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My Eyes 😯 That up lighter... Hope you are feeling better soon and get your riding glasses sorted. [url= http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/ ]Rule 64[/url] - not just for roadies 😉
BoardinBob - Member
Jeebus!So was this on the three drop section near the start at the wind turbine? I'll be riding round that for the foreseeable!
Bob, no later than that, after you come up the steep alpine switchback style climb and across the flat section you have a left turn descent with 3 options, I was on the inner line with the 2 rock drops
Nice to see you are healing up nicely and hope it continues.
I too landed on my face back in August (not from a bike though), ended up with cuts from glasses, broken nose and arm and many facial bruises. My face took a couple of weeks to seem normal but my arm is still on going.
Hope you can get back on the bike very soon.
You will have a great story to tell, get better soon.
In your hospital photos you look well out of it, much better in the photo above.
Back on the bike and ride the bit that bit you again, just to show it who the boss is.
Are you absolutely certain the Soul is ok? 😉
Help fast and well.
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piedi di formaggio - Member
Yikes! That was a proper mess!
I know! That blue paint! That lightshade! Shocking!
😉
Penguinni - yes, washed it and looked over in daylight. I think it landed on me 🙂
....and my 8yr old thinks his room's awesome 🙂
His room?
HIS?
Oh dear...
😉
OOF! That looks like it bloody hurt! I can empathise. I did the same myself a few years back. Getting your face stitched up is a bizarre experience, isn't it? Heres me straight after after my face plant….
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That was immediately after I did it, and was still giddily concussed. I wasn't smiling for long. Again I have someone sensible to thank (waves to Paul) for calming me down, and getting me back to civilisation, and into hospital. Looks like I got off lightly compared to you though.
It does slow you down when you get back on the bike, thats for sure
LOL@CFH 😛
He does break dancing as a hobby though 🙂
[i]The eye ointment stuff that you spread all over the wounds to keep them moist ?[/i] Thats the stuff. I think it also acts as an antiseptic as no doubt you had a face full of dirt which they can't be certain of cleaning.
[i]Out of interest, how long did it take for the soggy scabs to go ?[/i]
I had quite a bit of stitching and different types too (dissolvable whiite ones and blue ones to be removed) and like you a lot of scabbing. Being my face I wanted to minimise the potential for scarring so was quite astute in following the surgeons advice and resisted the urge to pick! After 2 weeks of the eye ointment I just used vaseline twice a day and in time the scabs eventually came off of their own accord. If I recall that was about 4 weeks post accident.
ell_tell - many thanks, useful info
Healing well Mr C. Massive difference from Saturday. Is your new helmet likely to be a Met Parachute style with chinguard? Cratoni C Maniac and Casco Viper MX spring to mind.
Ouch... Wish you a quick recovery!!
Face coming along well, external stitches out yesterday and had a shave this am so looking much more civilised. Weirdly though the aches and pains, neck, headache have been really bad last few days and made the error other day of not keeping food and fluids topped up. That combined with big dose of 2 no 30/500 cocodamol 4 times a day led to zombie state. Now onto over the counter 8/500 three times a day and almost off the brufen.
Hoping to keep on at the veg soup and omelette and will shortly warn SEPA that the sewerage system, which hasn't known me now in 7 days, may be getting an abnormal load soon 🙂
Healing vibes to you, n-a-s-t-y
Full face helmet next time.
Ouch, that looks painful! I had a big crash back in July (you may have seen the video of me losing all my ability to ride a bike exactly when I needed it...) and the full-face did a great job. I landed on my head vertically so hard that I suspect I'd have destroyed a trail helmet and I then bounced/tumbled down a steep rough landing suffering more injuries - but at least my head was safe in the full-face. My ribs still hurt from landing to flat on my Camelbak with such force but I'm hopeful I'll eventually get back to normal.
I do think it's improved my mindset and decision-making with respect to risk management on the trails - and since then my mates have been crashing less badly too, which is nice. Not a fan of larger drops to downslopes still though - even though I'll land them to flat.
Get well soon!
Thanks, aye, sorer after a week than I thought and zero energy, still a bit wobbly, and that's on feet, not tyres.
Think it will be another week till back on a bike..
well done Stuart..
get well, and back on the bike soon mate.