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This is why middle aged people shouldn't skateboard...

Posted by Andie Aug 6 '24, 10:40

my friend's husband was skateboarding with his 10 year old on Friday.
Fell.
Broke his hip AND broke his femur (broke the femural ball off the top of the bone.)
Full hip replacement.
In hospital at least two more weeks (oddly enough, in my hometown - it was the closest hospital to where they were staying for the long weekend.)

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There's a skateboarder on the US Olympic team who is 51. He started out with Tony Hawk and he really wanted to be in the Olympics, so he spent a year -- (edited) - jnine Aug 6, 11:04
and this was my skateboard for the entirety of HS (till I got a drivers license). Lol and yes, as seen in Back to the Future. - Jovian Aug 6, 10:52 [Attachment] 1
- :D -- nm - Andie Aug 6, 10:53
Yikes!! I broke out my skateboard during the pandemic and after a few minutes I was done. I was too scared to fall. - Krusty Aug 6, 10:48
It was just a few years ago I learned that "broken hip" was usually a reference to the femur not the pelvis. - Baron of the Rings Aug 6, 10:43 7
- yeah, she said 'hip and femur' she probably meant pelvis and femur. -- nm* - Andie Aug 6, 10:45 6
  - Broken pelvis makes it so much worse. Will severely limit mobility during recovery period. She should keep an eye out for signs of pneumonia. - Baron of the Rings Aug 6, 10:52 5
    - My best friend's mother died from complications from a broken femur. She was in her 80s. -- nm - jnine Aug 6, 11:09 1
      - :( -- nm - Andie Aug 6, 11:15
    - this was our fear when waiting for xrays on my Dad several months back when he broke his hip. - Jovian Aug 6, 10:54 2
      - my mom spend a week in hospital (the same floor as my friend's husband) with a fractured pelvis in March. it's a rough recovery.. -- nm - Andie Aug 6, 10:57 1
        
        (a month, not a week!) -- nm - Andie Aug 6, 11:02
oh man that is brutal - Jovian Aug 6, 10:43 1
- you are both wise. -- nm - Andie Aug 6, 10:48
Any word on what he was trying to do? -- nm - con_carne Aug 6, 10:42 1
- oh, i don't think it was anything fancy. -- nm - Andie Aug 6, 10:42
Yikes! -- nm - JaxSean Aug 6, 10:41
or any age -- nm - mr mooch Aug 6, 10:40 2
- 14-year-olds seem to stay relatively unscathed. -- nm - Andie Aug 6, 10:41 1
  - regretfully -- nm - mr mooch Aug 6, 10:43

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