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I don't know where to find it online anymore, but the novel Cold Camp is pretty dang good. Similar to a Lights Out sort of thing, only the US collapses and is turned over to the UN. Very good read.

If you can't find it, you can PM your email and I'll send you a copy. It's a .pdf, and not in print. If I remember right, it's by Halffast (same guy that wrote Lights Out.)

I have no idea who wrote it, but Deep Winter is also decent. I've got that in a word document.

Not gun related, really, but Communion of Dreams was an EXCELLENT read, and I do believe the author is one of our very own here on THR.

Good luck, I hope you heal up fast and properly!
 
Looks like a broken collar bone to me. I had a deer encounter with my VFR about 6 weeks ago and I wish I just broke the collar bone.

I have an A.C. separation which is a tear of the tendons or ligaments (forgot which) that hold the bones together. It is a stage 2 separation that will heal and should not hinder me from any activities including weight lifting according to a friend that had the same thing.

I just have to give up my part time job as a swimsuit model because of the large bump that will be there for keeps.:p

It has not effected my shooting and even though I still feel its effects, it is getting better. I only wish I had broken the collar bone. Any docs looking at the picture will see that the collar bone has been broken before but seemed to heal quite nicely.

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The Unit Season 1 & 2 should take you about 30hrs to watch on DVD, fictional special forces TV series.

Kharn
 
My brother had a similar injury (X-rays were very similar to yours) when he was little. A kid in karate class was responsible for inflicting the injury.

My brother fortunately healed without surgery though.

Good luck. While there, ask for the good stuff. :) Dilaudid does the trick for me. No pain and puts me to sleep for hours. When in pain after surgery, there's nothing better I've found. That's just me though. Everybody responds differently to pain meds. I can only tolerate Dilaudid and Demoral. Morphine messes me up.

I don't remember anything, but supposedly after I had bowel resection surgery, the same day, on Morphine I got out of bed hallucinating and talking about needing to study my books (I didn't have any books with me). Mind you, because I was obese at the time, they did not fully sew me up, so I was getting out of bed with my stomach cut open and still half open and walking.

What is so bizarre about that beyond the obvious, is that after they switched meds to something that didn't make me loopy, I was unable to get out of bed voluntarily for days because of the pain. To think I got out of bed on the first day right after surgery, half cut open still, totally zombied-out just is really really weird.

Anyways, there's no point to that story other than to amuse you. I still say ask for the good stuff after surgery. :)
 
I watched a lot of UFC (I have several DVD's) and old John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns last year when I was laid up with my back (Burst Fractured L1 and had a laminectomy and fusion of T11-L2).

Good luck with your surgery.
 
Movies: anything with John Wayne of course
Clint Eastwood's "spagetti westerns"
Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles, Tom Horn, The Magnificent Seven, and Bullitt
Enemy at the Gates
Windtalkers
The Great Raid
Man on Fire

Books (authors): Richard Steinberg
Harold Coyle
Tony Hillerman
and Joel Rosenburg

Hope your recovery goes fast and you get back to shooting soon!
 
All great stuff so far! Fiction, non-fiction I really don't care. Movies are the same. I have been racking my brain to remember some of the movies that I loved, and ya'll are more than helpful bringing those to the front of my mind again.

I have no doubt that I'd heal well enough without surgery, like many of you stated. I simply need to get everything back together asap so I can go back to work, and get on with my life. The repair will help the healing process greatly, and also make for a stronger bone in the future.

I'm already about half way through Lights Out- Good stuff!
 
Whoops. Thank God that's all that happened. I hope you're alright. That will hurt but after you'll be good as new. That's a pretty common motorcycle injury as well as broken wrists as you fly over the handlebars. Good luck and for God's sake "let's be careful out there". How's the motorcycle?
 
for reading you might check out-
-"band of brothers" -by stephen e. ambrose
-"inside delta force"- by eric l. haney
-"silent warrior" and "marine sniper"- both books on carlos hathcock

and for films....
-band of brothers- nice and long at about 12 hours total...watch after reading the book by ambrose.
-the bunker
-the outpost
-deathwatch--all of which are kind of zombie/war/undead nazi type films
-the unit season 1&2 ...previously mentioned.
-all 4 rambo movies...mindless entertainment

sorry to hear about your collar bone...i had a knee injury (torn ACL) that laid me up for awhile, so i know how boring life can be between bouts of physical therapy.
good luck!
 
Pro Tapers rock! i went through several sets of steel bars and cheapie aluminum ones. one small spill and they're bent. i ante'd up and put Pro-Tapers on it after that, along with Acerbis bar guards. when i wrecked and busted my clavilce, i slammed head long into a 3 foot boulder in the middle of the trail around a blind left hand turn and the bike took a mighty smack but the bars didn't bend. just the left footpeg which i pounded out with a hammer. the XR is a tank and the Pro Tapers are strong! wish i had held up as well as the bike. i was wearing a Dainese summer jacket and that saved me from a lot more injuries. gear works! i haven't ridden dirt in a quite a while but i still ride the streetbike a lot. can't give that up. :)

Bobby
 
I have the Acrebis Hand Guards already, and they helped a bunch, but the bars still bent. The ProTapers are supposed to be the real deal!
Shoulder was hurting quite a bit today...
 
The best advice I can give you Buzztail is to get active as fast as you can after surgery. It will help the healing and recovery. I was back at work 5 weeks after breaking my back and back in the woods hunting a week later. My surgeon released me from his care at 3 months instead of the usual year.

Don't overdo anything and hurt yourself and don't go against doctor's orders, but do as much as you are physically able as soon as you are physically able.

Again best of luck.



If you're just up for some fun fiction look at the books of James Rollins.

I also like the works of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (usually write as a duo, but some individual works too).
 
Thank you Sir. I must return to work as a machinist a week from Monday "ready" or not". I'll be keeping plenty active no worries there;)
 
Just as a funny aside:

My wife went with me to my 6 week post op checkup. I'd been back at work a week already, and was really hoping he would clear me to shoot and hunt so I could go hunting the next day (my appt was on a Friday).

So before I can ask, my wife says, "So doctor, what about any activity restrictions at this point". You see she didn't want me to go back hunting the next day. My broken back was due to a treestand fall afterall.

The doctor kind of smiled a little because he got the impression she was interested in "other activities" not being restricted.

:D.
 
So, I just finished Lights Out. GREAT READ!!
I go under the knife tomorrow, I'll post the results as soon as I can. Thank you for all of the good thoughts!
 
they found a little more damage then expected during surgery, so it took a bit more time. Recovery time has been pushed out a little too. I'm feeling pretty good right now, and plan on keeping it that way. thank everyone for the kind words and recomemdations! I have another couple of days at home, then I'll try to get back to work next week.
 
i'm glad to hear you're on the road to recovery. were the surgeons able to repair the damage? hope you can get back up to speed soon. thanks for the update.

Bobby
 
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