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Senile_Texas_Aggie
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And you want to help Fred move across states?
Yep. I figured Fred has had a boring life lately, so my driving should help him catch on his prayer life!
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Yep. I figured Fred has had a boring life lately, so my driving should help him catch on his prayer life!
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I think he's doing OK on that part.Yep. I figured Fred has had a boring life lately, so my driving should help him catch on his prayer life!
Curious. I've never had depth perception and learned WAY young to compensate. Maybe you need to make a conscious effort to learn compensating techniques. I'm not even sure I could tell you what they are since I "just do them". I can tell you one is I put my hand in front of me a bit if I am approaching something.
... And before anyone gets smart, the reason I hit my head on the stove hood is because I don't have eyes on the top of my head! I'm looking at what is on the stove and not thinking about where the hood is relative to my head.
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No one else in my house is either.
Thanks for all the chuckles folks. Some funny posts above.
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Hey, it's not a big deal. I was in a truck wreck in 1989. Hit my head on the rearview mirror, yes I was wearing a seatbelt, put a hole in my skull big enough to put an egg in they said, took a good part of my scalp off, fractured my C-2 vertebrae, badly smashed my left middle finger, badly cut my right hand as it hit the pass window that broke and severed the tendon that controls the ring finger. Had 70 stitches to put my scalp back together and the skull healed. They were going to put a plate in it, but were so surprised that the bone knitted, so decided not to. It does have an indentation in it.
The right hand had several operations. They did a skin graft to cover the exposed wrist bone, then a balloon under the skin to stretch it, then took out the graft to sew healthy skin back together.... and eventually tied the pinky tendon into the ring finger. Tendons are like rubber bands and the part that "snapped" back up into my arm could not be "pulled back down" so they did the tie-in so I would have functional use of the pinky. I got wrote up in some medical journal because it had not been done before like that. I did alot of therapy. Said I would get 50-60% functional use back and that the pinky would never move independent of the ring finger. Well, I "showed 'em" because I wound up with nearly 90% functional use, and I can make the pinky raise up a bit if I sit and concentrate which they said would be impossible. I don't have full strength in that hand but 99% of people would never know if I didn't tell them.
I wore a "Philadelphia collar" for several months while the C-2 fracture healed. Wanted to put a "halo" on, but there wasn't enough "intact" bone on the right side of my skull due to the "hole in my head"; nothing to screw it into. So they said since I had made it that far and had all movement, that the collar would be the next best thing.... but I was VERY RELIGIOUS about wearing it except for the shower and I was very careful in the shower; so I didn't move my neck wrong and cause any movement that would paralyze me. Said if I had moved wrong, when they came to extract me, that I could have been paralyzed from the neck down and been on an iron lung to breathe for me. Thank God that I kept telling the rescue people not to move my neck cuz it hurt.
The left middle finger had to be reset and it never healed perfectly but it works. That's all I cared about. I wore splints on both hands for months. Could use the thumb and 1st finger on the right hand. The thumb and pinky on the left hand. It was interesting to learn to do stuff like cut meat and dress myself...
They couldn't figure out why my bones healed so well, and I kept telling them it was because I was a milk drinker and all that calcium in my dense bones was the result. I have had very dense bones according to past tests.
The upshot of the accident and head trauma, is that on that side I don't have the "intuition" or "sense" that something is close to my head. I have hit it on countless open cabinet doors and such, not realizing they are as close as they are. You know, like you duck when you sense you are about to hit it on something? I have no trouble with seeing, and my depth perception like that is fine. I have no trouble backing the tractor up to the farm equipment to be hooked up, as long as I can see it. I use the side mirrors for driving/backing up the trucks and trailers. It's just the close-up, like STA walking into the bucket. I would do that and not realize I was that close until "CONK"......
I do have some memory loss, and I've learned to live with it. Can't recall names alot of times.... and parts of my son's childhood are "not there" but he manages to remind me of what he "wants me to remember" !!!!! Little things... I don't sweat it.
