2 years of healing, the story of a bent leg!

Ha! So another pretender to the most posts on HoP crown falls by the wayside. Just need to find a way to hobble the french chick and hte title is mine for all eternity.


Seriously though for a second....

that was refreshing wasn't it?

Now back to the sillyness - You don't need two legs. Only wierdos have two legs:

• James Dean
• Marilyn Monroe
• JRR Tolkien
• Lenin
• Moses

What 2 things do all these people have in common?

1. 2 perfectly functioning legs
2. dead

So the obvious answer is people with 2 healthy legs die.

People with 1 leg live for ever.

Ok I have no evidence to support this arguement but stay with me anyway....

Erm, I've run out of things to say.

Right. Er. Hope your leg gets better. If not I hope you can grow a new one.

Stay chipper.

Don't talk to ducks.

Try not to marry any americans looking for citizenship.....

Try and be healthy for next May when my fluffy one and I demand an audience.

Oh Bender... I had no idea it was this bad. Man that's so horrible, I can't believe it. Surely it's not true. This must be a bad dream or something.

Spinning just won't be the same.. Someone wake me up. :'(

I guess I hope above all else it doesn't stop you spinning once it's all healed up - that would be a real tragedy - the community can't afford to lose you!!!

Lot's of hugs and fluffy thoughts.

my sympathies! thats terrible! now are going to be susepatble (sp?) to midday tv!!!!!!!!!

seriously tho, thats some serious bad luck, so sorry mate.

no acro no doofs awwww dude that sucks how come for a year thats like forever surely ull be a fast healer and be all good an healed in time for earthcore. just think positively ull be suprised what the mind can do.

when i broke my hand i has devistated it was my right hand two and i was all nOOOOooooOOOOoOoooOOoOooOOooOoo give or take an o cos i was told i wouldnt be able to twirl for months but then i discovered i have another hand and it made me finally learn to twirl with my left hand.

dont believe what the drs tell u as far as heal time goes i was told 2 months for the bones to heal and then a few more weeks for it to set, 2 weeks after i broke it i got it xrayed again and the dr couldnt see where i broke it originally.

on the bright side u still have both ur hands so u can be a wheelchair twirler, just dont get one of those electric ones or ull never want to walk again
my vibes, in your general

Wow! Look at all the people sending their hugs and stuff out to you - how lucky are you...

Can I tell you my story Bender? Cause I can sympathise pretty well at the moment...!
On Monday morning at the Australian Uni Titles (I play rugby for UNE) I got taken out in an illegal tackle whilst in the air jumping for a ball - My knee cap was fractured in two places and dislocated three times (once in the air, once as I hit the ground and other players landed on me and once when I tried to put weight on it in the training room later), I've torn three major muscles/tendons and my knee cap is sitting dislodged as we speak on some damaged tendons and cant be moved til the swelling goes down... The girl who did it hasnt apologised yet and I missed out on my first national games that I've been training for 18 months for.... sigh...
The plan for me now is to wait until the swelling goes down (it seems to resemble a bowling ball attached to my knee right now!), have my knee re-dislocated, then they will look at surgery to repair the damage and a whole lot of physio and stuff to get it working again - at the moment it's stuck in almost a 45 degree angle with all the pressure in it... It is driving me CRAZY!!!!
I cant cope being bed bound!
Valura is SO right - crying definitely helps a lot - I have cried more in this last five days than I have in my whole life I think... A lot from disappointment I think, pain I can cope with, but I am so upset that it has come at this time for me!
I arrived back at college (where I live on the third floor!) today and will be going into the hospital every morning for the next week or so before the surgery/treatment...So it will be interesting I'd say!
Looks like I'll be out for at least 6-8 months as well....So if you come up with any new brilliant activities to keep your mind active, pass them my way too cause I reckon I'll be needing them too!! hehe
Hope you're feeling a tonne better already, I'm thinkin' of you!
Keep your head up and keep smilin' cause there's an awful lot of people who seem to care an awful lot about you!

Rach

Flynt told me you had hurt yourself, but I didn't know it was this serious until I read this.



Come to Mardi Gras, pet. We will wheel you up and down Oxford Street in a wheelbarrow. And lavish attention upon you.

I know of another cat who was told by the docs there would be no spinning for at least a year. He stayed incredibly upbeat and possitive throughout the ordeal and ended up nearly as good as new in 3 months.

Will yourself better, dude. prove them wrong. HOP won't be the same without you.

And, hey, at least you have an excuse to stay in and watch England win the world cup

Jo.

Im soo sorry to hear that . maybe be you can learn magic tricks Or something .

May all your hop 's be happy ones .

Sending you lot's of lovely puk healing powers

Hope your feeling better soon .

hey youse caring sweeties! you are the silver lining that keep my mind off the pain with your wonderful compassion!!

the incredible (quasi teary) feelin i get from you heartfelt messages has definitely made a difference to my day-to-day coping skills! (all i needed was a tricle and you all gave me a flood!)

again, ima humbled and not a little teary eyed, HoP, i love yooooooooOOO!

that doesn't sound good at all

I made some mini 'sitting down at the computer' sized flags for alice a few weeks ago, who's also buggered up her leg, perhaps i should send you a set

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Oh NOOOOOOO!!!! Poor thing!



