The "What did you do to yourself today?" thread

LEAKYSEALS951 · 03:51 AM

Since we aren't getting any younger or wiser-either by sheer stupidity, or age related check engine lights coming on- a continuing thread is in order.

Preride shot:

I've got this...

No I don't...

re
spiral periprosthetic fracture:

6 weeks later...

I've learned nothing. (well- no more rocks so there.)

I'm a lucky sob. Bonus points for getting hauled off a mountain on an atv 4 wheeler with a dangling leg award, hitchhiking back to the car in a pickup with a broken leg award, it took 6 people to pull me out of the pickup into an ambulance award, fentanyl points award, drinking milk award, and miraculous healing powers award. Still can't really walk too hot yet.

so- what did you do to yourself today?

Dixie · Dixie's Garage

I'm sorry you went through that. Now tell us about the bus. Is it now an RV?

look 171 · 09-24-2025, 05:48 PM

Leak, how long ago did that happened?

I just got in from my ride, 30 miles as hard as I possibility can. 2 hours to 2 hours 10 min like clock work depending on how many red lights I get lucky with. Two hills, one on my regular route, 800' the other killer is one mile, 600' to my house sadly when I spent.

herr_oberst · 09-24-2025, 06:03 PM

That rock slab looks like it'd be a beast on a wet day.

I like the champagne gravel on the last shot with a few leaves!

KFC911 · 12:41 AM

Note to self:

Don't do what he did

Heal up!

And my back hurts too... I wuz turning on a tub faucet yesterday getting water for my dawg... and OUCH

LEAKYSEALS951 · 03:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Dixie

I'm sorry you went through that. Now tell us about the bus. Is it now an RV?

Thanks Dixie. That is a supersecret playboy bus parked in the mountains of Va. I wish it were mine! For several years, I have ridden by it and chuckled at the playboy billboard on the front. On this ride, I stopped and took a photo op.

LEAKYSEALS951 · 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by look 171

Leak, how long ago did that happened?

I just got in from my ride, 30 miles as hard as I possibility can. 2 hours to 2 hours 10 min like clock work depending on how many red lights I get lucky with. Two hills, one on my regular route, 800' the other killer is one mile, 600' to my house sadly when I spent.

6 weeks ago. I have sat still as can be for 6 weeks. Lowest xray was last fri- they said- you good- go walk now- move along. I'm glad you got some good rides in. Hopefully, I can get a couple of short ones in while it's still nice out.

LEAKYSEALS951 · 03:56 AM

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Originally Posted by herr_oberst

That rock slab looks like it'd be a beast on a wet day.

I like the champagne gravel on the last shot with a few leaves!

Yeah, I actually cleared the slab and hit the smallest rock a bit past the obstacle, which stopped me. I couldn't get out of the pedals, fell over on my hip replacement and said "oh s#$%!" and couldn't move. This was a steep climb. Gave me lots of time to sit and think (about 45 minutes) until some other people came by. Fortunately, this was a jeep trail- so jeeps/ atvs around. The sheer hell was coming back down over that rock on the atv and the broken leg started flailing/dangling as we dropped over the rocks.
I am all champagne gravel from here out.

LEAKYSEALS951 · 09-25-2025, 01:26 AM

Thanks KFC.

greglepore · 09-25-2025, 05:18 AM

OUCH. Jarman's?

LEAKYSEALS951 · 05:28 AM

I wish

Bald mountain jeep trail aka big levels off coal rd. near sherando lake. Of course I parked in wintergreen at devils backbone (one mtn range over), so it was about 1 hr to get down the jeep trail, and 1 more hour to get down coal road back to wintergreen, then 40 minutes to uva. Worst (roughest) part of the trip? Back of ambulance through downtown c-ville from 29- to UVA on fontaine. City potholes.

Jeep trail: ( was about where green dot is on jeep trail)

https://www.trailforks.com/trails/bald-mountain-jeep-trail/

john70t · 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

I've learned nothing. (well- no more rocks so there.)

Those are contradictory statements lol
(btw good for you for getting out there so soon)

Up north in Michigan(Glen Arbor Crystal River) I rolled a kayak next to the logs of a portage step. Bonehead move. The river was way way down in the Fall, and I mostly scraping pebbles the entire journey. It was still nice scenery for such a short jaunt. Many natural trees left in the river left by authority to keep the water level high. I went ahead and passed a few groups but for quite a few weeks after there was continued pain in that side. A bit more than normal. Same as the previous broken pinky toe or the foot. Figure I probably bent a rib there. Doc would say "no cure" and give me a bill.

greglepore · 09-25-2025, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

I wish

Bald mountain jeep trail aka big levels off coal rd. near sherando lake. Of course I parked in wintergreen at devils backbone (one mtn range over), so it was about 1 hr to get down the jeep trail, and 1 more hour to get down coal road back to wintergreen, then 40 minutes to uva. Worst (roughest) part of the trip? Back of ambulance through downtown c-ville from 29- to UVA on fontaine. City potholes.

