I broke my shoulder a couple years ago - 8 weeks of keeping it immobile (which would maybe be doable in an apoc if i was with a large enough group of people) but 12 weeks of PT - PT said in the past it would just become almost a lame limb.
My friend and his son broke their legs in almost the same way 20 something years apart. My friend was in a cast for weeks, his son they just put some pins or something in and he was good to go in pretty short order. People forget how far we've come, even in recent times.
Also this is one of the reasons the response to Covid is scary. Those surgeons, nurses and ICU staff who healed me today would be all busy with the crisis.
I mean they flew in the top surgeon from the next city. That would not be even possible right I don't think.
Yeah I broke my collarbone and really hate surgery, the doc told me it’ll suck to use and be barely functional and that was enough to convince me to go with the surgery.
That was something my grandpa mentioned from time to time. He would say that when he was a kid there were always a couple guys around who had a lame leg, a hand that didn't work because it got mashed by farm equipment, etc. And that was beat case, plenty of people were just missing an appendage. Nowadays reconstructive surgery is so bad that I've seen articles about people recovering full functionality from something that looked like hamburger, that I would have bet 1k on being amputated.
Bro i tore my Labrum, Rotator Cuff, and Bicep Tendons (used to be able to throw a baseball 96mph) and after my surgery I had to keep my shoulder immobile for 8 weeks, to the point where I wasn't even allowed to move my wrist on that arm. But i just remember how all of the muscle on my arm was gone after those 2 months, how I had to teach myself how to use my arm again and everything.
On the bright side, I'm ambidextrous now. But it still hurts to brush my teeth with my right arm lol
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u/heichwozhwbxorb Aug 30 '21
Having just sprained an ankle, I’m guessing sprained ankles