 Poster: A snowHead
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@davidof, Superman!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Lovely. Well done. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Impressive.
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Incredible recovery. That's some hard work you've put in to make that !
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Fortunate I would say.
This is my last xray.
So they basically chisel a bit of the top of the thigh bone, screw in some great big rod then another rod into the humeros with a self tapper from BQ to hold it in place. Makes me fell ill looking at it!
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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Airport scanners will be a joy…
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Airport scanners will be a joy…
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You get used to it.
Well done @davidof, that is great progress and impressive carpentry. Are they leaving the metal work in or removing it at a later date?
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This repair looks quite different to the Xray you posted at the start of your journey. This is the fix that I have had, but they couldn't reduce the fracture enough so there is a large piece of bone still sticking out. Can't figure a way to post pictures.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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A real testament to your fitness. Incredible recovery
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| Teletart wrote: |
| This repair looks quite different to the Xray you posted at the start of your journey. |
they couldn't give me xrays at the start, so I posted an example xray. The surgeon had a tablet with the xray on it. I recovered the initial sets of xrays when I saw the surgeon. It was quite a snap originally.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@davidof, well done indeed!
Almost a good a recovery as my dog 
Actually he was 21 weeks in total.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@Weathercam, your dog is much younger but possibly had a more complicated injury. Always amazed at how quickly animals recover although we don't really know what aches and pains they have and just live with.
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About 2 and a half months after my accident I finally managed a small ski tour. 520 meters up in about an hour. Making tracks in 5 to 10cm of fresh snow with a couple - they did most of the work. That was enough for me anyway, even if I'd had more time I couldn't have climbed more.
The ski down was ok. The first pitch was not too steep even if I was a bit concerned. There was then a steepish section with heavier powder for some reason and I was a bit on the back of the skis but the snow got a bit lighter and I recentered and gained a bit of confidence and the rest of the ski was fairly easy. It helped being first down before the slope got cut up - there were about 50 people climbing up when I skied down.
Baby steps. Whole summer to refind some form. I'm unable to run at the moment so nice to move a bit faster.
https://www.strava.com/activities/11081393183
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You know it makes sense.
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| Baby steps. |
Not how I'd describe what seems like an amazingly quick recovery! Great for you to get back to a little touring before the end of this winter, and as you say the whole summer to build strength and fitness to go in to next winter at 100%.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@davidof, 
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Poster: A snowHead
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I was trying to think of any lessons or useful information for others from all this. Perhaps it brought home that you need to think about the future and where you live getting older. Our house has a small step on the ground floor - just a couple of cms but for the first couple of weeks this was quite a hurdle. The staircase was also too steep. So next house will either be a bungalow - but with completely flat floors, no lips or anything, or an apartment and not in the middle of nowhere but near services.
Clearly you can recover fairly quickly, even from a major bone break but obviously joints, tendons etc are trickier.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Back to running today. I've been walking quite a lot, up to 12km but not running. I did a 1km walk to warm up, ran 3k then walked 1km home. I was pleased to be able "run" but a bit dissapointed with the pace, around 6m50s/km whereas I'd been under 5m/km before my accident - perhaps 5m15s on the circuit I did today due to some small false flats.
My doctor thought my return to work had hindred progress over the last 6 weeks with too much sitting around. She thinks I should blow off work and focus on me; she's right but at the same time there are bills to pay etc.
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