How badly injured?

coachg · Joined: 10 Sep 2000 Posts: 1801

Lee,
I dont know how you can stand it. Every time I bumped or rubbed my ankle against something, zing, right to the marrow. I couldnt even lay on my left side because I could just feel the screws pressing against the inside of my ankle. Ever thought of having yours taken out? I was in at 7 am and home by noon the day they took out my screws and plate. I do not miss them at all.

Coachg

LeeD · Joined: 29 Nov 2001 Posts: 1261

Pretty simple really.
I have no medical insurance, and make less than $4,000 a year, drive a 16 year old car, have 3 sailboards atop my car none newer than 1997.
Better yet, total I paid for the 4.4, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, and 6.8 in my car right now is around $75, and $60 of it for the 6.0 Spectro back in 98.

coachg · Joined: 10 Sep 2000 Posts: 1801

Spectro huh? I still have my 5.0 Spectro and just replaced it with the first brand new sail I have ever bought, Naish Force 5.0. My Spectro is still going strong after I sewed the mast cap back on last year. I blew up my 5.5 Spectro a couple of years ago on Donner Lake.

Coachg

faradroka1 · Joined: 14 May 2001 Posts: 210 Location: East Bay

2 years ago during low tide at 3rd Ave as I was about 50 yards from the launch walkway, I put my back foot down and gaffed my big toe on something. Severed it down to the bone. Luckily all those nurses and doctors windsurf down there so they wrapped gauze around it and drove me to Mills-Peninsula Hospital. 12 stitches and 3 ibuprofen later I was driving my stick shift home. Not much but it was MY big toe.

LeeD · Joined: 29 Nov 2001 Posts: 1261

I still have a 4 times used 5.0 NeilPryde MK111 ! Obviously perfect condition, but who needs 5 cams in a 5.0 sail?

pgaudette · Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 3

Tib fractures are nasty. Broke my tib/fib last august while surfing on a closeout wave. No hardware but 6 mos to heal and still dealing with rehab issues.
Paul G

vadler · Joined: 20 Apr 1999 Posts: 82

I remember that injury. That was pretty bloody. You even had booties on if I remember correctly.

hildebra · Joined: 14 Sep 2000 Posts: 107 Location: Bay Area

Broken right foot (metatarsals) from getting front foot caught in strap on an OPd duck jibe off of TI (seems pretty common from other posts). No health insurance meant no treatment -- later found out I needed surgery and pins n screws, etc., but too late now. Now I live with the pain; not severe or debilitating, but annoying for sure. I sailed the very next day, as any of us would right? Ibuprofen keeps us on the water.

Jim

mastfoot · Joined: 15 Sep 2000 Posts: 136 Location: gulfport ms

had a stingray peirce my foot stigmata style in 04 worst part was laying on the beach in pain in my black wetsuit and Greenpeace activist were trying to roll me back in (really must lose weight

billco · Joined: 23 May 1999 Posts: 33

On a 5.6 day at Seal Beach I stuck the nose of my 92 Screamer in a wave after getting some air. Got wheeled around while my right foot was jammed in the strap, resulting in a borken fibula. I could not sail back, so I swam in, where some surfers heped me and my gear out of the water - thanks dudes. While swimming I could feel the fib slapping around in my leg. Some cool dude in an old rusty van full of windsurfing equipment gave me a ride back to the launch site - thanks surf dog. Then my lovely wife showed up, with the kids, as I rolled in. To Kaiser I went - thanks honey. While I still love to catch air, I no longer use a wheeled harness bar, really appreciate boards with forward rocker, like my F2 Ride and my JP Free Move, and always keep my feet loose - not to far into the straps.