Pete M

my money is on a tendon issue. I've broken bones and I've fractured bones and they don't stop hurting just because I stopped moving. heck, I can cross my legs pain-free if I manually move the dang thing with my hands. but yeah, I should probably find a local urgent care that specializes in sports injuries and at least see what they say after an examination.

my doc is 750 miles away. and my insurance only covers emergency visits when out of state (and no, this isn't exactly life threatening). so I'm giving it some time and taking it eeeeeasy. if no improvement happens, then urgent care might be able to shed some light on what's wrong. but I gotta get back to michigan to do anything truly invasive.

I seriously would if it helped, but ice doesn't seem to do anything but make my skin cold. heat is working better, but the problem appears to be more internal than the external temperature applications can really affect.

nope. sleeping still sucks. going to need to come up with another plan. maybe I can wrap the knee in bubble wrap or something. I'll probably try the chair next.

bummer!

on a bone-stock truck at a big car show? maybe a little. on a heavily modified truck in your driveway, not even a little. add the stickers that make you smile the biggest.

it came on some 86 MJs. I seem to remember seeing a grey version too.

hand swelling is finally coming down. I can hobble around without the cane, but I've had a couple close calls when changing direction (i.e. pivoting off the right foot) or catching my toe on something and so I prefer having it, just in case. gotta wait for my body to re-learn walking I guess. I've also been working on a way to sleep on my side and support the knee (which is super picky about what angle it's at). so far laying on my left is a no-go, but on my right shows promise. there's very little pain if I sleep on my back with the leg perfectly straight, but I just don't sleep well that way, never have. I guess we'll see what the morning brings.

welcome to the club

not a peep...

bringing the big bucks will always require patience. but the trucks that are worth the big bucks don't need the AC and exhaust fixed.

what's the condition of the circuits on the backs of the clusters?

that's new to me.

what an awesome place to enjoy that view

I haven't fixed the entries yet. it doesn't have airbags either.

you're not wrong. the amount of sweaty effort I put into those 2 trucks combined with a 5 hour drive home directly led to some very poor decision making.

at one point in time this had the factory rollbar, but that was long gone.

indeed they did. I wasn't able to snag everything I hoped (the interiors had been exposed to the weather for like a decade or more), but I got enough to make me happy.

status update: no change on the pain front. nothing much hurts until I move and then it's like I've been stabbed. got a couple bruises on my arm and back that are colorizing themselves. I've figure out how to get out of bed by using my left leg to essentially pick up my right leg by putting one ankle under the other and swinging it over the side. as long as I keep the right leg limp, it doesn't hurt much to move it. and the transisiton between straight and bent is slow and extrutiating so I try to keep it straight while sitting. no big shocker that I've decided I shouldn't drive right now, so my pop helped me return the trailer this morning. we'll see what tomorrow brings... what really sucks is that there's a 21 spline 242 at a local junkyard that I couldn't grab before the trip and now... I still can't...

@scaleless can you crop the new one? now that I'm sitting for a bit I'll have time to hammer out how this is all going to work.

that should be perfect.

up to 96 will work for you. a bonus is that the later years used a much better type of plastic.

what years were the clusters from?

well, did the seat arrive?

thanks! moved and updated.