The post whore thread.

[buffalobo]

That left a mark.

Must be good stuffing.

Glad you making progress.

[ChickNorris]

That is a surprisingly nice closure, considering the defect.

I know riiight?!

If you don't like graphic, skip this next part, or not...

As I understand it, he peeled the skin off part of my leg like a sausage casing & then slid it up & over like a knee sock trimming the excess where necessary. Reattached the underside of the dermis to the muscle with sutures as they went along finally stretching it over the softball sized void & closed the seams with staples. Surgeon is a wizard if Ive ever met one. Very tight in a couple areas but that should remedy with time they said. Some nerve damage too but again, it should resolve for the most part. Plastics doubts they will want another go of it unless there's an area that just wont stay closed or proves to hinder. Bonus is that it looks nice enough & with no negative pressure vac. & no skin graft necessary I'm now several months ahead of schedule. Yay.

[MrPrena]

I decided to meme a shooting competition this weekend

Nice setup with bayonet! 70s war theme.
I am looking at some stage 2 video right now (for miata racing). Pretty aggressive on a throttle.

That left a mark.

Are you currently doing PT?

[ChickNorris]

Had surgery on my legs 2 years ago, no fun. Doc said I would lose a leg (or worse) if I did not have it so I let the Germans operate on me. I got "Helga the punisher" for a nurse.

Hi Stranger! Nice to see you post.

Sorry about Helga. My nurses were great, thankfully.

[Ridge]

Nice setup with bayonet! 70s war theme.
I am looking at some stage 2 video right now (for miata racing). Pretty aggressive on a throttle.

Haha which video was it? The instructor at Laguna Seca said if you're not hammer down, you better be on the brake.

[ChickNorris]

I am not on a pt schedule yet, no. They don't want me doing much of anything until they remove the staples & the sutures dissolve, so another couple weeks. Also, seems it's 3 months until the incision is considered 50% healed. Dont want to pop the seams. I still have more with oncology too.

Really only have one complaint about the multiple medical/hospital/surgery experiences. Simply, I wish I could have a private little chat with the last anesthesiologist because I wasn't out like he initially thought. I told him beforehand (it always happens) that I wake up during - but he apparently didn't listen. I managed to make it known I wasn't out-out while I was in the OR... that kind of sucked, again.

[Gman]

That left a mark.

Damn. How'd I miss that you were having your next procedure?

That actually looks really good. They were able to close without having to do a graft?

ETA: Now I'm caught up and you covered that. Shoot, with some more healing the skin should relax over time and I'm tickled the surgeon was able to make it happen for ya!

ETA Further: Hope your healing goes as well as the surgery seems to have. Positive mindset has a great deal to do with a good outcome in my experience. The prospect of getting going sooner than expected, without having the graft site needing to heal as well, should help.

I think the down-side will be wanting to get back at it sooner than maybe you should. I seem to recall you getting bored.

[ChickNorris]

Yes. I keep pushing a bit more than I probably should.

Separately, I sorted another (approximately) 8k of brass today. Easier when you only shoot about 4 different head stamps. Few random ones always seem to make it in though when other folks collect brass during competition. I ended up with 48 pmc that I never shot for example. Also, 35 frontier 223, & few hundred -ish other misc.

This is a new experience - sorting brass, so please pardon my naivete. I had to text a couple people to find out if year stamps mattered, or certain crimp variations, etc.

[MrPrena]

I am not on a pt schedule yet, no. They don't want me doing much of anything until they remove the staples & the sutures dissolve, so another couple weeks. Also, seems it's 3 months until the incision is considered 50% healed. Dont want to pop the seams. I still have more with oncology too.

Really only have one complaint about the multiple medical/hospital/surgery experiences. Simply, I wish I could have a private little chat with the last anesthesiologist because I wasn't out like he initially thought. I told him beforehand (it always happens) that I wake up during - but he apparently didn't listen. I managed to make it known I wasn't out-out while I was in the OR... that kind of sucked, again.

Wish for fast recovery!
I am not 100% myself and have difficult time jogging still, but I can play take it east type of sports.

Haha which video was it? The instructor at Laguna Seca said if you're not hammer down, you better be on the brake.

https://youtu.be/o49_5Jncjw0

I think laps 1 to 5 is a great example of practice or test runs. Aggressive and not aggressive runs to see time. Lap 5 looks like you wanted to see the track condition?

The Mazda steering (at least when I was driving yrs back then) was very fine and sensitive. I think it is very power assisted than vehicles like BMW.

Do you left foot brake?
(For dual clutch, high speed corner for manual gearbox).

[ChickNorris]

I have about a bucket full of unwanted brass from competitions too. I imagine that's going to go much much slower & have just about everything in it from what I saw when I browsed the top. Going to look over each piece more closely to see if its cracked or damaged as I don't have any idea if any were reloaded. All my brass is first fired.