Thread: Busted Ribs
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Old 10-16-2018, 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by kidd View Post
I took a spiill and busted two ribs. Took me 6 weeks to start feeling mostly good again. I had no choice but to heal fast - I had a fly fishing trip booked down South.
Big thing the doc said was to make sure to take the pain meds as needed so that the breathing would not be so shallow as to cause the ribs to heal in a wrong position.
A few months later I got my first case of gout. Wowzers. I wished I could have traded that for the broken ribs again.
kidd
Ironically, |I am one who suffers from Gout,I will agree with you. Broken ribs is horrible but Goout can be the worst pain imaginable.
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