my 1st game of pool since i broke my leg

rich337

rich337

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i got to play a little last night for the 1st time in a little over month my doctor put me in a walking boot but my ankle was messed up pretty good so its giving me more trouble then my leg but i took a couple of pain killers and i was ready lol i played terrible but it was great just to have the stick in my hands again i could only play a couple of games and my ankle swole up a little so i had to stop playing but it was worth it lol the only thing that i didnt like is i cant stand in my normal stance so my aim was way off but bad pool is better then no pool at all :thumbup:
 
Soon you will have a "Leg To Stand on". Easy does it. You'll be back.
 
I went through the same thing back in April, broke my ankle on my motorcycle, but had to keep all weight off it and elevate it for 2 months, then crutches (the wife got me a knee walker too), couldn't play with the crutches, but could play with the knee walker. Took me forever to get in line with every shot and it was physically exhausting just getting around the table. I just got moved up to an APA 7SL in 8 Ball 2 days before the accident and came back after 2 months of not playing, but it was good to play anyway. I was playing about 2 SLs down from where I left off (haven't played so bad in a very long time), but after a few weeks I could get around the table in my walking boot and started playing better. I still have swelling and pain (I'm told I can expect this for another 2-6 months yet), but ignore it or forget about it now while I'm at the table, it's just therapeutic for me to be at the table...Hang in there.
 
this is what it looked like when it 1st happend i dont have insurance so i had to go to a free hospital they didnt tell me anthing but it was broken so i paid to go see a orthopdic surgeon she told me i need surgery so i call the free hospital tell them what my doctor sald and they told me because of cut backs there was no orthopdic surgeons there i would have to travel 200 miles to the nearest hospital with a surgeon and that they had sent my files to them and they would send me a appointment i never got it i called them several times but they did nothing so i had too let it heal in a splint
 

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What the hell rich, is that a bullet wound?
You should have asked the doctor if you could play the piano after the leg healed, and then when he answered yes, say,"That's great doc, 'cause I never could before."
Glad your on the mend. :smile:
 
Really hate to say this but you're putting too much stress on that ankle when you play. Stay off as much as possible and use a crutch. When I broke my ankle, years ago, I did the same thing as you. Have had troubles ever since. Be smart, don't stress that ankle - you'll be playing pool soon enough. Don't cause any permanent injury.
 
Bill812 said:
I went through the same thing back in April, broke my ankle on my motorcycle, but had to keep all weight off it and elevate it for 2 months, then crutches (the wife got me a knee walker too), couldn't play with the crutches, but could play with the knee walker. Took me forever to get in line with every shot and it was physically exhausting just getting around the table. I just got moved up to an APA 7SL in 8 Ball 2 days before the accident and came back after 2 months of not playing, but it was good to play anyway. I was playing about 2 SLs down from where I left off (haven't played so bad in a very long time), but after a few weeks I could get around the table in my walking boot and started playing better. I still have swelling and pain (I'm told I can expect this for another 2-6 months yet), but ignore it or forget about it now while I'm at the table, it's just therapeutic for me to be at the table...Hang in there.
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well i wasnt the best player to start off with but it was alot worse last night lol but like i said its better then not being able to play at all i was going crazy laying in bed all day playing virtual pool 4 its fun but it isnt the same glad to hear you are also doing better hopefully we both will be back 100% soon thanks to everyone for the kind words
 
Tramp Steamer said:
What the hell rich, is that a bullet wound?
You should have asked the doctor if you could play the piano after the leg healed, and then when he answered yes, say,"That's great doc, 'cause I never could before."
Glad your on the mend. :smile:
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no when i broke my leg i rolled my ankle really bad and that is form the concrete it was kinda like road rash
 
The Broken Leg

rich337 said:
i got to play a little last night for the 1st time in a little over month my doctor put me in a walking boot but my ankle was messed up pretty good so its giving me more trouble then my leg but i took a couple of pain killers and i was ready lol i played terrible but it was great just to have the stick in my hands again i could only play a couple of games and my ankle swole up a little so i had to stop playing but it was worth it lol the only thing that i didnt like is i cant stand in my normal stance so my aim was way off but bad pool is better then no pool at all :thumbup:
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Rich that looks like a bad leg you got , hope you get well soon!

Reading your thread brought back memories from 39 yrs. ago when I was just a kid at 14 yrs.

The owner of a local poolroom back in my home town of Warren ,Ar. had broken his leg out hunting one day, and ask me if I wanted a job, back then there were three poolrooms in town and a little diner with a pool table and a small snooker table in it but
now there are none, how things have changed from a small town that once had some really great players in it.

Anyway the owner like me so he started letting me work part time at the poolroom while he healed up his broken leg, he gave me half of what I ran on the tables for a day.


I thought that was great money at the time, but pool was only 10 cents a game and snooker was 20 cents, so it took me a long time to make anything, but some days I would run $25.00 and maybe $50.00 on weekends plus all the free pool I could play when I wasn't busy, I thought I was in pool heaven!

Back then there were no air cast for broken legs that I remember, you just had a plaster cast on your leg for a few months and walked on crutches.

Well the day the owner had his cast removed he ask me if I wanted to play a game, I said sure so he said rack a game of 9-Ball up, I did and he broke the balls and ran out.

The owner looked at me after the 9 fell and was looking me straight in the eye, laughing all along, and said Cat you never forget how to play the game, he rolled his old head back and hung up his cue.

What was really so memorable about this meaningless post of mine is that when the owner broke his leg he bet me that when he got his cast off he could break and run the table first shot from the break, and he did, his name is "Rodeny Parnell" he beat many champions passing through that town years ago, but he only played that one table.

Thanks for bringing back some fond memories from long ago with your post Rich!:smile:


David Harcrow
 
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rich337 said:
no when i broke my leg i rolled my ankle really bad and that is form the concrete it was kinda like road rash
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Rich--damn, that's looks nasty.

Broken leg and thrashed ankle/foot.

What happened? or is a lawsuit pending?

That combo sounds like you are going to have your own weather barometer in the years ahead.

I hope you heal up OK.
 
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