Leap Frog Hospital Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Black Bunny on 15-Oct-11. Waypoint GA3478

Time for this hospital to close down and devote the resources to something else.

GA3925 Happy Meal Leapfrog
Was rather dirty, gave him a good clean.

GA3569 - Pearl
Only a small repair but when I found pearl her log retainer had come loose and came completely off when I removed it to get at the log. Tonight a couple of new bits of Velcro and Pearl will be able to hold onto her log container for quite a while longer.
Thanks Black Bunny for the smiley.

Poor Frogteranium Surprise has lost his content, he his in need of reattachment. The poor froggies inside are a bit battered but would still like to feel safe and secure inside!

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GA4010 "Lilly The Frog" needed some minor brain surgery, as did I, in order to continue marching on!

I managed to break Princes5's crown. (GA3859) somehow I snapped it clean off.
Luckily Mr red tag is a veterinary surgeon and so Princes5 was admitted into hospital and put under an anaesthetic. His condition was bad so he was put on an IV drip and many monitoring devices as well (as the picture shows). He underwent a lengthy and very tough surgery but pulled through and made a full recovery. He spent a few days in recovery and was then released back into the race.
Thanks for the cache Black Bunny

Poor Bruiser GA 3819 has lost his magnet and being such a tiny frog, we felt he should be once again magnetic or else get lost in the wild. Photos shoW Bruiser in for repair in Mr W's shed.

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After the frog convention in the Blue Mountains it was discovered that GA3962 Squeaky had suffered separation anxiety from his log container.

Squeaky has since rejoined his log container and is all well.

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Poor little Jeremiah suffered a fall while I was transporting him to Lithgow (the Frog crrying back fell off the seat on the train!) just as well we were very close to the Cl;wydd Hospital and his foot was quickly reattached. he is now ready to hop.

Jeremiah on arrival

Jeremiah ready to hop

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Our old friend Philbert has sustained some injury to his ankle during his travels, fortunately he has come very close to the Clwydd Hospital where he has been transported for some replacement surgery.
All went well and he is now on his way to more adventures.

Philbert on arrival

Philbert now ready to leave

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I really wanted to log this virtual cache however unfortuately for us all the frogs we found were in good health. Hopefully the frogs continue after the event and maybe we will rescue and help a poor injured frog in the future. I love looking at everyones logs, there are some lucky frogs out there.

OOOOps
GA4079 GEOseppi Frog II - his knee cap broke off as Mr AusTrackers pulled him out of the hidey hole. Will fix him up and have him on his way ASAP.

After foot surgery and plastic surgery the x-rays show that he is ready to go back out again.


And he wouldn't leave his nurse alone

Picked up GA3440 Green Frog and found him with a broken flipper. After a short stay in the casualty Ward he was repaired and set loose to hop away again.

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As the bowl of petunias said to the sperm whale - "Oh no, not again."

The Unkissed Prince GA3746 has a bad case of falling arches.
That is the slippery little beast slithered out of my grasp and fell.
He now has a broken foot.

Having entered the casualty ward he has been transferred to the extreme podiatry unit for surgery.



Events can get a bit like that.

The 'Deep Diving Frog' had a small mishap while diving... well what else would he be doing.
Lucky for him a quick trip to the Clwydd Hospital fixed him right up and he is back to his old tricks.

Before and after photos!

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'Political Froggy' arrived at the Clwydd Hospital after some first aid surgery thanks to lemmykc.
However his stay here could not be too long so surgery had to be a bit rushed to get him back in the race. He is now much stronger and ready to leave the Hospital in the morning.
PF will have to return at some time in the future to receive further treatment but for now he is OK to travel with some care.


PF on arrival after his first aid (Nice work by the way).


PF ready to resume his travels.

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Bronnie_1990

'Squeaky' GA3962 lost his grip on his suitcase(?)and wanted to avoid any further problems in the future. The staff at the Clwydd Hospital were only to happy to perform a minor surgical procedure for him.
He has now fully recovered and will leave tomorrow.


