This time around I've done it properly. Fell hard while riding home from the trails and broke my left collarbone. I tried riding/walking it off while muttering a mixture of encouragement and obscenity to myself (didn't know it was actually broken at the time) but had to abandon that plan about halfway home as the discomfort wore me down.
Despite having landed on my cellphone hard enough to crack the plastic over the screen, I was able to call the Mrs for a lift to the after-hours medical centre. They pushed me straight to the front of the queue, taking me through before we'd even started filling in the paperwork! They took care of me amazingly well and eventually sent me home with a sling and a stack of good painkillers. We then headed straight to the supermarket for a good dose of sympathy chocolate. So right at the start of the f--king season I have 3 months off the bikes. Serves me right for being silly I suppose (launching a little too hard off a speed hump), but I haven't even had a chance to ride in my new full-face helmet yet :( For a few dollars I obtained a copy of my X-Rays so I might throw some coal into my old 8x10 transparency scanner and post some gruesome pics later. So far I've learned that sitting in a sunbeam reading on the couch is really nice, and showering is really not nice. Not sure how I'm going to sleep - probably badly as I always sleep on my side. The cellphone-shaped bruise on my leg is also annoying me a bit whenever I try to crouch down. Oh and there's also the one-handed typing thing. It could have turned out worse as I very nearly crashed straight into a van coming in the opposite direction. The driver stopped and made sure I was OK before carrying on. I haven't taken a close look at the bike but I know the front wheel has a slight (fixable) kink. Looking at the bright side, I now have 3 months of Saturday mornings to devote to all those projects I had no time for! - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
