Knee surgery today caused by getting off tractor

[tommu56]

I'm 3 weeks post op in the right knee but back to work after 2 weeks (happened at work) and I'm on restricted duty for at least 3 more weeks.
it feels 200% better than before surgery.
The thing I cant believe that the PT people get paid to hurt us but they do it with care!
tommu56

 

[Podunkadunk]

All (too many to quote personally),
I appreciate the insight. I especially liked the comment about not "getting off the tractor anymore".....got a well needed chuckle out of that one.

It's amazing how far they have come in surgery procedures which aren't too invasive and recovery time is quick.

I initially had full blown ACL/Meniscal repair surgery in May of 2000. It hadn't bothered me until I was getting off the tractor that day. I twisted it, heard a pop...immediate pain, etc. The doctor told me that once you have had initial knee problems, they are pretty much with you for life.

Shredded meniscal matter was folding under, basically doing the same thing a wrench does in a gear. Very painful.

It's been 3 days and I am walking almost normally. I haven't overdone it, but I am mobile. 3 small holes in my leg, that's it.

Someone mentioned taking the pain meds. I agree, but the only thing I don't like is being "loopy". Doc gave me Vicodin, it's good...it works, that's for sure...but I am afraid of them. Anything that makes me feel that good has got to be bad for me.

Y'all take care, I appreciate the support.

Kubota 1.....Podunk 0.....

-Podunk.

 

[patrick_g]

So now I am getting visions of the block and tackle arrangements managed by several assistants to hoist a heavily armored knight up into the saddle of his war horse.

Fast forward to modern times...

You go to HF and buy a cheap Chinese electric hoist and a safety/lift/suspension harness to wear to be hoisted onto and off of your tractor.

Others will of course claim to use and defend the calculated risk of using a counter weight mechanism and remote trip line to initiate the action and of course provide motive power with the tractor's FEL operated remotely by tugging alternately on scraps of binder twine.

Pat

 

[Egon]

Somewhere I think I read a modern day Soldier carries more pounds of gear than the Knight of yore wore.

 

[mjarrels]

Can be very serious... many years ago, local beef farmer (neighbor) slipped getting off the tractor (Oliver). Did't think too much about it until he died a few days later... blood clot hit the ole heart.

mark

 

[patrick_g]

Somewhere I think I read a modern day Soldier carries more pounds of gear than the well Knight of yore.

Sorry Egon, but I have to question that factoid. Depends on which knights. As weapons increased in performance against armor, the armor was improved and made heavier untill an unhorsed knight was helpless and not likely to be able to gain his feet and stand unassisted much less get on his horse unassisted. Thereafter as gunpowder was more widespread and guns became more effective old style armor became useless.

At one point the crossbow was heralded as the weapon to make warfare impossible as knights would not be safe from the common foot soldier so armed.

Pat

 

[AlanB]

Well Pat, I hang around with some of the current best in the world, Not sure how heavy a knights armor was, but I bet a fully loaded LRRP team could take them in the weight carried department.

And yes, when some of the guys I know are fully rucked up and ready to rock, they cannot stand up from the ground unaided.

 

[patrick_g]

Alan, I don't want to compare stream diameter, length of arc, PSI, volume per unit time, or color but whether a long range recon patrol team member's gear would outweigh a knights armor and weapons depends on what knight or more precisely what era of time and which knights. Toward the end of the epoch of armored knights it is very unlikely the modern man carries more as I wasn't kidding about the block and tackle/crane to get them atop their horses. They didn't ride ponies then but steeds on the order of Clydesdale's because of the weight.

The most I ever humped for an extended time (7-10 days) was a tad over 68 lbs (gross wt of pack.) That was more than enough for me above 6,000 ft. I tried to keep it below (hopefully significantly below) 50 lbs when going above 10,000 ft. When the lower altitudes of a hump are passes above 10,000 ft I need a turbo way more than a diesel, I just run out of umph. It helps to be at altitude for a while before having to do much physically so you can acclimatize, or so they tell me, I never had that luxury.

I did work with a guy who was part of a medical study. He was born and raised at Leadville, Colorado which is over 10,000 ft and his lung development and cardio-vascular development around his pulmonary system was unusual to say the least. When he was jogging a few miles he had more reserve breath left than flatlanders walking. He was a naval officer though and didn't do backpacks, he rode around at sea level in big grey things (AKA targets to my submariner friends.)

Pat

 

[Egon]

Yea your right Pat. The fellows engaged in the jousting were extra heavy.

 

[Podunkadunk]

Alan, I don't want to compare stream diameter, length of arc, PSI, volume per unit time, or color but whether a long range recon patrol team member's gear would outweigh a knights armor and weapons depends on what knight or more precisely what era of time and which knights. Toward the end of the epoch of armored knights it is very unlikely the modern man carries more as I wasn't kidding about the block and tackle/crane to get them atop their horses. They didn't ride ponies then but steeds on the order of Clydesdale's because of the weight.

The most I ever humped for an extended time (7-10 days) was a tad over 68 lbs (gross wt of pack.) That was more than enough for me above 6,000 ft. I tried to keep it below (hopefully significantly below) 50 lbs when going above 10,000 ft. When the lower altitudes of a hump are passes above 10,000 ft I need a turbo way more than a diesel, I just run out of umph. It helps to be at altitude for a while before having to do much physically so you can acclimatize, or so they tell me, I never had that luxury.

I did work with a guy who was part of a medical study. He was born and raised at Leadville, Colorado which is over 10,000 ft and his lung development and cardio-vascular development around his pulmonary system was unusual to say the least. When he was jogging a few miles he had more reserve breath left than flatlanders walking. He was a naval officer though and didn't do backpacks, he rode around at sea level in big grey things (AKA targets to my submariner friends.)

Pat

Ask your submariner friends what "Uncle Bob" is. They'll know what you are talking about, but I doubt they'll tell you

I was a Flight Engineer aboard the P-3 Orion...subkiller.