Jeep trail: ( was about where green dot is on jeep trail)

https://www.trailforks.com/trails/bald-mountain-jeep-trail/

Yeah, I've done parts of that on horseback. Pretty damn remote. How the hell did you get help up there? Not much cell service, and I'd hate to test the iphone sat thing. Or were you just lucky that the atv guy came along? And guessing you started by going up Reeds?

Chocaholic · 09-25-2025, 07:05 AM

I ate ice cream after dinner last night and got a bit gassy.

Top that!

LEAKYSEALS951 · 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by greglepore

Yeah, I've done parts of that on horseback. Pretty damn remote. How the hell did you get help up there? Not much cell service, and I'd hate to test the iphone sat thing. Or were you just lucky that the atv guy came along?

Yes- Reeds first. In sherando- I was just in cell phone range, but didn't want to call anyone. This would have been a 4x4 search and rescue type event. A lot of hoopla. I don't like hoopla. At about 45 minutes, no one had come by, and I made the call of shame to my wife. At that moment, atv couple came up the trail. They stopped, strapped my bike over the front of the atv like a deer carcass, and I rode on the side of the ATV. The lady walked down the mountain with us. The guy driving the ATV had to straddle over the engine and burnt off his yam bags. Those rocks I took pics of, went over everysingle one with the broken leg dangling. I was in too much pain to even cry. I thought I was going to puke with pain. Passed 2 4x4's on the way down, so they would have come by too if the atv hadn't. At coal road, they commodeered a passing pickup with some bowhunters who took me to devils backbone. I told my wife to pick me up there. She called the ambulance.

LEAKYSEALS951 · 09-25-2025, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by john70t

Those are contradictory statements lol
(btw good for you for getting out there so soon)

Up north in Michigan(Glen Arbor Crystal River) I rolled a kayak next to the logs of a portage step. Bonehead move. The river was way way down in the Fall, and I mostly scraping pebbles the entire journey. It was still nice scenery for such a short jaunt. Many natural trees left in the river left by authority to keep the water level high. I went ahead and passed a few groups but for quite a few weeks after there was continued pain in that side. A bit more than normal. Same as the previous broken pinky toe or the foot. Figure I probably bent a rib there. Doc would say "no cure" and give me a bill.

Ah yes- Kayaking. That other sport that has just about killed me!

LEAKYSEALS951 · 09-25-2025, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Chocaholic

I ate ice cream after dinner last night and got a bit gassy.

Top that!

If you can play "stars and stripes forever" then you are doin' good!

rfuerst911sc · 09-25-2025, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Chocaholic

I ate ice cream after dinner last night and got a bit gassy.

Top that!

I don't need ice cream to prime the gas pump

Tobra · Tobra's Garage

At first I did not know what I was looking at and thought, WTF?

Then I figured it out and thought WTF! Dude, you need to be more careful with your titanium parts

LEAKYSEALS951 · 03:36 PM

^I had a strict no wreck policy which I messed up on.

In reality, I did get 20k+ miles since it was installed, but, t I have been extremely stressed about the leg since 2006. The femoral stem was never a good integration, and the bone spot welded at the lower part of the stem, leading to significant stress shielding in the upper trochanteric area. There was no way to replace this predictably with such poor bone quality. With the stem failing, I walk with significant weakness, pain, and limping. To make matters worse, the implant itself was recalled by depuy in 2012. I was also the sole breadwinner with a newborn daughter in the house. Stressful nightmare.

I asked the orthopod about 12 years ago about how I could fix the bone in the upper part of the leg. He had no answers. Bummed out, I was too stressed to even see a doctor for 12 years knowing my upper leg was dissolving and there wasn't anything I could really do about it. At the time, I was 42, way to early for a hip replacement, let alone a revision. This would be an unpredictable revision at best and would either need cementation or ties. I wouldn't want to be the surgeon doing the work

When I see the orthopod next time, I'm going to tell him since no one had a plan to fix me up, I had to take matters into my own hands, fracture the upper portion of the femur just right as to have the callus fill in the weakspots with bone and reinforce the whole enchilada. I'll tell him it took me 12 years to build up the courage to smack it just right- and somehow I have.

Although I can't really walk yet, so far- it feels much stronger. No limp so far. This really might be the one in a million miracle shot. I'm 55 years old now. It's got a ways to go unless cumulative stress of it all kills me first.

With this wreck out of the way, I figure I've got another 20k crash free miles ahead of me- but I really don't know at this point. When I smacked it, I didn't know if I would even walk again.

We'll see about riding. This is what I envisioned while I was sitting on the mountain-

or:

The fact it didn't look like this, didn't require replacing the entire joint, didn't require tying the femur, and the fact it might even end up stronger- is a miracle.

I am an super duper extra lucky SOB.