The right hand had several operations. They did a skin graft to cover the exposed wrist bone, then a balloon under the skin to stretch it, then took out the graft to sew healthy skin back together.... and eventually tied the pinky tendon into the ring finger. Tendons are like rubber bands and the part that "snapped" back up into my arm could not be "pulled back down" so they did the tie-in so I would have functional use of the pinky. I got wrote up in some medical journal because it had not been done before like that. I did alot of therapy. Said I would get 50-60% functional use back and that the pinky would never move independent of the ring finger. Well, I "showed 'em" because I wound up with nearly 90% functional use, and I can make the pinky raise up a bit if I sit and concentrate which they said would be impossible. I don't have full strength in that hand but 99% of people would never know if I didn't tell them.
I wore a "Philadelphia collar" for several months while the C-2 fracture healed. Wanted to put a "halo" on, but there wasn't enough "intact" bone on the right side of my skull due to the "hole in my head"; nothing to screw it into. So they said since I had made it that far and had all movement, that the collar would be the next best thing.... but I was VERY RELIGIOUS about wearing it except for the shower and I was very careful in the shower; so I didn't move my neck wrong and cause any movement that would paralyze me. Said if I had moved wrong, when they came to extract me, that I could have been paralyzed from the neck down and been on an iron lung to breathe for me. Thank God that I kept telling the rescue people not to move my neck cuz it hurt.
The left middle finger had to be reset and it never healed perfectly but it works. That's all I cared about. I wore splints on both hands for months. Could use the thumb and 1st finger on the right hand. The thumb and pinky on the left hand. It was interesting to learn to do stuff like cut meat and dress myself...
They couldn't figure out why my bones healed so well, and I kept telling them it was because I was a milk drinker and all that calcium in my dense bones was the result. I have had very dense bones according to past tests.
The upshot of the accident and head trauma, is that on that side I don't have the "intuition" or "sense" that something is close to my head. I have hit it on countless open cabinet doors and such, not realizing they are as close as they are. You know, like you duck when you sense you are about to hit it on something? I have no trouble with seeing, and my depth perception like that is fine. I have no trouble backing the tractor up to the farm equipment to be hooked up, as long as I can see it. I use the side mirrors for driving/backing up the trucks and trailers. It's just the close-up, like STA walking into the bucket. I would do that and not realize I was that close until "CONK"......
I do have some memory loss, and I've learned to live with it. Can't recall names alot of times.... and parts of my son's childhood are "not there" but he manages to remind me of what he "wants me to remember" !!!!! Little things... I don't sweat it.
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I knew a guy that walked into the pointy end of one..poked a nice big hole in his belly too.. (which is what I first thought happened to the guy that walked into my house shot Christmas Eve..)
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Mr. @Bruce, sir, it most definitely is. I hereby award myself a Zinger™ award!
I have that problem as well. I have no frontal vision in my right eye, although I have peripheral vision. Neither did my dad in his right eye, nor did his dad in his right eye -- obviously a genetic defect. It turns out that it is a brain issue, rather than an eye issue. So I have to compensate for my lack of depth perception. But my whamming my head into the bucket wasn't a depth perception problem -- it was an act of stupidity problem! See, it is a brain issue!
Miss @farmerjan,
Wow! What you went through WAS a big deal! I am glad you have recovered so well. Thank you for sharing with us.
Yesterday I decided to get some drainage pipe. I went to ACE hardware in Booneville, but they didn't have what I was looking for, so I drove the 35 miles to Lowe's in Ft. Smith. They happened to have the Dewalt 4Ah batteries on sale, so I bought 2 2-packs (all they had on display). I bought 2 10ft 4" schedule 40 drain pipes (hoping that, once buried, they will be strong enough to support the tractor on the trail going into the woods), as well as 100ft 4" solid flexpipe for use in different places. By the time I got back it was late enough not to go work on the trail, so we are waiting for the rain to finish some time after tomorrow and then go play in the mud again!
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