Squeaky on arrival


Squeaky healed

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'Phunny Phreddo' GA3631 lost his grip on his backpack(?)and wanted to avoid any further problems in the future. The staff at the Clwydd Hospital were only to happy to perform a minor surgical procedure for him.
He has now fully recovered and will leave tomorrow.


Phreddo on arrival


Phreddo after his operation

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'Frog Hollow' arrived at the Clwydd Hospital and was rushed through surgery, his injury was found to be less severe than at first thought and all was done under local anesthetic. He is now resting and is expected to leave the Hospital tomorrow.

Frog Hollow on arrival

Frog Hollow after surgery

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GA3979
Frog Hollow
Leura, NSW

My role in the 'Leap Frog Hospital' was one of first aide attendant and ambulance officer. I checked him out, made sure all the pieces were collected, and then organised transport from Rouse Hill to the Clwydd Hospital for Gnomes and Leap Frogs!

So his injury was a kind of 'severe head fracture' -- I guess! (There may be a better medical technical term.)

Photo will be uploaded in the next couple of hours, showing the 'first aide' in progress, in my Leura workshop, halfway to Clwydd.

Am sure that the experienced Clwydd staff will be able to cure poor Frog Hollow in no time at all!

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Well, I repaired a frog I broke but he hasn't fully recovered. Clwydd hospital is taking care of him now to get him completely up and running, but I did use some super glue to make him stable

Sorry Political Froggy!!

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Hi Black Bunny
The frog that needed immediate nursing care before going back into the race from the pits was "Toad In The Hole" (GA3931).
The poor croaker had dropped his "BOTTOM" stick upon which to sit. However, some super glue applied to the stick and in was back in his bum hole.
I found the blighter at S43 01.310 E147 15.289 and have rehidden him at S43 00.129 E147 04.187. Repairs were effected at my parent's home in Huonville, Tasmania.
Cheers and thanks for the cache
OldSaint.

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Stagetree's frog GA4110 was feeling lonely and decided that if Jordan frog could become detached and score a trip to the highly regarded, and by all accounts, exciting, Leap Frog Hospital, then he wanted a visit as well
Please find attached the evidence of his detachment, he's letting the glue dry now, but is keen to get back out into that windy Melbourne air, so he might just seek his next hiding hole with some additional bandages.

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Puddle Jumper GA4057....
Back story..Puddle Jumper is a candle, made of wax. Swampy took some time to repair him. PJ was quietly hiding out under a tree. Thats when we came along....
We placed PJ in the car and off home we went. At the gate DGT had to get out to open it and unbeknowns to her PJ hopped out. PJ had not hopped very far and GU ran over him! You can see PJ's remains in the attached photos.
Due to the extent of PJ's damage he was unable to be repaired, but...we have placed him in an Eclipse coffin so he can continue in the race!

Well... Namaste (GA3898) was attending the Froggy Frolic event with all the other WA frogs (Total of 51 Frogs & 5 Gnomes turned up)
During one of the races (Frog Under & Over's) Namaste got poked in the eye. Following an inspection of injury, a search was carried out to see if we could locate any "Bits"... A couple were found but the frog was in need of some serious surgery. FelixII returned this one home and admitted into the head injury ward for stabilisation.
A more detailed inspection revealed that the damage was "more than just a poke in the eye" Several specialists were consulted and Namaste was soon under going re-construction surgery.
Due the extent of the injury a metal insert was required.
This was inserted & Namaste was left to REST while the araldite cured.
The next procedure then commenced with the gradual re-construction of the eye. Several layers later & Namaste was nearly finished.
Some cosmetic work was then carried out and....
"NAMASTE" LOTUS FROG had undergone a full recovery and was discharged ready to LEAP ONWARDS.
See photos

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tronador

Only a minor scare for Jordan frog (GA4109) who became detached from his box. I think he was more upset about missing out on a seaside holiday.

