My scars are bigger then yours....

**Hi-Po** · 05-18-2009, 10:20 PM

Damn near burned my arm off.

Damn near cut my toe off. Many stiches in that little toe

Yours is way. way worse. Sorry to hear that.

**ksstamp09** · 05-18-2009, 10:25 PM

damn manye,

ive never heard of that, an thats a LONG ass recovery time.
i also was told i would never walk again.

for proving them wrong.
i hope you continue to make progress.

**levityinc3** · 05-18-2009, 11:07 PM

Your scar is bigger than mine. I added this a while back but it's always fun.

IROC accident. Doctors said I wouldn't have full mobility and it would only be about 50 lbs weight bearing. They were wrong. Fully weight bearing and full mobility. Just gotta keep at it.

**SS201** · 05-18-2009, 11:48 PM

Damn! SMWS6TA, that reminds me of the book, "Inside the Special Forces", One who walked his feet off! He was in the testing phase of Special Forces and during a Ruck Hump he walked so much his feet's old calusus created blisters in between his feet and the calusus's skin. When the medic took his boots off his calusus came off with them!

**levityinc3** · 05-19-2009, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by SS201

Damn! SMWS6TA, that reminds me of the book, "Inside the Special Forces", One who walked his feet off! He was in the testing phase of Special Forces and during a Ruck Hump he walked so much his feet's old calusus created blisters in between his feet and the calusus's skin. When the medic took his boots off his calusus came off with them!

Sick man. Scary to think about.

**FasstChevys** · 05-19-2009, 07:01 AM

I'll throw my hat into the ring - although it won't top the 'op' ...

this is the scar I have from when I broke my femur in a motorcycle wreck -

***SMWS6TA*** · 05-19-2009, 08:39 AM

Wow, much more ppl here that have been F'd up by something....

Many months after the operations, me and my Ortho Dr started going over the events that led up to it. There were warning signs that I didn't know about that could have prevented it.

1) At that time I was running 6.5 miles daily in addiation to the 2-4 miles for PT daily. My legs would go numb or give that pins & needles feeling and after I ran it would take all night to recover some days.
2) When I did the road march, I went in cold, meaning no train ups, like a 4 mile or 6 mile, my 1SG was an ASS! I get back from 21 days @ Ft Polk for a leadership training event, get home @ 7pm and he leaves a message telling me and my guys have to do this roadmarch @ 5am.
Sooo, on the road march I start cramping, I fall behind, he deciedes to start motivating me by bitching in my ear for a mile, we are at mile 3 now, and I get pissed off, so I start doing an Airborne shuffle (cross between a run and a jog), with that much wieght (80lbs)you can't really run. I run the whole way back, when I was finish, I had the medics give me 2 IVs for fluids and thinking it would get rid of the cramps, I was thinking I had heat cramps or exhuastion. @ 5pm I couldn't take the pain anymore, so I go to the ER, they give me a shot of valuam (can't spell) and then go home, 1 1/2 hr later it is getting much worse, My Bud, had to take me cause I couldn't walk anymore, 2 hrs and everydrug they had didn't stop the pain. After I broke their hspital bed and screaming at the top of my lungs, my Ortho Dr came in. (He was alittle busy, saving another soldier's femar, the guy fell 75ft from a Blackhawk onto the ground, doing fast rope training.) He had been doing an 8 hr operation before me, The ER didn't think to page someone else, cause they didn't know it was becoming a life or death situation. They gave me a full dose of anesthesia, I still wasn't out, I finally went under as the Dr told his staff "Prep for double amputation, we may have to take both legs....

**allbaugh_04** · 05-19-2009, 08:59 AM

omg, what a horrible situation...glad they saved your legs

**Sarge** · 05-19-2009, 11:34 AM

I've been shot/stabbed/sliced and diced but you guys win. Lucky you and congrats

**levityinc3** · 05-19-2009, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by FasstChevys

I'll throw my hat into the ring - although it won't top the 'op' ...

this is the scar I have from when I broke my femur in a motorcycle wreck -

Get any hardware from that?

Originally Posted by SMWS6TA

Wow, much more ppl here that have been F'd up by something....

Many months after the operations, me and my Ortho Dr started going over the events that led up to it. There were warning signs that I didn't know about that could have prevented it.

