Good news about my injury...

[tomstock]

Went to specialist today who says he doesn't think it is a tendon injury after all. He thinks the impact caused some internal bleeding inside the lining of the bone, causing some extreme irritation and that compartmental swelling and then pain. The swelling has increased the pressure in my leg compartments, restricting blood flow and causing the numbness in my foot.

I went for an ultrasound and they did not find any blood clots (which was the biggest concern).

The pain has gone down quite a bit also but I still cannot feel anything in my foot.

Side note, my 12m waroo arrived today. Color is golden yellow and grey. It's awesome looking, I love it... and my 2007 waroo bar will be here Tuesday.

(Thanks to Daryl at extreme kites)

I bet you guys were powered today! Holy crap, it's cranking!

-tom

[BigR]

Thats exactly what I felt in my shin after running into the stell bench,


it'll hurt and be numb for awhile but hopefully it'll be pretty close to back to normal in a few weeks , good luck!

[Skyway Scott]

Great news. I knew you were just being a puss% (just kidding... you are the last guy who would be that way).

Great news for certain. It was good wind, not ballistic, but very nice
Hey!! I wanted the smiley at the end of the other sentence, not as a friggin' header!:mad:
I think the old format was more user friendly. Who has the manual for this one?:confused:

[tomstock]

Yeah, well that was the most pain I've felt in long time maybe ever. It hurt worse than when I broke my leg in 3 places when I was in 3rd grade.

All I could do when it hit was roll around on the ground and groan. I did that for about 10 hours. I finally fell asleep at 5am.

I agree, I liked the old forum better in a lot of ways. Still no file attachments :(

[Skyway Scott]

Yeah, at least in this format I have a KICK BUTT avatar!!:cool:

[toby wilson]

Great to hear that update from you Tom, definitely didn't want to see you have to go under the knife! I hope you feel better soon and miss as little riding time as possible...

After being on this platform for a couple of days, I agree with Scott that the old one was much more user friendly by the way...

[mobettah]

Great news. I knew you were just being a puss% (just kidding... you are the last guy who would be that way).

Great news for certain. It was good wind, not ballistic, but very nice
Hey!! I wanted the smiley at the end of the other sentence, not as a friggin' header!:mad:
I think the old format was more user friendly. Who has the manual for this one?:confused:
Seeing the Smileys as graphics is most likely another setting or import that needs to happen into the new software. For now if you look at the posting rules at the bottom of the post page and click on the Smiley link - it does bring up a list of smileys... but no graphics. :(

BTW, great to hear that your injury is not as bad as it was first thought to be....

[bryanleighty]

tom!!
i hope this all pans out to be just a minor injury for you.. seriously i have been bumming all day since hearing about you getting hurt.

i hit a big jump today and had one foot slip out and i did a mid-air FREAK OUT and kicked like crazy to get the board off my other foot.

keep us posted man!

we are all wishing you the best!!

-B
-off to boston for 9 days.

[tomstock]

Yeah... when I started riding I remember Jeff Weiss telling me to never try to recover the board during a jump if one foot slips out... I generally follow his advice and kick it away but this time I did not and I paid the price.

[ricki]

Hello Tom,

Hope the pain goes off soon and full recovery comes fast. This is the first type of this accident that I have heard of. Considering how it happened you would think it might be more common among kiters. Did your doctors comment on how common this sort of injury is in general?

You launched a jump and just before landing one foot came out and you tried to reinsert it. On impact with the water the edge of the board slammed into your shin? Was there much bleeding from the hit?

Sorry for all the questions but this is a new one. Feel better fast!

[tomstock]

Hi Rick, I forgot I have to give you the full accident report. LOL Ok...

I was riding a rather heavy lightwind (plywood) board with a SHARP turned down rail. I did an unhooked raley, and I my left foot slipped out just a little when I kicked the board up.. when I tried to pull the board back under me during the landing, the frontside edge dug into the water and my left shin slammed into the backside edge. The blow was intense and I was almost positive I had just broken my leg.

There was a lump the size of a quarter, and one narrow streak of blood running as I headed back for the beach with my weight on one leg. At first the pain felt like a fracture, and most of the pain was in the front where I got hit.

When I got to the beach and sat down, the pain suddenly shifted to my calf instead of my shin and was more intense. It felt sort of like a charley horse or like something stabbing my calf muscle from the inside. I limped around for awhile and sat in the cold water which seemed to help a little bit.

I then decided to go out and do some slow cruising so I could watch my friends ride while I was trying to recover... the "walk it off theory".

When I came back in my toes felt a little tingly but the pain did not seem to be much worse.

I went home and took a hot bath and soaked for awhile, thinking the pain was due to a cramp in the muscle. After the bath I was limping around the house when suddenly (instantly) the pain went from a 3 out of 10 to a 10. All I could do was roll around on the ground and whine. I could not stop rolling.. it was intense and there was no comfortable position. Had to have someone come get my daughter and take me to the emergency room. I could not get to the car on my own and even with help I had a few pain freakouts and we had to rest between the house and the car (total distance of about 20 feet).

The doctor says he thinks it was due to a little bit of blood pooling inside the casing of the bone causing the first calf muscle pain, and then sudden rush of swelling (from a hot bath I took when I got home) causing a pressure increase which caused the extreme pain and pinching of nerves later... this sounds correct to me because my leg feels rock hard.. like a waroo leading edge about to burst. I had no idea a little bit of bleeding and swelling could hurt that bad.

Today the pain is down a lot, but still can't feel my foot and I can't stand on it.

Board with sharp rails == watch your shins.

[Skyway Scott]

Rick,

Tom's board is a nice lightwind board.
But, it weighs alot. Most people couldn't even carry it out to the launch site, let alone try a railey with it on their feet.
I am surprised it didn't rip Tom's legs off at the moment of take off!
I think the weight of the board (along with the sharp rails) had alot to do with his injury on this one. Tom, do you think a lighter board would have done the same damage?
I know that once you get a lighter board under you, you will be pulling raileys off while yawning.

[BigR]

[QUOTE][I went home and took a hot bath and soaked for awhile, thinking the pain was due to a cramp in the muscle. After the bath I was limping around the house when suddenly (instantly) the pain went from a 3 out of 10 to a 10/QUOTE]



The hot water was what set it off, you should have put cold ice on it instead and you might not have triggered such a bad reaction

Glad to hear you are feeling better , I know what hitting your shins that hard feels like:(

[tomstock]

You are absolutely correct. Hot water was a bad idea. :(

Scott, it would have hurt but probably not as bad with a small light board. Agreed on that one.

[toby wilson]

Glad you agree that it was as hard as a WAROO LE about to burst Tom...

[tomstock]

I'm walking around now, so I may be riding soon! Can't feel foot, but no significant pain either.. just a little gimpy limp.

[toby wilson]

See you Christmas day then...

[tomstock]

Well, I doubt it... maybe Tuesday at the soonest...