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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:12 PM
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i decided to go roller skating tonight... now i'm going to see a orthopedic specialist tomorrow
i have enough trouble on flat ground... so skates and i don't mix well. i was brave tonight though.. and was doing good, getting the hang of it. then i fell, and being the genius i am, i stuck my arm out to catch myself. i dislocated my hand from my wrist and had to pop it back into place. it's hurting like hell now, and i only have one hand to type with. i'm, going to see the local orthopedic specialist tomorrow.

oh yeah, i'm a graceful one! :rofl:
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:13 PM
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1. Oh, crap!
That sounds painful!

Is that the hand you write with?
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:16 PM
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4. i'm ambidextrous
i usually write with my right.. and it's neater. i can write decent with my left though.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:35 AM
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34. Well, that's lucky.
Hope you heal quickly.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:37 AM
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35. thanks
my mom thinks that i was supposed to be left handed.. but in school they taught me to write with my right hand. i do almost everything with my left hand, except for writing. however, i can write with my left hand too.. it isn't as neat as my right hand, but it's definitely readable and decent. :hi:
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:15 PM
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2. Ok, that's it.
I am seriously covering you in bubble-wrap. Good gracious woman.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:17 PM
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6. lol
i'm hoping that it's just sore from being dislocated. hopefully there is no further injury.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:29 AM
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30. eh, give it 20 years
and some cold damp weather. You will remember.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:37 PM
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13. Hey she doesn't have the years of experience from being a fall down drunk to know how to take a fall
:P
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 11:03 PM
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16. What happened to sweet?
I miss sweet. :P
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:03 AM
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20. I can't be nusiance as well
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:23 AM
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22. har har
:P
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:16 PM
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3. Ouch!
If people were meant to roller skate, we'd been born with wheels on our feet.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:18 PM
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7. that's a motto i should live by
:rofl:
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:17 PM
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5. I did that snowboarding once.....I know how it hurts!
Hopefully the Doc can work some magic on it...good luck!
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:19 PM
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8. hopefully... i'm thinking it's just sore from being dislocated
it hurts like hell though. i just hope nothing is broken or torn. i think it'll be feeling better in the morning hopefully
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:25 PM
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9. ouch.
But if you keep it up, roller skating can be a valuable skill.

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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:24 AM
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23. lol, true
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:27 PM
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10. Pfft...you don't need an orthopedic specialistic for a dislocation
Edited on Wed Dec-17-08 10:28 PM by haruka3_2000
I dislocated my shoulder 12 years ago, and finished out the round. Sure it hangs low and hurts half the time, but specialists are for wimps.

Another time, I dislocated some bone in my hand. It was hurting for months. One day LostinVA popped it back in accidentally with an aikido move. She has the Mr. Miyagi touch.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:53 PM
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15. hey, i'm no wimp
i popped my own hand back into place and didn't even wince :rofl:

honestly, i'm so used to hurting myself that it's no big deal anymore, lol. i've never been a crybaby though.. it's really hard to make me cry.
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:28 PM
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11. OUCH!
Never, ever use your arm to break a fall (like you will after this, right?)

In 1986, I hopped a fence and used my arm to break a fall. i wound up with a hairline compression fracture, a bunch of gacked up tendons and ligaments, and a whole lot of pain and swelling.

Worst part? I was leaving the zoo when it happened. The humiliation of explaining what happened was almost as bad as the injury.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 11:16 PM
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17. Don't use your butt or your back to break a fall either
A broken tailbone and a bruised kidney later, just don't do it.
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Duppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 12:47 AM
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18. I did that in the 6th grade
Edited on Thu Dec-18-08 12:49 AM by Duppers
Went rollerskating for the first and last time, fell on my butt, dislocated my coccyx bone -- it hurt like hell. End of story.

edited to add that I did ice skate later, but never on wheels again.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:25 AM
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24. yup.. i knew better than to do it
but it was just my instant response to falling
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:30 PM
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12. Welcome to the club, sis!
I broke my elbow in July, rollerskating outdoors.

It's still not completely healed.

I never realized that rollerskating outside was akin to rollerskating on ice!

I can skate very well on an indoor roller rink, and on ice (with ice skates, of course).

But holy mackeroli! I got myself some outdoor roller skates, and the second I stood up on them, I knew it was gonna be real different!

Hope you heal soon, Ava.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:25 AM
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25. yowch!
you get well soon too :hug:
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:28 AM
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29. Thanks.
I think it's taking extra-long to heal, because I broke it in the same spot nearly 30 years ago.