1) At that time I was running 6.5 miles daily in addiation to the 2-4 miles for PT daily. My legs would go numb or give that pins & needles feeling and after I ran it would take all night to recover some days.
2) When I did the road march, I went in cold, meaning no train ups, like a 4 mile or 6 mile, my 1SG was an ASS! I get back from 21 days @ Ft Polk for a leadership training event, get home @ 7pm and he leaves a message telling me and my guys have to do this roadmarch @ 5am.
Sooo, on the road march I start cramping, I fall behind, he deciedes to start motivating me by bitching in my ear for a mile, we are at mile 3 now, and I get pissed off, so I start doing an Airborne shuffle (cross between a run and a jog), with that much wieght (80lbs)you can't really run. I run the whole way back, when I was finish, I had the medics give me 2 IVs for fluids and thinking it would get rid of the cramps, I was thinking I had heat cramps or exhuastion. @ 5pm I couldn't take the pain anymore, so I go to the ER, they give me a shot of valuam (can't spell) and then go home, 1 1/2 hr later it is getting much worse, My Bud, had to take me cause I couldn't walk anymore, 2 hrs and everydrug they had didn't stop the pain. After I broke their hspital bed and screaming at the top of my lungs, my Ortho Dr came in. (He was alittle busy, saving another soldier's femar, the guy fell 75ft from a Blackhawk onto the ground, doing fast rope training.) He had been doing an 8 hr operation before me, The ER didn't think to page someone else, cause they didn't know it was becoming a life or death situation. They gave me a full dose of anesthesia, I still wasn't out, I finally went under as the Dr told his staff "Prep for double amputation, we may have to take both legs....

Jesus H Christ. What an f-ed up way to go under, hearing the doc say that. Thanks for the service to our country, man. I hope one day you'll be able to run.

**taylorr12** · 05-19-2009, 11:45 AM

Wow. You're very lucky! It makes me happy to hear that you're doctor didn't amuptate. Many just take the easy way out these says. So again, you're VERY lucky!

***SMWS6TA*** · 05-19-2009, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by taylorr12

Wow. You're very lucky! It makes me happy to hear that you're doctor didn't amuptate. Many just take the easy way out these says. So again, you're VERY lucky!

He told me that it is just a matter of losing 25% of your chalf muscle mass and they would have to amputate. He said it would be a useless limb if they left it on.

**Tobynine9** · 05-19-2009, 02:41 PM

Dude, everything I'm reading says the Acute version is usually as a result of a trauma. Yours seems like it was a chronic syndrome that got so bad on that one day it turned acute. You're tougher than me. I'd have said, "Screw you, 1Sg! Something's wrong here!"

Makes me nervous to keep up the running. But then again, I'm not carrying 80 lbs of gear and a rifle.

Glad you can walk again.

**Spaz** · 05-19-2009, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by SMWS6TA

Also the openings are the treatment, it is to let the muscle expand/swell up, other wise it forces the blood out and kills the muscle, then the toxicity goes into blood stream and then kills you.....

any maggot or leech treatments???

**Benner** · 05-19-2009, 04:23 PM

Forgot to add picks when I posted. Here you go.

They added 8 strands of kevlar filament since this photo that wrap both bones and reattach to the plate to keep my ankle in place. I had completely ripped the tendon in tow that holds the tibia and fibula together so they help to add strength to the repaired tendon.

**JB454** · 05-19-2009, 04:35 PM

Two thing I need to say. First, thank God you can still walk and didn't get your legs taken. Second, many thanks to people like you who sacrifice for us Americans to have freedom. Again, thank you. John

**FasstChevys** · 05-19-2009, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by levityinc3

Get any hardware from that?

yeah....there are three really long screws holding the piece of bone, that I broke off, back where it belongs...

**levityinc3** · 05-19-2009, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by FasstChevys

yeah....there are three really long screws holding the piece of bone, that I broke off, back where it belongs...

Nice. My entire elbow is stainless steel now. When I woke up it was the first thing I asked the Doc. He said my bone was like applesauce. I've got rods in all three bones and a plate on the outside, and hundreds of tiny screws.

**SeVeReDiStOrTiOn** · 05-19-2009, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by levityinc3

Nice. My entire elbow is stainless steel now. When I woke up it was the first thing I asked the Doc. He said my bone was like applesauce. I've got rods in all three bones and a plate on the outside, and hundreds of tiny screws.

Dude that's awesome...it's like walking around with a weapon all the time.

***SMWS6TA*** · 05-19-2009, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by JB454

Two thing I need to say. First, thank God you can still walk and didn't get your legs taken. Second, many thanks to people like you who sacrifice for us Americans to have freedom. Again, thank you. John

Thanks