Bit of liquid nails to the rescue!

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Had to take L.E.A.P. (GA3988) to Doctor as he had an accident on the way to caching event Frolic in the Park. He was so excited to go he leap out of my hand and his safety box, and landed on the drive way and rolled under the car, luckly the car wasnt moving and only injury was a broken toe, so I ran back into the house and grab some super glue to fix him at the event. Fixed and happy he played nicely with the other 50 frogs at the park.

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Oh dear a bit of Leapfrog deja vu...

Lawrance and his mate Frog Morton were found together, and kept together. It seems they both took a shine to Lilly and had a falling out - Lawrance tried to give Frog Morton the boot but came off second best...

A lick of ye olde super glue and Lawrance is almost as good as new (just a slight limp)

Whilst all the frogs we had collected over the past couple of days were having a party, 4 required some form of first aid.
One required some waterproofing, the second needed it's feather (!) reattached and the third kept loosing it's footing inside a sistema container.
The frog with the worst injuries though, was Puddle Jumper GA4057. This little frog had lost his magnet and a front foot. Easy to fix you say. Puddle jumper is made of wax and superglue won't stick. The hot melt electric glue gun was put to use to fix him and the other 3.
The hardest part was timing it. If the glue is at it's normal temperate when put onto the wax, it the wax melts. I found the best way was to heat up the glue until it just started to melt and unplug the glue gun. Then there was just enough time to get the front leg glued and attached before gluing on the magnet on the base. All up it took about 30 minutes to repair all four.
I never knew wax was so difficult to work with ....
Pictures to follow (the phone won't let me upload them)

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Poor Anita, we dropped her and she sustained an injury to her foot. After some minor surgery she was able to hop off to the nearest pond to recuperate.

lbjezza

Oh Dear - Total destruction.

This frog was drop and shattered. Through the magical powers of healing that frogs seem to have he has reformed into a new form.

'Felix II Frog Hunter' GA3780 has met with an unfortunate accident in his travels, fortunately pjmpjm was there to administer first aid and stabilize the patient for transport to the Clwydd Gnome Hospital where Leapfrog competitors are treated free of charge.
Felix has no undergone micro surgery to reattach his limb, the whole operation was very sucessfull and he will be on his way very soon.
While there it became apparent that his other front limb had previously beeen reattached and some cosmetic surgery was done there as well.

felix on arrival after first aid and the extent of his injury

After the first stage of surgery, and full recovery.

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GA3780 FelixII's Frog Hunter

Found this guy at Refalo Park with a foot broken off!

The injury wouldn't have been fatal but would have made it harder for the Frog Hunter to catch really fast frogs!

The photos show his injury and how I gave him 'first aid' and fixed him up temporarily.

Then I 'moved' him towards the famous Clwydd Hospital, where I expect that he'll undergo advanced plastic surgery that will make him as good as new!

Coords indicate where I found him . . .

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Elmer_Stratty

Oh dear. One of my frogs "leaps" was having trouble with his magnet not sticking to metal anymore. So I rescued him from the while for a quick removal of magnet and replacement with a nice new rare earth magnet. The magnet on there was one interest when we got him. Umm oh ummm. Anyway the magnet was on the end of a pin and errr I smashed him in half removing it. Totally by accident, just didn't realize it ran that deep. Anyway I have both halves (photo to follow) and intend on fixingte magnet and the slight separation issue with my old friend liquid nails. Hopefully he will be back out next weekend.

I forgot to log this sooner but was reminded today, I had to do some repairs on a froggy that I found GA3781, unfortuately he got a little whole in him and I popped a bandaid on, I know that was not a permanent fix, but to keep him moving quickly it was a temporary solution.

