Orlando 76 man down

Todd,
Best wishes on the operation tomorrow as well as a speedy recovery. Stay in touch with the progress.

BTW, maybe they can wrap it with some Flex Tape to hold it together. I hear that Autozone is even carrying it now.

Sorry to hear of your injury Todd.
Praying for a successful surgery and your speedy recovery !

Thanks for the thoughts guy. Pete, thanks for the chuckle I needed it. I have Dr. Guru (yes that’s really his name) getting in touch with Pete tonight to verify the quality of stainless hardware is up to spec, I don’t want any backyard hack job 410 SS. Shattered my RFF tibia, broke the fibula, and the top part of the ankle plate, whatever the heck that’s called. I’m not sure where I went wrong, Not knowing where I went wrong has me a little nervous. I was feeling good and wasn’t in trouble then when I crossed the second wake it’s like the tail blew out and the ski helicoptered my foot in two. In the fall I felt my back foot release but could never get my front to pull out. When I looked at my foot I was staring at the bottom of my ski. I calmly told Ted I need help. Luckily my ski partner Ted is an anesthetist with lots of trauma experience and he knew what to do. He had to cut the binding off. I got on the trunk and idled back to the house where he had the ambulance waiting at the dock, he already called the leading trauma surgeon for the area and told him what happened and he was waiting for me at the ER. I owe a lot to Ted, I hope everybody has a friend like him. This hurts like hell and has hit at a really bad time as my 45 day old son has been in a different hospital since birth and has another 6 weeks or so to go, which is 50 miles away from me. My Wife needs a medal.

One advise I’d like to give is always make sure in your boat you have something to cut a ski binding off in emergency. My boat doesn’t but luckily Teds did.

Wow, that is a really tough break at a really hard time for your family. I hope both you and your son get home soon and can start mending.   You will laugh about this someday but it will not be soon. That is great that you had a good and qualified friend in the boat, it could have been worse. Hang in there.
Mark

Yeah dual high wraps

Damn Bro... Hurts me just thinking about it and makes my knee twinge just a little bit. Pete might be able to get you a discount on the stainless hardware if you ask him nicely. Good tip on having a knife in the boat with you. I keep a leatherman in the glovebox for cutting ropes of the shaft and prop but never a binding. Many of us are blessed and lucky to have each other as ski partners as when things go wrong they're there to help and know better how to handle a situation. Heal quickly Todd and Hey; look at the bright side of this accident........ It happened in the fall instead of the spring.

Since you're on the site right now, how'd the operation go today?

Orlando76 wrote: Haha, break. Bad news is my inlaws came down to help out.

Ok this has me laughing. Best of luck with the recovery. Mentally you sound well.

MrMcD wrote: Brace yourself, when that pain block wears off, or they take it away it will get tough.

Oh it’s now worn off and you are very correct. It hurts like hell now.

Brutal, hang in there! A good friend of ours missed a step going down the stairs at night, totally shattered both tib/fib. One of them was "dusted", as the surgeon described. The MRI and images were sickening, lots of hardware. Seriously gross. Two surgeries, external fixation, the whole bit. This was in July and she's walking around now. Keep in mind this is someone in their late 30's who is otherwise healthy, just missed a step going down the stairs and blam. Disaster. Doesn't even have to be a ski or binding incident!

Yeah Joel I know it’s a matter of hitting things just right which is scarier when it happens to you because you don’t know how to do it different next time.

Ted used the scissors we have for working on the course, maybe regular scissors but the maybe medical scissors for cutting bandages. He said the binding was surprisingly easy to cut.

Jerry I was on Lake Ola, Ted lives on the lake, I live across the street. In fact I think you looked at buying the house in front of mine at some point? I’m at Waterman Hospital which isn’t really my first choice (and out of network) but was closest and Ted personally knew and always recommended this surgeon.

Prayers to you and the family. Hope all comes out OK.

Sorry to hear this Todd, Rest up and get well, hope you and your son get home soon.

oh man.... That sucks... Hope you heal up soon..

Yikes! Ouch! Speedy recovery to you.