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Created by Sailhack > 9 months ago, 28 Jan 2008
Sailhack
VIC, 5000 posts
29 Jan 2008 1:00AM
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Looking at another member's comments/pics on a thread, I wonder if we can post some injury pics (not too graphic)

I haven't taken any of my w/surfing bruises/gashs, but my ankle still aches when a storm's-a-comin'


Yeah....that's a prem medallion!

Wet Willy
TAS, 2317 posts
29 Jan 2008 3:49AM
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Don't wanna see it.

How about some nudie pics of your wife/girlfriend/hamster instead?

OceanBlue64
VIC, 980 posts
29 Jan 2008 9:59AM
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OMG what a shocking picture...and thats just the Collingwood gear

Sailhack
VIC, 5000 posts
29 Jan 2008 10:25AM
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Wet Willy said...

Don't wanna see it.

How about some nudie pics of your wife/girlfriend/hamster instead?


More info needed....a photo of wife and girlfriend with hamster together? Or one of each?

Wet Willy
TAS, 2317 posts
29 Jan 2008 3:56PM
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Sailhack said...

Wet Willy said...

Don't wanna see it.

How about some nudie pics of your wife/girlfriend/hamster instead?


More info needed....a photo of wife and girlfriend with hamster together? Or one of each?





Use your imagination!

BTW I like 'em shaved...hamsters, that is

MikeyS
VIC, 1509 posts
29 Jan 2008 4:49PM
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I don't want to see your gerbil photos, though.

elmo
WA, 8868 posts
29 Jan 2008 11:09PM
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Wet Willy said...

Don't wanna see it.

How about some nudie pics of your wife/girlfriend/hamster instead?


He's a Collingwood fan.

wife/girlfriend/hamster

Is most likely his sister to

MavericK040
WA, 583 posts
29 Jan 2008 11:58PM
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ive got one of a gash in my foot .
mite be a bit gnarly to put up tho
let me kno if u's all wanna see!

Sailhack
VIC, 5000 posts
30 Jan 2008 10:43AM
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elmo said...

Wet Willy said...

Don't wanna see it.

How about some nudie pics of your wife/girlfriend/hamster instead?


He's a Collingwood fan.

wife/girlfriend/hamster

Is most likely his sister to


Just 'coz I wore a black & white jumper for my local club doesn't make me a collingwood supporter!



The fact that I am one (coll'wood supporter) makes your comments 'relative', I guess?!?

elmo
WA, 8868 posts
30 Jan 2008 9:41AM
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Sailhack said...

elmo said...

Wet Willy said...

Don't wanna see it.

How about some nudie pics of your wife/girlfriend/hamster instead?


He's a Collingwood fan.

wife/girlfriend/hamster

Is most likely his sister to


Just 'coz I wore a black & white jumper for my local club doesn't make me a collingwood supporter!



The fact that I am one (coll'wood supporter) makes your comments 'relative', I guess?!?





Got to love(???) the Collingwood supporter

Loud, Proud and Ferral

One good set of teeth in the whole family, just not in the same mouth


Nice ankle, can remember getting one of those wee beauties from my bike as a kid.

grandfromage
WA, 344 posts
30 Jan 2008 1:28PM
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jesus christ. thats ape****!

jord070
WA, 1109 posts
30 Jan 2008 1:35PM
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my ankle was worse,... not that its a competition or anything

aus301
QLD, 2039 posts
30 Jan 2008 2:48PM
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MikeyS said...

The surgery to fix recurrent dislocations (right shoulder).


I got one of those too, and on the right shoulder - which I believe is the worse of the two to dislocate as there is an artery that runs close to the area that can kill you if damaged. Thats why right shoulders go straight into emergeny, no waiting around triage.

I got to the stage of being able to pop it back in myself (even halfway through a heat in a wavesailing comp) and head back out and sail some more. But then progressed to waking up in the middle of the night with it dislocated after rolling over in bed.

MikeyS
VIC, 1509 posts
30 Jan 2008 5:49PM
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jord070 said...

my ankle was worse,... not that its a competition or anything


Yeah, Jordo, but I remained conscious throughout the whole surgery, although the bullet I was biting did go off and shot through my left cheek.

Nah, I didn't think that it's a competition or anything.

ka72
QLD, 581 posts
6 Mar 2008 7:13PM
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Sailhack my left foot looks very similar to yours at the moment after a windsurfing crash on Saturday. Stopped dead when I hit a sand bank and my back foot didn't come out of the strap.

Now on crutches and in heaps of pain and forecast for more wind this weekend

bubs
SA, 924 posts
6 Mar 2008 10:22PM
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ka72 said...

Sailhack my left foot looks very similar to yours at the moment after a windsurfing crash on Saturday. Stopped dead when I hit a sand bank and my back foot didn't come out of the strap.

Now on crutches and in heaps of pain and forecast for more wind this weekend


Been there done that. Only hurt foot properly once doing it though luckily and it wasn't very bad at all. The worst time was when i hit a bank and had a massive crash. I was under the sail with my front foot it the strap, harness still hooked in, towards the front of the board and also with one leg through (yes through, punched a hole) the sail. Very tangled up and would have looked incredibly unco trying to free myself. Luckily didn't hurt myself badly that time, only the gear. Was a bit sore for a while though.

Bubs

Sailhack
VIC, 5000 posts
10 Mar 2008 1:14PM
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ka72 said...

Sailhack my left foot looks very similar to yours at the moment after a windsurfing crash on Saturday. Stopped dead when I hit a sand bank and my back foot didn't come out of the strap.

