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  1. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    It just takes a long while for the old bod to recover from a serious injury .The older you are the longer it seems to take too . Sad to say sometimes you don't quite have after you heal what you had before an injury but you just learn to adapt ,as if you had a choice in the matter . I don't...
  2. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    2007 was not the best year in my opinion,a lot of things happened. Deaths ,injuries,broken relationships the list goes on .With hope 2008 will bring about a much better time than the previous year. The tramatic injuries suffered by Butch ,GB ,River, L J's dad as well as a few others just goes...
  3. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    It is just going to take a long time before it's good as new,if ever.That was a lot of tissue/nerve damage .
  4. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    It still looks a might bit tender but it's a lot better than what it was.
  5. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    I smashed my pinkie between two engine blocks,some years ago.After it healed or so I thought it remained larger than my "power" finger for about two years.Would you believe it shrunk back to the size of a normal pinky. My thinking is that the poor old smashed foot will in time become it's...
  6. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    No,sorry to say but you are right about that.Still, in all you can adjust.Don't do like old Tom my little wee buddy.When he busted his leg all up,maybe 10 or twelve years ago ,he wacked the cast off below the knee and hooked a tree any way.He is paying the price now.Be smart about this now.
  7. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    Correction,when I screwed up my poor old shoulder,which was and is a rotator tear,the cold hurt to beat hell.On the other hand when I messed up my poor old great toe,hot epsom salts was a relief. On the shoulder thing,which is different from these guys busted feet,it never got better until I...
  8. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    That exercise is a good thing for the injured foot.I know in my own little life,after a severe shoulder injury that left my right arm partially paralized that things did not improve until I regained my mobility,through exercise .I also know from past experiance this is a slow and painfull...
  9. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    I imagine in the last couple of weeks he wishes there was no feeling.
  10. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    Aside from the obviously unattractive photo,it's just the white blood cells doing their job.A deep wound with massive tissue damage has to heal from the inside out,a long painfull process. Believe it or not ,I've seen worse.A buddy of mine got caught between two cars and it crushed both legs...
  11. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    Ye but in the mean time ,you think you are dying. Well,then on the other hand,his foot may become so strong he could spike up a tree with his toenails . When I cut out on that 40 foot blackjack pole years ago,I said I would never climb again.I didn't,that is for a couple of weeks.Back at it...
  12. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    The broken bones are bad enough but the crush injury is really where the trauma is.A "Blow out" is hydrastaic shock to the tissue,painfull as hell.:whine: If there is some fever related to this injury,it doesn't surprise me,it's the bodys defense mechanism to ward off infection.Damn,I hurt...
  13. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    Ahem,I know what you're thinking:what: My little bud Tom went in the hole about 10 years ago ,fell about 20 feet and broke his ankle.He started climbing way too early before the bones had knit correctly.He can predict the weather now. The little rascal is still a damned good climber but that...
  14. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    I just caught that part part about a"continous" chocker.We called them a "beckie" back in the iron worker days of my youth.They were not the best for gripping steel on a verticle lift and seldom used for that,if ever. No matter,not rubbing salt in the wound,so to speak,it happened.That that...
  15. Al Smith

    The Crushing Of The Blaster

    It could have been worse,glad it was not.Let me however caution you about a crush injury to an extremety.I'm sure you already know that extremeties are prone to infection,yourself being a some-what student of medicine in the past. I'll give the Dutch uncle talk now ,take extreme care not to get...
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