Well that's some good news I suppose. Aside from the pain he's in, sometimes being in your own surroundings can help with recovery. Hope he gets more comfortable as the days progress and has others to lean on to help him for now.
Thanks for keeping us updated and for staying on it like you do.
DesertDrifter, Thanks so much for passing on what scant news you received. And for all voices of support received both privately and publicly while i was away much appreciated. i managed to read a few before crashing yesterday evening. Know they were all much appreciated, more than i feel capable of expressing well here and now.
One major correction: the dog, according to it's chip, was not a Pitbull, but a Staffie
i was walking home as usual on the sidewalk, or the road, can't remember for sure. Normally two dogs bark there, behind a wooden fence. I had never seen them before. This time a garage door at the end of the fence was open and one of two attacked me. He, assuming it was a male, managed a good mouthful from my left inside forearm, bare teeth marks on my belly, and scratches on my right inside forearm.
I remember the dog grabbed the bag in his teeth for a bit, so having the bottle in it probably helped to swing it at his head. Which must have helped to distract or deter him a bit.
I don't remember much of the attack except that and swearing and kicking at a black and white viciously attacking dog. And seeing my left arm hanging dripping blood, with a flap hanging down from the open wound.
The owner coming out could have helped stop the attack. I don't know, but remember saying to him "Your fucking dog just attacked me".
He was apologizing profusely, but don't recall him offering to help. He's a renter at the place on the corner of where my street hits a bigger thoroughfare. About two small blocks from my place at the dead-end of the street. I walked to a house 3 up from mine and, dripping blood on his patio knocked on his front door. His wife called the ambulance and the police. I remember her saying "a dog bite" and me rudely perhaps, calling to her a vicious dog attack, thinking that might get an ambulance more quickly. The neighbors wrapped my arm in something. Not sure, but i think the ambulance got there in about 15 minutes. Will get more detail from them when i see them again.
I received excellent care. Initial cleaning operation took place almost immediately. Then was on a machine for a time supposed to be three days. The doctors called it a fusion bandage, looks it was this one
They took the suction machine off after three days, as i was on the operation theater list to go in then. I told them the wound looked "like a dry river bed." One dr. said "that is poetic." LOL It is an irregular mess measuring 13cm in two directions. 15cm diagonally.
Partly because of covid patients in hospital it took about 6-7 days to get into the operating theater, instead of the planned three. On my asking if that was good or bad, one dr. told me it was ok as the longer that suction machine ws on the better.
They took skin off my outside left leg and put it on the left forearm.
After that op the dr. said sometimes they send patients home with the suction machine on again this time on top of the graft. That for five days. But because i lived alone he suggested i stay. i agreed and he said it was better for the medical team, anyway.
I didn't really feel any pain from the operation but maybe that was because every time they asked, i said yes. I did at times have a bit of a headache. My favorite of all the opioids was Endone
Endone
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* Endone is used to relieve moderate to severe pain – it is not usually recommended for the treatment of chronic (long-term) pain.
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Leidenfrost effect demonstrated on a hot cooking plate. Water drops, formed as almost perfect spheres, hover on an invisible steam layer.
Physicists have known how to levitate water for more than 260 years. They just figured out how to levitate ice, too.
By pushing a well-known physics phenomenon called the Leidenfrost effect to the extreme, a group of researchers at Virginia Tech caused frozen disks of ice to hover over a hot aluminum surface. Outside of the lab, they say, engineers could harness the effect to create stronger metals or even fight wildfires. The results were published in Physical Review Fluids.
The Leidenfrost effect is named for Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, a German physician who described the phenomenon in 1756. He noticed that when he placed a drop of water on a very hot surface, the liquid did not evaporate immediately, as he had expected, but rather skittered around like a whirligig beetle before eventually burning off as steam. Upon investigation, Leidenfrost discovered that a tiny cushion of vapor—about one millimeter thick—had formed beneath the water. This air pocket acted as insulation, levitating each droplet and keeping it liquid for longer.
The Virginia Tech researchers wanted to see whether they could achieve the same effect using ice. “It just started off as a curiosity sort of experiment,” says Jonathan Boreyko, a mechanical engineer at Virginia Tech and the study’s senior author.
