Broke my foot... - Page 2 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Fulcrum525 · #16 10-02-2009, 04:20 AM

Just don't try to fix it like you fixed your VW trunk leak and you'll be fine

I haven't fallen off a ladder or a tree before but i've had two close calls. One was when I stepped down off the ladder and nearly put a nail through my foot (It was standing up on a board) The other was when we were recovering a swarm from a tree. The closest tree to the swarm wasn't exactly 3 feet thick so when we climbed one ladder it bent the tree. In order to stabilize it we placed another ladder on the opposite side...first ladder was tied to the tree, the 2nd wasn't. Guess which one I had to climb in order to assist my father at one point.

Wind came while I was at the top and shifted my ladder off its hold.....I had to hug the tree to stabilize the ladder so it wouldn't fall

BobK · #17 10-02-2009, 10:03 AM

Ladders still scare me. I like to tie them to whatever. First fire I went on as volunteer firefighter: about 20 degrees F. out. 11pm. ice all over the place. Cheif send my partner and I up to the roof to ventilate. Low pitch (nearly flat) roof, 2.5 stories up. Set up big aluminum ladder in alley alongside of house. Brick alley, covered in patchy ice! Not a good feeling dragging hose up ladder (no Scott pacs either-I hate smoke). Only bones I have broken have been toes-right big toe twice. All from karate. Once kicked instructor square in the butt, (first time to break right big toe). Broke one next to it coming off the mat one time. Somehow caught it on edge of mat and it made a right turn. Yanked it back straight. That really hurt. Still not perfectly straight. Second time for big toe, I was kicking up to gut. Opponent blocked straight down with his elbow (typical colored belt error). Nice spiral compression fracture. Went to Dr. about six weeks later since toe was still hurting. He seriously doubted I had even broken it-untill he saw the xray! Still, he just told me to keep doing what I was doing. (mostly nothing, just tape it to next toe if needed.)
Basically, I thing foot bones break easier the second time. So be careful in the future after you heal.
BTW hatty, I will be up in your area in a few weeks. Wanna try to get together for chow?

Mike D · #18 10-02-2009, 10:24 AM

I guess I got that self defense idea all wrong. I thought the purpose of Karate was to disable your OPPONENT!

dannym · #19 10-02-2009, 10:24 AM

Man that sucks! Hope you have a speedy recovery.

I don't have a ladder story but once I slipped on some oil on the floor at work and landed on an steel elbow from a drain line that was on the floor. Hit it right on my ass bone! Man that hurt like hell. For a while I didn't think I would get up. Took a while to be able to walk right again.

Danny

Jim B. · #20 10-02-2009, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Thanks guys, it hurts like a b****. I'm going to the ortho tomarrow at 10 to see what he recomends. I'm expecting a hard cast or moon boot.

I hate ladders and generaly avoid them. Usualy I make other people do things that are high.

But part of my job requires going up on them, usualy before the stairs are set in a new house. Two story houses are not to bad, its the three story jobs that get me. We did one last fall that from the top floor to the basement was about a 30ft drop. Before the stairs are set you have a big hole from the top to the bottom, with ladders going from one floor to the next for stairs. The framers are nuts they just string ladders everywhere and walk around like its nothing.

I am very sorry this happened and hope you get well soon.

This is exactly the reason elderly people have to move out of multistory homes and into single stoy dwellings, when they get really old, they can fall down the stairs and get REALLY hurt.

If they live alone, they can't get up sometimes, and lay there for *days* before someone finds them.

Mistress · #21 10-02-2009, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by jt20

nah...

you saved a little puppy from being hit by a car.

That's a really good one.

SwampYankee · #22 10-02-2009, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Fell off a ladder onto a concrete floor, I was dumb and didn't check the ladder before going up it.

Total idiot move, now I'll have a few weeks to think about it hoping around on one leg.

On the plus side I'm going to the bars tommarow night to try to get some pitty attention from the girls.

I'll have to come up with one hell of a story....maybe I was mountain climbing and fell, yeah that sounds plausable.

What sounds more plausible is that you fell down a flight of stairs in a drunken stupor.

At least it wasn't your coconut!

10fords · #23 10-02-2009, 10:53 AM

A guy I used to work for said if you fall off a ladder you're fired halfway down!! Tell the gals that you were bringing a little girl AND a puppy out of a burning building and you will get enough wool to knit a sweater!! Good luck!

GregoryV022 · #24 10-02-2009, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Ara T.

Your spine has a curve? I hope so

I did that too actually. Fell out of a treehouse when I was 5 or 6. Thought the trap door was closed and stepped right through it backwards, and fell 15-20 feet onto my back. I can remember not being able to breathe and gasping for air. lol.

well, its curved in a way its not supposed to be.

sideways.

Hatterasguy · #25 10-02-2009, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by BobK

BTW hatty, I will be up in your area in a few weeks. Wanna try to get together for chow?

Yeah let me know.

Well today I got the verdict from the doctor! I cracked the bone at the base of your big toe and the one next to it. Luckly its just a crack, and the doctor even said he saw a lot of them with the motocross guys.

The downside is I have to wear this moon boot thing for at least 3 weeks, than it might be another 3-4 after that before I can start to walk normal. But for 3 solid weeks I can't put any weight on it or nothing.

So I guess I'll have some time on my hands to catch up on a few things.

The story I'm going with is this: I was riding my bike and did a kick ass jump off a nice hill and caught some good air, but on the way down I saw a puppy where I was going to land so I stuffed the nose of the bike down and crashed. But I still managed to get the puppy back to the crying little girl who it got away from.

Mike D · #26 10-02-2009, 02:08 PM

Not bad but still needs a little tuning.

How about, you saw a puppy floating down a raging river and used your like, totally awesome bike skillz to launch into the middle of the stream, landing on an ice floe? You lost the bike when it went over the falls (which precludes you actually having to show your bike to the audience) which was a bummer because it was custom made by Swedish engineers but it was worth it just to see the smile on the little girl's face when you swam upstream against the class 4 rapids back to shore balancing the puppy on your head using only your arms because of the injury to your legs?

Hatterasguy · #27 10-02-2009, 02:11 PM

Thats pretty badass...it could work!

jt20 · #28 10-02-2009, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Mistress

That's a really good one.

see, the ladies approve.

don't forget to carry a Sharpie for impromptu signatures.... winkitty wink

...oh, and ever since your accident, you only understand numeric characters and hieroglyphs. ...double winkitty

Jim B. · #29 10-03-2009, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Yeah let me know.

Well today I got the verdict from the doctor! I cracked the bone at the base of your big toe and the one next to it. Luckly its just a crack, and the doctor even said he saw a lot of them with the motocross guys.

The downside is I have to wear this moon boot thing for at least 3 weeks, than it might be another 3-4 after that before I can start to walk normal. But for 3 solid weeks I can't put any weight on it or nothing.

So I guess I'll have some time on my hands to catch up on a few things.

I can't think of a beter place to do that, than a local bar that serves good stuff, The Captain, Stoli, Glenfiddich, Tanqueray, etc..

The ones in this town would be totally out of business without the guys that work with their hands that come in there, and some females too..

Rob Pruijt · #30 10-03-2009, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim B.

I am very sorry this happened and hope you get well soon.

This is exactly the reason elderly people have to move out of multistory homes and into single stoy dwellings, when they get really old, they can fall down the stairs and get REALLY hurt.

If they live alone, they can't get up sometimes, and lay there for *days* before someone finds them.

I am not old (52), but since I fell down the stairs last year I always carry a phone.

Rob