OT OT - he's got a "real" cast

I saw the ultimate cast - pink and green stripes - preppy pink and green!

Cheryl

Thank goodness Kurt chose black. Can you imagine having a kid who needs you around to help him and having to look at a psychadelic cast?

Lucille

The cast reminded me of a sweater I owned in the 70's! Remember the "Preppy Handbook?

It`s the cutting off with that nasty wee buzz-saw that`s the nerve-wracking bit!!!

Pat

When he has it cut off, Cheryl - DO tell him that those saws can`t cut skin, or he`ll have the fright of his life! The vibration and noise make it FEEL scary, but it doesn`t actually do any damage!

Pat

I sure do remember it. It's still where I look for fashion advice because I love the preppy look !! lol

LOL - you're so right. The iv giver is definitely less painful, though more stressful. The hospital I've been doing my clinicals in this past year has us do blood draws as soon as we're putting an IV in. But, we don't get to do the draw with the easy at the doctor's office little butterfly - so it's a bit more complicated doing with the IV set-up. And takes practice. And to keep it as painless as possible - you have to get the set-up taped as soon as it's drawing - which means for me inevitably getting tape stuck on a glove - awkward - and, well, not reassuring. But, in the hospital I like doing it. In the "bus" as we call the ambulance - not so easy - between moving vehicle and moving, screaming patient. But, a challenge.

Bandaging - not so bad for either. I think people are kind of fascinated with the hardening stuff - and if they've had their pain meds - that's good. If not - another story.

Lucille, you do make a good point. Sometimes with the IV we have to have 2 of us - one for distraction purposes - or reassurance. The other to stick.

Ellice

That's so true. But, they won't cut you - the noise is frightening, as is the look of the saw. The first time that I had one cut off, and remember... I was 10, and it really scared me. Possibly because it was a clunky, thick, plaster cast, and the incision had gotten infected so the doc had to remove the cast, clean the wound, take out the stitches and redo. The whole event was yucky. Then, I seem to remember him asking me to try and take a step and falling flat on my face - but that could've been the next time I was in for a change of cast.

With my club foot, it was so severe when I was born that they put on a cast before I was 4 hours old - or let my mom see me without a blankie covering it. Ended up as a case in some classic textbook of orthopedics. Which meant I had a cast on the leg until I was 6 months old - which was changed about every 2 weeks (to allow for growth). Then it went to a brace and connecting bars, etc. So, I was probably conditioned to the buzz saw in my very early days.

Personally, I thought having the arm casts off was more scarey - closer to the face.

I have a couple of souvenir cast bits - one - the QB of the Redskins signed

- saw him at Nordstrom - while a friend pushing me in wheelchair, we talked interesting surgery, and he signed, and the doc cut out the piece like a plaster postcard. The other - I have the front section - because a bunch of the CAPs and the broadcasters signed it (worth keeping - Adam Oates, Olie Kolzig) . Our friend who does play-by-play signed it as "the strangest goalie mask I've ever seen". It's right next to the Rod Langway (Hall of Famer) game used (& signed) sitck.

ellice

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Ya know, it wasn't all bad. I still rely on a polo shirt and tailored shorts/pants for 80% of my wardrobe. I'll pass on hot pink, lemon yellow and such bright shades and the patchwork Madras, but keep the style.

The neon colors I hated in the 50's when they were wildly popular and I didn't like them any better in the 70's. Madras on the other hand I love. Maybe not patchwork but I have a great blazer that looks fabulous with chinos.

A nice madras is a lovely thing.... C