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Hey all you guys,
Forgive me for not givin y'all an update on my recovery after all your prayers/support!
It'd been a hellish May 2005, with a major assignment (worth 50% of subject grade) having to be done. On top of that, I *STILL* had to attend outpatient treatment at the private physical rehab hospital twice a week!
God knows how I managed. I barely did. But through all that, I had an outpatient appointment at RMH (Royal Melbourne Hospital) to decide whether my shattered femur (which didn't seem to be healing up quick enough) needed further surgery with a bone graft, which would involve 2 weeks waiting for theatre time, a puncture at the hip to saw the top of the Iliac Crest (top of the pelvis, a popular bone graft source site) and another hole in the thigh to patch up the femur, all in all requiring at least 6 weeks recovery on crutches. Not encouraging since I'd been in a world of pain hobbling around Uni (College) on a walking stick. On top of that, my back was just screwed up (not related to injury from the accident, but side effects of medication (intense muscle tension in the muscles under my left shoulder blade) and the annoyingly "erganomic" (not!) chairs in Uni...
Buuuuuut, PTL, when the Head Orthopedic looked at my X-Ray (which was by then around 3 weeks old), he said I was recovering just fine. I'd recovered back 70-75% of the bone strength, which is well sufficient to get off the walking stick. He also said the gap in the recovering bone was way too small to bother opening up with two more holes in my leg to patch it up, and it'd recover just fine! So there! No more surgery for me! Yaaaaaay! Sooo, I've now been continuing my treatment at my local gym (I now attend 3 times a week) I've gained back about half the lean muscle lost (almost 7 kg!) when I was flat-out inactive for the first 2 weeks. I finally have a flat stomach again!
Whew! it's been one major year for me! It was 1 year ago last fortnight that I hit that tree and changed my life... Thank you *ALL* for your prayers and support! I don't think I would've made it without!
Anyhoo,
Having incited/accelerated that kerfuffle with Sirupate aka Simon:barf: on the FMA Forum, I should've given you guys a heads up on my recovery... LOL!
Okie, so now onto my first post here in a while:
My apologies if this has already been addressed, but I'm really keen on making a set of synthetic sticks. Having been fed up with the woods available here (ie non-existant without paying an arm and a leg for POS peeled rattan or exotic aussie hardwoods that may or may not work). Any idea where to start? I was fiddling with 550 Paracord and braded up a nice length of whip-like rope with 5 strands (4 strand round-braid, 1 for a centre core). A bit thin/narrow and a little floppy. I know G10 is Kelvar/Nylon suspended in Epoxy Resin, or something like that. Any idea if I soaked a similar, or thicker braided whip/rope (more strands maybe?) in epoxy resin would yield a functional fighting stick? Any different resins available? Here in Australia?
Any and all helpful comments would be much appreciated!
Much Thanks!
Forgive me for not givin y'all an update on my recovery after all your prayers/support!
It'd been a hellish May 2005, with a major assignment (worth 50% of subject grade) having to be done. On top of that, I *STILL* had to attend outpatient treatment at the private physical rehab hospital twice a week!
God knows how I managed. I barely did. But through all that, I had an outpatient appointment at RMH (Royal Melbourne Hospital) to decide whether my shattered femur (which didn't seem to be healing up quick enough) needed further surgery with a bone graft, which would involve 2 weeks waiting for theatre time, a puncture at the hip to saw the top of the Iliac Crest (top of the pelvis, a popular bone graft source site) and another hole in the thigh to patch up the femur, all in all requiring at least 6 weeks recovery on crutches. Not encouraging since I'd been in a world of pain hobbling around Uni (College) on a walking stick. On top of that, my back was just screwed up (not related to injury from the accident, but side effects of medication (intense muscle tension in the muscles under my left shoulder blade) and the annoyingly "erganomic" (not!) chairs in Uni...
Buuuuuut, PTL, when the Head Orthopedic looked at my X-Ray (which was by then around 3 weeks old), he said I was recovering just fine. I'd recovered back 70-75% of the bone strength, which is well sufficient to get off the walking stick. He also said the gap in the recovering bone was way too small to bother opening up with two more holes in my leg to patch it up, and it'd recover just fine! So there! No more surgery for me! Yaaaaaay! Sooo, I've now been continuing my treatment at my local gym (I now attend 3 times a week) I've gained back about half the lean muscle lost (almost 7 kg!) when I was flat-out inactive for the first 2 weeks. I finally have a flat stomach again!
Whew! it's been one major year for me! It was 1 year ago last fortnight that I hit that tree and changed my life... Thank you *ALL* for your prayers and support! I don't think I would've made it without!
Anyhoo,
Having incited/accelerated that kerfuffle with Sirupate aka Simon:barf: on the FMA Forum, I should've given you guys a heads up on my recovery... LOL!
Okie, so now onto my first post here in a while:
My apologies if this has already been addressed, but I'm really keen on making a set of synthetic sticks. Having been fed up with the woods available here (ie non-existant without paying an arm and a leg for POS peeled rattan or exotic aussie hardwoods that may or may not work). Any idea where to start? I was fiddling with 550 Paracord and braded up a nice length of whip-like rope with 5 strands (4 strand round-braid, 1 for a centre core). A bit thin/narrow and a little floppy. I know G10 is Kelvar/Nylon suspended in Epoxy Resin, or something like that. Any idea if I soaked a similar, or thicker braided whip/rope (more strands maybe?) in epoxy resin would yield a functional fighting stick? Any different resins available? Here in Australia?
Any and all helpful comments would be much appreciated!
Much Thanks!