Yes, time and patience.
I had a compound tibia, broken fibula and tibia plateau fractures. Initially a halo, then screws (big suckers for the tibea plateau, looked like roofing screws), tibia nail and a skin graft. Seventeen long days in hospital, three months off work and approximately twelve on light duties. Took a good two years, lots of physio, another operation to remove the screws from the tibia plateau and the top of the nail and is 95%. I was glad to walk again but can now light run/jog.
Yep, things take time indeed.
I got lucky, did the injury at about 7.40am, was in surgery by about 2pm that day, then my luck ran out, a 1.5 hour op took about 5 hours..... Unfortunately I have built up a resistance to certain drugs over the years and they ended up giving me to much of something that stopped my breathing (some sort of muscle relaxant I believe), they put in a plate and 4 screws (which I still have) and I was discharged the following day by 2pm.
Fortunately things are still improving for me, more so strength wise than flexibility.
The poor bastard I was sharing a room with wasn't so lucky, he'd been run over by a bus in Thailand , had eventually been sent home to NZ but he was in a bad way but lucky to still be alive. The old bastard loved giving the nurses a hard time, he still knew how to use his hands
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