Update

[Bens09shadow]

glad your healing up, and back on the bike.

[dernp]

I had a very similar surgery. I have a titanium plate in my right wrist. Best advice is to stick with the therapy. Very important as you get older arthritis will set in and it pays off to have a strong wrist.
If I had the choice again, I would have never gone for the permanent plate. It bothers me evryday. i wish I could get it removed but it is too late now.
The road to recovery will be a difficult one, but stick with the program the doctor gives you and you will be fine.

[rkforrest]

I have a Titanium Plate and 4 Big screws Holding on my head after my c4-c5-c6 Spinal Fusion and dont feel a thing after 10 yrs

[oconeedan]

Glad you survived that one, and back in the saddle.

[elfnyc]

welcome back glad your healing good

[Lantesh]

Ouch. It is good to hear you are doing better, and also back on the road.

[pngpearson]

Originally Posted by dernp

I had a very similar surgery. I have a titanium plate in my right wrist. Best advice is to stick with the therapy. Very important as you get older arthritis will set in and it pays off to have a strong wrist.
If I had the choice again, I would have never gone for the permanent plate. It bothers me evryday. i wish I could get it removed but it is too late now.
The road to recovery will be a difficult one, but stick with the program the doctor gives you and you will be fine.

i've got a titanium plate in my wrist and the doc said that as long as it doesn't bother me, i may as well leave it in. as for therapy, there really wasn't much at all. the plate held the broken bones together as they healed and, being the healthy young lad i am, that only took a month or two.

i'm thinking about what you said about your plate, about regretting it. i think it's kind of cool to have the plate and, frankly, i don't want to miss another month or two of riding just waiting for the incision wound to heal up again. maybe i'll have it taken out in the fall when i go to college? the other driver's insurance is covering everything, so i may do that.

thanks for the input from everyone!

[razorbacksrule]

Going down stinks I went down in 07 because the front wheel on the bike I was riding locked up. I flew over the handle bars then slid down the road several feet wth the bike on top of me. Wasted my knee knocked me out woke up in the ER they dug a hand full of gravel out from under my knee cap two surgerys later it still is not right . Glad you are doing better!