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Howdy guys - I've been in central Ohio for about 12 years, since I started at OSU. Currently residing in Pick-town. My gearhead fever started at birth, handed down by my father. His pride and joy is a '34 Ford roadster and current project is a '65 Ford Fairlane. I cut my teeth in the Subaru community (I still actively troll NASIOC and COS...my wife has an Impreza 2.5i and my brother just picked up a new WRX) with an '07 WRX that I loved until about a year ago when I picked up a clean B7 S4. I wanted a manual transmission, AWD, sedan, with a V8. That's a pretty niche market which the Audi has satisfied perfectly. Current upgrades include JHM tune and Fast Intentions exhaust. I heard about this site through members on Audizine, I look forward to learning more about this community. I enjoy tinkering on cars, golfing/drinking, shooting, and of course spending time with the wife and kids. My brother and I try to get out to Norwalk a couple times a year, but I haven't had a chance to get the Audi out there yet. I am interested in getting out for mid-ohio track days and auto-x when it warms up. Here are a few pics of the S4 when I picked her up. I will get some updated shots after my next detail day. http://img.tapatalk.com/4cb5245e-ffb7-889f.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/4cb5245e-ffe5-bbeb.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/4cb5245e-004e-811d.jpg

Sorry this is so epically long. Gotta get it off my chest. This morning I was rollerblading with my son at the local skating rink when I saw a lady who had fallen. Considering how often people fall I always give someone one full lap to get back up before I check on them. That's about 20-30 seconds. Next lap I saw she had someone with her and was just talking but still on the ground. By the third lap I decided to check in and make sure she was ok. She wasn't. She said she had broken her ankle, and I told her I was a first aider (Thanks Todd!) and asked if she wanted my help, which she accepted. I took my blades off and started to examine her ankles. She had already removed her rollerskates and was in her stocking feet. She was in an extreme amount of pain and struggled to move at all. I found her right ankle to be heavily swollen already, obviously at least a grade 2 or 3 sprain. She had a girl with her who said she was "studying medical at OSU" and another guy who was wearing a fire department t-shirt for a nearby department. I offered a couple of suggestions for getting her off the rollerskating floor (bringing over a chair, having her sit in the chair and FD guy and myself carry her in the chair. Or we could just carry her from either side in a side lift. She declined both) I told her I was going to get a cold pack. Ran out to my car and got my first aid kit, where I have an emergency cold pack. FD-shirt guy offered to call 911 when it became clear it would be too painful for her to make it outside and into a car. The lady agreed and he disappeared to make the call. As I got back with my first aid kit I found she had crawled across the floor and was sitting on a bench. I had her lie down and put her leg up on the backrest, the asked her which way she twisted her ankle. She said inwards (suggesting an inversion injury) but that didn't seem right to me because all the heat from the swelling was on the inside of her ankle (suggesting an eversion injury). My coldpack wasn't big enough to cover both sides so I opted to place it on the inside where the swelling was, leaving her thin sock on. Any contact here was very painful for her, as was any movement, so I got myself into a position where I could hold her lower leg and ankle dead still without fatigue on myself or her and still be able to apply the cold pack with light enough pressure to not cause pain. After 15 minutes I moved the cold pack to the outside of her ankle for fear of too much cold causing more problems - any touch on her outside ankle was agony to her - another suggested of an eversion injury in my mind. During the time she kept asking me; "Is it bad?" and "It's really bad, isn't it?" to which I replied that an ankle sprain is the most painful thing I have gone through myself, and I've done it a couple times and both times I have recovered fully, so I told her she was going to be fine. Of course, I was being slightly economical with the truth in that I was talking in the long-term - I could tell from my angle that he ankle had definitely been broken badly (her ankle was clearly misaligned outwards, further suggesting an eversion injury, and when she moved her ankle ever-so slightly it clicked/cracked in my hand like a bag of rocks). My non-medical opinion was that I heavily suspected a trimalleolar fracture that would require surgery to screws/plates to repair and up to 12 weeks recovery time. But after all that she'd be fine, so I stuck with "We'll get you up to the hospital so you can be treated and you'll be fine." When the squad arrived I gave them the download of her injury, her assement of the injury, my observations of the misalignment and where the pain seemed to be including my suspicion it was an eversion not inversion injury, and I kept the cold pack on as long as I could until they got her lower leg into an air splint and we all helped her into the chair. All this time I was reassuring her, and her two daughters. Someone else had called her husband to pick up her daughters, both 10-11yo, very upset at what was going on. They whisked her away into the ambulance and within seconds it seemed like, it was all over and done with and I was left sitting there holding a half-used coldpack, her sock that EMS cut off her (I left it on so I'd have something between the cold pack and her skin, it was very thin) And then that was it. Every went back to skating (TBH only 3 or 4 stopped). It's a pretty empty feeling once it's all over because you get the adrenaline rush of trying to help someone who is clearly in a great deal of pain so you're trying help as best you can without making things worse, so you're second-guessing yourself, struggling even with simple tasks like breaking the inner bag on the coldpack - am I doing this right, why won't it break? Read the instructions, figure out that although I just READ the instructions my brain didn't get them so have to read them again. I actively chose not wrap the ankle in ace bandage for compression because she was in a great deal of pain with anything touching her ankle - we couldn't even take her thin sock off because of the pain, so wrapping would have been too painful. So now she's off to the hospital and she'll recover in time (will be a long road). I'll never hear back again, so I'll never know if what I did helped or not. I'd like to think that focusing so much on helping her ankle also helped her deal with it emotionally. Another strange thing was a member of staff approached me while I was holding the coldpack on the lady's ankle and asked ME for the lady's name - I said I haven't the slightest clue what her name is! (note to self, introduce first names next time) The staff member struggled with this concept and asked; "Aren't you with her?" "No, I'm just helping because I have a first aid card and medical supplied with me". So, for you medical / FF / EMS types - did I do everything right? Did I mess anything up? Anything I missed? - I did introduce myself and tell her I was trained in first aid and asked her permission to help her. - Every time I did anything I told her first / asked her permission (things like moving the coldpack, pulling up her sock to provide a little insulation on the coldpack. She was in a lot of pain but was a great patient. - The EMS team offered to replace the supplies I used from my kit which was nice. - I asked the guy in the FD shirt if he was a firefighter (the best trained person should be in charge of the medical aid, so I figure if he was a FF he would be the guy to do it) but I thought his response was weird, words to the effect of "I used to be, sort of" and then he kind of milled around proving non-medical assistance.