At least I can fully extend my arm now.

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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:31 AM
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32. oh that sucks
:( i tore my ankle up a few years ago and it still gives me problems sometimes. i HATED that injury.. was on crutches for 8 weeks.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:41 PM
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14. I moved a futon this morning
I'm fucking DYING right now.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:26 AM
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26. crybaby
:hide:


hope you get feeling better soon :hug:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 07:12 AM
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36. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Hope you are not permanently damaged (altho that's debatable since you hang around HERE)
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 07:25 AM
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37. such a dear
thank you :rofl: :P
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Duppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 12:53 AM
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19. Deja vu?
I kept checking the date you posted this. :rofl: Yeah, I know it's not really funny when you're hurting, but girl! You gotta be careful or have a orthopedist on standby! ;)

How'd your appointment go today?
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:27 AM
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27. i'm so used to hurting myself that it doesn't even phase me anymore
want to know what i did after i popped my hand back into place? kept skating :rofl:

but eventually it started hurting so bad that i had to stop and go home to take some medicine.
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:09 AM
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21. You ain't as young as you use to be Ava. And trust me, it'll only get worse...
...from here.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:28 AM
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28. thanks for the optimistic advice
i keed ;) :hi:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:31 AM
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31. I think you need to seriously consider the quality of their medical facilities in your school pick.
You know we love you, but you're kinda starting to remind me of Daphne from Scooby Doo. Only smarter, thank goodness. But I worry that any day now you're going to post about falling through a trap door or getting stuck behind a trick wall, because I think you've used up all the other ways to hurt yourself. :P
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 01:33 AM
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33. HA!
Edited on Thu Dec-18-08 01:33 AM by Ava
probably! :rofl:

i was once told that injury has a crush on me. apparently it's one of those "i'm going to stalk you" type of crushes :rofl:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 11:16 AM
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38. Shoulda gone with ice skating.
If you fall while ice skating, at least you get ice on the injury right away. :)
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 11:55 AM
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39. oh no.. i did that a few weeks ago
i lasted about 10 minutes before i gave up :rofl:


roller skating is much much easier imo
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 11:32 PM
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41. Odd, I find it the other way around.
:)
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 12:06 PM
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40. You can't really blame yourself for sticking out your arm(s) ...
... to break your fall. It's an instinct, and may well have saved you an injury to some other bit of your anatomy. Now, if you weren't wearing wrist supports, that's another story. Yes, they look dorky, but they help.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 06:29 AM
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42. It takes a while to get one's skate legs, graceful or no.
Sorry you got hurt.

My own darling bride broke her wrist roller skating in our furniture-crowded house a couple weeks back, not 20 seconds after I said, "I don't think that's a good idea."
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 12:20 PM
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43. Gosh I'm sorry.
Wrist injuries suck. My daughter (she's 16) broke hers skiing almost three years ago and just had her third surgery dealing with the chrnoic pain and inflamation. (Not that that will happen or anything as her injury was pretty severe, but our household has become all too familier with orthopedics and wrist injuries unfortunately). Feel better. :hug:
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 12:33 PM
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44. You might try joining a skating group
like Houston's Urban Animals (video).

Also, inlines can be harder to learn on than standard quads. I have a nice set of quads because I didn't trust myself to inlines (hated ice-skating; never could remain upright.)

Always wear wrist protectors and kneepads. Elbow pads are optional
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 02:30 PM
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45. psh, wrist protectors and kneepads are for wimps
:rofl: and maybe that's why i'm the one with the hurt wrist :rofl:
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 02:41 PM
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46. Perhaps, but I'm glad I've had mine


Even with the wrist protectors, I still have pain in the wrists sometimes from landing on my hands. You know, you hit a single piece of gravel and down you go!

I need to replace my kneepads; too many deep gouges in them ;)

Haven't skated in years, though. What kind of skates you got?
And group skating is really the best way. A great workout and great fun :D
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 03:02 PM
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47. we went skating at a rink
i haven't been skating in years. i just used rented skates and it was indoors.

i was actually getting the hang of it and doing well when i fell flat on my ass and tried to catch myself(which hurt my arm).
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 03:11 PM
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48. I think I've hurt myself worse when I've fallen on my ass
Nothing to catch you but buttcheeks!

I hope your arm and wrist heal well. Maybe get magnetic therapy on it (if bones are broken or cracked.)
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