Lion:
I don't hang out in the diner, so I never got the word. I hope your recovery goes well and that you have no long term problems.
Before I retired, I flew medevacs in snow country, so I can sympathize with those who had to remove you from a difficult environment. (You have not lived until you have landed a helicopter in two feet of powdered snow.) Fractures are so painful when stretchers need to be put in odd positions or when the injured person must be extricated from a vehicle or machinery.
Please keep us up to date during your recovery.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
I bet the LION feels much more at home in his natural habitat he´s back into!
A big ROAR to him!
LION may not be fully recovered, but him is at home. The Council of Felids, that is to say all of the LIONS and TIGERS and LEPOPARDS came in running through the nurshing home, and while they were shooing the LIONS out, our Broadway LION seaked out with them.
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Lion, Wishing you a speedy recovery and return to the subway.
Sincerely, Peter
PennCentral99 HOWEVER, I believe THE LION has earned and deserves this get well thread. Hope him gets-well soon.
That was one of My main reason's for starting this thread. Too often in Our lives, many people are only recognized for their achivements, knowledge, after they are gone...I had thought that the LION and other's, should be recognized why they are still here...even though they fell off a ladder near the cat house.
Take Care, All!
Frank
I don't post much anymore and I don't read the diner. HOWEVER, I believe THE LION has earned and deserves this get well thread. Hope him gets-well soon.
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Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
This thread made my day!!!!
I was looking at my new health insurance premiums for next year and the lack of any real options and was feeling less than eager.
Normally the Lion will cheer me up, this post about the Lion did the trick. Hope you feel better soon!!
I don't hang out in the Diner very much, so I was late getting the news. Some cats will do ANYTHING for sympathy. My own experience tells me him needs to do all his P.T. and then some.
Get better soon. What will the good folks of Dakota do without their subway service?
Tom
I can sympathize with LION. A few months after moving to the Land of the Ice and Snow for the first time, I slipped while snowblowing and shattered my shoulder. I had to have three temporary pins hold things together while I healed, because they can't put a cast on a shoulder. But eventually they came out, and today the shoulder is... well... still not 100%. I didn't do all the PT I should have because the pins made it hurt. So stick with it, LION. Hope the nursing home attendants bring you lots of tasty steaks so you can heal. And soon...
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That was a nasty episode Lion! I hope you make a full and quick recovery.
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Yowch! Sorry to hear of your fall, it sounds quite unpleasant. Best wishes to you for a speedy recovery!
Yeah, so no more setting off metal detectors at the airport.... Take all the fun out of having to deal with TSA. [:-)]
Seriously though, Lion, Him needs to Get better soon!
Ricky W.
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2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
CGW121 rrebell That is odd, skrews for a fracture? Anyway, glad you are doing better, do more dairy!!!!!!!!! Screws are not odd for leg fractures. This sounds like a bad break. One of the more recent devolopments in that area in nylon screws which can dissolve kinda like stitches. The doctors idea of mild discomfort and the patients are often very different.
rrebell That is odd, skrews for a fracture? Anyway, glad you are doing better, do more dairy!!!!!!!!!
That is odd, skrews for a fracture? Anyway, glad you are doing better, do more dairy!!!!!!!!!
Screws are not odd for leg fractures. This sounds like a bad break. One of the more recent devolopments in that area in nylon screws which can dissolve kinda like stitches.
The doctors idea of mild discomfort and the patients are often very different.
At least Lion's hips 'n joints are intact; my wife had a knee repalcement a year ago, and she still is not 100%. Nice to hear he has a power chair to get down the long road to the cafe, just no wheelies!
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Glad to hear you are healing.
Now, let me get this straight... You were injured on your way to a cat house?
Here is the afore mentioned LION. Him posted his plight in last month's dinner.
Let us put the story in order and perspective.