Heal quickly! And stay on HOP. It wouldn't be the same without our dear Bender.

where've you been lately mike? you used to be way more addicted than you are now

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as i heard a little of this from the boys over at oztrance i knew it was bad but not this bad

no earthcore. well not unless we get ya a off road wheelchair (hmm let me see about that) was so looking forward to having a spin with you there

re spining how far up is the knee braced?? or how far will it be when the swelling is down more maye look at using a bar stool. may have to modify some of your moves but it will help stop total withdrawrals from not being able to spin

look after youself mate and dont spend to much time with the whole computer next to bed thing or you will fully fark your back up

oh yeah and start oding on the milk to help with the calcium mate

heal well and stager
blair

Ouch. Sorry to hear that Bender. You've been one the biggest inspirations to me from this board, and some of your videos have gotten me started on trying to learn some of that crazy acro stuff. I'm sorry to hear that you'll be taken out of it for a while... BUT hey maybe now I can catch up to ya.

Get well ASAP man! You're in my thoughts.

Hope you heal quickly. Thats awful news

Much love
Alice

Oh Noooooo the Bender has falling... So sad that you damaged your tibia and fibia man... I can feel ya pain.... Cause i have damaged my knee, not as bad as you tho but i kinda know how it feels. I was really looking forward to meet you Bender cause im coming down to MelBourne for "Rainbow Serpent" and hoping that you were going to be there.

Never know you might be there, never say DIE. BIG to ya little twirler and in no time you'll be back playing with the passion that we all share & love "FIRE"

Sending all my Energy your way

Mozy/Trix

Shit mate! That sucks a lot...

I was soo looking forward to hooking up with you at Earthcore for some first rate fwirlage...now it looks like I'm going to have to wait a whole lot longer :/

bummer dude.

Josh

awwwww, bendywendypoo,
that's like when neo was punchin the agent, but then the agent punches him up real good, and he starts spittin up blood and convulsin, but then trinity starts ripping up her shirt and givin him some lovin so it's okay. it's exactly just like that. almost. except your not getting punched literally just figuratively and there's probably not a big sharp metal stick in the back of your head. you know it's just a metaphor.

man i hate it when my pals get hurt and can't do their thing. but i know you will make the best of it, just don't let the body get worn down from all that sitting! don't forget visualization is a very useful practice form. and psychedelics are fourth dimensional, travel by leg is not necessary.
my prayers go with you, just don't forget you could go to the outback and the aborigines could sing to your leg and make you better in a few days. just remember that when the doctor smiles and hands you a bill. you can think to yourself, "thanks mister watered down technological replacement for natural human powers, i'll get you that money right away." or not, that might be a tad bit sassy and perhaps even antisocial. or maybe i'm just talking to myself too much here. is it funny though?


shine on brother

and the first thing i thought of was that you could play with contact juggling but i won't even mention it cause that would be redundant and i hate redundancy. really i don't like it.

take care of yourself!! now im going to try to cheer you up by posting stupid comments on your website.

i hope you make as speedy a recovery as is humanly possible. there's not really much left that hasn't been said, but i just hope that you keep your spirits up, and enjoy life to the max. I look forward to hopefully meeting you sometime next year and have you teach me a thing or two of your masterful twirling You're Joy of Staff is an inspiration, and clearly you are well loved by those who know you.
peace and love
Dylan

Bender my friend, I think I speak for a great many people here when I say you've been a big inspiration to us and even in this time of adversity you continue to inspire us.

Though you can't spin for a short while (and believe me it flies by... especially if you play Jedi Academy computer game), we will gladly pick up the energy you've left in the air and house it for you until you want it back.

In the meantime, definitely try out some of the things others in this thread have mentioned... keeping busy and not letting it get you down is important, as is remembering that it's just temporary. You'll no doubt see improvement quickly as you move up from the ground into a wheelchair, then up onto crutches (the highlight of which is being able to pee unassisted!), then maybe a cane for a while, and then finally you'll be risen up and WALKIN again, my child!

Though we're worlds apart, you can definitely let me know if you ever need anything sent your way from my zone... perhaps some Minicons would do the trick? Or perhaps a custom-made achey breaky staff for when you get better (my engineering skills ROCK)? PM me and we'll iron out the details.

yo,

I want updates!!!

dont drop off the map, pleeeeeeeeese!

dude im sending you so much love right now, and a crysknife, as soon as i catch this pesky worm....

*thump* *thump* *thump*

T

just make sure you dont tear your stillsuit.

okay my firey siblings,
here's the update - in finally got to peek at my xrays - what happened was that the tibia and fibia snapped in the middle, displacing the loower half of my shin backwards so that the top half of the tibia smashed into the bottom half of my fibia, further snapping the lower half of the fibia into half again.
the bone will never be the same shape again, as there is a chipped piece of tibia jutting out at the break and the fibia will fuse in a slightly bent shape from it's two breaks, so much so that there the second screw in my ankle had to be long enough to connect the base of the tibia and fibia together. what had the doctors worry were the 3 large golfball sized blood blisters on a tender part of my calf - they had to ultrasound it to rule out deep vein thrombosis.

it wasn't until i saw the xrays did i realise that the medicos were dead serious when they called it a serious break.. it at least puts the paaaaaain into perspective.

so the outlook is: 4 more weeks until i can put even a slight weight on my left leg...

the painkillers are quite tasty (if a bit drooowsyfying) but the caaaaaaabin fever setting in hardcore tho(!)

thank yoo all from the bottom of my mechanical heart for your compassion!

(btw the real bender is 40% titanium, i am now less than 1% tatanium woot for emulating your heroes)

Yay for the twirling tinman!!!

I know the cabin fever bit, im stuck in one and im not even ill. Keep positive my friend, youll be right.

T

love ya, bender-boy!!!

wow hard core, keep your chin up bender... excercise your mind with many meditations...

Was it in any way caused by some lunatic running about on some rocks whirling poi round his head like i saw on my tv?