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My Florida friends made fun of me for moving back to Ohio. Well, my home state has never eaten a person alive who was doing nothing more than lying in bed. That said, I do have remorse in my heart for that poor family, especially the brother who tried to save the victim. How unfathomable to be lost in a sinkhole under your own home. That is simply further verification that I don't care how you live or what you believe. When it's your time, it's just your time.

Sounds good, anybody that is planning on scouting that weekend or just in the area is more than welcome to stop by the campground for some burgers/brats. Have some lunch and then do a bit of riding.

Your just mad because your not tall enough to join.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbpS2LfoTKU

Yeah, the un-edited version of the video is about 20 minutes long and has me walking the trail and you get a better feel for the "gravity" of the situation I was in.

The correct term is people mcnuggets

He is putting his life on the line everyday for you ungrateful people! He is a hero

No razor can handle my epic 'till riding season' beard. When the time comes I will have to go to a machine shop and get it trimmed on the band saw, then have them mill the rest down.

This thread isn't easily trolled, so jrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii is out.

lol... i'm not a gun person at all. but i'd buy it if buyers before me don't come through.

Sig P250 It's modular. You can swap out everything. Calibers & frame sizes. There's a P250 .40 package you can get for around $400 that includes a .357sig barrel. You can even swap to 9mm or .45 and only have 1 serial number. Early reviews of the P250 were so-so, but now it seems that is Sig has everything worked out.