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I'm surprised they let him do that. Usually, those people get arrested at the top and face heavy fines (or even earn themselves a short custodial sentence).
When I was younger, I didn't really have any fear of heights. That has changed with age. These days, those shots of him looking down, or even the selfie, make me pucker. When I was younger, I'd climb all sorts of stuff. Heck, I used to jump scare my family by leaving through the front door, climbing up the side of the building to get to our 4th-floor apartment, and then climbing back into the house through a window. (This amused me.)
Today? I don't even want to get all that high on a step ladder. I'll do it, but I won't like it.
I'm not sure what changed.
Also, I don't mind heights if I'm attached to something. But there will be no free climbing for me in the near future.
When I was younger, I didn't really have any fear of heights. That has changed with age. These days, those shots of him looking down, or even the selfie, make me pucker. When I was younger, I'd climb all sorts of stuff. Heck, I used to jump scare my family by leaving through the front door, climbing up the side of the building to get to our 4th-floor apartment, and then climbing back into the house through a window. (This amused me.)
Today? I don't even want to get all that high on a step ladder. I'll do it, but I won't like it.
I'm not sure what changed.
Also, I don't mind heights if I'm attached to something. But there will be no free climbing for me in the near future.
Quite impressive. If you like climbers you should watch this movie, it's about a guy who soloed mountains without ropes including on mountains with ice and snow, he only died the time he went and climbed with ropes because on the way down he got buried by avalanche because of bad weather and his body was never found.
The guy that climbed that skyscraper is even interview in this movie if I remember correctly and has respect for the guy and thought the climbs he does are insane.
Yeah, that's what I find surprising. People who've climbed tall buildings in the past are often arrested for doing so. They don't want to encourage it, so they find a few crimes to charge them with.
Yeah, that's on my list of things I'm not doing. I have jumped from a plane, but I was much younger than that. That and the environment was quite different, as I was around a bunch of other gung-ho people. That's when I was many years younger than I am today.
Actually, I assume I wouldn't make the jump in the video. (I watched it live, actually.)
With the distance being so abstract, and with the safety measures in place, I think I'd consider it -- when I was much younger. I don't know if I would go through with it, but I'd consider it for a few minutes.
Add some buddies and a 12-pack of beer, then subtract 40 years from my current age, and I might have considered it.
Today? I'm not even going to ride in the balloon he was using. I'm not even getting in the capsule he rode in to reach those heights. Not a chance.
Hmm...
How much money would it take for you to make that jump? (We'll assume that you're paid to make the jump and your success has nothing to do with how much you're being paid. In other words, if you die then your family still gets the money.)
I broke my femur, but the other femur (hip) is doing okay. I broke mine in the worst possible place, but they make some neat prosthetics that help with that.
You can kind of see the start, the other angle, and then the repair.
All of those bits are still inside me.
LOL I've never shared those pictures of me on this site. They have been shared elsewhere.
They're also edited. I snipped out the bit where you could see my stuff in the x-ray. You're welcome.
Anyhow, at the height that guy jumped from, distance would be really abstract. I don't mind flying in airplanes, or anything like that. So, I'm not sure how I'd approach it.
I'd think about it, but I'd likely decline.
In fact, I'd likely decline no matter how much money was offered.
(I don't think that the images are gruesome. If they make anyone squeamish, they can be removed. I don't mind.)
But those are pics of my inner bits. You've now seen inside of me!
I recently read somewhere that sadly the guy that jumped from the edge of space died an accident. Sad to see that he died so early but probably not a surprise for a daredevil, same goes for an alpanist.
Felix Baumgartner, who broke records with iconic jump from space, dies in tragic accident
Felix Baumgartner, who broke records by jumping from the edge of space, has died in a tragic accident.
www.guinnessworldrecords.com
I had my anterior meniscus removed. That was an arthroscopic surgery, so they were already watching it on video. I brought in a blank VHS cassette (it was that long ago) and they recorded my operation.
Of course, it didn't come with sounds, so I'd make sound effects when I watched it. I mostly made monster noises. When you see the stuff they're using to do the surgery, they do indeed look like monsters. I figured bad sci-fi monsters were a find soundtrack.
Hmm... I've never digitized it. If I ever do, it'll be so that I can share it with people online (and watch it more easily at home).
Anyhow, my femur was done in a pretty spectacular automobile wreck. I was a passenger, and it's a long story. But, the type of break is known as an intertrochanteric fracture. Basically, it broke at the widest diagonal point, where the stem for the ball at the top of the femur starts to head into the pelvis.
The big screw goes in from the outside, putting the ball back in place. Then, there's a plate of metal that runs down the outside of my femur. That metal is screwed into the femur, holding the whole thing in place.
As far as broken femurs go, it's not quite the worst but it's pretty close. After all, it could have been enough to tear into the femoral artery. It could have also been a compound fracture.
I spent quite a while on my back, outside of physical therapy. The PT was horrendous, but not the worst.
We spent about 45 minutes trapped in the car. It was pretty painful when they dragged me out. Still, that was not the worst pain.
No, the problem is that I have horrible veins. Try as they might, they couldn't get any pain meds into me. These days, they'd give me a fentanyl lollipop. The worst pain I've ever felt in my life was when they were manipulating my leg (and me) to take the initial x-rays.
That's the worst pain I've ever felt in my life.
PT also sucked, but I promised myself that I'd make the best recovery possible. So, I was not only diligent with my PT, I also insisted on doing more than I needed to. Coupled with a number of other broken bits, it was a pretty painful period of my life.
And, it's all due to my own stupidity.
That's one of those things that sounds absolutely horrible. The recovery from it sounds horrible. Sure, you didn't have to deal with breaking the femur, but that's still a painful recovery.
I'm told that my femur is good for life. They do not expect it to get bad enough to need a replacement. There's continued discomfort, but that's something you just get used to.
Are your screws in your hip/femur?
Oh, that's not too bad. It looks like they've gotten to the point where it's trivial to do a hip replacement. Even if it's not too painful, it's not something I'd like to do. So far, the hip joints still work.
They have offered to go back in to remove the screws. I turned that offer down, as there was no guarantee that it'd deal with the discomfort I already have. If they can't be sure that it'll really help anything, I'll keep things as they are. I can manage with the current situation and have adjusted to it.
Yeah, that sounds unhealthy. Mine are 'fine', though you do see that one has taken some damage. They both seat nicely in the socket, and they're not excessively worn. I get yearly images done by my PCP, and they image both to compare the good one with the less-good one. I should not need a hip replacement.
That could change, but my current prognosis is good.
Absolutely. While I can use the VA, I often don't. So, I'm paying doctors (technically through insurance). I'm not in the habit of paying experts for advice and then not listening to them. Well, at least not for serious things like that.
It's amazing how much the medical field has advanced, even in the few years you and I have been alive.
Heck, while they did use arthroscopic tools to diagnose issues more than a century ago, the first arthroscopic meniscectomy was done in 1962. These days, they've got robots and even have doctors using robots remotely.
