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[senamic]

Okay chaps, for the past year or so my best miner/mechanic has been stuck in bed with the following injuries:

Skull, bone (needs setting, smashed appart)
Right Upper arm, bone (Compound Fracture, smashed apart)
Right Shoulder, muscle (Compound Fracture, cut apart)
Right Shoulder, bone (needs setting, smashed apart)
Lower spine, bone (Compound Fracture, smashed apart)
Lower Spine, nervous tissue (Compound Fracture, cut apart)
Left lower leg, bone (needs setting, smashed apart)
Right lower leg, bone (needs setting, smashed apart)

He is ecstatic at the service he gets (food and water from cavern well) and likes being able to "rest and recuperate". However, I am starting to get a little annoyed with seeing him lying there and flash red constantly, is he going to be able to get back to work? I have a hospital sort of set up, but this embark seems to lack the ingredients for plaster casts... What can I do from here? Advice welcome.
To put in perspective, he was brought to rest in bed by my manager on 14th Opal, 123, and only got evaluated by my CMD on 13th Malachite, 124.

Edit: His only negative trait whatsoever is that he is "slow to heal". Sod.

[dyllionaire]

You can make wooden splints from logs at a Carpenter's workshop that do exactly the same job as plaster casts, as far as I know. Make sure you have someone with the Setting Bones labour turned on, preferably a dedicated doctor. As well, you probably need to build a Traction Bench at a Mechanics shop, which requires chain, a mechanism, and a table to construct. Place it beside the Dwarf in question, and all should be good as long as you have built at least one splint.

[Mr Frog]

I'm concerned about that spinal cord injury. Even if you get his legs set, I'm not sure if he'll be able to walk.

How did he get injured?

[Mitchewawa]

He's going to die from infection before you'll be able to salvage him into a quivering pick-wielding head on stilts.

[senamic]

You can make wooden splints from logs at a Carpenter's workshop that do exactly the same job as plaster casts, as far as I know. Make sure you have someone with the Setting Bones labour turned on, preferably a dedicated doctor. As well, you probably need to build a Traction Bench at a Mechanics shop, which requires chain, a mechanism, and a table to construct. Place it beside the Dwarf in question, and all should be good as long as you have built at least one splint.

Thanks, I will look into it. I have 20 splints in my hospital, but my medical staff refuse to move him from his room to the hospital...

I'm concerned about that spinal cord injury. Even if you get his legs set, I'm not sure if he'll be able to walk.

How did he get injured?

The usual (for me). Designating channels, made the foolish mistake of designating 2 blocks without a support, dug the first, fell and the second collapsed. Killed a butcher about 7 squares away and my miner was brought in wounded.

Spinal cord injuries lead to paralysis in DF? Makes sense, but I didn't know... Fun...

He's going to die from infection before you'll be able to salvage him into a quivering pick-wielding head on stilts.

The odd thing is, he isn't infected yet... Are you saying he will be infected in surgery, or that he will just get infected over time?

Additionally, all this may be for naught, as I have just had two forgotten beasts wander into my caverns. One is a hawk with noxious fumes and one is a slug with deadly dust... I guess this is what I get for going for candy.

[dyllionaire]

Are you sure you have a designated hospital with at least one free table, bed, and traction bench? I try to keep all three touching because my Dwarves don't like being moved more than 1 tile when resting. Make sure you're stocked up on soap, have access to non-stagnant water, and have made your prayers so as to have the best chance of staving off infection. If he's stuck in his room, you could try removing the bed underneath him. Make sure you have some Dwarves with the 'Recover Wounded' labor activated.

[thegoatgod_pan]

I'm concerned about that spinal cord injury. Even if you get his legs set, I'm not sure if he'll be able to walk.

This.

The spinal injury means he won't be needing a crutch, he is permanently crippled. Consider yourself lucky he isn't out of bed and spamming with with "can't recover item, too injured".  Either put him out of his misery or consider him a ward of the fort.

[Ieb]

I'm pretty sure that the lower spine injury only makes his lower body paralyzed. There seems to be damage to his right hand as well but the left seems to work.

I think it's quite possible to recover this guy and get them to work again, but they'll be using a crutch for the rest of their life and won't work as fast as they used to, what with having to learn to use a crutch.

Get some extra hands to work on wound dressing and suturing and hope you got some surgeon, I think that nervous tissue damage on the lower spine needs an operation anyway.

[Loud Whispers]

I don't think he's going to be able to work again, what with the spinal injury.

Hey, could be worse, why not make him your mayor or something?

[Pawns4Mons]

The Million Dorfbuck man... We can rebuild him.. we have the technology.

[King DZA]

Don't listen to those naysayers! You'll get UristMcHorriblymangled to work again, it will just take considerable amounts of effort, time, and resources! He can pull through!

[Loud Whispers]

Don't listen to those naysayers! You'll get UristMcHorriblymangled to work again, it will just take considerable amounts of effort, time, and resources! He can pull through!

We'll need adamantine thread, duct tape, 4 steel mechanisms, 20 steel bars, 10 pick heads and a whole lot of booze.

RoboDwarf

[raptorfangamer]

Don't listen to those naysayers! You'll get UristMcHorriblymangled to work again, it will just take considerable amounts of effort, time, and resources! He can pull through!

We'll need adamantine thread, duct tape, 4 steel mechanisms, 20 steel bars, 10 pick heads and a whole lot of booze.

RoboDwarf

we have the technology!
we can reconstruct him
the 20 million urists dwarf
this is a dwarf, all craftdwarfship is of highest quality. It is sutured with adamantine, it menaces with spikes of *iron pickaxe*, iron pickaxe, -iron pickaxe-, and !!XX<<XXiron pickaxeXX>>XX!!. It menaces with spikes of beard, booze, and Urist MCsurgeon nails. on the dwarf there is an image, on the image there is a cat, a dwarf, and a dwarf, the cat is in fetal position, the dwarf is in fetal position, the dwarf is throwing a tantrum, it menaces with spikes of *steel mechanisms* and -steel mechanisms-, and it is decorated with hanging rings of Urist Surgeon nails, Urist Surgeon left eye, Urist Surgeon left teeth, XXsteel mechanismsXX and      *<<steel mechanisms>>* there is an image of forgotten beast soap, the image relates to the soap making of forgotten beast soap

now, onto the things, you have to find a way to get that dorf into the hospital, I think that will give the medidwarfs a chance to test their macabre experiments, heal him, or both!

[restricted]

Try deconstructing his bed. I can't remember if that's made bedridden dwarves of mine go into the hospital or not, but it works. And, when in doubt, just do another, smaller, cavein to wound him slightly in case its some glitch. But with his current wounds, won't take much to kill him...

[BackgroundGuy]

You could mod nervous tissue so it heals really slowly, that'll get him walking eventually, assuming he doesn't die to one thing or another.