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 Posted: Wed May 4th, 2011 06:18 pm
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TN Trailrider



Joined: Wed Dec 5th, 2007
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee USA
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 Yeah, Pam.  I'm going to EF whether I ride or not.  Probably safer for me if I don't ride anyway!   I think I'll be good to go by the EF rolls around.  Even if I end up having surgery on it I'll schedule that for the hot summer months when I don't ride anyway.  Like CRS says, I schedule stuff that will keep me out of the saddle for times when I won't be riding anyway.  I put my rotator cuff surgery off until November one year so I'd be good to go when early Spring came.

I also have a lace-up boot I used once when this ankle got hurt before (which I think this is a delayed result of).  I can get a shoe on over that.  It gave the ankle stability for walking, so I can try that under my riding boot (but not for a few more weeks!).

It's funny (well not amusing funny) that about every 5 years something happens that lays me up.  It's been 5 years since my last lay-up, which occurred at East Fork and ruptured my ACL behind my knee and pulled the ligaments and tendons in my ankle.  So I guess I'm staying tru to form.  Maybe this lay-up will give me 5 more years of being accident free and will be about time for me to consider hanging up my saddle anyway as I'll be in my 70's. 



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