Return to my workshop

[Mark Karacsonyi]

In early April 2022, I was unfortunate to suffer a broken spine related to removing asbestos sheets from a shed roof. After months of laying in bed later limited movement in a wheelchair.

The good news is as of today, I am now on crutches and able to visit my workshop. After celebration involving a beer, the blues have subsided. I now look forward to returning back to my passion.

Golden rule. You don’t know what you have, until you have lost it.

 

[Droogs]

congrats, I know how good it feels to get back at it. Onward and upward

 

[Sandyn]

I hope you continue to make a full recovery and finish off removing the asbestos.
I think we all take what we have for granted, but it can be taken away so quickly.
You just have to make the most of what you have and try to enjoy life as much as possible, it is great fun.
How long until you can dump the crutches?

 

[Dave Moore]

In early April 2022, I was unfortunate to suffer a broken spine related to removing asbestos sheets from a shed roof. After months of laying in bed later limited movement in a wheelchair.

The good news is as of today, I am now on crutches and able to visit my workshop. After celebration involving a beer, the blues have subsided. I now look forward to returning back to my passion.

Golden rule. You don’t know what you have, until you have lost it.

I suggest you look at doing some chair based chi gong to improve your healing.

 

[Jester129]

Well done for getting to where you are. Build up your walking slowly, going a little further each day, you'll get there!

 

[johna.clements]

I hope you are off your crutches soon.

 

[Mark Karacsonyi]

I hope you continue to make a full recovery and finish off removing the asbestos.
I think we all take what we have for granted, but it can be taken away so quickly.
You just have to make the most of what you have and try to enjoy life as much as possible, it is great fun.
How long until you can dump the crutches?

Approx 6 months, thanks for asking.

 

[Sandyn]

Approx 6 months, thanks for asking.

That's quite a time, but at least you are on the mend again. I hope you continue to recover well

 

[heimlaga]

My sincerest congratulations to you Mark!
This is wonderful news.

However this is the start of the real marathon. I have myself rebuilt my damaged back from full time bed patient to log house carpenter working on average 3-4 days a week plus joiner on average one day a week and I would think you are in for plenty of training and physiotherapy. Most doctors seem to missjudge both the time it takes and the amount of improvement possible. It takes much longer than predicted but it also gets much better than predicted.

I can only give you one piece of advice. Be determined but also listen to your body. The sort of training that you are in for will most likely be about training 90% of your capacity every day for months maybe a couple of years increasing the amount of training at the same rate as you get healthier. Always listen to your body and adjust the amount and severity of the training to be great enough to keep your health improving yet small enough to not cause severe backlashes due to overload. Finding that sweet spot and staying there for months isn't easy but several specialist doctors and physioterapists have told me that is the key to most medical wonders in the field of physiatry.
I would have recovered 10 years earlier if the doctor who first took care of me had explained that simple principle from the outset.

Good luck!

 

[Mark Karacsonyi]

My sincerest congratulations to you Mark!
This is wonderful news.

However this is the start of the real marathon. I have myself rebuilt my damaged back from full time bed patient to log house carpenter working on average 3-4 days a week plus joiner on average one day a week and I would think you are in for plenty of training and physiotherapy. Most doctors seem to missjudge both the time it takes and the amount of improvement possible. It takes much longer than predicted but it also gets much better than predicted.

I can only give you one piece of advice. Be determined but also listen to your body. The sort of training that you are in for will most likely be about training 90% of your capacity every day for months maybe a couple of years increasing the amount of training at the same rate as you get healthier. Always listen to your body and adjust the amount and severity of the training to be great enough to keep your health improving yet small enough to not cause severe backlashes due to overload. Finding that sweet spot and staying there for months isn't easy but several specialist doctors and physioterapists have told me that is the key to most medical wonders in the field of physiatry.
I would have recovered 10 years earlier if the doctor who first took care of me had explained that simple principle from the outset.

Good luck!

Thank you, it was harrowing at first, especially with the “you will never walk again”, crap.

Fortunate for me, daughter is a yoga practitioner. We fired the first two doctors, as they considered themselves gods within their roles, not to be challenged, not to be questioned.

Now I have a open minded doctor/consultant, it’s a different world. I will recover from this, and the journey actually is fun. Only one hour a day in the shop so far. Aiming for two, then three, then so on. One more bliss, I can now take showers.

 

[Steliz]

Congratulations on your recovery and from a fellow resident in Hungary - Rémelem hamarosan jobban leszel.

 

[hennebury]

I Wish you all the best in your recovery. good luck to you!

 

[Mark Karacsonyi]

Congratulations on your recovery and from a fellow resident in Hungary - Rémelem hamarosan jobban leszel.

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[Rich_D]

Wishing you a speedy recovery, as they say You can’t keep a good man down.