I AM WALKING AGAIN (VIDEO)

After 9 weeks of hobbling around on crutches after colliding with a tree out in Colorado I am now back in (limited) action. I have gained my Docs approval to start walking around and using my leg.

One more round of X-rays (Time number 5)

Waiting for some good news

Waiting can also be educational...

The spur coming up from the lower bone is what re-attached to my leg and is now hopefully connected to the bone and a healthy ACL.

This is my cheesy inspirational video.

50% Walking

So I went to the Doc today for my appointment and got X-ray set number 4.

I am refusing to chop the beard until I can walk... or until it bugs me beyond belief (which it is doing)

This is the video of the doc giving me the news and the rest of my day

I did get a cheap membership to another gym in town to use the in-pool treadmill. Hopefully I will have it to myself like I did today (I ripped this pic off their website)

All in all a pretty good day, should be walking in 2 weeks or so (if I am lucky)

Rehab for the leg

I have officially started physical therapy and now get to spend a little time out of the brace.

(Check out the little leg)

I even get to bend it.

Can you tell which one is the broken one?

I need to take my camera to my next PT appt. I get to hook the muscle stimulator up to my thight and shock the muscle into contractions. I looks crazy.

Doc Visit Number 3 (forgot the camera)

Here is the news from the doc that I gathered the other day.

1. I broke my leg really badly (so bad in fact that I was told that they had never seen this type of break in an adult in regards to treatment)

2. I am a medical freak (Basically the bone shattered in every direction like a pane of glass, but in the way that it shatters without actually coming apart) The bone remained aligned despite the heavy trauma so I am healing on my own from something that normally requires hours of surgery and a lot of plates and screws.

3. There is a good chance that my ACL tore a piece of my bone away in the impact so that I might have an ACL in good shape once this is all over.

4. From the sounds of it, I am a lucky man.

The Lowes Jungle

Knock Lowes off the checklist... I have mastered their cart.

Doctor Visit

Officially 3 weeks from the hour that I broke my leg I had another doc appointment. It started out with some X-rays. Luckily I had the new official jonnywalkeradventures photographer on hand to document the fun (AKA my mother).

This is me lounging for my pics


Either they were protecting me from the x-rays or they were just anticipating that things might get crazy.

Glamour shot pose for my final x-ray. (notice the sweat. It is hard crutching around in the sun).

Once the x-rays were looked at they readjusted my brace so that it wouldn't stab me anymore.

I still lack a kneecap on my right leg.

The news this time was good in that I was told that everything is still aligned properly. I should start physical therapy in two more weeks. The other news that I got is that the break goes in and then up. It goes all the way into my knee. Normally it would be a rather quick surgery to repair it except for the fact that my break splinters into multiple ones all ending up in my knee. I was told that it would take multiple plates and screws if I went the surgery route. Since I am young it has been decided that everything should be done to let it heal naturally and hopefully avoid the surgery. Needless to say I must have hit it pretty hard. (It is great when a doc actually shows a few of his friends your x-rays before he even talks to you about them. That means you are a unique individual.)

G-Unit (Gimp Unit)

Today was Bob's first official day in the Gimp Unit. Yesterday he went under the knife to get some work done on his gimpy shoulder that likes to dislocate any time fun is happening, rather that be snowboarding or eating tacos. He went under around 2 and made it back out around 8. Needless to say they found some more issues with his shoulder than they had expected. Now he joins me and his father in the G-Unit. The Shaws combined have 2 good arms and 4 good legs. Throw me into the equation and we are a 4 armed, 5 legged, and 2 crutched beast that is capable of mass devastation.

Here is the Bob post-op

Some pics from inside his shoulder w/doc notes

More pics

I knew he was healing so I brought him some pizza. $5 well spent.

The G-Unit.

Right to Left: Broken Right Leg - Tibia 2 places, Reconstructed Right Shoulder, Broken Left Humerous.

BOB Returns

The Bob has returned from driving his father around the East Coast to chauffer my broken ass around town. Granted he has shoulder surgery next Tuesday, but the driving will last me for a few days. Already picked up a case of PBR.

Leg Update - GRAPHIC

While my leg is immobilized and healing on the inside i am responsible for changing the bandages on the outside.I have to navigate around my splint take the old one off and put the new one on, not to metion rubbing it down with hydrogen peroxide.

mmmmm.

Peroxide in action

The scar is going to be fantastic.

This is how I spend my days

Or icing it down

I will do something someday...

Needless to say the last few days on the couch have been less than blog-worthy, but then again who am I to decide. Other than getting crazy cabin-fever I have been out a couple of times but carrying myself has taken priority over carrying my camera. I am sure something exciting will come up in the future... it always does.

The Doc Appointment in the Burg - Warning Graphic Images

SO I finally saw a doctor that did more than just glimpse at my X-rays. The one out West told me that I would probably need surgery and may need months before I could walk again so I was pretty intimidated to go get checked out.

The wait wasn't too long




When I got in the back I had to strike a sexy pose.

Then I chose to sick with this one. Really the thumbs up came after the doc told me that I had an odd break pattern but that my bones were very strong because it should have shattered it. He also said that there was a possibility that I would start physical therapy in 3 weeks with no surgery.

Then it was time to change my splint over to a brace. When they unwrapped it the stench was epic. Try and imagine while looking at the next image.

The nurse actually went and got the doc again to look at it a second time. I really just think the smell shocked her. The next pic is where the blood pooled in my leg in a pattern left by the bandages.

This is just a great image. My mom took this one.

After it was cleaned up it looked a lot better.

After it was re-bandaged it didn't look bad at all except for the yellow color and a little bruising.

My mother stood by the whole time... I think the smell will haunt her dreams for a while.

I now have a new brace that allows me a whole 20 degrees of movement through my knee, since the doc believes that my ACL might still be in one piece. YAAAY

So it appears that I will be kicking it around Lewisburg for a while so if you feel like driving me places just let me know. It is kinda hard to push the gas with a non-weight bearing leg. All in all a good day at the docs office. I got some new drugs, a new brace, and some good news. Oh yeah, sorry for the graphic images but that is what was going on with my life. All the pics should be up on the photobucket within the next day or so.

I noticed that my grandfather has been rockin this sweet chair recently so with my new injury I wondered how to get one. I found one.


I did have to go to this place

Inside the doors I was given this fantastic set-up.

I also found how to heal my boo-boo

This is a video of me rolling.

Days at Winter Park

So I was at Winter Park 3 days after the accident and my leg looked like this, not to mention thay I couldn't walk on it at all so I decided to get some x-rays taken. (Pics put online later)

Needless to say I broke my tibula in 2 places. One of which is where your ACL attaches so I was a little out of luck. They said the swelling was really bad so they splinted it. It lloks so pretty.

That didn't stop me from going to the bar though. THese guys convinced me it was 200 yards away. So about a half a mile later on ice we made it there.

I was victorious

First I beat this guy in pool. I thought all people from Chicago were good at pool and bowling. I beat him on one leg.

The bar was pretty vacant, but we still had fun. PBR was on special for $2 a can... not a great special, but I loves me some PBR

I did get a ride back to the hostel from a girl named Indigo that worked there, but I still had to make it up these stairs in the dark.

Two days later I was heading out early in the morning after using some SkyMiles to fly home earlier than anticipated.

Luckily I had help with my bag from this guy.

And of course these two were there as well.

All in all I think I made the right decision by staying in Colorado for the extra time. I kept my leg elevated and met some pretty decent people in the process. The Rocky Mountain Inn and Hostel is where I stayed and if you are in the Winter Park area I reccomend it if you want to stay fairly cheap and clean.