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angry
Feb 13, 2010, 2:45 PM
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So after over a year with a bum finger, I have finally started working on getting it straight.
The background
Jan of last year, heard 2 pops in my ring finger and fell. My finger didn't much work after that.
3 months later I could climb cracks again and some face moves if I taped the finger out of the equation.
By May I could climb juggy steep sport but my trad was getting worse because my finger was healing so crooked. It literally blocked my fingers and hands from entering the crack.
It's been like that ever since, just getting stiffer and stiffer. I am climbing at the hardest sport I've ever been at, but question my ability to even approach my previous levels of trad.
In the last month I've seen the ortho twice. He's done the Xray and MRI. The tendon is thicker off center. The joint is intact and the pulleys do not appear to be torn anymore. Cortisone didn't do anything.
I've been referred to a surgeon. Seeing as my surgeon or ortho are not climbers, I'll be double checking everything they say.
As an aside, I'm in the medium planning stages of a trip to Greenland this summer. I'm pretty committed to the trip so depending on what he says about recovery, i may opt to delay the surgery until after the trip.
I'll let you guys know more when I know more.
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granite_grrl
Feb 13, 2010, 3:53 PM
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Good luck with it all. Surgery is scary, but it's also somewhat liberating. It's nice to have what medical stuff that can be done done, and then you know that the efforts that you put into recovery are not being diminished by something you, personally, can't do anything about.
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gblauer
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Feb 15, 2010, 8:19 AM
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Hey Angry...do it with OPEN EYES. Had I known what I know now about by feet, i would have NEVER done the surgery at this point in my life. Ask the MD for an honest assessment of your recovery.
I honestly don't think I will ever be able to climb again. Had I known this, I would have waited until I was done climbing or at least until I was done having any real climbing goals.
Good luck with your decision and your recovery.
(This post was edited by gblauer on Feb 15, 2010, 7:36 PM)
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malcolm777b
Feb 15, 2010, 9:21 AM
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gblauer wrote: Hey Angry...do it with OPEN EYES. Had I known what I know now about by feet, i would have NEVER done the surgery at this point in my life. As the MD for an honest assessment of your recovery. I honestly don't think I will ever be able to climb again. Had I known this, I would have waited until I was done climbing or at least until I was done have climbing goals. Good luck with your decision and your recovery.
May I ask what happened to your foot that required surgery?
I had surgery to reattach 2 cuts in my extensor tendon in my left foot great toe. It's been 2 months since surgery and healing up. I can walk (limited) now, but climbing is out of the question for now. I tried to put my feet in climbing shoes, but I can't put enough pressure on my foot to climb. Hopefully this will all work itself out. My surgeon says I won't be climbing for 6 months to a year. I have hope for a quicker recovery since he has been "conservative" in all of his estimates thus far, but who knows how long until I get enough ROM back.
Hopefully I didn't just hijack Angry's thread.
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rightarmbad
Feb 15, 2010, 9:44 AM
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In reply to: Hey Angry...do it with OPEN EYES. Had I known what I know now about by feet, i would have NEVER done the surgery at this point in my life. As the MD for an honest assessment of your recovery. I honestly don't think I will ever be able to climb again. Had I known this, I would have waited until I was done climbing or at least until I was done have climbing goals. Good luck with your decision and your recovery.
Lisfranc injury by any chance?
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gblauer
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Feb 15, 2010, 7:30 PM
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no injury per se, it's good old fashioned arthritis in both big toe joints. I had hallux rigidus.
So far my recovery has been very very slow.
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