Transcript as of 13th December, 2011; a new patient GA3527 'Trust a Frog' had to be admitted to the Leap Frog Hospital:

"Umm. There has been a slight... incident, with this frog. All our frogs were stuffed in a bag, ready to be re-hidden, and we were collecting some more in Ulverstone, and stuffing them in the bag as well. And one of them was a big heavy thing. *cough*RumandCroak*cough* And he sort of, er, sat on some of the smaller frogs. And Trust a Frog got a bit... crushed. "

Thankfully, all pieces were able to be recovered and put back together in about ten minutes with superglue.

Trust a Frog was back out admiring the views on 16th December.

Oh... and with this little accident I happily claim my 200th GCA find!!

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Oh dear.

[url=http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga3810]Flower Power Froggy[/url]
[url=http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga4098] Flower Power Froggy's Foot...[/url]

With a nice cluster of Leapfrogs not too far from home I got up early for a morning frog hunt before work. Artemis was my first, and I swapped her for with Anura who I found the day before. Unfortunately, Artemis got into a fight with Tania the Smoking Frog (who I also found on this productive Leapfrog run) and she came off second best (she always was foot-loose and flipper free...) Some superglue suprisingly did the trick (after a lot of holding in place to cure) - I had little choice as my Quikgrip had transformed into a tube of solid "bogie" and was completely useless...



Tonight I retrieved The Sistema Twins (GA4038) and they both tried to escape the race. I've reattached them to their cache container with the only suitable glue I could find (a contact-adhesive for leather shoe repairs) - it seems to have slowed down their escape attempt - but I fear they're still plotting their next escape plan... (I forgot to photograph them before/after repairs)

Went to find Frog a Log GA3928 on 4 December, the story is below.

"Nearly walked past but decided to have a look in a likely spot, removed the insulation and then extracted the frog, very carefully because he said he had a headache. Frog a Log joined us in the cachemobile with some other frogs he'd met before and got so excited that his head exploded!

Frog a Log will need some downtime with the medico in the shed before his next move. Will be out and about again as soon as possible."

Frog a Log received some love and support from the Gray Nurse Frog in the garden during his recovery from surgery in the shed and is now ready to continue his adventuring. Photos attached.

Deep Diving Frog (GA3658) Was Submitted To Leapfrog Hospital Last Night

The Day Prior Misterdrewkittytoo team were out hunting frogs in the onkaparinga gorge national park we had found 3 frogs and we had just sat down to have a look a them when misterdrew thought it might be a good idea to get the lid off the cache by pulling on the frog needless to say it didn't end well has has just been in surgery to fix this and he hopes to be back on the road soon

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I found it as it seems looking well and carry it into my vechile then Froggy got injury by head falling off.
Perhaps it was a headache from his injuries - he certainly seems to have been in the wars judging by all the bandaids and bandages!

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Had to do running repairs (redrawing) of Unfrogettable Green Tree(Sign) Leapfropggy GA3905 today .....
He is a flat magnetic frog that attaches to Road Signs drawn by his owner (Spladem) and he had faded completely. I was in the process of redrawing him when I remembered this cache so scanned him in - the black lines are what I had redrawn so far ..... the very pale lines are what were left of his original drawing lol. The next photo is the redrawn version - not 100% the same but the best I could do lolol

Recording a find for FelixII's Frog Hunter, which read damaged in transit in my bag while traveling PER-SYD. Fortunately the injuries were easily repaired with superglue. I have photos for verification purposes, but won't post them so that I don't spoil the 'surprise' involved with this cache.

FelixII

Oh dear, Houston we have a problem.

Don't remove 2 frogs from the car at once.

Misery, sorry Spladem

GA3196 #2 Hows ya Hamish Frog Burger?

Will be on the mend in the mornin!!

this is the first of 2 logs to this site the first was more of a rescue mission and clean up.

i was sitting logging some caches when the phone rang it was a very distraught Mrs Froghoppin there's smoke coming from my engine ahhh now it has flames coming out the fire brigade have just arrived my comment im on the way the bee was very quickly on its way to help a frog in distress while heading there we talked again and the realization that my leap frog that had been collected from in Adelaide was still in the burning car on arrival i checked reason for car fire no it wasnt destroying evidence just bad luck.

now were is the car need to check on frog there he is a few minor burns and smoke inhalation but otherwise all good so a quick patchup and new scafe of red and white fire tape he was put back out into the wild

oh yeah the live frog was okay too.

