[for some reason, I can’t get the original post to update and publish, so I’m reproducing the post here]
Well, I’ve updated to the newest version of WP in anticipation of the move to a tiered subscription site (with one tier being entirely free). Looks like I’ll have it set up in the next few weeks. So it’s looking like either February or March before the new model goes into effect.
If you’d like to donate in the meantime, this seems like as good a time as any to rattle the cup.
Remember: protein wisdom wouldn’t exist with out you.
Of course, it definitely wouldn’t exist without me. But let’s not let a little intent get in the way of making an emotional plea.
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Sunday update: I’ll keep this up another day or two. Thanks to all who’ve contributed. As of this writing, I’m at about 30%.
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Monday update: Last day I’ll keep this post up top. Thanks again to all who’ve contributed, and happy new year! I’m off to the orthopedic surgeon today to get my left arm looked at. Likely have a fracture. Haven’t worn a cast since second grade, so this should be interesting. Wish me luck…
Hope it’s nothing. Good luck!
Luck!
LMC says it for me too. Wishing you the best.
let the healing begin
You might not even get a cast of the bone does not need stabilization. But if you do you’ll see that cast technology has significantly improved over the intervening decades. They’re less suitable for autographs, but better for airbrushed flames and racing stripes.
Unfortunately, I think I’ll have to have my last two or three fingers immobilized.
I’ve had this injury for well over a year, but now that I’m using a lot heavier weight to work my hands, I’m afraid the bone is going to snap and come right out through the skin if I don’t have something done.
I’m off in a few. Thanks for the well wishes.
Sometimes you can really whack someone if you’ve got a cast on your hand.
But your typing will suffer, so there’s that.
I’ll send you a little sumpin’ at the address you gave me. Good luck with the digits!
‘d just let the middle finger do more communicating.
Be a good patient, and don’t skimp on physiotherapy.
Corporal punishment works?
In the blogging world, not sure if it would work on biological adults (although emotionally most are younger than six).
Man, I’m pretty well stove up myself for some damn reason. All I did yesterday was kind-of fake run for a little more than an hour maybe 3+ miles total up and down a trail with 4-8″ older snow on it – you know where it is, in the Umatilla just beyond The Res.. It really wasn’t hard but I did carry a small crow bar with me for Wolves, Cougar, and such because I foolishly didn’t have a gun handy. That couldn’t have done it though. Must just be the Fibromyalgia?
Anyway, I’ll get back to you after I consult with the Merry Men. We’re always trying to extend our potential future homeland sites just in case we have to migrate or suddenly go to on the run mode. We’ve ruled out flying. They’d just always stop us at the gate while someone else blew up the plane.
JTP: You’ve got Fibro? Congratulations. How were you diagnosed? I looked into fibro but I don’t think I’ve got it.
Tai Kwan Do? Judo? Karate? Ju Jitsu? “Film at eleven”?
My friend just broke his leg in five places (and I mean BROKE) playing “Tai Kwan DOH”. I thought that this stuff was supposed to be good for you…
Funny. He has always said that “Grey Goose” was bad for me, and he winds up with four operations in his near future. All I have to worry about is a far away concept known as “my liver”.
I need to meditate on this for a while. Maybe “The Urantia Book” will provide some answers – But I doubt it, Moe (not you, B. Moe). There is nothing better than selling “Celestial Seasonings” for ump-teen million dollars, and then leaving your wife and kids for a Hollywood bimbo. That private jet is an AMAZING aphrodisiac, ain’t it?
How about appropriating a book “written by the angels”?
I have always had trouble with someone who consistently falls off of a ladder, and won’t look you in the eye when you talk to them.
Never mind. My mood ring is black today, and I am having trouble believing that (excepting present company) there are any human beings left on this pathetic piece of rock that we live on.
“Just whistle a happy tune…”
Jeff, have the doc put some small but heavy weights in the cast. Instant club o’ doom!
Small but heavy weights, John? Bah! Three words:
Stainless. Steel Spikes.
“Say ‘ello to all of my leetle friends!”
Sometimes no means no.
I’m serious.
TLD, humanity is a lost cause. People suck.
No stress fracture that they could find. Essentially, what I was told is I have the equivalent of shin splints along the ulna bone, likely from all the grip exercises and strength training.
I can either rest or I can keep going and deal with the pain.
— Which of course means that now that I’ve been ok’ed to keep going, the bone will almost certainly snap in two and break through the skin.
Anyway, I’m supposed to be taking it easy. So easy I will take it today. All the prodding and poking has left me quite sore.
Oh, shit, just noticed this.
Good luck, Jeff. Hope it’s not too bad.
Fine, guilt me into a donation. Wait….I’m pulling a Sully.
Glad it’s mot a break. Been down that road with shin splints, take it easy is good advice.
I don’t immediately see a website where you can interactively sign a virtual cast, darn the luck.
I recommend doing what the doctors say and letting it heal up properly. Come back too soon and you’ll go down again, taking twice as long to heal as you should’ve. Seen it happen too often, I have…
JTP: You’ve got Fibro? Congratulations. How were you diagnosed? I looked into fibro but I don’t think I’ve got it.
No, I’m mostly kidding. I don’t have anything quite that unexplainable, but I do get repetitively sore from doing exercise activities that I was expecting to adjust to better. But probably it’s mostly from being able to do more more often, the more I’m in shape.
There are some newer maniacs in the area I’m trying to catch back up with. I saw one of them a few days ago and asked him how many Mountains he was going to ascend between now at about 3pm and dusk. He said he’d just been pulling a sled around. Then it dawned on me that he wasn’t using a vehicle. He’d been pulling around his 100 lb. grandaughter on a heavier tracking sled to make some ski tracks. Then I’d also caught a cohort of his raking down a steep trail so he could go down faster without slipping on pine cones. He was also going nearly straight up and down that 2000 ft. every day in Winter using showshoes and crampons, keeping meticulous records.
A lot of people around here are now becoming maniacs.
Imo the most important thing is to know that on average, the older you get, you probably get more stiff and sore from not exercising.
Just hit the tip jar, Jeff…I remember when I was a lad and had broken my arm. Made a great weapon when I ran to help my older brother who was being shoved around on the sidewalk in front of our house by some bullies (I was about 6 at the time). Knocked the living crap out of both of them in about ten seconds, which left gawking neighbors both amused and horrified. The bullies were bloodied and bawling – but no longer up to bullying and left us alone after that. So I took up ice hockey to channel my violent side.
that is, the cast was the great weapon…wrist to elbow; thick-ass, skull-cracking hardened plaster.
Our injured host wrote:
It’s very simple: just make two or three incisions, wrap as many hose clamps around the bone as you think you’ll need, snug (but don’t overtighted) them with a 5/16 nut-driver (this will be easier than using a straight-blade screwdriver), and then seal up the incisions with superglue; Gorilla tape over the incision sites is strictly optional.
Even if the bone snaps, the clamps will hold it in place.
Thanks! Thank you so much for gracing blogs with your presence! I hope. This was an inspired post! I thought it, wrote it, and hunted that. I didn’t make it as pretty as your blogs posts are.