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[lloydie]

Good news Mac and keep up the exercise and you'll be back beating up large cars in no time

[BigVeeGrin]

good news Mac - I guess it is small improvement over a long period of time. Keep it up

[MacV2]

good news Mac - I guess it is small improvement over a long period of time. Keep it up

Cheers BVG & Lloydie...


I'm not sure that going back to work is good news though...


Still it's been a nice summer...

[Pete.L]

I can think of easier ways to get a Summer off Mac.
Your's was a little...shall we say extreem

Pete.l

[MacV2]

Long time no update...

So been back at work 2 months now, day to day the wonky wrist doesn't affect what I do too much. There are a few things that I have to do differently simply because the the wrist wont move in the way it is supposed to. What I can't do right handed I now do left handed, it's more to do with angles & the lack of movement getting into tight spaces sort of thing.

Anyway today I went for an appointment at the Medway hospital for some 'Nerve Conductivity Tests.' On my visit up to Kings 3 months ago I commented that I still had an issue with a lack of grip strength in the right hand, It was suggested that see if it improves any by the time of your next appointment, Jan 2nd, then we'll look at further tests. Well despite being back at work & the wrist getting much more use & still doing home phyisio, I cant see that there is any improvement. So an appointment was made for today.

So I goes in to see the consultant today, explained the nature of the injury & what had been done so far & that It had been explained to me that due to the way the wrist is deformed that it may be putting pressure on the nerves, as in 'Carpel Tunnel Syndrome'.

He said that the way the wrist is it's ''not natures best bit of engineering as far as the routing of the nerves go...''

So he straps these various pads & wires on to me arm & proceeds to zap me. Short sharp bursts of charge at various rates at various points down me arm, around me palm & on diff fingers.

zap, zap, zap, move the pad zap, zap zap.

Only mild shocks TBH. Only one point did actually hurt & make me whole hand curl up! ( you know when you bash ya funny bone & you kind of get that shocky feeling down your arm ? Like that x5ish... )

Anyway whilst this is happening all this is appearing on a computer screen, bit like data-logging/dyno chart

At the end he tells me well its not bad but it's not what it should be. Mild Carpel Tunnel if you like.

He'll send the results on to Kings & if I don't hear any different I'm up there again in May.

Until then I'll just have to keep fiddler...er I mean working on the movement of the wrist with the home physio...Squeeze them balls !

Mac Wonkey-Wrist of Grain.

[VTRDark]

The electric shock treatment must have helped. They used give that to asylum patients that years ago. I guess it's out of you hands now and down to the Docs to decide how much they want to spend on you. Hey....at least your back at work now and have other people drawers to entertain you.

(:-})

[countrymick]

god you made a good job of that arm.only one I have seen worse than that was a friend who had his right arm ripped off racing at scarbourgh,
he had 2 years worth of opps after they stitched it back on.

[Watty]

Long time no update...

So been back at work 2 months now, day to day the wonky wrist doesn't affect what I do too much. There are a few things that I have to do differently simply because the the wrist wont move in the way it is supposed to. What I can't do right handed I now do left handed, it's more to do with angles & the lack of movement getting into tight spaces sort of thing.

Anyway today I went for an appointment at the Medway hospital for some 'Nerve Conductivity Tests.' On my visit up to Kings 3 months ago I commented that I still had an issue with a lack of grip strength in the right hand, It was suggested that see if it improves any by the time of your next appointment, Jan 2nd, then we'll look at further tests. Well despite being back at work & the wrist getting much more use & still doing home phyisio, I cant see that there is any improvement. So an appointment was made for today.

So I goes in to see the consultant today, explained the nature of the injury & what had been done so far & that It had been explained to me that due to the way the wrist is deformed that it may be putting pressure on the nerves, as in 'Carpel Tunnel Syndrome'.

He said that the way the wrist is it's ''not natures best bit of engineering as far as the routing of the nerves go...''

So he straps these various pads & wires on to me arm & proceeds to zap me. Short sharp bursts of charge at various rates at various points down me arm, around me palm & on diff fingers.

zap, zap, zap, move the pad zap, zap zap.

Only mild shocks TBH. Only one point did actually hurt & make me whole hand curl up! ( you know when you bash ya funny bone & you kind of get that shocky feeling down your arm ? Like that x5ish... )

Anyway whilst this is happening all this is appearing on a computer screen, bit like data-logging/dyno chart

At the end he tells me well its not bad but it's not what it should be. Mild Carpel Tunnel if you like.

He'll send the results on to Kings & if I don't hear any different I'm up there again in May.

Until then I'll just have to keep fiddler...er I mean working on the movement of the wrist with the home physio...Squeeze them balls !

Mac Wonkey-Wrist of Grain.

Nice update mate been meaning to ask, what exactly happened with the wrist As it obviously happened pre forum days for me! Think I've been here long enough to be a nosey barsteward!

[MacV2]

Nice update mate been meaning to ask, what exactly happened with the wrist As it obviously happened pre forum days for me! Think I've been here long enough to be a nosey barsteward!

Er rather disappointingly a slow speed stack into the back of an emergency stopping Ford Galaxy*... Cue chocolate bar themed jokes & quips from Kev & Lloydie...

See here for the full story. http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 18&t=28451

Basically the radius bone was proper shattered at the wrist end 5 or 6 largish fragments + some of the bone just went to powder/mush hence all the fecking about with plates & bone grafts. Because of all the damage there's nothing to hold the bones of the hand in the correct place, hence the deformity.




















* This is really a lie, due to contractual reasons I'm not allowed to say that it happened as I dived under Rossi at Padock Hill during a very hush hush private test for Ducati at Brands Hatch...

[Watty]

Nice update mate been meaning to ask, what exactly happened with the wrist As it obviously happened pre forum days for me! Think I've been here long enough to be a nosey barsteward!

Er rather disappointingly a slow speed stack into the back of an emergency stopping Ford Galaxy*... Cue chocolate bar themed jokes & quips from Kev & Lloydie...

See here for the full story. http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 18&t=28451

Basically the radius bone was proper shattered at the wrist end 5 or 6 largish fragments + some of the bone just went to powder/mush hence all the fecking about with plates & bone grafts. Because of all the damage there's nothing to hold the bones of the hand in the correct place, hence the deformity.




















* This is really a lie, due to contractual reasons I'm not allowed to say that it happened as I dived under Rossi at Padock Hill during a very hush hush private test for Ducati at Brands Hatch...

This last bit earns you most man points mate

[Jamoi]

So the BIG question is...... when will have a go at riding the New Red beastie?

[lumpyv]

glad to hear your flipper, sorry hand is getting better.

out on 2 wheels again soon I hope.

[MacV2]

So the BIG question is...... when will have a go at riding the New Red beastie?

Hmmm good question...

Insurance, tax & mot to get, can't be arsed to shell out for that lot until the weather improves TBH so at this rate I may be waiting until 2018 at6 the earliest...

Nah see how things pan out maybe sometime in March I hope.

[MacV2]

glad to hear your flipper, sorry hand is getting better.

out on 2 wheels again soon I hope.

We don't have flippers in Kent that's a Suffolk thing Lumpy...

[lumpyv]

glad to hear your flipper, sorry hand is getting better.

out on 2 wheels again soon I hope.

We don't have flippers in Kent that's a Suffolk thing Lumpy...

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