[pct-l] Fw: Medical alert

[tahoe.cat at verizon.net (Bill & Cathy)]

Hi All    Reinhold   after I had back surgery my cold tolerance really
changed. Now I'm cold when it drops below 50. I need a lot of warm clothing
for snow and below 32 type weather. Good Luck and God speed to recovery.
Remember
"Be Prepared"  Ground Pounder Bill  "Semper Fi"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinhold Metzger" <reinholdmetzger@cox.net>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 10:19 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Fw: Medical alert


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reinhold Metzger" <reinholdmetzger@cox.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 8:43 PM
> Subject: Medical alert
>
>
> > TO ALL MY FRIENDS.....(Backpacker fanatics, ski bums, camp ruffians,
trail
> > scoundrels,
> > Echo 2/7 Grunts, and all other social misfits)
> >      MAMA ALWAYS SAID, "IF YOU DON'T STOP DOING THAT, YOU'RE GOING TO
KILL
> > YOURSELF."
> >     Four weeks ago, mama  almost was right. I took a nasty high speed
> tumble
> > while skiing Mammoth Mt. in the Sierra Nevada's and blew out my left
> > shoulder - did some serious damage--three torn rotary cuff muscles, torn
> > biceps muscle, broken rotary cup bone, & other tendon and nerve damage.
> >     The good news after 4 hours on the table, they put me all together
> > again.
> >     The bad news--I'm held together with screws.
> >     To add insult to injury, the day after the operation, a cute young
> nurse
> > walks in and says it's time for you to take a pee now,  and with her hot
> > little hand holds my ding a ling  to a urine bottle and waits for me to
> pee.
> > I try and try and I try to no avail.  She smiles and says maybe you are
a
> > little nervous .  I just leave you alone and come back in 30 minutes.
> > Thirty minutes later and still nothing. Maybe the morphine and nerve
block
> > have not worn off yet she says.  We'll try again in two hours.  To make
a
> > long story short, after several hours of failed attempts and several
faile
> d
> > attempts by the cute nurse and the head nurse to install a catheter
tube,
> > I'm getting panicky.  NOW WHAT?  If I don't get to pee soon, I will be
in
> > serious trouble.  The head nurse makes a frantic call to the urology
dept.
> > Fifteen minutes later the urologist arrives and states that this is not
> > unusual after major surgery but don't worry- I know what to do.  I've
done
> > this once before.  Oh, good so you have experience I respond with great
> > relief.  So now I'm lying on the bed spread eagle under bright lights
> fully
> > exposed with three nurses staring intensely at you know what while the
> > urologist is working the catheter up my ding a ling.  WHAT HUMILIATION.
> But
> > by this time I was in so much misery, I did not care anymore.
> >     NOW THE QUESTION IS THIS---What if this happens on the trail,
several
> > days from civilization.  How do you deal with this?
> > Maybe it's time to put a catheter in the first aid pack.
> >     Well anyhow, I don't look too romantic right now,  all bandaged up
and
> a
> > catheter and urine bag hanging from my ding a ling.
> > Maybe that's why Karen (my wife) has not been purrrring into my ears
> lately.
> >     So if you guys see a hike on the trail with a catheter tube dragging
> > behind him,  IT'S ME!!!!
> >     Has anybody had any experience with a like shoulder injury.  The
> doctors
> > are sort of wishy washy about the full recovery potential.
> >     Since the accident, my left arm and shoulder, especially the joints
> seem
> > to be very sensitive to cold and start hurting.
> >     I hope that I don't have to carry extra cold weather gear on my
hikes.
> >     It would not be much of a problem on regular hikes, but it would
> really
> > mess up the ultra   light strategy on those high speed marathon treks.
> >
> >                 JMT Reinhold
> >                 Your intravenously fed trail companion
> >
> >
>
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