Hehe I'm licensed to irradiate and often see how crude of carpentry surgeons are. No way would even novice mechanic leave so many loose wires ends spread out or have such poor measures hardware is aimed cockeye'd and over length. When I crashed an untralight in '83, d/t Dust Devil catching up with me from behind, that lifted tail and cut wing lift and shot me as ground from tree top height, I had to wait a bit to get some air spreed back before I stuck legs out locked to flair wings about one story up, still hit almost nose first, folded up landing gear strut, folded up feet and bones like a dead turkey foot, folded knees up to brust through two tubes of crose frame to wipe them across me face as they parted to leave two indian war paint makks on each cheek, main spar folded, which dropped engine into my back breaking off the spark plugs, but didn't penetrate d/t plug boots, the prop broke off on ground just inches behind me, I blanked out for a few seconds to come too with dusst still fogging view. Once helped out I stood to feel nothing but WHITE NOISE where feet used to be, so intense nerves just over whelmed. Helped girl friend load the wrech in my 'Wonder Van' and she drove me to get x-ray, MD glanced at it, cocked head saying not too bad or dislocated, took 3 steps towards me then stopped in tracks frozen and slowly turned step by step he took another look at film and turned pale saying oh my everything in in mid foot crumbled and splintered. Then he put a socks over lower leg/foot, then pulled it down gentley to even it before a brace put on, but instantly shock about the most servere pain of having an anvil dropped from over head on top of foot and it stayed that way for many months. Told I'd never run or jump again and boy howdy could I believe that at the time. !st attempt to just move stuff in place and cast it failed. Muscle tendons and opposite ligaments just pulled pieces apart. This took about 3 wk to determine. I sought out Pediatrist who split R foot from big toe to back of heel to scrap out scar tissue froming in the bone cracks and put a auger like screw throught the now 3 peice cubic bone, the ey stone holding arch in place, but screwed in into the proximal joint space of the big toe, the main one that bend through the toe pad.
Ever had a sliver of material jammed in teeth, well imagine that being a sheet metal screw instead. I could not afford surgery on L foot so just got bigger boot to stuff it in to work on crutches. After horrific nights of fire like pain the swelling would drain down till I got upright, then took about an hour of hydraulic refill spliting apart new fromed tissue till it filled cast and boot to the max, then just pure fire w/o the ripping searing pains on top. Oh yeah the 8" long stitched seam tore open like a split water melon ~2" wide in arch.
Seven months for wound to mostly close, L foot pretty good but still on crutches d/t R foot collapse reflexly to bend big toe stepping. Got my films and looked real close, to see the screw seemed inside joint space so hobbled into the foot Dr. office and told him he mis aimmed a bit and lets remove the screw. Novacain locally was nice as he probbed to get phiips head driver locked on screw head. As he backed in out I could feel/hear the cancellous bone turbiculii crunching, so I asked to take a few turns at it myself and got it out. Wide head, narrow shaft and wider threads, exactly like a miniture ground arguer. I could walk out the office almost fine, as if the tooth pick stuck in teeth had been removed. 10 days later I ran bare foot on beach in frezing cold, starting at soft dry sand ending up on toes only sprint on hard pack they drive cars on at water edge. I marked that day as done with it.
12 years later the "mistreated" L foot/ankle crippled me and Nothing my clinic did or others even injecting procaine and sclerosising agents did nothing. I'd spend my lunch break with acup. pin jammed to the bone and electrical stim turned WOT instead of eat to be able to endure second half of day. Then a Mt. Hood seminar ski trip announced in a month, which I realized meant I'd be sippin hot tooddies while everyone else played. So finally wised up how i fix about everyone else and put attention on brain stem, which area felt brand new and in 3 wk was crashing and tumbling down double black diamond runs in glee. End of feet issue and can squat for half hr sitting on heels to worship my Commando's. Broke neck a few times since but have regrown 2" and feeling good enough to take next deadly impact with just a day off and no damn expensive medical crap to further annoy or lingering side effects.
To Lenghten Thy Life, Stretch Thou Neck.
To Tougheb Thy Life, Eat Rocks.
