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Use a Beanbag as a pillow so you don't scream yourself awake, when you roll over onto the damaged side in your sleep.
Broken ribs? Try not to pick up that nasty bug thing that’s going round that has “persistent cough” as a symptom. That’s not going to be pleasant.
Plan a collaborative workshop video with Colin Furze? His safety tie may protect you too.
WCA said, I normally allow 6-8 weeks for ribs
Breaking ribs has come to be normalised in the world of WCA... 😂
Stool softener.
You should use the time to plan your next project,a 1:1 scale of the eiffel tower made from razor wire or convert the hot tub to an acid tank filled with acid-resistant sharks, perhaps?
Or something less dangerous, like a kinetic sculpture involving bacon slicers, chainsaws and high power lasers.
Anyway, here's hoping you heal fast and well. One thing not to watch would be the complete Red Dwarf.
Stool softener.
What a sh*t suggestion.
Stool softener.
Oh yes. You can just stand there and dribble when you need a pee but taking a dump can be agony without some Movicol first.
If getting out of bed is too painful, might I suggest a Nalgene wide mouth water bottle for emergencies? A lot of people here use them when camping so that they don't have to actually leave a tent in negative 10C.
Just please mark it up as "Not suitable for drinking" or something.
“Not suitable for drinking”
Mine were labelled 'intake' and 'exhaust', with extra scull-and-crossbones for good measure. Pleasantly warm in sleeping bag when full.
X-ray and same x-ray with full medical explanation to help
How are you doing? It's been a week and I was hoping we'd get to hear news on how they were going to either surgically implant bubble wrap in you, or just give up and go full Steve Austin.
Indeed-Genuine concern - How it going 🙂
Hand operation scheduled for this Friday.
Ribs still hurting. Sitting seems to have moved the pain mostly to the top two ribs whereas it was originally the lower ones which are now showing nice bruises. Adjustable standing desk makes the ribs much better but hurts the ankle after about an hour. Oramorph is still a good friend.
Ribs suck - always more painful than they should be and always take ages to heal and even longer when there are multiple ribs and multiple breaks in them.
No point even skiving off work as I am working from home and I still can't do anything useful when not working.
Ribs do suck.
I find it bad when they're almost there and lull you into a false sense.
You move or do something and they start hurting again....
I hand a working right hand and 12" wood so...
Yes, it needs finishing but it is so damned time consuming positioning, clamping, carving, positioning, clamping, carving, positioning, clamping, carving with only one good had.
Good god man you even broke it's arm,get your paints out now and make friends with those squirrels 🤣🙃😉
Arm break is actually wood grain but I had to go look at it to be sure