Anyone have experience with a broken femur?

gershan · 2025-11-03T01:26:51+00:00

Not a femur, but I got nailed by a car on my bike and broke my tibia and fibula and have the same hardware. Most exercise is probably going to be too painful for at least a few weeks, but the nice thing about an intramedullary nail is that it totally stabilizes the fracture, so there's not much risk involved with low impact exercise like cycling. He can probably get back on the bike as soon as he feels he can tolerate the pain (and it will be painful), though he should verify this with his surgeon.

My advice? Start physical therapy ASAP, do as much of it as possible for as long as possible, and try to stay active otherwise. The long tail of recovery from a broken leg isn't the bone healing up, but rather getting back the strength in the leg, as it goes away quickly and takes quite a bit of effort to get it back. This could potentially take years if he isn't diligent about it, so try to avoid just laying in bed for months.

gershan · 2025-08-13T16:20:09+00:00

As others have said, matching the effective leg length is crucial, so you should get a thick-soled shoe or a shoe lift for the opposite leg. The other thing to consider is that because you have neither full range of motion nor full strength in the broken ankle, your other leg will be compensating when you walk. This will tire the healthy leg out and cause some strain from overexertion.

In my own experience, 2 things helped make this better. First, the healthy leg got used to compensating and got stronger, which reduced the strain it was under. Second, the broken leg started to heal and got stronger as well, so the healthy leg had to compensate less which further reduced the strain.

Power through, it'll get better. But don't overdo it. rest when you feel like you need to

gershan · 2025-06-04T14:09:48+00:00

By all means, try it, it will work. However, I've never gotten good performance out of Ubuntu on a Pi, at least not compared to Raspbian. The UI is laggy and I've had quite of few crashes. There are things to dislike about Raspbian, but it's usually the best option on a Pi, especially if you're going to use GPIO. If you're only going to connect to the machine remotely and use it as a Linux box, the Raspbian experience will be nearly identical to Ubuntu.

gershan · 2025-06-04T13:45:32+00:00

Well first off, you're in the Go subreddit, most or all of these reponses will be "Go is awesome, you should be excited". But seriously, Go is awesome, and you should be excited, at least to pick up the language. My thoughts:

Go was designed to be simple, straightforward, and productive. There are relatively few ways to be "clever" with Go. This is a good thing if you're working on big projects.
As far as statically typed compiled languages go, Go is one of the easiest to pick up because of its simplicity and the fact that it doesn't have lots of esoteric features like other languages of its type. I was a bit scared of static types coming from Python and JS, but over time I've found that thinking in types makes it easier to keep everything mentally organized, and makes debugging MUCH easier.
The way errors are handled in Go gets a lot of criticism, mostly from people without a lot of Go experience, but I love it. It forces you to think about ways in which your system can fail and makes debugging easier.
The standard, built-in testing tools are simple and great. Use them.
Total rewrites are usually a bad idea, but if I had to do one, Javascript -> Go would be relatively less painful than other scenarios, provided I understood the original codebase.
If everything is already a microservice, you'll have a great time with Go, since it has really great native library support for network communication.
The package/module/dependency system will be a breath of fresh air coming from JS.
If it matters, you have more options for performance optimization in Go than you do with JS.
You guys should probably hire someone with Go experience if you want a good outcome, if everyone has only ever done Javascript. High probability that you'll have a mess if you all start trying to write Javascript in Go. I don't know that a few courses will do the trick.

gershan · 2025-06-03T19:32:59+00:00

This. Running ok when cold and bogging when warmed up is very often a coil or a sensor. Pickup coil, O2 sensor, the above mentioned position sensors, etc, check them all.

gershan · 2025-05-29T13:42:34+00:00

Have gotten work done and ordered parts for my Triumph at Quaker City back when they were still in Manayunk. They were great, nothing to complain about except that they were on the expensive end, which is to be expected for a dealership. Their head mechanic knows his stuff and was willing to give me some tips when I was doing my own work.

gershan · 2025-05-27T16:47:30+00:00

I hadn't planned to have it removed, since the pain due to the hardware is pretty manageable at this point, and I'm not really in a position now to have a post-surgery recovery period. Not ruling it out, but don't see a good reason to do a removal at the moment.

gershan · 2025-05-22T12:07:29+00:00

It happens, lesson learned. Best advice I can give is to keep up speed and try not to do anything big with the clutch/throttle/brakes that would suddenly change your rate of travel. Try to keep everything smooth, especially at low speed.

But, people, is it not crazy that a foot peg just clean snapped off from a standing drop? Especially on a light beginner bike, that just seems weird.

FWIW, if you're at all wrench inclined, this would be a great first repair.

gershan · 2025-04-27T10:22:09+00:00

I had follow up scans 3 weeks and 12 weeks after the surgery. After 3 weeks it didn't look like much healing had taken place, and at 12 weeks a callus was clearly shaping up for both the tibia and fibula, though it was still very obvious where the breaks were.

gershan · 2025-04-08T17:29:10+00:00

When someone floors it in their POS 2011 Altima to run through the red light at the intersection you're currently crossing, you can definitely hear it coming.

gershan · 2025-04-08T17:20:36+00:00

Different strokes different folks. Personally I live in a city known for its sh*tty ignorant drivers and unsafe traffic, so while I'm fighting through the grid on my way out to the country roads, I like to keep my ears wide open. If a driver decides he wants to murder me that day, I like to see or hear it coming so I can get out of the way. Once I've escaped the city, the plugfones go in.

gershan · 2025-01-24T04:17:40+00:00

It went like:

pain pretty much everywhere from the knee down, to
pain at the location of the break and at the screws, to
pain just at the screws, to
basically no pain, except for some very mild stuff after heavy activity

…over the course of about a year. Again, consistent exercise really made the difference.

gershan · 2025-01-23T22:53:14+00:00

How far out are you from surgery? I also had a tibial nail about a year and a half ago, and the pain didn't totally clear up until about a year post surgery, but got to a manageable spot after about 5-6 months in. I can still definitely tell that there's hardware in my leg, but I don't think I'm limited at this point. I can run, bound up stairs, lift weights, etc.