To the group’s surprise, the ice did not levitate at 150 degrees Celsius (about 300 degrees Fahrenheit), the hot-plate temperature that causes water to hover. And it did not levitate when the scientists raised the metal plate’s temperature to 300 degrees C, the upper limit for most Leidenfrost experiments. “These authors went further,” says Felipe Pacheco-Vazquez, a physicist at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Pueblo in Mexico, who was not involved in the study.
Ultimately, the researchers cranked up the heat to a blistering 550 degrees C (1022 degrees F). Only then did the ice begin to hover above the plate. “We couldn’t take it any hotter because it would start to melt or warp the aluminum,” Boreyko says.
The 400-degree-C difference between the temperature required to levitate water and ice was puzzling, especially because it is four times the gap between water’s freezing point (0 degree C) and its boiling point (100 degrees C). When the team took a closer look, it discovered a layer of meltwater separating the ice puck from the superhot plate. Below the water was a classic Leidenfrost vapor pocket, resulting in all three phases of water stacked on top of one another like a floating parfait. The researchers theorize that the meltwater acted as a buffer for the heat, dissipating nearly 70 percent of it while caught between boiling temperatures below and cold ice above. Thus, a much larger quantity of energy would be needed to trigger the type of boiling that produces vapor on a large scale, says Mojtaba Edalatpour, a graduate fellow at Virginia Tech and lead author of the study.
“Clearly, there is an impact for engineering applications,” Pacheco-Vazquez says. Water is routinely used in metallurgy to quench hot iron and steel, making them stronger by rapidly locking the metal atoms into a hard lattice. In theory, quenching with ice would cool the metals faster, making this atomic lattice even more durable—though the effect would require very precise temperature control to prevent shattering caused by internal stress.
Boreyko and Edalatpour suggest that this effect could even be useful in fighting fire. Wildfires—such as the Marshall Fire that recently devastated Boulder, Colo.—routinely rage at 550 degrees C or hotter, which vaporizes water on contact. But if firefighters dropped ice from helicopters rather than water, the energy required to turn it to vapor could suck much more heat from the flames. A wildfire’s unpredictable surface texture and temperature could limit effectiveness, as could the physical difficulty of keeping ice frozen long enough to drop it. But if those obstacles can be surmounted, the approach holds firefighting promise.
Update dog attack place. Have since had confirmation from people around that those in the house had quite a big drug operation going. I think i've mentioned the owner of the place has been trying to break their lease for a time, and that the attack on me made his efforts on that successful. He gave them two weeks notice about a week ago. I don't think it is coincidental that the home was invaded this morning about 3am. Last week in the place so... About eight police still there as i passed just awhile ago. It's just after 5:30pm now, so they've been going through the place for some 14+ hours. This police statement is all we have officially so far
Investigation underway following home invasion - Tempe
Sunday, 13 February 2022 11:55:50 AM
An investigation is underway after two men were injured during a home invasion in Sydney’s inner west this morning.
About 3.30am (Sunday 13 February 2022), emergency services were called to a home on Unwins Bridge Road near Bridge Street, Tempe, after reports of a home invasion.
Police have been told two men – aged 31 and 23 – were inside the home when the younger man heard a noise. When he went to investigate, he located three or four males that had smashed the back glass sliding door to gain entry.
Both men were assaulted before the group fled the scene in a light-coloured hatchback.
They were described as wearing jumpers with hoods over their heads and masks.
The older man was treated by paramedics for a laceration to his hand before being taken to hospital in a stable condition. The younger man sustained facial injuries.
Officers from Inner West Police Area Command established a crime scene, which was examined by specialist forensic police.
As detectives continue their investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident, they urge anyone with dashcam footage or CCTV from the area to come forward.
Initial inquiries suggest the incident was targeted.
Took the bandages off this morning. The leg where the graft came off is bigger, but just a smooth reddish area. Smooth with the rest of the thigh. The arm bite area, which seems to have healed a bit more as it's harder, looks disfigured as hell. Not funny. It looks like a fucking, ugly, trained to be vicious dog had a hunk of it as an appetizer one night. It looks much uglier than the right temple indent from the car crash on the Banff-Jasper .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=89556403 .
Anyway, the NBN guy came early. It's great to be back!!!
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