• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Train accident lessons learned

The neurosurgeon said when he got my neck open there was no structure left whatsoever for several inches. He was able to move my spinal cord with his pinky finger. They kept me sedated for about 2 days while they flew all the equipment in town. I guess this wasn't a routine ordeal :)

ray_ray said:
That C-567 jump sounds almost impossible to live through and still function correctly ...
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I was looking at the X-ray and noticed St Luke's, then saw the house and thought hmm, looks like Kansas City area homes that I moved away from about two years ago, then saw your sons sweatshirt! Go Chiefs!!

Glad to hear you are doing okay! My wife's neck looks similar to yours, six screws and a big titanium plate compliments of a great Dr up there, former head of KU Med Center Neurosugery, Dr O'Boynick.
 
Your point hit home with me, I have done something similar but with a clay target trap

"So my point here is it was my mistake, This wasn't an accident, it was premeditated inattention"
 
Muchmore said:
The neurosurgeon said when he got my neck open there was no structure left whatsoever for several inches. He was able to move my spinal cord with his pinky finger
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Wow !! Just... Wow !!

Glad you made it through. That's one hell of a way to get a campfire story.
 
Muchmore said:
The neurosurgeon said when he got my neck open there was no structure left whatsoever for several inches. He was able to move my spinal cord with his pinky finger. They kept me sedated for about 2 days while they flew all the equipment in town. I guess this wasn't a routine ordeal :)
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Did all that vertebra bone just turn to dust around the cord? Can that cord stretch much?

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That initial impact might have been like a super-duper whiplash...
 
ray_ray said:
Did all that vertebra bone just turn to dust around the cord? Can that cord stretch much?

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That initial impact might have been like a super-duper whiplash...
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They splintered allowing the spinal cord to come out. So the neuro drilled down both sides of the remaining vertebra drove titanium rods down both sides for structure then Dremeled out the middle to lay my spinal cord back. He then pulverized the bone and packed the scraps back in around the cord where they eventually have hardened and fused into a solid mass.

Same with my leg, there was 3 inches of bone that went missing so they broke my hip harvested a piece of bone and used a pro-morphanagenic (?) bio solution to help me grow TIB-FIB bone.
 
Muchmore said:
They splintered allowing the spinal cord to come out. So the neuro drilled down both sides of the remaining vertebra drove titanium rods down both sides for structure then Dremeled out the middle to lay my spinal cord back. He then pulverized the bone and packed the scraps back in around the cord where they eventually have hardened and fused into a solid mass.

Same with my leg, there was 3 inches of bone that went missing so they broke my hip harvested a piece of bone and used a pro-morphanagenic (?) bio solution to help me grow TIB-FIB bone.
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The back bone is a real marvel ...

You had numerous CAT scans? I saw some CAT pics looking down my spinal canal ... It gives a remarkable view of inside the body ...
 
Wow, I very seldom ride on train tracks and typically do so for a short distance. But I'm sure the same thing could've happened to me.

I usually see if the tracks rusted over (I guess this could happen quite fast though). Glad you're ok for the most part. I don't think the trains around here go that fast 50kmh I would figure.
 
Incredible! So glad you made it, for you, and your family, who I imagine would have greatly missed "Daddy".:cheers:
 
Aviduser said:
Wow, I very seldom ride on train tracks and typically do so for a short distance. But I'm sure the same thing could've happened to me.
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Hard to imagine not hearing a train coming, I was focused on a turn coming up, loud bike and just plain head up rear moment ;)

Poor engineer to have to see it :(
 
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