Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board Rick Kent accident 10/16/10

Sorry to hear about this Rick! Glad it wasn't worse and wishing you good luck with your recovery and rehabilitation!!

Hi Rick - look forward to your 2011 travel stories - Be a fanatic about your physical therapy. Tony B.

.... and a very good reminder it can can happen so quickly to any of us. Who knows, this may be a "wake-up call" for someone else, and might just be the reminder that will make an even bigger difference in their life.

best wishes in your recovery Rick.

Glad to hear you are safe Rick. If I know you, you probably have 100 high res photos of the accident as it occurred on your web-page..

I hope you heal up well and fast and that you are out there soon putting in those famous Rick Kent gruelathons again soon. I'm sure you are already thinking about your first hike while you are laid up...

Take care man..

Chris

Hey Rick - I hope you have a great recovery. Sorry it happened, but so very glad that it wasn't worse!

CaT

Dang Rick, I was going to say we could compare scars (same ankle), but there's no way mine compares to yours.

I hope the healing goes well.

Hi Rick
You're in! Welcome to the club. My heart goes out to you.
Anybody else with plates and screws is automatically in. No registration is required.
My mantra has been to comeback stronger, and I am.
I just went climbing for the first time in 4 months.
btw. my original prognosis was a year.
Be strong Rick!

I hope Rick and every one else who took a hit this year is feeling better.

Will a 10" s.s. plate with 13 screws from a MTB crash in Alabama Hills get me in the club?

Spinning away indoors 6 weeks after surgery....back for more fun next summer.

Here's to a speedy recovery!!!

I'm feeling much better today. Had my 2nd visit since the surgery (24 days from accident). Got the staples out, some cleanup, and a hard cast. Everything looks good. I tripped and fell on the broken ankle last week but doesn't look like any damage was done. I'm still not getting much sleep (lots of pain at night) but things aren't bad during the day now. Going back to work on Monday (I will have lost 4 weeks of work). Felt real good to let the foot breath for awhile before the new cast. I expect the next few nights will probably suck as the foot tries to swell in the new tighter cast. In 3 weeks the hard cast comes off and I'll be fitted with another cast which will allow me to start weight bearing. So still a long way to go but seems to be healing about as quickly as could be expected. I'm able to drive and get around on crutches ok. Definitely lucky it wasn't the right foot. Some things are very difficult however (like carrying a dinner plate or glass to another room).

I think I'll try Rim to Rim to Rim this weekend. Ha! Ok, maybe not. Might try to get some fresh air though. I'm sooooo bored and totally sick of TV.

I just need to get the next 3 weeks out of the way. Hopefully time will pass a little faster once I get back to work.

http://www.rickkent.net

-Rick

Hey Rick, dude feel for you man hang in there. Nothing compared to you but when I was laid up for 6 months no climbing or hiking I read a ton of mountaineer books. Did help me get thru those 6 months. Take care bro and remember baby steps, know you don't want to hear that.......

Yeti

Glad things are coming along,so much for the R2R2R but maybe after the 3 weeks you can do the R2R

speedy recovery to ya

mark

you are in Obie. congratulations on the rad bike crash!
i made a 15 mile approach on a MTB, before i took the big fall.
i think you beat me on number of screws though. i have 8 screws and plate plus bone graft for the fibula, and 2 big screws for the tibia plus they had to relocate my ankle.
if you have any signs of ptsd, you are included as well.

Ouch. They had to reset my ankle too. Thankfully they knocked me out before they did it. I've relived the incident so many times in my head now that it doesn't bother me. Fortunately I don't recall any snapping sounds. Those would probably be hard to forget. I'm just more annoyed than anything else and want my life back. Hopefully I've met my accident quota. I'm gonna go back one of these days and find that damn rock. Then I'm gonna pulverize it into dust. Then again with my luck it would probably roll over again and crush my other ankle.

Rick, your ankle sounds like some real bizness. Good luck on that part of it, I hear from others that getting the ankle loose is a big hurdle to getting fully mobile. I'm massaging it a lot and riding the bike for 3 hrs. a day now but, the ankle is still pretty tight. It'll come eventually. My patience is still good, it's only 2 months since surgery so I'm working it out.

The snapping sound is pretty crazy. I didn't want to believe what I had just heard. I had emailed a photo to a friend about 5 mins before the crash on Movie Road and then said 'the next sound heard across the desert was my leg cracking'...no more pictures. I gotta laugh at all this now. I got hit head on by a car in Redlands in March. Lotta road rash but no serious injuries (bike totaled). My year has been anything but dull.

Yea, I had a recount last week in the doc's office - I could only see 11 on the xrays. He confirmed the count I got in Bishop after surgery: 13

You got a whole lot going on their man. Good luck. That's encouraging to hear about hiking four months later. I reserved a campsite in JTree for mid-January. We're bringing a couple of MTB's for what is, hopefully, my first bit of action since going down.

PTSD? yea, but the worst is behind. Planning things helps and getting really focused on steady training every day takes a lot of the slow time out of each day. Riding big hours indoors for me is about streaming lots of new music off the web and a book support on the handlebars.

Keep rollin'.

Would appreciate any suggestions on long term parking (month) at Whitney Portal during the month of August. Thanks.