• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Post surgery suckiness

Gotlabs

Gotlabs

Husqvarna
AA Class
Knee surgery Dec 5th and I want to ride already. I should be back on a bike in Jan..........just in time for shoulder surgery. I thought I had prepared myself mentally for this, but I guess not.
 
Wow, two days into it and your already jonesin?!?!?! When I broke my back, I had a good attitude for the first 3 weeks, then I hit a low.... That sucks you've got another surgery scheduled though!!!

I have a buddy that went in to have his knee re-worked (for the 2-3rd time), and his operation was about 5 weeks ago... He says he can't ride until OCTOBER**************************************** :eek:

I don't even know what I would do in that scenario?!?! :banghead:
 
Do not feel bad dude! And remeber some poor sap has it worse for sure!! The day before I had open heart surgury my 44 year old a__ would grab a bundle of shingles and race any punk up a 10/12 pitch roof (and WIN!) I had what is called the Widowmaker and should by all rights be dead! They said sign here you had little time left and I woke up 10 hours later in horror**************************************** Want to feel useless, use and electric chair to stand yourself up, hobble down the hallway sit on a chair in the bathtub and have your wife wash you. Humbling to say the least. But less then a year later 12th OVERALL no not in class OVERALL****************************************! It sucks. I know. Had my share of shoulder crap (04 Husky gave me a new WR 250 for $4,000!!) I was stoked. During heat cycle, bike was new, I went to turn around in a field and tipped over at 2mph. Heard my shoulder pop. Bingo done for 1 year**************************************** Put some contraption on my shoulder and was getting passed by B riders!! (if i can't win I won't play!) Go back to the drawing board if you have to and make the musles around your injury stronger so you can sort of cheat and not put so much stress on the bad part!! I took this year off but I am stoked for next year. Yes I will be on a devil bike. But by god Husky lower your seat height give me a 6-speed and update your 2-strokes!! I have hit that low, but came back and hit a high! You will get there and good luck with a speedy recovery****************************************
 
My knee surgery was originally supposed to be 6wks recovery, but since he did a lateral release so recovery is 5-6months now. Shoulder surgery is expected to be 9-12 months****************************************! WTH? I'm hoping that with daughter racing that will keep me busy enough to not notice I can't ride.
 
Good luck with your surgery, but it sure suck's getting old don't it? I've been riding 43 yr's never really been hurt, but the beating your body take's doesn't seam to show up till your 50's. ( Man I wish I was 20 again )
 
Gotlabs said:
Knee surgery Dec 5th and I want to ride already. I should be back on a bike in Jan..........just in time for shoulder surgery. I thought I had prepared myself mentally for this, but I guess not.
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Time to be patient and heal (&& maybe gain some wisdom also) grasshopper :)

And heal up quickly!

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PS -- I sitting here with a scalded leg from being not-so-smart with a hot radiator ... 2 weeks off apparently and I guess that is OK but I can hear my 250 2t bike saying take me across that mountain pass towards Danasan ECO park ...
 
Thankfully, none of the surgeries are dirt sickle related. My employer gets their monies worth. Lol
 
I had a double bypass in Jan of 2011 and a hip replacement in dec 2011. It took about six months after my surgeries to get the bug. It will feel great when you finally get to ride again. It is a year later and I can finally lift my leg over a bike. The bike was a 2013 Terra that I will probaly get in the spring.
 
Hang in there.
Broke my patella ( knee cap) in half June 23, 2011. Doc said going to be a while. I was back in the woods end of Sept. thought I was going to have to wait till spring.
This year , shattered a finger. and injured rotator ( not the same time ) Back up to speed again.
 
Day 3.5....the fever is getting worse. I did venture out to get ice cream today (a local dairy makes the real stuff that is amazing) with the wife and daughter. Made it about 3 miles before getting motion sickness and having to concentrate on not puking. I've had motion sickness/vertigo problems in the past, but I think this one was induced by narcotics. 2 scoops of vanilla and 1 scoop of ginger snap made me feel a touch better though, at least until we headed home. Haha. Thankfully, I managed to keep everything down for the return trip. As you can tell, I am bored out of my mind! And one can only get on FB so much.
 
