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To: Squantos
I'm a walking mess. Both clavicals smashed, impaled by a truck leafspring, broken femur, shredded quads, various skull fractures and amnesia's(some day I'll share the joys of IV Dilantin), snapped ankles, and six hernias. And then a bunch of normal stuff too.

Bottom line is to stay away from jumping horses and don't tailgate large trucks on the interstate. The ankles were from landing a plane in a field and not getting it stopped in time for a creek embankment while still moving at a good clip. Keep your feet off the rudders and floorboards once crashed.

The surgery this season is to keep me from getting frozen shoulders. Every few years I need clavicular resections due to calcification from prior damage.

17 posted on 12/28/2004 3:33:01 PM PST by blackdog (May Islam meet Tennyson's "Ninth Wave" in my lifetime.)
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To: blackdog

Sorry to hear all that fun has come back on ya so hard. Hope ya at least had the doors open on that AC crash.....:o)

All my back injuries came from thin air PLF's and too many sudden stops. Never crashed a fixed wing, a few dead stick landings etc but broke a bunch of tail booms and skids in auto rotations on old UH-1's and got shorter every time......now the back is broke and hurts but I'll not whine in your presence. I fit as a fiddle compared to your status. Surgery is on the horizon for me too...again.

Hope they get ya back to no pain status at the very least.....Stay safe !


19 posted on 12/28/2004 3:47:31 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: blackdog

Good Lord, man, you're a walking mess!!!


46 posted on 01/04/2005 11:59:59 AM PST by Old Professer (When the fear of dying no longer obtains no act is unimaginable.)
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