The greenbrier logging and coal co
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Sorry Smoke I couldn’t resist either
OleSmokey
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hehehe, Yep i am getting Deb and Robert to get the plastic off and then i can run trains again. While sitting in this chair I was able to pull wire for the rest of the turnouts. also got a piece of the power connection done to feed power to the track. I don't have all the track powered in that new section. And i can't do it right now. i can't lay anymore track till i am more mobile and that might be a couple months. I don't remember breaking a mirror but i must have broke one or two of them somewhere..Laters all, Smoke
OleSmokey
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I went to the VA today and my doctor is totally bent out of shape. "They didn't give you"... I think somewhere there was something about a wheelchair and crutches and home care and drugs and before i left!!! Someone got a royal a** kicking but i don't know who, but i now have all the above. Its something to do with a Captain over some lower rank. opps!
OleSmokey
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i went to the hospital today for a checkup. After they did more xrays they came in the office and said that we will not have to do plates and screws. I still have a broken bone in the leg. They put a new cast on and this one is a total plaster cast. I should be able to get it off in around 6 weeks. they want to see me in 3 weeks. Now if i can take a bath tonight!!
Smudge617
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No pins or plates, that's good news, as for the caste, don't get water inside it it'll chaff and you could end up with painful skin sores, ask me how I know.
OleSmokey
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"No pins or plates, that's good news, as for the caste, don't get water inside it it'll chaff and you could end up with painful skin sores, ask me how I know."
Been there, done that. I can give a twist to this. This morning, I had to get Deb help me out of the bed. The cast was sticking to the bed sheet, the pillow and my blanket. It was like the cast super glued itself to my bed sheets. I don't remember the casts from past accidents over the years ever doing that! Weird, another thing is that the cast loves to break traction in the bathroom. it is like the floor has oil over it and things are slick. Its all tile in there. the floor of the shower too. I plan to get a lg garbage bag and tape it around my leg to keep the cast dry. Let you know after i get that bit done, as to how well it works.
Been there, done that. I can give a twist to this. This morning, I had to get Deb help me out of the bed. The cast was sticking to the bed sheet, the pillow and my blanket. It was like the cast super glued itself to my bed sheets. I don't remember the casts from past accidents over the years ever doing that! Weird, another thing is that the cast loves to break traction in the bathroom. it is like the floor has oil over it and things are slick. Its all tile in there. the floor of the shower too. I plan to get a lg garbage bag and tape it around my leg to keep the cast dry. Let you know after i get that bit done, as to how well it works.
Smudge617
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I've got a false leg and have the same problem, you should see me in winter at work when we have lots of ice around, I take up involuntary ice dancing, and that's wearing rubber-soled boots."No pins or plates, that's good news, as for the caste, don't get water inside it it'll chaff and you could end up with painful skin sores, ask me how I know."
Been there, done that. I can give a twist to this. This morning, I had to get Deb help me out of the bed. The cast was sticking to the bed sheet, the pillow and my blanket. It was like the cast super glued itself to my bed sheets. I don't remember the casts from past accidents over the years ever doing that! Weird, another thing is that the cast loves to break traction in the bathroom. it is like the floor has oil over it and things are slick. Its all tile in there. the floor of the shower too. I plan to get a lg garbage bag and tape it around my leg to keep the cast dry. Let you know after i get that bit done, as to how well it works.
As this is a walking cast, didn't they put a small rubber pad under the heel ?
santafewillie
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Wife had to do that around her arm when she had a PICC tube in it for antibiotics. It was a real hassle, but necessary.
OleSmokey
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yeah, i remember when i last broke a leg. Somehow i am relearning how to work with crutches and a wheel chair and all that kind of fun. Driving with my left foot to drive instead of right is something i have had to do several times in my past so i find that its harder to drive but i remember how to do it. One week gone and two more before i need to see the doctor again. Now i can play around with the trains but the track is dirty or the wheels are. I'll finger it out!
OleSmokey
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I was testing the track out and it was so dirty it needed to be cleaned really bad. Out with the rubber eraser and i am going around the track. I would check the progress with my hardest engine and that little 40 toner from Bachmann worked perfect and it go to where i hadn't cleaned yet and it would just stall out. Thats ok, i would clean up that next section and it went right in there. Its real touchy about dirty track. I quit for awhile and left it turned off. Last evening i was doing some more track cleaning and i started the little engine to see if i got the track clean enough and it wouldn't do anything! I even pulled one of the atlas models i have and it wouldn't do anything. I was checking connections and wondering what i had done to kill the power. it was a cat chasing its tail kind of thing. I had the manual out going through the checklist to no deal at all. One of the two super stupid things to check is plug the controller in to a good source of power. The next was check the plug on the back of the controller to see it hasn't worked loose. Bingo!! That plug had indeed come loose!!! Duh!!! Dumb!!!
Can't believe i had gone over most of the track checking connections but didn't try the power plug for the dcc. Duh!! Dumb!!!
Can't believe i had gone over most of the track checking connections but didn't try the power plug for the dcc. Duh!! Dumb!!!
OleSmokey
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Well, They took the cast off and shot 3 X-rays and said it looks real good. They put a new cast on it and 3 weeks more and they will give me a rubber boot to wear. I know that i can take that boot off and take showers as needed and not have to worry about getting a cast wet. Also i can sleep with it off. I can wear it and get under the back side of the wall to gain access main line track to finish a few things and get the power to the track and i am right now carving foam i had from the packing foam the table was in. It was basically free and would under normal conditions would have thrown in the trash.
Anyway i have one shot of the foam and the new section
Anyway i have one shot of the foam and the new section
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well, a update is needed. The hard cast is off! yea!! Have the boot on now. I dug out all the little crates of parts to the coal mine. I have most of it complete but there are the small things that i can't put on till i get the buildings set in place. I got all the foam i need to built the mountains and sheet rock compound to do the roughing in of the mountains. Have a couple of shots of the buildings of the coal mine. Laters as i get more into the mountain.
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