Tm's returning after broken femur

[DanglesOZQld 0]

Hi all - was wondering if there were any Tm's out there or those who know of them returning to the skies after breaking a femur.

Just curious as to strength issues, how long they waited etc.

-BSBD!! -Mark.

"A Scar is just a Tattoo with a story!!!"

[SkymonkeyONE 3]

Ask Karen Lewis (Lewmonst on here). She regularly hauls meet at Perris and she femured at Rantoul a couple of years ago. Same for Tim Tennant (USskydiver on here) at Raeford. He still has a titanium rod in his leg and does tandems pretty regularly.

Chuck

[aironscott 3]

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Ask Karen Lewis (Lewmonst on here). She regularly hauls meet at Perris and she femured at Rantoul a couple of years ago. Same for Tim Tennant (USskydiver on here) at Raeford. He still has a titanium rod in his leg and does tandems pretty regularly.

Chuck

Thanks for refering to what I do for a living as hauling meet. Maybe we should consider ourselves bus drivers on the singles express instead of skydivers. Hopefully lots of potential tandem skydivers will read your post and decide that they want to be meet.

“God Damn Mountain Dew MotherFuckers!”

[des 2]

you will be alright poulty, remember wayno broke his femur a while back, was jumping again after about 6 weeks,and as u know is doing tandems , no problems.
take care mate, see u soon

[LukeOliver 0]

Look no further than Greg Puttick, ex Byron Bay/Mission Beach.
I'd at least wait until I'd had the titanium out myself.

Bad luck mate. And have you changed your phone number?

L.

[SkymonkeyONE 3]

Not what you do for a living, bro; what we do for a living. Oh, and thanks for highlighting my typo. What I meant was hauling MEAT. I do a lot more AFF than tandems these days though. Lighten up.

[Skypilot 0]

I am full of metal dude. Broken tib fib back both arms etc 17 all up. I still got my metal. Go back when you feel right. It wont be long!Just do it when u r ready!Look at ready.

Go big!

[DanglesOZQld 0]

Thanks Jack and all the guys who replied - given me a better outlook on things than what I thought lay in front of me.

I don't expect it to be easy by any means (has been hard at times already) but I want some more air!!! ;)

-Mark.

"A Scar is just a Tattoo with a story!!!"

[peterpan 0]

Sorry to hear about your broken leg, but they do mend. I was out for 8 and a half weeks when I broke my femur, came back doing camera and AFF for two weeks before going back to tandems. Had a mal on my second jump back (AFF). Landed in the middle of the pit safely.

Best advice I can give you is get into physio as soon as you can, and get in the pool and swim. This really helped me get back in a hurry, it beats sitting on the lounge watching daytime TV! This won't help you at all.

Nearly 3 years later I am still jumping with the rod in my leg because I won't stop jumping long enough to have it out.

Note from my girlfriend: Remember those who look after, they are only trying to help, it's not their fault you can't jump.

Regrets are just unfulfilled dreams

[DanglesOZQld 0]

With the Rod left in your leg does that make it a lot worse if you were to have another accident compared to not having it in?

Btw - First broken bone in my life and after 12 years jumping. Also had not even scratched a Tandem Passenger prior to the Friday 16th jump ;(

BSBD! -Mark.

"A Scar is just a Tattoo with a story!!!"

[lewmonst 0]

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Ask Karen Lewis (Lewmonst on here). She regularly hauls meet at Perris and she femured at Rantoul a couple of years ago.

Hi. I got my tandem rating about a year after I broke my femur. I am about 98% back to normal from the femur fx. I started jumping 4 months after i broke it, but wouldn't have felt confident with my strength at that point to do tandems. The rod is still in my leg and will stay there until it becomes a problem, which it's not at all now, so I don't even think about it. I've done about 300 tandems and never think about my leg being an issue. Sometimes when I run after about 4 miles I feel soreness in that leg before any other, but otherwise it's fine.

And some tandems make me feel like I'm an amusement park ride, but most of the time I enjoy the interaction and meeting new people and they appreciate it.

peace
lew

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[Skypilot 0]

I have left my metal in. In 2003 the doctors at Royal Brisbane hospital gave me the choice. They said they were going to start leaving metal in unless it caused pain as there was no proof of it making things worse in the case of another accident. So guess i will c if i crash again .

Go big!