Im still alive.... But in alot of pain.

[Madcat]

Just a quick post to let everyone know surgery is over and it went as well as possible. I have before and after pics but I cant post them because of lack of scanner and lack of being able to sit in one place more than 5 minutes without too much pain.

Anyways, he said it was one of the worst tears he's ever seen, but Im kool with that, if Im going to tear it, might as well tear ot all the way.

Glad its over and now time to heal.
Thanks to everyone who remembered me and especially Slade, that was the last text I got before surgery and I appreciated it. Kim sent ya the pic so you could laugh at me and she was really glad you cheered me up.

[columbuscougar]

damn man that is ruf, i havnt talked to u in a while, but i am glad to hear that all is well.

[silverkat]

Awwwww :grouphug: :kiss: Hope you feel better soon. Yeah, if you're going to tear a major tendon, you might as well do it good!

[Afroman]

Yeah and if your going really tear a tendon it might as well be mythological one!

by the way here is an interesting fact on that tendon:

The term “Achilles’ heel” was first used by a Dutch anatomist, Verheyden, in 1693 when he dissected his own amputated leg.

Nasty!

[imgeorge78]

Glad to hear you diong ok mang, wish you the best on recovery

I thought that came from the movie Troy when Achilles got shot with the arrow in the heel

[B3NN3TT]

Hang in there, John. I guess this means you'll be online a little more frequently these days?

And also - Achilles was supposedly the greatest warrior of all time, but he died because of his weak spot, the Achilles tendon. There is no Chuck Norris tendon. You do the math.

[Tygerr]

Achilles was the warrior, but I'm not sure if that's right about when they first started using it. Maybe?

Chuck Norris does not go hunting, because the term hunting implies failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.

[silverkat]

I have no tendon trivia :(

[gyger]

Glad you are on the road to healing John, good luck.

Oh and from what I hear chuck Norris round house kicked some guy named
Achilles in the face so hard he tore a tendon on his heel/ankle

and that is how the name came about

[Sled]

And so the myth goes; Achilles was dipped in water (or some magic stuff or something). Anyway, his mother held him upside down by the ankle/heel to dip him and so he was invincible all over...except where he was held by his mother- his heels. Anyway, so that small area is the only area he was vulnerable and yes, at some point he took an arrow in the heel and was killed (mighta been a poison arrow? Again, I forget.) This myth is waaaaaaaaaaay older than movies and I dont think "Troy" really went into Achilles' history.

Anyway John- hope you liked the lil pic I sent you. Sorry it had to be that way but i didnt have any female boobies to take a pic of at the time:eek: You never did mind a lil hair around the nips did ya? Get better soon.

[silverkat]

Oh and from what I hear chuck Norris round house kicked some guy named Achilles in the face so hard he tore a tendon on his heel/ankle

and that is how the name came about
OMFG http://www.xterraownersclub.com/ubb/graemlins/spit.gif

[ClaymoreWW]

I define "waaay older" as Homer's writing of The Iliad circa 720 BC. The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War. Yes, Achilles was dipped in the River Styx by his mother at the advice of the gods to make him invulnerable. This was enterily effective and he did become the greatest warrior. However, his heel was vulnerable and an arrow from Paris found the heel and he died (there was much godly interference). And not in the way it was shown in the movie. Another detail the movie was light on - of obscured completely: the Trojan War lasted 10 years.

Want more? ;) Odysseus (Ulysses) left the Trojan War, traveled for another 10 years, encountered many wonders, including the Cyclops and the Sirens, returned to his kingdom, kicked the collective asses of all his wife's suitors and reclaimed his throne. For a great take on that story, watch O Brother, Where Art Thou?

And even though the chief export of Chuck Norris is Pain, either Achilles or Odysseus would have squashed Check Norris like a bug.

class dismissed ;)

--george

[Afroman]

You missed the part about the cyclops and how he became the way he was..

Apparently the story goes the cyclops was born like a normal person with two eyes. During a long drinking binge at a wine house with some friends he decided he wanted to get into a fight. At the time he was a great fighter, the best there was in his town so he didnt fear anyone. He saw a new guy at the wine house and decided to beat him up. What he didnt realize that this man was Chuck Norris. After he called chuck's beard scraggely Chuck Norris became so angered he delivered one of the most powerful round house kicks ever recorded in human history. The kick was so severe that it permanatly disfigured the man's face, thus leaving him with only one eye in the center of his head. Upon seeing what he had done, Chuck decided that all future round house kicks to the head would simply make the opponents head explode. He let the man live so that everyone would know the true power of a Chuch Norris round house kick.

[Pyro81]

What's with all this Chuck Norris crap lately?
I'm actually starting to get annoyed of it...

[Afroman]

I think the Chuck Norris stuff is deeply rooted in boredom