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Broken bones, hospital stays (in patient I presume) and lots of pain.

Ouch. Well, it looks ouch but I know so long as you look after the
holes and no infection sets in they don't hurt much. The ones that
stretch and grow bones do.

Looking good though, keep up the good work Penfold!

 

That all?

It's all internal, so no holes. The pins are close to the surface,
although not such that they can be felt through the skin, while the 4"
screws go into/alongside the vertebrae themselves. Not much pain, but
fairly constant, due to the torso being unable to move as I want it to
and pulling and stretching in unexpected places.

I have quite a lot of 2nd hand experience of those external fixator
frames and I know they're not pleasant, particularly when they're
stretching them further apart every week or so. But you're completely
sorted now (or as good as you'll get) aren't you?

I intend to.

So who gave you yours then?


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TBH, I couldn't tell you if they did or not, as with 9 broken ribs and
shatterred sternum it wasn't possible to isolate the specific pain
source. It's all dulled now, but there's still pain from the ribcage
in general, as well as the occasional localised twinge from the
metalwork itself and surrounding tissues.

I'm hopeful, although with some concerns, that once the metal's out
(next week) my upper body will start getting back to normal with no
pain at all, but I'll have to wait and see.

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Ok. Here we go then.

The Accident Group Accident.

I'd had the SV650 about a year, and was getting quite comfy with it.
Everything was working well having replaced the MEZ4 OE tyres with
BT020s, and it had just come round to tyre changing again. On went a
pair of BT010s and I was in little biking heaven.

The thing went where I wanted it to. It seemed like I just thought and
it just went. The day I had the tyres fitted I recall an incident with
a very nice chap in Blue, but that's a different story.

My confidence increased somewhat. A little too much. I was heading into
a series of bends that I'd done many times before. A tightening
right-left-right-left. The final left is quite sharp, blind, and has a
turning from the right just after it. Rather stupidly, I'd gone into
Right-1 a bit hot. As much as I tried to slow down, left-1 was a bit
hairy, and right-2 even more so. The whole plot ran wide, I got into
the unswept bit at the side of the road and became a passenger.

The bike bounced up the kerb, over a short bit of grass and then
dropped into the ditch I didn't know was there, then everything went
black.

Then the black had a few points of light in it.

Then I wiped a finger across my visor and realised it was covered in
mud. When the bike had landed it'd shot up an almighty wave of mud,
covering me *head to toe*, and the bike (apart from a small patch on
the seat).

I got off, removed my gloves and helmet and had a think. At that moment
a black car came along the road, and two suited gents got out. At first
I thought their first question of "Are you alright, have you had an
accident?" was human kindness, but then I spotted "The Accident Group"
down the side of said car. Fair play to them though, they helped me
haul the bike up out of the ditch and said they probably couldn't sue a
squirrel on my behalf. They left me picking clumps of grass in an
effort to clean enough mud off my visor to be able to see out of it.

In all, I don't know what was worse - ditching the bike, pulling a
soggy, muddy, cold and wet helmet back on, squelching home in a mud
filled 1pc suit or having to hose out said 1pc suit with a hosepipe.
I'm thinking the helmet.

 

christofire wrote:

Now that's definitely "comical".

 

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also appears that Veggie took it over.
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Thanks, I appreciate the thought.

Aye, I'm not banking on a miraculous recovery. When pressed, the last
time I saw the surgeon he said "You will probably be more prone than
before to general back issues, which can be mitigated against by
continuing to keep fit and active. Just think of it as being on physio
for the rest of your life".

This isn't as bad as it might sound, as I'm intending to keep
improving on the more extreme skiing front for as long as I can, and
fitness is clearly a factor there too. So I've now got a full weights
kit, benches, stands et al. in our home gym, as well as the running
and rowing machines, the cycle trainer, the trampette and stuff that
Jude's been mainly using since she buggered her knee(s).

We also just bought an outdoor ping-pong table, having discovered
after fifteen years that we both used to enjoy the game; and it's
quite shockingly energetic when you're as unfit as I am.

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Ace banged the rocks together and they said :

Oh and as other have pointed out, getting back on a bike again. I'm
sure that borrowing someone elses bike wasn't the intention, but
getting your own bike/trike again.

Lucky sod, I had right fun trying to keep them dry in showers, picking
off crusty scabby stuff, cleaning them daily, watching them ooze puss,
scaring kids silly, being *amazed* at how much the pain ramps up when
they got infected.

Actually washing them in the shower felt sooooooo good, unbelievably
good, but you needed to absolutely make sure you washed them
thoroughly, wiv soapy suds getting in the holes, rinsed, etc. Anything
else and you basically washed the bacteria off the rest of your body
into the holes, causing an infection.

I can imagine that, as the spine is wonderfully flexible and
restricting a lump of it will affect movement of your whole upper body
I would think.

Yep. Right leg is 2.5cm shorter than left, but if I was to try to gain
that length back I would loose more knee movement (it bends to about
100 degrees now), probably ending up with next to no knee movement.

Ligaments are right sods, they shrink fast but never stretch again,
just tear and need replacing.

*Maybe* in 'x' years (10+ if I'm lucky, but more likely 5) when the
knee needs replacing I'll nag them to make the replacement knee 2.5cm
longer and replace the knee ligaments with carbon ones.

I never, ever, want one of those frames on me again. Death is
preferable.

As Bear said, I hope the back heals to 100% health.

And "Gixxer Thou"... oh, too late ;>

Can't remember.

 

Ah sad. I feel moved to say a few words

but I can't be arsed.

 

Fair play, that's a decent surf. Here you go.

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It is with great please that I award you DS#9. Wear it with pride.