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by Ted VE3DXG Midi Playing is "Bobby McGee" I lost 42 pounds and am now a trim 180 pounds without any special diets or watching my food intake! This story starts back a couple of years ago when my family doctor, after a complete physical, asked me if I was still climbing my 72 foot tower. I told him that I was, whenever I had to make changes to antennas, etc. He suggested that I get someone younger to do it. I asked why and he said that at my age (only 68 at the time) I might have a weak spell and lose my grip and fall down. I did not think much about it and have been up and down the tower perhaps 12 times since. On July 8, 2001 I was at it again, putting a pulley with a rope through it at about 60 feet so that I could hang a Delta Loop (with the point down) from it. Came down and placed an aluminum ladder at a 45 degree angle against a 65 foot Spruce tree, climbed the tree, cutting away branches so that I could get to about 55 feet up. I was on my way down, to get the other pulley and rope, at about the 30 foot level, when suddenly, I either slipped or a branch broke under foot and down I came. It happened so fast that the only thing I recall is not being able to hold on. I landed on my left side on the aluminum ladder ( I had the parallel marks of the siderail of the ladder down my left arm and left leg) bounced to the ground and came to, on my hands and knees. I was unable to move, had severe pain in my left hip and leg, so I fell over to my right side. I shouted and hollered for Chris, my xyl, but she was watching a baseball game in the house and could not hear me. I managed to move towards the house about 10 feet but then got stuck in a bit of a depression in the ground. This happened about 8.30 p.m. and Chris finally came out to see what I was up to about 1/2 hour later. She called 911, an ambulance arrived about 30 minutes later and then shortly after the Air Ambulance helicopter arrived. The following day I underwent 8 hours of surgery to repair a shattered hip and a broken femur. Titanium plates, rods, etc were used to hold things together. The surgeon said that I was "one tough Finlander" and a lucky one as well because of the ankylosing spondilitis that has fused most of the joints in my back over the years. He told me that he has had patients ( with AK) that just fell on the sidewalk on ice in the winter and are paralyzed as a result. I got out of hospital on August 3rd and am still on crutches, but using a cane around the house. Things are progressing slowly but surely.
That is how I lost 42 pounds but do not recommend anyone to try the
same thing !
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