Cacked my arm feckin proper!.. now with piccie.

boogieman

equalsql said:

Here's a piccie of the damage.. and yes it was and is as painful as it looks. 12 weeks on and I've got some mobility and have started trying to play again but can only do it for short periods as it starts to ache like an SOB.

https://s20.postimg.cc/vkfeig4od/IMG_20180725_103707590.jpg

I've mostly been away off the forum as I got depressed reading about guitars but without being able to play them.
Anyways I'm back now so hope to start contributing again

Owww! That looks a proper job you did there. Get better soon. 

RandallFlagg

BRISTOL86 said:

Other people will make light of this situation but I don’t find it very humerus. 

"That's a cracker" (in a thick Irish accent)

EricTheWeary

That sounds truly awful. No one should have to go to Stoke. 

Hope it all heals quickly. 

Phil_aka_Pip

stickyfiddle said:

Ouch! Hope all gets better quickly. 

^ This ^

All the best

hywelg

equalsql said:

Here's a piccie of the damage.. and yes it was and is as painful as it looks. 12 weeks on and I've got some mobility and have started trying to play again but can only do it for short periods as it starts to ache like an SOB.

https://s20.postimg.cc/vkfeig4od/IMG_20180725_103707590.jpg

I've mostly been away off the forum as I got depressed reading about guitars but without being able to play them.
Anyways I'm back now so hope to start contributing again

Looks like they installed that with a nail gun. Oops, do another one, oh shit, one more, bullocks, right, aim fire, OK a couple more for good measure.

Paul_C

Jalapeno said:

Been a bad 12 months for me too, 2 broken ribs, broken humerus, frozen shoulder.  Odd that it's the musculature frozen shoulder that is the bastid - it's taking months longer than the fractures to heal. A good Osteo/Physio will be invaluable.

good luck and get well soon !

I've had frozen shoulder in both of mine, the right shoulder was the worst and took a couple of years to disappear completely.

equalsql

Topic revisited cos after almost a year the bugger still hasn't healed.. and to top it off I've just found at that the plate has snapped clean in two above the 3rd screw shown, at the point where the break is. I've been using an ultra-sound device for the past six weeks to try and stimulate the growth, but now am almost back at square one. Feck!

I've gotta go back in to have the whole thing opened up again and have it replaced or have another attempt to fix it using a bone-graft from my thigh.. Oh joy!.

It hurts like an SOB at the moment and is really restricting me in my guitar playing.. I think I've got an idea of what Les Paul must have gone through.

Oh the sweet joys of life and remember kids don't go playing around on step ladders like your uncle SQL did.

ICBM

Ouch. That makes me think I've got off very lightly - after nine months my elbow still isn't quite straight, hurts a fair bit quite often and has an odd lump on the bone (which I'm sure wasn't like that before) but is otherwise not affecting life too badly, and I think is still progressing towards full normality - just very slowly now. Yours sounds like a bit of a nightmare...

VimFuego

wow that sucks, sorry to hear that. 

PhilW1

Look on the bright-side, at least you can stay at home and relax watching Jeremy Kyle....
...oh,,,,


get well soon

Headphones

Had a bone graft for a snapped humerous a while ago; the arm ceased to be a problem pretty much straight away, took months for the graft site to recover (top of pelvis).  Trust it goes well.