Simon recovering from serious injury
By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, Jul 4th 2013 06:54Z, last updated Friday, Jul 19th 2013 12:46Z
Unfortunately I had an accident yesterday afternoon that resulted in a very painful knee injury so that currently I can not walk or hobble requiring hospitallization.
At the moment there is no estimate when I'll be able to resume work. Outlook is that no surgery will be needed.
On Jul 5th 2013 the SiAIB (Simon's Accident Investigation Broadcast) released the following preliminary report:
When I jumped down from low height (less than 50cm) the right knee just "collapsed" and I made a real "wonderful" forward roll, I could prevent more serious injuries by rolling over and limit the force of impact (I could not prevent the head to hit the concrete floor but at so little force that there was no damage).
Initial diagnosis in the accident hospital was a contusion of the knee and a pulled collateral ligament. I was sent home for recovery. About 8 hours later the knee had swollen badly and the pain became unbearable completely disabling me from any walking, I needed about one hour for a distance I normally do in 30 seconds and called the ambulance to take me to the hospital again. A subsequent CT raised the suspicion the tibial plateau was sprained and slightly dislocated in addition to the contusion and pulled ligament and I was admitted to a stationary treatment at the accident hospital. Two days later (after posting the first short notice via Smartphone from the hospital) the diagnosis was confirmed, the doctors strongly recommended a conventional therapy by controlling the pain and prevent any load on the foot/knee, a splint was applied. I learned to hobble on crutches, and upon my own plead, was released home. So I am back home at this point, now trying to sort out a few issues that have developed since Wednesday and restart editorial work slowly over the weekend in compliance with the requirements to keep the knee safe.
A big thanks to all well wishes in e-mails and the reader comments, the kind words are all very much appreciated and help to overcome the anger about my own stupidity triggering this accident.
On Jul 19th 2013 the SiAIB added:
Following an x-ray check of the injured knee doctors stated, that the recovery from the injury is going the expected course. After first initial rapid improvement, permitting to get off pain killers, the healing of the fracture of the tibius plateau (also known as sprained, but the medical terminus remains a fracture nonetheless) will last at least 6 weeks requiring the knee to remain within the splint and without any load. While an improved splint permits sitting and working for limited period of time, the knee starts to "feel unwell" at the latest after an hour and needs relaxation and treatment for another 2-3 hours until the pain stops again. It appears that this limitation will last until the splint can be removed.
As result Simon's currently down to 25% of usual work capacity and unhappy/impatient like hell.
While continuing editorial work on AVH is possible with this reduced capacity, this requires to apply emergency operations with very limited capacity for research of events (and thus a lot of events reported to AVH not being covered due to missing resources to cross check/research those reports) and shortened research with a number of cross checks omitted for events that make it to coverage. As result more errors than usual are possible/likely despite less events being covered.
On the up side doctors state, that compression fractures heal very well and the current progress of the reconvalescence is satisfactory.
http://avherald.com/h?article=464cdd43&opt=0
Auguri di pronta guarigione all'editore di Aviation Herald.
By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, Jul 4th 2013 06:54Z, last updated Friday, Jul 19th 2013 12:46Z
Unfortunately I had an accident yesterday afternoon that resulted in a very painful knee injury so that currently I can not walk or hobble requiring hospitallization.
At the moment there is no estimate when I'll be able to resume work. Outlook is that no surgery will be needed.
On Jul 5th 2013 the SiAIB (Simon's Accident Investigation Broadcast) released the following preliminary report:
When I jumped down from low height (less than 50cm) the right knee just "collapsed" and I made a real "wonderful" forward roll, I could prevent more serious injuries by rolling over and limit the force of impact (I could not prevent the head to hit the concrete floor but at so little force that there was no damage).
Initial diagnosis in the accident hospital was a contusion of the knee and a pulled collateral ligament. I was sent home for recovery. About 8 hours later the knee had swollen badly and the pain became unbearable completely disabling me from any walking, I needed about one hour for a distance I normally do in 30 seconds and called the ambulance to take me to the hospital again. A subsequent CT raised the suspicion the tibial plateau was sprained and slightly dislocated in addition to the contusion and pulled ligament and I was admitted to a stationary treatment at the accident hospital. Two days later (after posting the first short notice via Smartphone from the hospital) the diagnosis was confirmed, the doctors strongly recommended a conventional therapy by controlling the pain and prevent any load on the foot/knee, a splint was applied. I learned to hobble on crutches, and upon my own plead, was released home. So I am back home at this point, now trying to sort out a few issues that have developed since Wednesday and restart editorial work slowly over the weekend in compliance with the requirements to keep the knee safe.
A big thanks to all well wishes in e-mails and the reader comments, the kind words are all very much appreciated and help to overcome the anger about my own stupidity triggering this accident.
On Jul 19th 2013 the SiAIB added:
Following an x-ray check of the injured knee doctors stated, that the recovery from the injury is going the expected course. After first initial rapid improvement, permitting to get off pain killers, the healing of the fracture of the tibius plateau (also known as sprained, but the medical terminus remains a fracture nonetheless) will last at least 6 weeks requiring the knee to remain within the splint and without any load. While an improved splint permits sitting and working for limited period of time, the knee starts to "feel unwell" at the latest after an hour and needs relaxation and treatment for another 2-3 hours until the pain stops again. It appears that this limitation will last until the splint can be removed.
As result Simon's currently down to 25% of usual work capacity and unhappy/impatient like hell.
While continuing editorial work on AVH is possible with this reduced capacity, this requires to apply emergency operations with very limited capacity for research of events (and thus a lot of events reported to AVH not being covered due to missing resources to cross check/research those reports) and shortened research with a number of cross checks omitted for events that make it to coverage. As result more errors than usual are possible/likely despite less events being covered.
On the up side doctors state, that compression fractures heal very well and the current progress of the reconvalescence is satisfactory.
http://avherald.com/h?article=464cdd43&opt=0
Auguri di pronta guarigione all'editore di Aviation Herald.
