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Hey archery brothers?
Took quite a tumble Saturday, March 26. Ended up with
- a broken left collar bone (broken in 2 places).
- with 12 broken left ribs (some of those broken more than one time).
- fractured all transverse processes on the left side of my spine.
- a broken left shoulder blade
- two bones broken in my left hand
- collapsed left lung
Needless to say, I've been in the hospital, doped on pain killers, since then.
These injuries are all to the left side and I am a left handed archer. My doctor wants to leave the collar bone alone and let it heal. Right now the center piece of the collar bone is protruding a lot. It doesn't appear to be aligned very well either.
Questions:
1. Any of you ever break the collar bone on your draw arm?
2. If so did your doctor do anything to it like plates, screws, etc?
3. Lastly, long term did it affect your archery?
Sorry for the long post. A week in a hospital bed tends to make a guy a little stir-crazy.
Tim
Took quite a tumble Saturday, March 26. Ended up with
- a broken left collar bone (broken in 2 places).
- with 12 broken left ribs (some of those broken more than one time).
- fractured all transverse processes on the left side of my spine.
- a broken left shoulder blade
- two bones broken in my left hand
- collapsed left lung
Needless to say, I've been in the hospital, doped on pain killers, since then.
These injuries are all to the left side and I am a left handed archer. My doctor wants to leave the collar bone alone and let it heal. Right now the center piece of the collar bone is protruding a lot. It doesn't appear to be aligned very well either.
Questions:
1. Any of you ever break the collar bone on your draw arm?
2. If so did your doctor do anything to it like plates, screws, etc?
3. Lastly, long term did it affect your archery?
Sorry for the long post. A week in a hospital bed tends to make a guy a little stir-crazy.
Tim