Bless you, Walt! May our Father force a way for your good wife to be able to be by your side during this ordeal.

Me and Patty will both keep you in our prayers Walt. May you have a speedy recovery.

Incense has been burned for you mate, and will continue to rise.

Walt
We shall pray for your speedy recovery here in the UK, and for relief of pain too.

Noel and Joanna

Get operated on 1st thing in AM
3-5 days in hospital
Then 6 weeks before I start physical therapy, and 10 weeks before I can start to put weight on it (LOTS of bed rest)

I still can't believe this, with all I do - climbing microwave towers, mountain climbing, off roading, scuba diving - I get taken down by falling 4 feet from a ladder.

Greatly appreciate the prayers

Praying for you, Walt..Sounds like you are going through the very thing my mom-n-law did, by falling off her back porch. About 4' fall too and at her old age, this was a few yrs ago, she's still slow getting that smashed pelvis, and all it's kinks out when getting out of bed.

I hear ya, it's the little things that'll get us if we aren't careful.

You're in my prayers Walt....and for faster recovery than 16 weeks.

Appreciate all the prayers and encouragement
Update, had the surgery yesterday. They said 2-3 hours but it took 6
Looks like that my internal organs (liver & gall bladder) took a beating in the fall

Well, all you can do is relax and heal, then. So do it! Yahowah has given you an opportunity to rest.

Yahowah bless you, brother.

After my triple bypass surgery in 2008, they told me I couldn't return to work for 12-16 weeks. I fought them and was allowed to return after just 2 weeks. May our Father accelerate your own healing process. Of course, I wasn't dealing with shattered bones and damaged internal organs (except for my heart, the use of 55% of which I apparently lost). Nevertheless, Yahowah can heal you quickly. Whatever occurs, Walt, I would encourage you to use this time to draw closer to Him Who loves us.

Love in Yahowah.

Yeay I can actually post (I hope this goes through)

Sorry to hear of your injury Walt, get well soon buddy!

Walt, just wanted to check and see how things are going. I pray your recovery is coming along good.

Rest, sponge baths, more rest, sponge baths, movement, very slow and cautious, much fluid intake, more slow movement, sponge baths, rest. It is not a very pretty picture, Walt, but it is obvious you need tender, cautious care, much rest, constant observation, and more rest. The heaviest pain killer should be prescribed. I suspect the most difficult and trying cure will be how to keep the formerly robust person you have described to stay inactive and do all of the above. It is hurtful just thinking of the pain you are in. I have pain, but only mental. My treatments do not hurt. I have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, am five weeks into daily treatment I pray will work. Have four more weeks, five days a week to culmination. After that, wait four more months to find out if treatments worked. I have a positive outlook. I am sure it helps not to have so much pain as you have. Follow the directions, Walt. Do not push it or exert yourself. It will work. I know you have a lot of friends praying for you. Faith, rest and a cure.

I literally just came here to ask this same question.

LOL

You have been in my thoughts and prayers along with, tagim and felicia. Get well, have a happy Sabbath. As best as someone in that condition could.

Walt, thank you for the update, as painful as it is to read knowing the pain you are in. I know that for you and the state of health you were in before this horrible accident, you must feel as a stranger to your old self. You are wise to sparingly use the opiates. I am pretty much hooked on them, plus a morphine pill at night, which, if not taken, leaves me with a useless body by morning. That is a pain, I believe, caused by the morphine alone, or rather the lack of it. But at 76 years of abusing my body, the best I can do is to take whatever I can to relieve pain. I suspect now your mind is the strongest part of your body and I pray you use it to endure all you have to. You have many friends praying for your quick and full recovery. Easy to say, "mind over matter," though I wish you quickly get to that state so you can more easily endure. I hope you can rest easily at night, as tossing in bed could be like a nightmare. Stay strong, friend, and we hope to hear better news at your next post.

I will keep you in my prayers Walt, may Yah be with you throughout.

Thanks for the prayers. Tagim, your post humbles me - thank you. I will definitely pray for you and thank Yah for people like you being around.
I great praise report. For the first time I got a decent nights sleep. I ordered an herbal sleep aid called Ambesleep (it has Valerian Root, Melatonin, GABA and other herbs) and it worked great.
I still woke up a few times, but I just repositioned myself and went back to sleep WOO-HOO

Update.....
The herbal sleep aid didn't work near as well the following 2 nights, so I took 6 (dose is 4) - PURE HELL, I felt like I was tired as all get out, but on speed. I was SOO wired. NEVER AGAIN.
I am now able to sleep in my bed instead instead of the hospital bed.

Saw my orthopedic surgeon Tues, said he was very impressed with my level of healing.
I now start outpatient physical therapy 3 times a week.
He released my limitations of moving the leg & hip, but I still can't put any weight on the leg - he said the rule of thumb is 3 months before walking, regardless of how fast the healing goes.

He cleared me to goto the hot springs, so I went yesterday.
TOTALLY overdid it, got home at 4pm yesterday and headed straight to bed, didn't get up till 8 this morning, couldn't even eat lunch or supper yesterday.
Still weak today - but IT WAS WORTH IT, felt SOOOOO good.

Said in 6 weeks he'll release me to office work. Said I'll be able to tower climb in 6 months (my job has me climbing microwave radio towers) and said at that point I should good as new, with no restrictions.

ditto bigritchie!!!