Re: Pearls Before Swine: I Fear 80

On 5/7/2024 3:07 PM, Tony Nance wrote:

On 5/6/24 12:48 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 5/3/2024 11:06 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Thu, 2 May 2024 23:49:46 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
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Pearls Before Swine: I Fear 80
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Me too.  Only 16 years away.

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2 years here.
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But I've never broken my arm. Or warn a cast. Knock on wood.

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I broke my right humorous 3/4 inch above the elbow (edge of the growth plate) when I was five.  Spent eight weeks in traction so they did not have to pin it.  Never had a cast.  For my 60th, I got severe tendonitis in my right wrist and elbow.  Am considering surgery to resection the lower tendon from the right wrist to the right elbow but the surgery failure rate is high.  I wear a right wrist brace all the time now.
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 Interesting ... I broke almost the exact same spot[1] on my left arm when I was 17, and it required surgery & pins. It healed fine, and I learned to sleep on my back, but I'd rather it hadn't happened.
 Tony
[1] I had a medial epicondyle fracture.

Yeah, if you pin the humorous bone to the elbow growth plate on a five year old, you get a withered arm in a adult.  Plus, my humorous bone was broken in several places lengthwise.  Not a green splint break.
Maybe that is why I hate sleeping on my back after eight weeks of traction.  I roll side to side all night long.  My wife of 42 years calls me "sheet stealer", she would know.
Lynn