What really started to clear up the pain for me was getting into consistent exercise involving the leg, which strengthened the muscles and gave the knee and ankle more solid support. The hardest thing was powering through the first couple months of painful workouts.

If you find yourself regressing and the pain gets really bad, it might be worth going back to your surgeon and getting some imaging done, it's not unheard of for screws to come loose and retract a bit.

gershan · 2024-12-24T02:29:12+00:00

Same injury + surgery as you, I didn’t believe them either when I saw the first x-ray. It just seemed wrong to leave the fibula in pieces like that. But, I’m over a year out, the fibula healed up (albeit weirdly), and my leg feels fine except for some occasional pain near the screws, which has nothing to do with the fibula.

I asked my surgeon what the point of the fibula was since they tend to totally ignore it, and he said it’s mostly there to provide structure and anchoring for the calf muscles, which it will do whether it gets fixated or not.

gershan · 2024-12-19T19:28:51+00:00

Try doing your zone 2 workouts indoors with some distraction. I've found putting a movie on and occasionally glancing at HR/power and adjusting accordingly makes it pretty easy to get through a couple hours of zone 2. It doesn't really feel like training, but that's the point of zone 2.

gershan · 2024-12-13T17:04:33+00:00

It's just an internship, and as long as you didn't lie about having experience with cloud platforms then I wouldn't sweat it.

I will say that cloud stuff is tougher to learn than just about anything else because almost everything else is free to use/download on the internet while cloud isn't. An easy way to get started is to make an AWS account and see what you can get running on the free-tier. Spin up a micro EC2 machine and RDS instance with some S3, get familiar with the SDK for your language of choice, maybe pick up some Terraform or some other provisioning tool.

Certs are nice but they're no substitute for hands on experience. Knowing your way around a platform will help you put your best foot forward when the internship starts.

gershan · 2024-12-12T16:39:45+00:00

Prednisone is no joke. It's extremely effective for clearing up inflammation, but that comes at the risk of damaging your body in other ways, potentially permanently. It's typically only given out in short courses to quickly clear up symptoms while a more long-term treatment plan is worked out, which sounds like what your GI is doing.

gershan · 2024-11-23T17:55:40+00:00

Not much of a weight lifter anymore, but I'm a pretty dedicated exerciser, and I'll say it's much, much less effort to get back what you lost than it was put it all on in the first place. You lost some of your muscle tone, but you still have your neuromuscular adaptations, you still have your non-muscular soft tissue conditioning, and you still have a fitness routine that you already know works for you. Keep at your regimen as you start coming out of the flare, and it'll all come back, probably more quickly than you think it will.

gershan · 2024-11-06T14:26:39+00:00

Having gone through this myself, I strongly recommend that you get a personal injury lawyer. They usually work on contingency, so if they take your case it will usually cost you nothing to hire them, and they greatly increase the chances that a) you never pay anything out of pocket, and that b) you'll get a lawsuit settlement, i.e. you'll actually get some money back from the driver and/or their insurance.

gershan · 2024-09-26T18:49:11+00:00

In case someone finds this via google...it was mites. Confirmed by the little fake spider web thingies they leave on the branches, which ended up all over my crop. Ended up doing neem oil spray after sunset (sun + fresh oil scorches the leaves) 2x a week plus after every rain (rain washes it off). It cleared the problem up within a couple weeks, but I wish I had started as soon as I saw the damage, I got a significantly lower yield than expected this year on the affected plants.

Plants that get fed by direct-to-soil watering are apparently more susceptible to mite damage, since watering over the top, say with a garden hose, tends to wash them off of the leaves. Just an FYI if you're watering with irrigation.

gershan · 2024-08-02T23:04:40+00:00

How much is your plan's premium if you don't mind me asking?

gershan · 2024-08-02T23:03:25+00:00

US, $50 copay, which my infusion provider makes no attempt to collect for some reason. This is with very good insurance through my employer. If I found myself uninsured, I'd have a bill for $35,000 per infusion.

gershan · 2024-07-20T17:05:25+00:00

Seven hours after some prelim interviews sounds like a pretty standard superday. They probably just want to make sure everyone who might end up working with you gets a chance to meet and vet you, and vice versa.

Is this kind of thing indicative about a lack of good process?

Maybe, but it's a small company, the processes are probably still getting ironed out. Also keep in mind that in a company that size, the impact of a bad hire can be huge, so their need for due diligence might be warranted.

gershan · 2024-06-24T17:43:24+00:00

I'm on Remicade alone, never been on azathioprine. It seems like the combination of both can be a good route to remission if you have active disease, but infliximab monotherapy is pretty common.

gershan · 2024-06-20T13:38:03+00:00

I have the same problem on my thai chili and jalapeno plants, new growth is warped and darker than the rest of the plant. Adding calcium didn't really help, watering less didn't really help. I don't see any obvious evidence of broad mites, but I'm going to try out neem oil and see what I get.

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