Now on crutches and in heaps of pain and forecast for more wind this weekend


Hope you're back on the water soon! Personally, I'm in peak form.......injury-wise.....haven't been on the water for over 5 weeks, and there's no wind for the next week either!

Might book a plane ticket to QLD!

Mid-day on a p/hol....and I'm scanning over the forums....sad!

Bertie
NSW, 1351 posts
10 Mar 2008 10:57PM
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u boys winging about ur pissy little ankle injuries.
try 3 busted ligaments in 1 knee, cartilage damage, partial tear of muscle in hip and minor anke strain in one hit.
had 1 operation already.
been lying on a couch for 2 months already.
in my next op (hopefully no more than 6 weeks away) they might have to steal bits from both of my hamstrings to graft into my knee.
i no longer have a right calf muscle; totally wasted away.
i lost my job coz i cant do manual labour.
i had just recovered from a broken ankle which i only found out i had done when i did my knee coz prior x rays didnt show up bone floating there. took me 6 months to walk it off. it looked like sailhaks at the time.
if i'm lucky i'll be back on the water this time next year.

eyeMhardcor
255 posts
10 Mar 2008 10:55PM
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Bertie said...

u boys winging about ur pissy little ankle injuries.
try 3 busted ligaments in 1 knee, cartilage damage, partial tear of muscle in hip and minor anke strain in one hit.
had 1 operation already.
been lying on a couch for 2 months already.
in my next op (hopefully no more than 6 weeks away) they might have to steal bits from both of my hamstrings to graft into my knee.
i no longer have a right calf muscle; totally wasted away.
i lost my job coz i cant do manual labour.
i had just recovered from a broken ankle which i only found out i had done when i did my knee coz prior x rays didnt show up bone floating there. took me 6 months to walk it off. it looked like sailhaks at the time.
if i'm lucky i'll be back on the water this time next year.


You think thats bad. I snapped in half and sticky taped myself back together only to break in half again. Kept me out of the water for 6 months and 1 day!

curac
WA, 1157 posts
10 Mar 2008 11:10PM
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you think that's bad i was doin a cut back with such power that my left leg just vaporised..

so you know what i did. i swam in hoped my way to the car. cut my spare mast down to size and put a hinge in it and went back out..

F n A

pweedas
WA, 4642 posts
11 Mar 2008 12:44AM
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Bertie said...

u boys winging about ur pissy little ankle injuries.
try 3 busted ligaments in 1 knee, cartilage damage, partial tear of muscle in hip and minor anke strain in one hit.
had 1 operation already.
been lying on a couch for 2 months already.
in my next op (hopefully no more than 6 weeks away) they might have to steal bits from both of my hamstrings to graft into my knee.
i no longer have a right calf muscle; totally wasted away.
i lost my job coz i cant do manual labour.
i had just recovered from a broken ankle which i only found out i had done when i did my knee coz prior x rays didnt show up bone floating there. took me 6 months to walk it off. it looked like sailhaks at the time.
if i'm lucky i'll be back on the water this time next year.


Geez Bertie! That's a very serious injury for just falling out of bed.
You must have been on the top bunk surely?
Maybe you could swap for the lower bunk.

Wet Willy
TAS, 2317 posts
11 Mar 2008 5:02PM
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curac said...

you think that's bad i was doin a cut back with such power that my left leg just vaporised..

so you know what i did. i swam in hoped my way to the car. cut my spare mast down to size and put a hinge in it and went back out..

F n A


That's NOTHING, you big whiner!

I've had my leg bitten clean off by a shark -- THREE TIMES!!

Did it stop me? NO!!!

stribo
QLD, 1628 posts
11 Mar 2008 7:33PM
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Not quite a severe injury but an annoying one.F$#%ing ulcer on the side of my foot.You know the ones ..they get rounder and deeper.
Any tips on how to get rid of them fast..Yeah i know stay out of the water...yeah right i'm a wind junkie it's just not possible

pweedas
WA, 4642 posts
12 Mar 2008 12:38AM
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Put Lanacane on it under a sticky plaster. Specially at night.
Available at most chemists.
It will come off when you sail but just put a new one on at night.

ka72
QLD, 581 posts
13 Mar 2008 12:34PM
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i had just recovered from a broken ankle which i only found out i had done when i did my knee coz prior x rays didnt show up bone floating there. took me 6 months to walk it off. it looked like sailhaks at the time.


Bertie sounds like you have it bad. I have just been given a referral to have a bone scan to see if I have bone floating around as I still cant walk almost 2 weeks later and my X-rays were all clear too!

Gestalt
QLD, 14627 posts
13 Mar 2008 1:38PM
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stribo said...

Not quite a severe injury but an annoying one.F$#%ing ulcer on the side of my foot.You know the ones ..they get rounder and deeper.
Any tips on how to get rid of them fast..Yeah i know stay out of the water...yeah right i'm a wind junkie it's just not possible


the dreaded sea ulcer...

i have a permanent hole in my ankle from years of bodyboarding as a teenager. i always got them from the wear due to the fins i used.

i am jumping to conclusions here but could yours be due to footstraps. maybe change footstrap brands so they rub somewhere different.

cheers

Gestalt
QLD, 14627 posts
13 Mar 2008 1:40PM
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ka72 said...

i had just recovered from a broken ankle which i only found out i had done when i did my knee coz prior x rays didnt show up bone floating there. took me 6 months to walk it off. it looked like sailhaks at the time.


Bertie sounds like you have it bad. I have just been given a referral to have a bone scan to see if I have bone floating around as I still cant walk almost 2 weeks later and my X-rays were all clear too!


sorry to hear your off the water KA72. that's a bugger.



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