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Yeah, quite right scapegoat - look what happened to Michael Bonney (of orange bikes) a few weeks ago.....kinda puts all our gripes n' moans into perspective - as long as i can continue to wipe my own arse then it's not all bad in my life.
When i was in the spinal unit at Edenhall (musselburgh) there was a young boy brought in that had tripped over his shoe laces as he ran for the school bus and broke his neck, i was only 19 when i was in hospital but this boy was only 13yrs old and for the rest of his life he will need constant help for everything. For the sake of 10 extra seconds to tie his shoelaces he is now tetraplegic.
We should all be grateful for what we have but it is human nature to gripe n' moan - nowt wrong wi that at all but sometimes it's good just to take stock of what we really have.
Knee recon new acl and pcl plus torn cartilage in 2009 and hip resurfaced in 2012!! All done by 33 now bn told my hip is will need it in a few yrs!! So much for rugby
A shoulder that keeps popping out
Wrists that are both ruined
Knees ok right now
Add that to 36 years of skateboarding, much of it on vert concrete... A lot of climbing... And I am not in great mechanical shape.
Put my face through the rear windscreen if a toyota hilux tonight, ouch just got back from a&e eith 20 or so stiches...
bastard did an emergency stop in front of me and i was riding too close.
bloody bikes fine too!?
Bloody ell soma. By contrast in 1991 I was in a car that somersaulted a few times. I had broken cubes of glass in my shoes and had to be pulled out but no injuries.
Humbling reading some posts. Healing vibes to many.
Humbling reading some posts. Healing vibes to many
exactly that.
bunching of moaning hypocondriacs <sp?> the lot of ya, winging pommes 😉 MTFU.
I wrote a story detailing my injuries for STW (the hard way to become a poet) eight years ago. It was too long to be published.
I reduced it by about 50% and they printed it
I am just recovering from snapping my foot off last September and could probably write The Hard Way to Become a Poet volumes 2 & 3
Some very arresting contributions here.
Somafunk, about the rib removal, is it true? Y'know, [i]what they say?[/i]
Apart from the hump on my spine and my semi-dodgy right leg you prob couldn't tell anything had happened to me when you see me walking, put me on a bike and i was just as fast as anyone else and raced for years, used to be able to nip round all of Kirroughtree in under 2hrs on the SS time and time again so it's only in the last 5 yrs that my injury has caught up wi me and caused a few problems but i'm back on the bike these days so it's all good!. BTW - after they put me together in 91 i walked out the hospital to cheers n' tears, 12 months later i was trollied back in as i had a big crash on my MTB in a very early downhill race and hit a tree at speed - ripped out the titanium hardware holding my spine together and it poked out my back but thankfully all the bone grafts and spine fusion had made my spine stronger so that wasn't damaged at all, i only broke 6 ribs and had a punctured lung and damaged spleen.......i did get a massive genuine bollocking from my surgeon though, i told him "but i'm good practice for you" , he's now become a good family friend 😀 .
The NHS when it works is absolutely fantastic.
what they say?
What?, that you can do the doggy lick?...dunno?.........the bastards fused most of my spine so there's no way of finding out without breaking it again. 😀
the bastards fused most of my spine so there's no way of finding out without breaking it again.
Ahhh, they giveth and they taketh away.
Well, I had a good night last night on the ward. Even managed to sleep a fair bit! Not a fan of being woken every two hours, mind...
Rachel
That used to pi$$ me off big style, every hr or so they'd come and turn me to avoid bed sores or wake me up to ask if i wanted any medication...i was asleep you bloody idiots!!....still - there was some very cute nurses 😉
Day off work t'day so heading to kirroughtree wi a mate - wheeeeee!
