Small Thoughts At Large

[LS Tractor Owner]

I'm sorry to hear that. Your signature text sounds depressing to me. I hope you are working something out to find enjoyment in today.

Oh, I enjoy every day! The signature text is basically the simple truth...My knee is broken, I cannot go back to work, so stuck in limbo.... The end result is if the knee gets fixed finally.... anticipating what is around the corner.... finding out my final maximum improvement. I was a paramedic captain. The surgeon has told me already that I will never be able to do my previous duties.... so waiting to determine my new career.

Maybe I should change it.... now that I read it again, I guess it does sound depressing...

 

[drssg]

That sounds much better. I interpreted "end result" in a much darker manner, probably since I read it in combination with your multiple injury post.

But I'm terrible at reading minds, especially over the internet. Good luck and fingers crossed for a good end result.

 

[MossRoad]

Oh, I enjoy every day! The signature text is basically the simple truth...My knee is broken, I cannot go back to work, so stuck in limbo.... The end result is if the knee gets fixed finally.... anticipating what is around the corner.... finding out my final maximum improvement. I was a paramedic captain. The surgeon has told me already that I will never be able to do my previous duties.... so waiting to determine my new career.

Maybe I should change it.... now that I read it again, I guess it does sound depressing...

Whatever you do, stick with your therapy and push yourself hard. Trivial compared to your knee, I got my hand stuck in a freight elevator door last year and the door latched shut and the elevator left the floor, so I couldn't open the door. Long story short, I broke an index finger badly just past my knuckle. 80% amputated, yet no serious nerve damage, and tendons still attached. Surgeon said he would consider that after surgery and therapy if I could pinch my fingertip to my thumb tip at the end of a year, he'd call it a success. He didn't expect we'd get it to bend much. Well, I was heartbroken, but happy to keep my finger. However, the surgery and pins went well. I followed up with my therapy (an excellent therapist!), and after 6 months I had 85% movement and they considered it a 15% disability. Now, :thumbsup:11 months later, I still work it multiple times a day, and I have what I'd consider 98% movement and at least 90% strength. Super happy! :thumbsup: It's just a tad bent, and slightly shorter. Gets colder easier, and feels just a bit stiff when I try to make a fist. But I could have lost it. Life's good.

So look forward, push yourself, do the therapy, etc... and you'll end up better than the original outlook.

 

[Big Barn]

Oh, I enjoy every day! The signature text is basically the simple truth...My knee is broken, I cannot go back to work, so stuck in limbo.... The end result is if the knee gets fixed finally.... anticipating what is around the corner.... finding out my final maximum improvement. I was a paramedic captain. The surgeon has told me already that I will never be able to do my previous duties.... so waiting to determine my new career.

Maybe I should change it.... now that I read it again, I guess it does sound depressing...

I’m glad you clarified. Best wishes with new career.

 

[bcp]

How can the small farmer survive now that baling wire is rare? Can it really be replaced with duct tape?

Bruce

 

[dragoneggs]

How can the small farmer survive now that baling wire is rare? Can it really be replaced with duct tape?

Bruce

Handyman's best friend!

 

[Industrial Toys]

The future is virtual and surely there will be an AP for HAY WIRE.

 

[dragoneggs]

The future is virtual and surely there will be an AP for HAY WIRE.

Hay wire describes the minds of more than a few these days if you are watching the news these days. :laughing:

 

[Industrial Toys]

It's the news that isn't talked about in the mainstream that troubles me the most at the moment. To think we used to scoff at the News agencies of communist countries.

 

[Jstpssng]

Handyman's best friend!

The Red Green Show S1E19 No Duct Tape - YouTube

 

[drssg]

I don't know. Baling twine is pretty darn useful! I guess I never got into the high quality practice of using wire.

 

[ovrszd]

This morning I saw an old guy with a big white beard and wondered what it would be like for him to wear a mask.

Which made me think of Santa Claus and the inability to practice social distancing.

Which made me think there will be a lot of unemployed pedophiles this December.

We gotta get you looked at.....

 

[ovrszd]

That's why I don;t have a clock on my tractor!

Two clocks in our entire house counting the microwave. No clocks in the bedrooms or bathrooms. Perks of retirement.

 

[Big Barn]

We gotta get you looked at.....

Thanks. I will take that as a compliment

 

[ovrszd]

I have never owned a watch...

That's understandable.

 

[ovrszd]

shortages, shortages....
zeros here, brain cells over on TNT...

Absolutely!!!!

 

[ovrszd]

Thanks. I will take that as a compliment

As it was meant.

 

[ovrszd]

I wish rocks could talk.

 

[Diggin It]

All my watches (wrist clocks) are in drawers .... somewhere .... certainly with dead batteries. Wall clocks, I have a few, have shown the same time for years.

'Puter clock and cell phone are my go tos when I really care what time it is. Funny thing is, I seem to have gone back in time to before when wrist clocks were common and have gotten reasonably accurate by looking at the Sun's position.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Just like I don't use GPS and like to have a feeling for where I am, I don't have a watch and like to see when coming in for instance, or getting up, if I can guess the actual time.