Looks like I'll have to sell the farm

[Tismedt]

Thursday morning at work I fell about 8' landing on a 4" dia anchorbolt with my heel, which shattered the heel bone into several pieces. I'll be in a cast for 8 weeks min and then several weeks of rehab. Needless to say my money is going to get stretched real thin so in the near future I'll be selling my farm and only folding on 2 computers in the house. Hopefully I can stay on the first page during this bad time. The podiatreist (sp) gave me some good pain meds to help me out and they work real good. Its some sort of morphine :clap: He also said he doubts I will be able to return to line of work. Thats a real bummer. I have 26 yrs invested in this trade and need 5 more to qualify for a full pension.Yea I can get a disability pension but it is only 60% of what I could get if I work for 5 more yrs. I sure hope that doc was/is wrong. As for workmans comp I may qualify for a maritime/longshoremans claim. If I can get that I'll be fine financially. Maritime claims pay 2/3 of your gross earnings from the last 12 months. That woulde be more then a thousand dollars aweek tax free. If I end up with Ca state compinsation its more like 550 per week. I'll know in aouple of days what they are going to pay me and if its the state comp I'm fighting for the maritime comp.

Well this post got a bit long winded huh. I just thought you guys would like to know about my rotten luck.

[flixotide]

That is such a bummer man.

We've raced Tismedt, and you're a great dude... which is typical, rotten luck hits the good guys.

Get well, and feel free to drop a PM if you need to whine and bitch at someone.

Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeers,

Flix

[Xenocide]

sorry to hear it man. get better!

[Mr.Furious]

Just tell us when you are ready to sell the farm... im sure someone will be interested in buying it and helping out the team... sorry about the foot and I hope it heals fine. Dont always believe the doctors and just try to stay optimistic :attn:

[bizhar]

Glad you are ok, from that high, you could have easily killed yourself. Hope you can return to work and the doc is wrong.

[wizard james]

my dads a roof er and he fell off a house once and riped all the tendens in his foot.. was 3 months till he could walk normally

i steped on a nail once.. very very dumn ..never will do this again. the nail left filiillings of steal in my foot and it healed up and all but the steals in my blood stream and i cut my self on my arm.. deep wound from a bike meets clilf .. and i saw some steal coming out of myself.. i was like yay i am pure..

relly sorry to hear that tho relly gots to suck. well hope you get that 1000 doller aweek thing.. then you can keep the folders foldin

[nahmus]

Get better soon man. There are alot of braces out there that you could probably get to help you out. I'm not sure what you do exactaly but with a brace maybe you could make those last 5 years! If you need any information my friend makes prostetic (hope thats spelled right) limbs and braces. He does lots of custom work. I'd be happy to ask him any questions you might have.

good luck..... enjoy the meds

[hrdwrjnkie]

Best of luck too ya man, you've been on that page a while and I hope to see you stay there. Long-time folders are an inspiration to all of us. Like flix said, ya ever need to whine or bitch, feel free to PM.

[Scary_Penguin]

Get well soon Tismedt. I had a friend who broke an ankle in 3 places one night grappling with a friend in our karate class, caught it on the mat and it stuck. He had 2 plates and 4 screws in it and was out of work for 6 months, the doctor told him he would never be able to resume what he did before as well. He really toughed it out and overcame the odds, and is back working at his old job again. The time that he was laid up was rough as money was stretched thin, but in the end, all was well. I hope the same for you :)

[slater3333uk]

awww more bad news. I hope ther are plenty of folders out there stepping up to buy your farm and help out you and the team.

Get well sooooon dood!:)

[belorsch]

Tismedt,
Hope your healed up soon and able to prove the docs wrong.

[Mustanley]

Here's to speedy recovery :beer:
I'll gladly switch a rig over to you to help maintain your 1st page status.

[bigdaddyTank]

10 years ago I had almost every bone in my left foot and all the bones in my ankle broke along with 3 breaks in my left leg and lots of tendon and ligament damage from a motorcycle wreck. My foot was actually pointing the wrong direction when the paremedics got there. All I remember is one of the fireman talking about how deformed my foot was. The doctors said I would never have full movement of my ankle, I would be lucky with 10%. That meant I would not be able to ride, I said B/S and as soon as the surgery's were done and the casts were off I started working on rehabing that bad boy. After a year of working at it I was able to get back to riding. I now have a few extra peices of metal in me but I have almost 90% of movement in that ankle. I worked for doctors for years and still work in the medical industry and have found very few doctors that I like, so I say prove them all wrong!! Good luck!

[jonspd]

Here's to speedy recovery :beer:
I'll gladly switch a rig over to you to help maintain your 1st page status.


You are a great giving guy BTW :cool:


Hope you get well soon and comeback with the passion to fold more.

[Tismedt]

thanks for all the comments and engouragement guys. I found out today the co i worked for filed a maritime compinsation claim so i'll get the grand a week. Thats still less then I was making but its a whole lot better then the 500 the state would've givin me. whheeewww thats a load off of my mind. i've been researching shattered heel injuries and for someone my age (44) it does not look good. Arthiritis will setin very quickly and the heel will never be 100% healed. I work as a high steel Ironworker and the job involves a lot of climbing so I'm going to plan on getting into another carreer but work real hard to try to get well enough to stay working iron. I'll get paid vocational rehab so I'm thinking about the IT field. What do you guys think is the best field to get into these days?

Thanks again for all the encouragement and if you want swich a machine or two over to my name by all means go right ahead.:D

[wizard james]

yay.. well go back to school and become relly relly smart and then sit there at a desk repaerin computers for 100 dollers an hour... my friend does that..hes 27 he makes over 5 grand a month.. because he not only gets 100/h he gets extra 50-500 dollers from the person who owns the computer...he also does on the job for servers downtown.. thats 250 an hour and he gets 20% comissaion on anything he sells... and its no cheep store..all high end stuff...

[PCGUY112887]

To make a LONG story short, my dad got in a wreck in a carpet van, ended up with a van motor in his lap and LOTS of carpet tools hit him. He had more broken bones than you could count with your fingers and toes. DR said he would never walk again. As of right now, he can lay carpet again, even though they put soo much steel in him that he sets off any metal detector.

So don't always believe doctors and get better soon!