WanderingAus wandered by on a not very successful moveable frog hunt as part of the Leap Frog Moving Cache Race, hunting for GA3704 Miss Lbjezza Leap frog By Lbjezza, and found her in need of a bit of TLC, her information sheet having torn off due to lack of reinforcement. I took her home, and added the information sheet to a set of trackable passports I was preparing, laminated the full sheet, then inserted an eyelet in the corner. It should stay attached a lot longer now.



In retrieving Miss Lbjezza Leap frog I managed to severely spike myself on a bush, so I was also able to claim GA1005 Casualty Ward By Team Bluedog, making this a painful "Three For One" find.

Sadly most of the frogs I hunted had already been collected by other cachers, my entire frog score for the day was one from five, so the three for one was some consolation.

*Overall Experience: 2*

T4TC Black Bunny
Keith

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In the early hours of 1st November, Frobbin the Flawless Frog was found to be in a considerable amount of pain due to a magnet having been taped to her chest. The magnet was causing her some concern as it was only loosely attached.
Following consultation with her owner, the following operation was performed at my Frog Restoration Facility.
The taped magnet was removed from her chest.
A bison tube was found to be protruding from her rear end, and this was removed.
A stronger magnet was inserted up her rear end and she was attached upside down magnetically to the side of my steel trailer.
A thin plaster solution was administered to her rear end and when nearly full, the bison tube was reinserted.
A moment of panic ensued when the plaster began to run out a small hole in her mouth and this was resolved by giving her a nail to bite down on.
When the plaster set, she was a new, more robust frog, and she has re-entered the race and is currently recuperating while waiting to picked up from Yering.

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The incident happened just before the race began. I pulled Happy Half Hopper (GA3763) out to place him at the site of his new (temporary) home, just to find that his safety chain was broken!

What followed was a late night repair job in the back of the van. We had wire, tape, glue and an array of tools - everything required for a mobile leapfrog repair service! Just call the professionals!

It didn't take long to pull him together and send him on his way!

TFTLC and let's hope this is not a popular cache

On out first night out we also attended to 2 pulped log books caused by the heavy rain in Adelaide over the past week!

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Repairs completed to GA3740 Hops-A-Lot, the first Tassie frog to visit Leap Frog Hospital. We collected Hops-a-Lot from the Sound Shell at the Bluff this morning and were rehiding him when he descended to the ground leaving his magnet behind. "Please put me back together again" he wailed "as I feel safe clinging magnetically to a structure." So home he came and into hospital he went where Y's Old Gnome and Y's Warts nd All reassured him and assisted with the gluing up. He is now resting comfortably and will be released tomorrow good as or better than new.
The photo added to the Gallery shows the injured leap frog, the procedure (being observed by Warts-And-All and Old-Y’s-Gnome) and post operative frog ready to leap again.

I believe we have the dubious honour of claiming FTF on this cache... Whilst racing back to the car, Mr & Mrs Felix bumped hands and Cheeky the Leap Frog,GA3748, leapt to the concrete pavement.

Patient admitted to hospital 1st December for a broken foot & leg.
Surgery has been underway and we think he will be ready to race in the morning. pics attached

Discharged from hospital 1st December. At FelixII for recovery!

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lbjezza

So, i managed to be the FTF, for the gnome hospital.
Now i am the first one to break one of my froggies


Kind of got a bit too carried away with trying to remove a solar panel, on one of my froggy army battlers.

Well, i'm kind of glad i can now see the insides of one of the frog, which should make it easier to remove the insides of the other frogs!!




EDIT: Race hasnt started yet. Doh!

Oh how I love the sound of breaking frogs in the afternoon.