64Bel Get Well Soon

[RR Fan Dan]

Mine sits in an unheated building parked on plastic. I put Stabil in the gas tank and have the tank full, then I pour a little ATF down the carbs while it's running to fog it. Then off for the duration of the endless salty WI winter. No cover. I flip the sun visors down in case a mouse would get in. It smokes for a few miles in the spring, but no issues, otherwise.

It's unknown how long mine will hibernate this year since I broke my clutch leg and foot in 2 places each this morning. Mucho ligament damage, too. I'll see a surgeon on Monday.

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[alsant]

Get well soon Bel ! You will be in my prayers !

 

[Don Frelier]

Get well.

 

[khryslerkid]

Yes, get well soon! Listen to your doctor!

 

[eldubb440]

ouch.......

 

[Mopar Hunter]

Wishing for the best news on Monday for you.

 

[DeltaV]

Godspeed on healing and recovery.

 

[64BEL]

Thanks, guys - this means a lot. My ladder squirted out from under me when I was getting off the garage roof. Something I've done many times without incident. Although, I guess it was the first time since I turned 62 - haha. I felt like Wile E Coyote running off the cliff to nothingness, waiting to hit the ground. LOL

At first I thought I might just have a bad bruise, so I iced it for a little while. Then I thought maybe I broke or sprained my foot and/or my ankle. I was a little shocked when the x-rays showed the snapped fibula. My leg is broken in 2 places and my foot is broken on the top and the heel. Plus a bunch of ligament damage. Still, it could have been much worse. I'm very thankful that I didn't land on my head.

I'm in what they call a splint (sort of a soft cast). All it's doing is stabilizing everything until surgery. Nothing has been repaired yet, so it's pretty uncomfortable.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Ouch. I guess rubbing a little dirt on it and walking it off wasn’t gonna help this time.

 

[Skytrooper]

Ouch ! I am really surprised that thy just stabilized it. I outdoor think that immediate surgery would have been called for.
Anyway, I am glad that your fall didn’t wind up much worse. Get well soon

Stay off the roof in the meantime!

 

[1967coronet]

Damn just seen this, hope the drs get you in and fixed up soon plus a fast recovery.

 

[Hey-O]

Godspeed on healing and recovery.

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[Thunderlugs]

Dave.. Heal well and soon, so you can get back in the Satty! You have a little time now to Data Mine that white and gold Mustang on Adam 12!

 

[HawkRod]

Hope you heal quickly and well!

 

[TBONE]

Oh no! Hope you have a fast recovery Dave!!!

 

[68BabyBlue]

Just saw this, hope you get a fast and uneventful recovery. Probably small consolation, but if you had to do it, better to lose the clutch leg during the off season. Assuming you will temporarily be joining the disability community. Might want to consider the equipment I use, way more effective operationally than the junk the medical profession typically prescribes. My spare pair recently got used by a friend of my wife's post hip replacement, and she loved them.

 

[Geetex]

Been there done that, but I was in my mid-twenties. Mine was knee and fibula instead of foot and fibula. No more kick start Harley's for a while after that. Hang in there buddy, do as the therapist says post surgery.

 

[Cranky]

Oh wow man! At 73, I don't even want to get up on a roof anymore. When dad and I built my shop, he got up on top to help me get the ridge board up and braced and then he went back down to the ground and cut rafters. My shop is 52 feet long. He was 63 at the time and I was 33 and now I know how he felt being up there. Hope you heal up fast and well.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Get well, it takes time for that to heal. Put in for SSD if the healing goes slow. Good Luck!

 

[Dave6T4]

Ouch! I hope you heal up soon, so you can enjoy your old Mopar this summer. God's way of saying, "Sell your ladder, and hire people." At almost 78, that's where I'm at, now.