St.G's opportunity to show that he has a human side is totally wasted. Sorry to hear about your injury Rorsach. If it keeps you company I might have Michael Owen's 2006 [cruciate] injury on my right knee. Folded up underneath me when I was working a few weeks back. Very, very slowly getting better. I might be ready for the next World Cup. If it takes much longer I'm off to the Doc's.
I ruptured anterior and posterior cruciates and both medial ligaments after a bike accident - I feel your pain TSS although hopefully they don't have to rebuild your knee. The petrol tap of my bike was driven into the base of my femur during the accident and snapped off....the surgeons removed it when they screwed my knee back together...I still have it in a box of various mementoes
It's OKish mate. I think I only strained it a fair bit. It really just needs rest, but I do a fair bit of kneeling down when I do floor work and even with pads it's not fun. Actually being on the knees is OK, but just getting down and up is definitely iffy. I should try getting up on the left side, but I forget. Your motorbike injury reads extremely gruesome. If I thought too much about injuries I'd probably never get on a two wheeler again. Fortunately, from a pleasure aspect, I don't. 50% push-bike these days too, to remain fit.
Rest plus a bit of heat pack/ice pack action on it will help. Trouble is, stuff always gets in the way of the rest part so recovery time is longer. If you gave it a bit of a stretch by hyper extending then it should settle down but it'll be sore for a while. My bike accident happened at 30mph, down to a stupid car driver. It was gruesome but only really affected my left leg (plus a fractured skull where my own treacherous bike actually flipped up and landed on my head ) despite all that, it didn't put me off riding again, just made me more wary of other road users.
yes, I've had a couple of accidents through the years, due to car driver idiocy. Always managed to step/leap off at the required moment. Every time I've thought.. ah, so they're that stupid. Nowadays I just consider each driver to have an IQ somewhere around the average dog and I get on reasonably enough. Thanks for that knee advice. I will certainly bear it in mind. Incidentally, the other day [OK, week], as I was going past a car, a girl was texting with a phone on her lap. So I let her catch me up, took my hands off the bars [the VFR is a very stable bike], and made a two handed texting gesture, then a thumbs up. She actually smiled back. So that bit of sarcasm didn't take.
If people watched The Graham Norton Show, I once did Kate Beckinsale's chocolate trick. I placed the chocolate.
96 year old Dr Heimlich performs the manoeuvre he invented, for the first time in a real situation. Somehow, I think that's just brilliant: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36400365
Great story, although I am a little doubtful that any 96 year old would be capable of performing it with any efficacy.
Well yes, and I am really impressed that he could do it at all to be fair. The 95 plus age group is usually pretty frail. Not doubting that he did it, just really surprised that he was able to do it efficiently. Fair play to him.
Yeah, as I was reading it the thought flashed through my mind that the operation was a success but the patient died, as the old saying goes.
Looking forward to this Monaco qualifying far more than the race. Could be really tight between three teams. Having a very lazy day, because I appear to have a greater number in the age bracket from today!