I tore my acl and mcl riding at the end of august. having surgery in feb. Good Luck. I hope i dont have these problems.
 
Gotlabs said:
My knee surgery was originally supposed to be 6wks recovery, but since he did a lateral release so recovery is 5-6months now. Shoulder surgery is expected to be 9-12 months ! WTH? I'm hoping that with daughter racing that will keep me busy enough to not notice I can't ride.
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Another thing you can do (not as fun) while you are hury is grab a streetbike. (If you buy it right you can ride it for free as when your healed up sell it for what you paid) That is what I have done. Do some streetbiking. I know it is not the same thing, but I have had alot of fun and it takes your mind off of not being able to rail some nasty singletrack! And if you have a wife she will enjoy the bonding (trust me I would rather be sweaty in the woods getting ate by mosquitos, but it ain't to bad!) My shouder (ACL tear) took about a year to heal and I feel it is about 90%. I did alot of streetbiking while waiting. FUN. Do not rush your healing process! I once showed up at a race with a cast (hit a tree on mothers's day) cut it off (2 weeks early) and raced. At the end of the race my thumb and gand were brusied badly and swollen. Lesson learned (well, not really) best to not rush it.
 
fletchman45 said:
Another thing you can do (not as fun) while you are hury is grab a streetbike. (If you buy it right you can ride it for free as when your healed up sell it for what you paid) That is what I have done. Do some streetbiking. I know it is not the same thing, but I have had alot of fun and it takes your mind off of not being able to rail some nasty singletrack! And if you have a wife she will enjoy the bonding (trust me I would rather be sweaty in the woods getting ate by mosquitos, but it ain't to bad!) My shouder (ACL tear) took about a year to heal and I feel it is about 90%. I did alot of streetbiking while waiting. FUN. Do not rush your healing process! I once showed up at a race with a cast (hit a tree on mothers's day) cut it off (2 weeks early) and raced. At the end of the race my thumb and gand were brusied badly and swollen. Lesson learned (well, not really) best to not rush it.
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I would love to, but with shoulder surgery scheduled for the end of Jan I won't be riding anything other than the couch or recliner. lol I hope to do some DSing again one day, probably once my daughter is old enough to drive so we can go together.


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I tore my acl and mcl riding at the end of august. having surgery in feb. Good Luck. I hope i dont have these problems.
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Oh man, cabin fever is the worst!
 
I had my right rotator cuff done 2 yrs ago and it was 10 times worse than any o my knee surgeries and now I will join you in jan. to get my left shouder done,I,m in lots of pain and just want it done,PT is more important with shoulders than most anything else and it can be torture.My Dr. told me this time should be easier than last time due too a smaller tear and the shark tooth[bone spur] will be cleaned off and there is a new kind of wedges out wright now that work much better,will get back after 1-4-13
Good luck guy.
 
Got...sorry to hear about your setback...

But that's just what it is! Somehow, it always seems like the doc's work on the physical repair and rehab, but mentally you're on your own.

But, I do believe you're off to good start...ice cream helps everything.

You've always been supportive, and I'm sure this bunch will be nothing but the same...

Although it sounds like a long way to go and there's really no way to sugar coat it...

Treat it like a tough 3 hour national hare scramble and you just left the line, have arm pump and for some reason riding like a squid (been there done that).

Fight it all the way, physically do your rehab, mentally take stock and readjust daily to stay in the game.

Sometimes what feels like a brick wall fell on you will be a small bump in the road when you look back...

Best of luck and keep us updated...
 
Day 5 and I'm hanging out waiting on my daughter to come out of surgery for her knees. We decided to have both of hers completed at the same time so she can get back on the bike soon. Watching her go under the knife sucks.
 
Thankfully, my daughter came through her surgery like a champ today. She had both patellas/knee caps released, the surgeon said she needed it. She has been through physical therapy three times for it in as many years. I've always known she was special, but found out before surgery that she is in the 5% of people that PT actually makes worse. haha! We are hoping she will be back on the bike by 1 Feb, which the Dr said is a realistic goal.
 
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