by WildRose » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 02:48:56
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', 'I') fell several hundred feet down a talus field the afternoon of Dec 3 1993. Eleven broken bones including what the orthopedic surgeon said was the worst Maisonneuve fracture he'd ever seen. The only thing holding my right foot on was the skin. It took 5.5 hours to pin me back together. I was in physical therapy for 18 months before I could walk without crutches.
I know about pain, and I know the importance of PAIN RELIEF.
Ouch! That sounds like a long haul.
I had to look up
talus field. The pictures I saw looked to me like avalanche or slide areas, but they're actually natural formations and the pieces of rock are made smaller by erosion, if I understand it correctly.
Falls are bad, especially as one gets older. I know of a woman my age (50) who had a bad fall on the ice a couple of weeks ago, fell face first and broke the bones on the right side of her face in six places.