Durn old age

[Haytrader]

Well, my dad did it again.
He thinks he can do everything he has always done.
Actually he is not that old, only 77, but maybe it is the fact that he is not as quick as he used to be.
What happened is..........he was helping load out cattle off of wheat pasture and a 700# steer side swiped him. Broke his leg in three places, starting just below the hip.
Traction tonight, surgery tomorrow.

[etat]

Sorry to hear it.  Hope he does alright.

[Frickman]

I'm sorry too to hear of his injury. I got banged up too a few years ago loading cattle, but not as severely as your dad. Hope he does OK tommorow.

[Paul_H]

That sounds pretty serious Haytrader.I hope he recovers well.

My Dad is waiting on his second hip replacement(same hip after only six years) It's hard to keep a good man down.

[Duane_Moore]

 :'(Darn. them tuff ol coots are hard to put down thou. Shucks boy are you gona be short handed now...spring work and all. Hope Dad gets along OK. tell him we said Hello. be thinkin of him. Sounds like a nasty brake, think ya can fix him up with PVC?  Duh---Duane

[CHARLIE]

Haytrader, I'm sorry to hear about your dad busting his leg and requiring surgery.  I pray that all will go well and he'll be mended and walking soon.

[Swede]

Haytrader. :´( *sorry*  

Some times we have to tell them what to do and what not to but it´s a fight sometimes and not easy. It broke my heart when I had to tell my dad not to climb the roof at his house a year ago. He worked with building big houses and bridges for 30 years. He was 77 Y.O. last sunday and it takes him "7" steps to turn around and look backwards. Perhaps have to tell him not to drive his car in a year or two. Hard to find but we have to look after them as kids soon or later.
Broken a leg in 3 places at that age is serious but I hope Your dad will be up walking soon as possible. It makes a strange feeling but tell him not to run after the cattles then, if You have to!

Swede.

[Fla._Deadheader]

  Guess my post never made it on here last night

 I know them broke legs don't heal too quick.

 Wish your Dad well, and hope he recovers with full mobility.

[Haytrader]

Thanks for all of your concern.

I don't think PVC will work this time, Duane.
Duane is referring to a calf I had to pull a couple of weeks ago. It was a difficult birth and I had to pull too hard which left the calf not being able to stand. I slid some PVC pipe over its legs to the knees and duct taped them on.

I am a little pithed at my younger brother for allowing dad to be in a position to get hurt. Dad had no business in a crowding pen with those big steers. He should have been on the outside of the pen with a poking stick and let the younger guys do the loading. But, it was at one of dads places and his cattle. What do you do?

Sounds like several of you are/have going/gone through some similar situations. And the heck of it is, we are all headed there too.

[Norm]

You just can't keep a good man down Haytrader, I'm sure he will be up and around pestering you before ya know it. Tell him to get well soon from Patty and I.

Smack your brother up the back of the head with a sorting stick. Just kiddin, I know how hard it is to tell a dad what to do. Just ask my sons.

[karl]

Haytrader
Sorry  Dad got hurt- sounds bad. Hoping he heals quick. I know how grumpy tough old men git when their not working well!

[bull]

Sorry to hear about your dad..... don't keep him down.. get him up and going as soon as possible so he doesn't loose his steam.....  Old bucks are the best help and the aren't making them like they use too. My Grandad took a fall a couple years back and stuck to his easy chair, he's not here to help me any more  .
Talk to the doc about ( Parmidranate) not sure on the spelling, it's used to enhance bone.... My son has Brittle bones disease and he is on infusions every six weeks and his fracture rate has reduced by leaps and bounds...... At 77 multiple fractures, ( osteo perosis) can be an issue
Parmidranate was discovered by Canadian doctors who were working on pain management in elderly women with osteo perosis. They had bone growth and reduce pain....

[Patty]

Dear Haytrader,

I hope your dad does well today in his surgery. As soon as he is able, though, get him up and get him going. He will heal faster that way, rather than laying in a bed or in an easy chair. I used to work in rehab in a nursing home, those old folk who got themselves up and moved around and refused to lay in bed, healed faster than any of the rest. It was hard work for them, but it also gave them reason to get out of bed everyday...something to look forward to for them. Everyday we got to mark their progress, and the best day of all was when we got to send them home.
Best wishes for your dad.

[Frank_Pender]

Well, durn deal all around for your father, Haytrader.   Yep when our folks get to setting or laying all the time they sure canget use to that and the hill of life seems to get more slick.
On of the thigs we like to do as their children is make sure they take it easy and lots of rest and all and sometimes this is not so good.  they get real use to the pampering and all and just settle in for the duration.  I pray that all is going well for him today in surgery.   Like was said, get him active as soon as possible.  You might even ask him for lots of advice while is he is layed up.  Get him out into the pickup and about also.  You might even devise a special holding chair for him in the back of a pickup for getting around.

[Bro. Noble]

Haytrader,

Our prayers are with your Dad today.

He sounds like my Dad and is just a year or two younger.

Dad once broke his wrist while working cattle,  but insisted on finishing before he went to the Dr.  He spent 11 hrs. strait blading and repairing roads on the farm last week.  Took his lunch with him so he didn't have to stop.  He had 4 way by-pass surgery last fall and was concerned that it was taking him so long to recover

[Mark M]

Ouch! - tell him he can go around telling people that he was in a bull fight and lost.

Hope your old pappy recovers soon Haytrader. Show him a picture of my new truck, that'll cheer him up.

Mark

[Stan]

Swede's right about it bein' serious. Half of the old folks that break a hip don't live more'n a year afterwards. Course women bein' tougher live longer afterwards. Mom broke two 15 years apart, and is still truckin'. Dad broke one, and bellied up 10 months later.  :-/ We'll put him on the prayer list.

[Bro. Noble]

One of my grandmas fell on the ice and broke her leg one winter.  She laid out in the cold for 4 or 5 hours till grandad got home.  Between the leg and catching pneumonia,  the Dr. said if she lived she would never walk again.  She was in her late seventies.  She died-------about 15 years later.  She was walking in time to put out a garden the spring she broke her leg.

When they sawed her cast off she told them they were sawing her leg.  They said it was just vibrations causing that sensation.  She just watched them in digust.  When they peeled the cast back shure enough,  there was a red streak (fortunately not much more than a scratch).  Grandma told them she guessed she knew when she was being sawed :-/

Dr.s, and lots of people who aren't familiar with old-timers who made their life on the farm,  underestimate their strength-----physical and otherwise.

[IMERC]

OUCH!!!!   Good thoughts and wishes his way...

[Bibbyman]

Hope for your dad a speedy recovery.  At least it’ll be the time of the year he’ll want to get up and around as soon as he can.  

A few years back my dad went in for a triple bypass.  He came through the surgery fine but developed staff infection and had to go back in for 3-4 months.  I visited with him a lot and told him I was really amazed at his (inner) strength.  I told him I couldn’t go through what he had.  He said. “Oh.  I think you could.”

We got one ol’-timer that brings Mary a load of logs about twice a year.  I know he’s got to be well into his 70’s but you’d think he was maybe in his late 50’s or early 60’s.  He still stands straight and tall and is very alert.   He does the best job of felling,  bucking and trimming logs of anyone we get logs from – especially the “professionals”.  It about makes a body mad.