rtwilli4
Jun 5, 2009, 12:14 AM
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jacojone wrote: Guys, Long time lurker, newbie poster. Broke my scaphoid snowboading 8 weeks ago and, since it wasnt displaced, I didnt need to get it screwed together. I went back yesterday for a follow up and found out that the bone had become displaced while in the cast. I was referred to a hand specialist. He noticed that the lunate bone was displaced as well (sign of a ligament tear) and, to be sure, I am getting an MRI. If this is the case, he said I will have to get my wrist joint fused together because the tear is not recent enough to be repaired surgically. Obviously, losing a wrist joint significantly impacts one's quality of lifef. Doc says no more climbing for sure. Anyone here climb on a fused wrist joint? Know of someone who does? Thanks, Jacob
I have a good friend that basically fell to his death when he was 23, and lived to tell the tale. He broke every bone in his body. They thought he was dead so they didn't even try to fix him up that good to begin with. He got staph. auer. infections, etc. By the time they were able to operate, it was too late.
He had both wrists fused, not to mention one ankle. He is now 48 years old. In the 25 years since his accident, he has established 5.12's ground up, climbed at a 5.10 level at every major climbing area in N. America, put up dozens of new routes and re-bolted hundreds in Thailand, and he still climbs!
The guy is no physical specimen either. He can barely pick up a beer bottle! Just very passionate.
I also know a guy who climbs 5.12 with one hand. Anything is possible. If you want it, you can do it. GOOD LUCK!!
(This post was edited by rtwilli4 on Jun 5, 2009, 12:18 AM)
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