Moments of Inspiration (NBR)

JAW · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the feedback guys! Loving the gollywog dolls and the picture in the pub has a nice antique/musty feeling about it. Might have looked better with a pint but then again it would probably have drawn our attention away from anything else in the shot!

Roo · Forum Master Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 442

Not really a moment of inspiration, but It's somewhere about a mile or two from home that I often pass on rides, I'm waiting for the right light to get a better pic but I just really like the sign.

grinch8 · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject:

i dont really understand this thread..i am easily comfused.

but here is a recent self portrait:

bluebomberx · Quite High User Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 134

You're still in a shoulder sling? They gave me a figure-8 sling. It's pretty much a set of backpack straps without the backpack. They keep your shoulders back so your collarbone stays in one place.

grinch8 · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject:

the nhs are useless my grandma tied the sling better than they did.
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JAW · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject:

Aw you look so pitiful alone in the dark with that sling!

grinch8 · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:06 pm Post subject:

well i think mine conforms then
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bluebomberx · Quite High User Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 134

grinch8 · By 12/31/07,

after 4 days after doing it, i can move it a bit, it can support itself, and with a little pain i can touch my left arm on my right ear, going for a check up in a few hours, should find out....
the break isnt too bad, could be better, could be worse

Hamish · Forum Veteran Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Posts: 1011

Hope the check up went okay.

Simple clavicle fractures heal well usually. The type of sling isn't really that important - the purpose is to hold your forearm still and take a bit of weight off the fracture for pain relief purposes. It doesn't need to "hold it straight" for it to heal. In fact, a bit of movement is good, as bbx points out. If you keep it straight all the time then the shoulder joint will stiffen up and your muscles will atrophy from lack of use.

It'll heal fine by itself. You will have a bit of a lump/deformity but that won't affect the function of your neck/shoulder.

But wait until it's healed properly before you get back to proper riding or you are more likely to reinjure it and it'll just take longer. And listen to what the docs tell you!

(I used to work as a doctor in A&E for a good few years)
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grinch8 · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:

yea check up is all good i got rid of the neck strangalar of a sling replaced with a far better one.
the doctor said there would be some deformity nothing to worry about,
and also no contact sports. even though for the last 3 days i have been at centre parcs playing tennis,badmington,squash and rideing around 1 handed on a bike all day

i am not going properly rideing i dont want to risk it. looks like a lot of photo taking.

o well.

i am currently writing a SA for media about the good and bad points of diffrent cameras and editing equipment.....with one hand, its taking an age

JAW · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

Ok, we are really badly going off topic here. I didn't realise it would be such a hot topic, so if you want you could set up a bone-breakage discussion thread! Wink

Just to make it worse, what center parcs were you at?
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grinch8 · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject:

ignor this, my mistake

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JAW · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject: