Thanks for all the well wishes. I am back to work and moving around the equipment at a much slower pace in the name of safety. Here is a saying I have said for years and now it's time to live by it.

"Slow and steady wins the race, fast and furious blows up in your face"

That was my motto in the machining world, my former career, seems like it applies to driving as well.

 

I posted in a different thread that same type of disaster. The tandem ever let go and I went flying across the parking lot to FOOSH (Falling on out stretched Hand) . My wrist swelled up like a balloon so I thought .. "2nd degree Sprain" and continued working.

I had very little range of movement 3 weeks later and it did not seem to be healing . this is no sprain .. so off to the bone doctor who explained I broke my Scaphoid bone. The good news was that is was an avulsion fracture on the very distal end of the bone. The real problem is if you get a Transected fracture of the scaphoid bone -- these do not heal and result in surgery and pain. So I was very lucky.

Another tidbit of positive news ... I can tell when it is going to rain because my wrist hurts like all hell :wink:

 

We pull flatbeds and had a driver unloading in the rain, he was pulling his tarps back a little bit at a time while they was unloading him and he slipped an fell and broke his ankle pretty bad, had to have surgery and the surgeon screwed up and did a bad job. This has been over a year ago and he will not be able to drive again and he has so much trouble and went thru two more surgerys and they may have to amputate his leg. He was just acouple years away from retirement. Those aluminum floors will get very slick when wet.