Anyone help with a tank move? Calgary monday night

[EmilyB]

How did you do that Tony? Or is it a big long, somewhat embarrassing story... Hope you heal soon, a broken shoulder sucks with little kids around...

[Pan]

CANCELLED - Seller needs more time.

Thanks to everyone who offered...may take you up on it at a later date

[Delphinus]

Maybe I'll be better healed by then I'll help if I can. Each week is a lot better than the week before for me.

Hi Deb, short version is I fell off my mountain bike, I had a mountain biking accident when riding at Whistler BC. It was fun right up to the point where I fell over my handlebars. (Remember that old thread "Famous Last Words"?? .... "I regret nothing !!! Except for this one last thing right nowwwwwwwwwwww aaaiiieeeeeeeeee!!!") In the fall I dislocated my shoulder (ow, btw - all I'll say is, don't ever do this if you can avoid it) and broke off my "greater tuberosity of the humurus." It's some little nub like thing on the ball of your arm socket. I'm not sure what it's function is. I figure, on the bright side, if you're going to break something, at least don't break something that you *know* you need. If I had to guess, it's probably something like a "stop" that prevents your arm from overrotating or something.

First 3 weeks or so my arm was more or less completely limp and useless. I think the dislocation was the worse thing of the two. I've got about 90% function back now, but my arm is really weak, have to do lots of exercises and stuff.

[danny zubot]

Are you planning to place your big tank Tony?

[michika]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

In the fall I dislocated my shoulder (ow, btw - all I'll say is, don't ever do this if you can avoid it) and broke off my "greater tuberosity of the humurus." It's some little nub like thing on the ball of your arm socket. .

I think you mean greater tubercle, which is number 1. Its the part of your shoulder bone that you can palpitate. Its a ridge/bump that muscle connects to.

[Delphinus]

Hey I'm just telling you what they told me. I even had to get them to write it down, because I was like .. my what? My tuba what? My tuber? Porosity?
So anyhow, it is the "greater tuberosity". On the diagram where it shows you the tubercle, it's some extrusion or .. Gads, I don't know how to describe it, the actual report uses terms like "lateral and something something aspects" .. it's completely over my head.

Anyhow, don't ask me what a tuberosity is. I'm no anatomyist.

So basically what you're telling me is, the doctors just made up the term on the spot just to see me try to wrack my brain trying to comprehend it. I KNEW IT! DANG IT!!!!

"Hee hee, this guy is totally hopped up on Entenox, let's see what we can get him to believe!! <snicker snicker> Yeah, you, um, fractured your seventh Boykersity of your lateral and anterior aspects of your boogaboogbabone. You're going to have to rest that for 17 weeks!! No trying to move it now!!"

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Oh, I once broke my boogaboogbabone...except it was the posterior aspects. If you get my drift.


Huh?

[Delphinus]

Ok, I guess it's not completely made up. Same thing, different name.
http://education.yahoo.com/reference...cts/subject/51

Take a line and slice off the very corner of that thing. That's what I did (..it was surprisingly easier than you might think. All you need is a mountain bike, and a mountain.)

Actually today I go to have my (hopefully) last x-ray of it done. Yay! My mobility is mostly back but there are just certain things I still have trouble with. Last week I was trying to empty a packet of sugar into my coffee. I can extend my arm, and I can rotate my arm. But extend AND rotate? Wow, that's a surprisingly complex motion. I could do it but I really had to concentrate. Oh the joys. I don't want to break another greater tuberosity of the humerus. I can scratch that one off the list of "things I've done to myself."

[Parker]

How was Whistler besides the broken bones? I tried to make out there this year to ride but it didn't happen. I planned to drive out there but my little Focus burned 1.75 tanks of gas to Banff alone with the bikes on the roof. Might have to figure out how to get them inside the car!