I had take a computer down to my office to up grade it to Windows 10. While it booting or something, I went next door to my nursing office to clean the cat house. The maintenance people had just shut off the water in the court yard for the winter, and I was moving the care and feeding of the fleid to the cathouse for the winter. Before doing that, I went up on a ladder, just on the second step, to clean out a summer's worth of filth, fur, and feathers. I twisted this way, fell that way and the ladder landed on top of me.
I let out a plaintive ROAR (perhaps more like a yelp) and the CAT stood up in the cat house looking down at me. Did she come down and lick my brow with her tongue. No she did not do that. But send a bill for the CAT scan. Yup, THAT she could do. Eventually the Abbot and the Prior showed up at my side, but what could they do besides cluck like chickens. The ambulance was called, but of course the ambulance stretcher will not fit in the Abbey elevator without shifting it, and the patinet into a sitting position. And this would not do. So I told them to use the kitchen elevator instead, and to use the secret tunnels under the slype. This they did and after some time I got to the (brand new) hospital in Dickinson. (100% LED lighting throughout, even the street lamps are LEDs). Their x-ray machine was not new, and it showed that there was no fracture. The doctor looked at the x-rays, he looked at me, and having more sense than a bag full off coffee beans, ordered a CT scan. That was painful, but in the end it was done, and it showed a fracture. The doctor looked at who was the orthopod on duty this weekend, and decided to send me to Bismarck instead. I told him, even before he opened his mouth to ask, "Bone and Joint. St. A's" That is about what he had in mind too, and so another ambulance was called, and in an hour plus trip they may have given me three or four morphine injections, But they would not let me drink anything cold. We got to the ER and they parked us in the hallway around the corner, while the on call orthopod was debaiting what to do. Once he decided on surgery in the morning instead of right now, they were able to bring the thirsty LION several tall glasses of diet coke. (Dang hospital does not have Pepsi Products.)
In the morning I remember they pushing bed, cage and all, out the door and down towards the operating room...
... and then I came to, back again in the room where I was as if nothing happened. Later the Doctor came in and told me about two screws and a nail. He said I could do full weight bearing right away, but it was not his leg, and it was not his bear. Eventually monks from the Abbey brought me my bear and a laptop, and I was back in business again.
Then I was moved to a nursing home. Still a lot of pain, and right away PT and OT converged upon me to make me stronger. (PT stands for pain and torture, and their patron saint is St. Tomas. But a few weeks have now passed, and they plan my release from here on Friday, But I will still come back daily for more PT. Ill be able to use a walker in my room, and in my offices, both nursing and computer, but two flights of stairs to the train room may be a bit of a stretch. Since it is 500' from my room to the cafeteria, I'll still use the power chair for that. But at least thee light at the end of the tunnel is not attached to a locomotive.
Sorry LION, just heard this - hope your recovery goes well. (insert lion pun with improper pronoun use here)
I agree, us folks and lions of a certain age should try to avoid acrobatic tricks on ladders or doing the Fred Astair bit on the stairs. That is why we have children, of in Lion's case younger Brothers.
OOps, my wife wants me to come and wash the skylight windows, thought we finished that yesterday.
Hey Lion,
Just heard that you are layed up......I don't know why but seniors and ladders don't mix as you well know now.
Best wishes and get well soon.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
How do they wake him up at feeding time? Poke him with a long stick?
Charlie
Yes, George. By now, you may have guessed how he hurt himself. He has a badly broken leg from (yep, you guessed it!) falling of a ladder. I wonder if they called a veterinarian for the lion.
Seriously, Lion: I Hope your recovery continues rapidly.
GARRY
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He fell off a ladder and fractured something I don´t exactly remember what it was. It was not his hip, though. He is on the mend at a rehab place, close to being let loose to roam the savanna again
BATMAN
Brent - you´ve made my day
hon30critter Rich! I have grown to love the Lion, I must admit. Dave
Rich!
I have grown to love the Lion, I must admit.
Rich
Alton Junction