End of technical climbing?
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Re: End of technical climbing?
Best of luck with this!! You had lot to overcome lately. But my money is on this does not spell the end of your technical climbing or of your adventures.
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Re: End of technical climbing?
Good luck Scott! I hope the surgery goes well and you make a full recovery.
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Re: End of technical climbing?
Keep on keepin’ on brotha.
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Re: End of technical climbing?
Good luck, Scott, get better.
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Re: End of technical climbing?
That really looks serious. I hope everything turns out well with your surgery. Let us know the results.
FWIW
Back in my late 20s I had a "growth" on my left arm between my elbow and bicep. It caused pain and I had a biopsy. According to the physician it was just a benign tumor. A few months later it had grown and the pain was intense. I had moved in the intervening months and went to another physician who diagnosed it. I had an infected pocket in my arm. I assume the first physician did not push the biopsy needle in deep enough to reach the pus and junk deep within my arm. After a course of antibiotics, this doctor lanced it and squeezed out all of the nasty stuff in my arm, and then filled it with packing. Eventually the packing was removed, and while I have an ugly scar, my arm has been fully functional since then. What you have there looks much worse, but I hope the results of having it fully treated are as good as mine were.
FWIW
Back in my late 20s I had a "growth" on my left arm between my elbow and bicep. It caused pain and I had a biopsy. According to the physician it was just a benign tumor. A few months later it had grown and the pain was intense. I had moved in the intervening months and went to another physician who diagnosed it. I had an infected pocket in my arm. I assume the first physician did not push the biopsy needle in deep enough to reach the pus and junk deep within my arm. After a course of antibiotics, this doctor lanced it and squeezed out all of the nasty stuff in my arm, and then filled it with packing. Eventually the packing was removed, and while I have an ugly scar, my arm has been fully functional since then. What you have there looks much worse, but I hope the results of having it fully treated are as good as mine were.
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Re: End of technical climbing?
Please keep us updated.
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Re: End of technical climbing?
Good luck Scott. It’s all up to your decision and how you recover now. Hopefully things will turn for the better soon.
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Re: End of technical climbing?
are your cultures back yet?
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Hoping and praying that all goes well for you, Scott. May you make a strong and complete recovery, and may you return to climbing full force.
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Re: End of technical climbing?
Agreed! After it’s removed, PT, and healing, things might be better than you’d expect. Praying that you might have a good outcome.ekalina wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:50 am Scott, sorry you're dealing with this, and I wish you a full and rapid recovery. I would say try not to jump to conclusions about what you will and won't be able to do once it's removed, especially if the doctors aren't willing to make any statements of that nature either. It is easy to feel like the outlook is grim when in the midst of some illness/injury/condition, but given time and modern medicine the body can heal many things.
Re: End of technical climbing?
I got my tumor removed yesterday. It went well. I can't use my right arm for up to a month or so, but hopefully I'll recover after that. I hope to be climbing and/or canyoneering by September. Until then it's probably just hiking.
Anyway, thanks for the best wishes everyone. Hopefully I can be less cranky now.
Anyway, thanks for the best wishes everyone. Hopefully I can be less cranky now.
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Re: End of technical climbing?
Hell yeah!