Rsser's accident.

[NeilS]

When I were a lad......

..... we weren't allowed to have anything as fancy as SSPS, EDLIN or FORTRAN, well not until we had completed our string handling chores in machine code....

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[Cliff Rogers]

Paper tape.....

[NeilS]

Paper tape.....

Nah, magnetic drum, Circa 1967.

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[rsser]

Punch cards! The data was loaded onto the Cyber's hard drive but was wiped at the end of each year unless you got authorisation to keep it. Otherwise it was back to the bleeding cards and redo the data cleanup.

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Well I did 3 demos with the Easy Rougher, Finisher and Detailer and thoroughly enjoyed it along with the chats with the other turner (Maurrie from Peninsula Turners), Grahame and Michael of PWS, Carl of WW Machinery Warehouse, Stu and others. Sturdee was there, and Dynoforce and Soren.

I levered a Silky Oak bowl out of the chuck with the Rougher - luckily not many were watching at the time

Shaping the outside of a lump of Cypress for a bowl with the Rougher was fairly hard work and the paw's been griping but sod it.

Picked up a couple of Rock Maple bowl blanks and a metre of 100x100 Swietenia Mahogany. I feel a classic form candlestick coming on.

[rsser]

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The hand therapists are impressed with my progress; std rehab times for this condition range from 6 to 12 months. It's been 4 months and I can pull 40kg and most of the rotations are close to normal. A fill-in physio-trained therapist gave me one exercise which really helps to free up the wrist when it's stiff and painful.

Now the pain is mostly at the time it's caused and where, and that's a helluva lot easier to manage.

It's still a day-by-day thing. Wake up in the morning with an unknown amount of hand usage in the bank, but don't know what kind or for how long til I try. Sometimes the credit runs out fast; sometimes it doesn't at all.

Thanks for all your sympathetic listening and advice. They've meant more to me than I can say.

[Ozkaban]

Good to hear you're doing well, though the news that some days are better than others doesn't surprise that much.

Having exercises to relieve pain are very useful - I wrecked my back doing stupid things a few years back and had a set of exercises. If I did them, no pain. If I didn't, then I'd wake up in the morning in pretty bad shape... Managing a condition like that is pretty ok, especially if it trends towards getting better over time.

Always happy to listen for several reasons. We're all nice people here, we all care, and we're usually reading this on work time

Cheers,
Dave

[wally peat]

It's still a day-by-day thing. Wake up in the morning with an unknown amount of hand usage in the bank, but don't know what kind or for how long til I try. Sometimes the credit runs out fast; sometimes it doesn't at all.

Ern, you are an encouragement to us all. As the median age of this forum grows, more and more of us are confronted with our mortal shortcomings, and it is a salutary lesson to us all who grumble at the indignities of age to see you deal with this sort of injury.

It may never be perfect again, but it wasn't going to stay that way anyway, and making the most of what you have is far better than letting it rust because you wept for lost function.

Well done on your progress.

[Cliff Rogers]

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Sounds like a good name for a piece of music.

[tea lady]

[NeilS]

.....I can pull 40kg and most of the rotations are close to normal.

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[hughie]

Sounds like a good name for a piece of music.

..maybe use a trumpet or a bugle, nah! it'll never catch on


Good work with the hands Ern

[rsser]

Thanks guys and gal

Acc to the literature, rehab takes btwn 6 and 12 months with what I copped. So it's just been 4 months and while there's a way to go I'm ahead of the norm so far.

I'm still looking forward to enough rotation to move from, ahem, Muslim style in the loo to Christian, and the hand therapist is threatening to make me wear the ortho stap overnight. Only way that can work might have me waking in the morning thinking shoot!, haven't had that since a teenager

[rsser]

Well, I now have a new hand therapist, physio trained, and the exercises are working a treat, god bless her.

Just in the last week the wrist has been itching to move and it feels like it belongs to me again.

I'm rewarding myself with a 5 day guided glacier ski tour in NZ in August, which is also a wrist strength target. For me, and the poor physio! She looked a bit gobsmacked when I told her.

[NeilS]

Good one, Ern. Sounds like you are keen to get out there on the edge again.

I guess being on the edge of the odd crevasse or two will do it for you.....

Which glacier?

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[rsser]

Prob the Tasman Neil and those intersecting. Or possibly Franz & Fox Josef depending on weather and snow conditions. The guide makes the decision the day before we fly in.