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| 10 days after surgery and the cast is getting hold . . and stinky. I tried hiking a couple of times, but it was quickly drenched in sweat which never really dried out. |
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| July 23rd Doctor visit, surgery follow-up and the stinky cast is gone, but WOW, my arm looks like that of an 80-year old man who never lifted more than a can of Diet Coke. |
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| Pilot hole drilled through Radius, with a larger diameter hole drilled half-way through the Radius for insertion of the torn end of the tendon into the Radius, held in place on the far side with a suture and a Titanium button inserted through the bone vertically then toggled horizontally against the underside of the Radius. The other four white lines are caps inserted into arteries for blood management. |
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| New splint is to hold arm at a maximum of 30-degrees past 90-degrees. |
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| I can't just sit on my ass for eight weeks while this thing heals. Biking is forbidden because a crash could snap the drilled Radius which would increase the magnitude of repair by 100, requiring major surgery and over a year to regain full use. As it, I'm eight weeks from full use. That said, hiking may not be great either because a fall could also snap the bone, but I haven't face-planted while hiking for years. It's a risk I'm willing to take. |
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| All the way up Dude Peak, and half way down, I kept hearing a low, barely-audible humming, and I kept wondering if it was sirens responding to a distant disaster or F-35s out of Hill Air Force Base on a west-desert bombing run, but half-way down I saw it, a flock of gnats hovering one to two feet over my head. When I moved, they moved, but always just over my head. Not sure why they were dogging me, but they never lit or bit, so no harm in having hiking companions. |
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| Central Wasatch. High points, left-right starting in the middle of the photo, Dromedary Peak (11,107 ft.), O'Sullivan Peak/Sunrise (11,275 ft.), Jenson's Folly (11,129 ft.), Broads Fork Twins (East Pk. 11,330 ft. - West Pk. 11,328ft), Pfeiferhorn's west-neighboring-peak (11,137ft), North Thunder Mtn. (11,150ft), South Thunder Mtn. (11,154ft). |
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| Dude Peak USGS marker and my brace with my cycling sun-shield acting as a compression sleeve to hold down the swelling. Sweaty, but otherwise the splint is not too bad. |
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| Fire Ant? I've seen these my whole life and have never identified these furry little beasts. |
