Owwwwwwwww!!!!

sorry to hear it mate, hope it gets better soon, finally my ligament is
almost healed in my foot now which means i can start riding properly
without holding back to much again.

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man, that sucks. Hope you get better soon.

Last night I crank grabed a metal see-saw (about 10" wide) in the wet,
and jumped onto it, but slipped and landed on the top of my leg on the
see-saw... it gave me a dead leg all last night and today.

Tom, thats great that you can start to ride with holding back! Shame
about BUC though!

Joe,

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ahh im not too bothered about BUC actually i enjoyed it so thats all
that matter, and theres always next year

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beelsebob2 said:

*Grr, And here was me telling people it's almost impossible to injure
yourself badly when riding a unicycle... *

Definitely not impossible. About a month ago I took a serious header
off the front trying to pedal too fast. Landed on my shoulder and got a
slight collar bone separation. Still healing but at least I'm also
still riding. Also smacked my head on the pavement at the same time.
Lucky I was wearing a helmet.

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Quoted message said:

Grr, And here was me telling people it's almost impossible to injure
yourself badly when riding a unicycle... Bob

Bob-- I learned firsthand that one can get injured semi-badly whilst
fiddlin' with the unicycle. Last month 13 April), whilst I was
attempting a way-too-enthusiastic freemount on a shallow incline, I
was slammed into the asphalt hard enough to cleanly break a rib
(number 10, left side) with my elbow. A rather freakish fall, no
doubt. But yet another example of an unfortunate accident, and one
that was not prevented by the use of a helmet, leather gloves,
wristguards, kneepads, and high-top leather boots. The upshot is that
injuries do occur, and usually when one least expects them to do so.
--carl

Any physical activity is going to have the possibility of injury,
especially when falling down and/or speed is concerned. Sorry about your
elbow. Compare this to my friend who slipped on a wet floor a couple of
months ago, coming straight down on his butt with his arm stretched
exactly perpindicular to the ground. He broke his wrist in several
places (compound fracture I guess, though bones did not break the skin).
He has only recently graduated to a cast, after wearing a bracket on his
arm with bolts and pins holding the bones in place.

The total time will be several months of healing, followed by several
more of rehabilitation (his arm is all skinny now) and almost a
guarantee of having arthritis in that wrist in later life. And he was on
two feet!

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I fell off midway across a teetertotter Saturday afternoon and landed on
my hands. I've had it wrapped up since, and finally decided I should go
to the clinic and get it looked at. Turns out I have a fracture at the
base of my thumb. I have an appointment with a hand surgeon Friday
morning.

Here is what my left thumb looks like as of this afternoon...

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weeble said:

*I fell off midway across a teetertotter Saturday afternoon and landed
on my hands. I've had it wrapped up since, and finally decided I
should go to the clinic and get it looked at. Turns out I have a
fracture at the base of my thumb. I have an appointment with a hand
surgeon Friday morning.

Here is what my left thumb looks like as of this afternoon... *

At least it looks like a small, clean break.
I can relate to your situation. I shattered my right thumb in 9 places
back in October.

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Krashin'Kenny said:

I shattered my right thumb in 9 places
back in October.

I never even knew there were that many places in a single thumb :-)

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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Neither did I until I got my nose broken in 5 different places.

Bob

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beelsebob2 said:

*Neither did I until I got my nose broken in 5 different places.

Bob *

Wait till you see a video of a nose job. They basically break up the
nose into tiny bits with a hammer and punch and then put a mold over the
top of it so that it heals into the new shape. 🙁

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Klaas Bil said:

*On Wed said:

I shattered my right thumb in 9 places
back in October.

I never even knew there were that many places in a single thumb :-)

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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*

It's hard to see all the fractures in these pictures, but check out this
thread from awhile back:

http://tinyurl.com/32feb

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I was going to mention how I sliced my knee last night after trying to
ride down some steps (actually, I had just ridden down a couple of the
steps and was stepping off the uni after deciding not to ride down the
rest of them when I fell), but as I continued to read down the list of
posts I was overcome with feelings of inadequacy that my slight wound
didn't actually leave me requiring medical attention.
Well, I say it didn't need medical attention, but my girlfriend did make
me put a plaster on it when I went to bed so I wouldn't bleed
everywhere.
...however, I did draw the line at using one of the 'Barbie' plasters
that she first offered me.

The most annoying thing about it all is I had my knee pads with me, but
decided to leave them in the car as I didn't think I'd need them.

So, I've learnt my lesson.

Gary

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Heh, I've seen the videos... I've had a nose job after my nose got
broken... On another note, it appears I managed to break my arm 🙁

Bob

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beelsebob2 said:

*Heh, I've seen the videos... I've had a nose job after my nose got
broken... On another note, it appears I managed to break my arm 🙁

Bob *

That SUCKS!!!!!!!!!
Hope you heal quickly 🙂

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