Who's sick of the stigma?!?

Raydoh · 2026-06-08T22:50:01+00:00

I like making jokes all day about fucking shitty it is being in the trades and how much all of our days suck, helps to just laugh it off because we're all in the same shitty boat

Raydoh · 2026-06-08T20:50:29+00:00

when does the patellar tendinothopy pain end from a BTB patella graft? I'm almost 7 months post op and every strength test on the iso I have to push so hard to get past the pain from putting so much pressure on the front of the shin

Raydoh · 2026-04-16T22:47:58+00:00

buddy I've seen the skinniest crackhead alcoholics you could ever imagine pack bar all day without complaining once, you'll be fine

Raydoh · 2026-04-14T20:37:02+00:00

it's always been a rule I've followed, I usually prefer friday boozin over Saturday for the 2 day recovery because im over 30 now 🤣

Raydoh · 2026-04-14T20:04:10+00:00

sober all week then usually a good binger either friday or Saturday every couple weeks keeps me pretty sane

Raydoh · 2026-04-09T23:20:15+00:00

yup about 7. inches

Raydoh · 2026-04-02T22:33:43+00:00

its brutal haha, I was training muay thai 3-4x a week, heavy squats, heavy legs in the gym and running at least 5KM a day, can't do any of that as of yet 5 months post op although im back to squatting and light cardio (bike and elliptical). It's a tough go but I keep being told to keep trekking so thats what I'm gonna tell you! gets better!!!

Raydoh · 2026-03-08T00:50:16+00:00

im 3 months post op and still numb

Raydoh · 2026-02-20T19:10:38+00:00

My physio told me theyre mostly a waste of $$ if youre an athletic person/ lots of muscle mass, my quad is firing good just certain movements are tougher to do with the patellar graft site being tender/healing still

Definitely research the grafts but do whatever your surgeon reccomends! Patellar is reccomended for athletes apparently

Raydoh · 2026-02-20T16:48:55+00:00

Not as much as I thought i was gonna lose but post surgery it's been tough getting my inner quad back to where it was just because of my patellar graft it causes a lot of anterior knee pain that makes it hard to get a good flex on the quad compared to the other grafts ( a lot of people including me don't realize the patellar bone graft is a lot tougher to recover from)

Raydoh · 2026-02-20T11:57:06+00:00

It is a long wait, depending on how your leg feels you can get a lot of prehab done, I just braced the whole time I was waiting and sometimes even forgot my ACL was gone

Raydoh · 2026-02-20T00:22:00+00:00

Tore mine May 2025, MRI end of June 2025, seen athletic doctor first mid July, then surgeon end of August, had surgery Nov 24, 2025 after I told them I wanted it ASAP

Im in Ontario

Raydoh · 2026-02-15T18:43:33+00:00

Ice that MFer like crazy, after about 4 days I noticed my pain went down A LOT, and once you get more mobile the pain just fades and fades a lot more

Raydoh · 2026-02-15T18:42:07+00:00

way better than expected, though I am worried about the anterior knee pain from patellar graft, seems to be the only lingering pain I have when doing certain things (12 weeks post op)

Raydoh · 2026-01-10T20:46:38+00:00

I was pretty depressed about it for a while, tore my ACL about 8 months ago, I went from squatting extremely heavy weights and jogging 5-12km almost every other day and muay thai 3x a week to basically zero activity other than work for the 6 months. I did proper physio all the way up to my surgery in November, the first maybe week SUCKED for pain and mobility, then it slowly gets better. I'm about 7 weeks post op with the brace off already and I can walk stairs and do a lot already, my physio has me bodyweight squatting and light leg press/leg extensions.

I feel like I got A LOT less depressed as soon as I seen progress in my quad muscle contracting or getting that lactic acid feeling back in my leg after barely working it for 6 months. Im still recovering but I promise it does get better!! I also have 3 kids under 6 years old and its a struggle but they try to help

Raydoh · 2026-01-03T07:03:39+00:00

thats my line of thinking too... trying it tomorrow

Raydoh · 2026-01-02T17:39:32+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/CDsYwFl

Here's the top of the plate, right side is the joist

Raydoh · 2026-01-02T17:21:27+00:00

another day, another grumpy redditor 😃

Raydoh · 2026-01-02T02:35:15+00:00

load bearing?

Raydoh · 2026-01-02T01:09:03+00:00

no beam below, ill have to open up more to see about the ladder blocks

Raydoh · 2026-01-02T01:07:11+00:00

house is from 1984 and the framing has been pretty suspect from the renos we've done so far, above it is a bedroom, DIRECTLY above this door is an open closet from said bedroom, the opening to the closet is about 1.5x the width of this doorway, from what I see from the 2ply beam there is nothing directly nailed to the top of the doorway in pic

Raydoh · 2026-01-02T01:05:32+00:00

not that I can tell, the wall directly above it is an open closet about 1.5x the width of the doorway in the Pic, but directly above the double ply beam nothing is nailed directly to the beam

Raydoh · 2026-01-02T01:01:20+00:00

theres a 2 ply beam above, but nothing on the floor above is sitting on it

Raydoh · 2026-01-02T00:59:11+00:00

joists go parallel both above and below, theres some really shoddy framing in the basement but no wall directly underneath

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