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Broken wrist
by: onewheeldrive - Nov 13, 2015 11:50:35 GMT -5
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Post by onewheeldrive on Nov 13, 2015 11:50:35 GMT -5
Tuesday night coming home from work a few deer jumped out right in front of me, I swerved and hit the brakes and the next thing I know I hit the ground and rolled probably 8 times- slightly downhill.
I was doing about 35-40mph when I hit the brakes. I did more rolling than anything. When I got up I knew my left wrist was broken-- never had a broken bone before. My scoot was still running so I turned it off and pulled it to the side. Called 911. Waited, a couple cars stopped and one waited with me until emergency vehicles arrived.
I was up walking around fine just wasn't sure how fine I was. I was wearing my helmet, a carhardt one-piece suit, winter jacket, and leather gloves. Surprisingly the road only burned through to my right knee a bit, and a tad on my right palm. My helmet is a bit scratched, right glove torn on the palm, the right knee on the one-piece has a hole, and jacket has a long rip or two.
My wrist (good hand) got fractured pretty good-- I'll be having surgery on it next week. The pain was pretty bad the next day-- this happened Tuesday night. It still hurts and sometimes feels like it's on fire from the throbbing and swelling- even with pain meds.
It could've been much worse. Glad I didn't hit the deer. I was just coming over a small hill when it happened.
Edit: the scoot was running but haven't inspected it yet.
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Post by spandi on Nov 13, 2015 12:27:07 GMT -5
Sorry to hear abut this, it must have been rather a shock when it popped out like that. I hope your wrist is feeling better soon and both you and your scoot make a full recovery.  BTW, have you seen these? www.xp3hornet.com/ |
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Post by cyborg on Nov 13, 2015 13:58:09 GMT -5
sorry to hear it ,,get well soon
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Broken wrist
by: onewheeldrive - Nov 13, 2015 18:35:24 GMT -5
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Post by onewheeldrive on Nov 13, 2015 18:35:24 GMT -5
Sorry to hear abut this, it must have been rather a shock when it popped out like that. I hope your wrist is feeling better soon and both you and your scoot make a full recovery. BTW, have you seen these? www.xp3hornet.com/I haven't seen that exact kind but I will be ordering something to help prevent anything like this from happening again. An investment that seems well worth it's money, imo, even though I've never used them before. There seems to be quite a price range on those things. |
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Broken wrist
by: onewheeldrive - Nov 13, 2015 18:38:31 GMT -5
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Post by onewheeldrive on Nov 13, 2015 18:38:31 GMT -5
sorry to hear it ,,get well soon Thanks, me too wishes I get well soon. |
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Post by ricardoguitars on Nov 13, 2015 22:30:10 GMT -5
Hope you recover soon, and welcome to the "Right knee scar club",  I have one myself from the last accident  |
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Post by onewheeldrive on Nov 13, 2015 23:49:45 GMT -5
Hope you recover soon, and welcome to the "Right knee scar club", I have one myself from the last accident Just waiting on surgery next week, I guess then I can actually begin recovery. Tuesday night / Wednesday morning, the ER released me and had already set me up an appointment with an orthopedic doctor. Went and saw him Thursday, got scheduled for surgery on Monday, and then a few hours later I get a phone call saying that the doctor I just saw was not in my insurance network. So I decided with one of the choices for orthopedic doctor that was 25 miles away, and had an appointment today at 11 in the morning--- of course on the way that was when my ride started overheating. We weren't quite out of town yet so we turned around and decided to swap vehicles with my sister, but by that time there was just no way I can make the appointment on time so they scheduled it for next Tuesday-- which isn't surgery, just paperwork again. Scoot was $250 to the wrecker that towed it, got that back today. Later on I went to the store and decided to get my prescription filled for pain meds--- but the prescription ripped in my pocket by the date it was issued so they wouldn't fill it. Lol, I just went to a different pharmacy in when ahead and let my dad do it anyway cause he got my first one from there, and they filled it so that's good. HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13th everyone.... Edit: ricardo, I will say that I really feel for you after all this crap that I've been through. You got really messed up. |
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Broken wrist
by: geh3333 - Nov 14, 2015 1:08:37 GMT -5
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Post by geh3333 on Nov 14, 2015 1:08:37 GMT -5
Those darn deer suck !! After I hit my first , my scoot was on its side running for about 20-30 seconds . this burned my oil pump up . was the scoot on the left or right side while it was running ?
