised the heck out of me. I couldn't let him have all the fun, so Monday I got my shoulder done, arthritis and bovine patch for the rottor cuff.
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And I did sort through all of those magazines for articles to keep.
Damn Kirk,
I hope everything turns out good, and your are back to 100% soon!
 
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Thanks guys for dropping by. The shoulder is about 4-6 months recovery, and the toe is about 3-4 months. And yes, my typing skills has degraded significantly, not that it was ever that great. Pain level has been pretty low, 1 norco for the toe, 2 for the shoulder. Plenty of icing though. They gave me a pump and pad thing that circulates water around ice bottles, then through the pad. 10 minutes later, and I'm comfortable.
 
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Geez you'll due anything to get out of winter she shed building. Hope your better fast and can get back at in july when it's real hot. Thats a great time to build things ad well!

Take care and heal fast you got way to much to get done to be goofin off like this!

2 weeks of sapin so far and 56 gallons of sap processed 4 pints on the shelf not for sure what today's 24 gallons will yield. There are still on the stove
 

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The shoulder is about 4-6 months recovery, and the toe is about 3-4 months.
Kirk, when I broke my elbow in 1975 it took exactly one year to fix. I broke it on November 1 trying to ride my 12-year-old's new skateboard. October 31 the following year we took the kids to Disney World and stayed at the new Fort Wilderness Resort Campground. On November 1 I un-broke the elbow on a ride at nearby River Country. It was called the "Cable Ride" and you grabbed the T-bar, jumped off the platform and rode the cable to the end where you would let go and fall in the water. When I jumped, the calcium ridge broke with a loud CRACK and Liane heard it from the nearby beach. Went from 110° to 180° extension in a split second. The water quickly muffled my scream.
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Disney opened River Country June 20, 1976 and closed it November 2, 2001 (a day after my physical therapy's 25th anniversary)
 

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DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bob, just reading that account makes me shudder.
Kirk - I'm with you - I keep going back and reading Bob's account, my brain seizes up when I read "broke my elbow" and again with "grabbed the T-bar". Knowing a little of his history, it does raise certain questions about how he coped with a broken elbow. Also, these episodes suggest that Liane maybe needed to put a collar and leash on him.

As for you, get better soonest, but don't go outside tonight, the ice is about 3/4 of an inch thick here, just to the south of ya...
 

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My next door neighbor makes small batches of syrup every year. He uses a propane burner setup with a small maybe 30"x20" pan. With the cost of propane this year he figures about $19.00 a pint.
Selling rate is $10 a pint in my area. Last year we got 73 pints this year want to sell some hence my efforts to make improvements on my process. Last year in 5 days of cooking I burned enough wood to heat my house for a month. Wood cutting isn't free it takes time as well. So far this year wood usage is 1/2 of Last years rate.
 
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Been quiet cause nothing much is happening. Bandages are off the foot and I don't have to wear the silly shoe, but walking is a little painful, even if I'm cautious. Shoulder is still in a sling, but not the big bulky one. All stitches are out. Rotator cuff wasn't torn, more like shredded, so they put a bovine patch on it. It also had some arthritis and a bone spur. Slept on it wrong last night and spent the rest of the night (after 2:30) and most of today icing it. Was going to try to go to the Autorama this Friday, but 5ish hours of walking on the toe seemed like too much of a stretch
 

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Been quiet cause nothing much is happening. Bandages are off the foot and I don't have to wear the silly shoe, but walking is a little painful, even if I'm cautious. Shoulder is still in a sling, but not the big bulky one. All stitches are out. Rotator cuff wasn't torn, more like shredded, so they put a bovine patch on it. It also had some arthritis and a bone spur. Slept on it wrong last night and spent the rest of the night (after 2:30) and most of today icing it. Was going to try to go to the Autorama this Friday, but 5ish hours of walking on the toe seemed like too much of a stretch

At least all this is being done now. It's a lot easier to be immobile in the winter instead of the summer and wishing you were outside.

No mobility scooters at the autorama?
 

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At least all this is being done now. It's a lot easier to be immobile in the winter instead of the summer and wishing you were outside.

No mobility scooters at the autorama?
that was my thought you just get one of them and zip all around on that! Zoom Zoom go Speed Racer!

Maybe Xtremek can't drive the Scooter 1 armed?

Heal fast and get better soon! its not much fun making fun of you in your current state!
That She Shed is not gonna build itself!
 
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It was a good thing I didn't go. Had to go in front of a big wig and team, and tell them why I was getting them their stuff late. Nevermind I told them back in the beginning of January it was going to be late. The best part is that I inherited this mess from someone else. As far as the mobile chairs, I don't think Cobo Hall has them, though I'm sure they're allowed. And on the She Shed front, I have to fix the HUGE fuel leak on the Grunt ('10 Silverado, I think it's a '10) tomorrow, then I'm going to see if I can get started on it again. If Bob and Al Shubert (an old neighbor with only a left arm) can do it, I should be able to do it, just not as fast. Going to take it very slow if I do. Safety first, crazy a close second.
 
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