I got a nasty paper cut yesterday
I'll have to read al this later. I'll add mine to help me find my way back here
I've had frozen shoulders on both sides. Pretty much better now
Tendonitus in left wrist can still be sore 15 years later. But doesn't really stop me doing things. Tennis elbow in right arm is similar age an status
Pain in left knee controlled by orthotics
Achilles tendon in right ankle hasn't been right after fall 25 years ago. Level pavement no idea what happened. This I think has led to Arch pain controlled by ridding in walking boots
Upto a week ago I was feeling really fit
Then I fell of a Segway and tor ligaments in my left ankle. It should heel fine but all these injuries leave me feeling scared. Both achilles are sore from the change in use
"Then I fell of a Segway"
Are you George Bush?
I didn't think this was actually possible?
It is humiliating and the humiliation feeling of being an idiot really doesn't help. Its so ironic that Niece and son had really moved on Mountain Biking AT CYB 3 days before. They road the MBR really well so it was the first time in years I've ridden anything I needed to think about as usually I'm aiming not to show off in front of them. Not a scratch on any of us or a feeling that any of us was close to falling off
We were whipping through the trees on an off road segways but still very much a Blue run or even green. I was struggling a bit and trying to keep up with my daughter. I think I clipped a tree with the inside wheel or hit a branch. I feel off the back and my foot was momentarily held by the edges of the platform you stand on. Hence the damage
[url= http://dawonderful.blogspot.co.uk/ ]Knees, shoulders but mostly wrists at the mo with pics to prove it.[/url]
Broken ACL in left knee from combo of skiing accident when I was 16 and fruit salad game at a youth camp when 25. A bit of pain nearly always, but after reading this lot, I don't think I'll mention it again.
Aged 44
Had Ankylosing Spondylitis (an auto immune inflammtory arthritis of the spine ) [url= http://www.nass.co.uk ]NASS website[/url]since aged 23. On all sorts of heavy duty meds (injections etc) but feel much better on them than not. Apart from not knowing the long term side effects of these I would much rather lead a semi normal life with an unknown risk than a miserable existence without them.
The usual tally of broken wrist, numerous stitches, snapped tendon in my hand repaired with graft from my arm, stiff neck leading to frequent migranes I am actually OK! I still ride both on and off road, walk the dog and play squash badly.
Healing vibes to those suffering!
Back - Prolapsed disc and general arthritis in lower back.
Knee - 4 ops, MACI & TTO - 2 years off bike as a result. Can't run, ski or do any imapct sports - but i can bike (for time being!).
Wrist - 3 ops to repair scaphoid lunate ligament which snapped. 4 months off bike.
Shoulder - found out last week, I've torn a ligament in my shoulder and require surgery (Biceps Tenodesis) to sort that out.
On the upside, I'm 42 but have a metabolic age of 23 🙂
Left ankle stiff after snapped tibia and 4 months in plaster 32 years ago. Right ankle very stiff after multiple bad sprains. Left shin always tender to knocks. See above. Left knee hates downhill walks. Was abused as a teenager. Right knee as most of cartilage missing after op. Both hips getting achy. Lower back hates bending down especially for more than a few seconds and tends to want to stay like that after a few minutes with the chainsaw. Somewhere under right shoulder blade after over the bars trip on motor bike 30 years ago. Right shoulder seems stiff and achy and hates being slept on leaving me with pins and needles. Left shoulder just hates being slept on. Neck often achy, probably due to shoulders. Both elbows very tender if knocked and right prone to tennis elbow . Hands and wrists both achy, arthritis setting in I am told and fingers go numb if too long on the bike. Gut now tender after hernia op involving bowel just before Xmas. Other than that I'm fine. 50 yesterday. 🙁
Broke ACL in left knee 30 years ago, have ridden and skied since
Broke ACL in right knee in Dec, recovery has been slow with what feels like a long way to go, no riding (or anything else) since
Normal cuts, bangs and scrapes, dislocated finger last year just about sorted now, just a bit lumpy. That sort of stuff takes much longer to heal at 50 than it did at 20
Is vastly impressed by some people's ability to just keep going. Inspirational stuff