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Broken wrist
by: onewheeldrive - Nov 14, 2015 1:24:35 GMT -5
Post by onewheeldrive on Nov 14, 2015 1:24:35 GMT -5
Those darn deer suck !! After I hit my first , my scoot was on its side running for about 20-30 seconds . this burned my oil pump up . was the scoot on the left or right side while it was running ? Right side for sure. |
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Post by geh3333 on Nov 14, 2015 4:21:53 GMT -5
Those darn deer suck !! After I hit my first , my scoot was on its side running for about 20-30 seconds . this burned my oil pump up . was the scoot on the left or right side while it was running ? Right side for sure. You should be good then. The pump should not have ran dry if it was laying on its right side . |
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Post by geh3333 on Nov 14, 2015 4:24:41 GMT -5
Hope u get better soon . r u still gonna ride with the broken wrist ?
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Post by ricardoguitars on Nov 14, 2015 11:54:57 GMT -5
A little advice, as soon as you get the surgery done find a good physical therapist and put that wrist to work, your doctor might tell you to keep it unmobilized for weeks or months, but that will make recovery a lot harder, I was schedule for PT next week by the doctor, 3 months after the last accident, if I wouldn't had gone to PT on my own until now, my leg would have turned into a stiff stick by now, instead now I'm fully recovered walking and riding like nothing ever happened. I have a good friend that is a PT, usually they don't get the credit they deserve, PT has come a long way and is amazing how much it improves recovery.
Orthopedists are good to put things back on it's place with surgery, but when it comes to recovery the PT is the person to trust, just like Orthopedists spend their time finding better ways to put your bones back in their place, the PTs spend their time finding better ways to make recovery faster and easier.
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Broken wrist
by: onewheeldrive - Nov 14, 2015 20:36:47 GMT -5
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Post by onewheeldrive on Nov 14, 2015 20:36:47 GMT -5
A little advice, as soon as you get the surgery done find a good physical therapist and put that wrist to work, your doctor might tell you to keep it unmobilized for weeks or months, but that will make recovery a lot harder, I was schedule for PT next week by the doctor, 3 months after the last accident, if I wouldn't had gone to PT on my own until now, my leg would have turned into a stiff stick by now, instead now I'm fully recovered walking and riding like nothing ever happened. I have a good friend that is a PT, usually they don't get the credit they deserve, PT has come a long way and is amazing how much it improves recovery. Orthopedists are good to put things back on it's place with surgery, but when it comes to recovery the PT is the person to trust, just like Orthopedists spend their time finding better ways to put your bones back in their place, the PTs spend their time finding better ways to make recovery faster and easier. Thanks. Yeah my wrist is pretty bad, unfortunately. Hopefully Recovery goes over well. A bit worried about how my wrist will function when all is said and done. Thankfully work likes me. Plus, I still have 21 days of sick/personal/vac total-- and all that resets in January. Once those get used they may give me a medical leave or lay me off, so I'll still get paid thank God. This time of year is slower at work, so that's good for them. Too bad I can't play video games for the most part, with all this down time. Now just hopefully all the medical costs don't bend me over too much. A working wrist is the main thing |
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Broken wrist
by: onewheeldrive - Nov 14, 2015 20:47:24 GMT -5
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Post by onewheeldrive on Nov 14, 2015 20:47:24 GMT -5
Hope u get better soon . r u still gonna ride with the broken wrist ? Not until I get better, since my left wrist is broke I'm worried that I'm not going to be able to pull the rear brake--- at least right now anyway because I can barely even move my fingers. Once my hand has better movement and I feel better, I probably will ride it. It could be 2-3 months and maybe a lot longer unfortunately since my wrist is pretty jacked up. |
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Post by urbanmadness on Nov 14, 2015 22:52:27 GMT -5
Sorry you got hurt. I wish you a speedy recovery.
Does anyone know if that Deer Horn actually works?
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