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[Closed] Who is off the bike injured and feeling sorry for themselves?

I_Ache · 2012-07-10T11:33:37Z

What have you done and how long will you be off for? Feel free to moan and be grumpy about it. I'll start. I found out two weeks ago, 30 mins before what was supposed to be a quick and simple operation. That I had been riding around for 5 months (including Snowdon) with a broken leg. I fell over on my first day skiing ever and thought I had sprained my ankle so carried on for the week, a couple of months passed and I went to the GP who referred me for some physio to strengthen the muscles in my ankle. At this point and all along I have been in pain but have been able to ride at a decent standard, as I said above I walked up Snowdon and rode down Rangers with it. So I did the physio for a month or so and he starts to think a fragment of bone or cartilage has chipped off and is in the joint. So I went to see an ankle specialist who thinks the same and wants to operate on it. He says I will be off the bike for a bit but can start doing impact sports after 6 weeks ie proper MTBing and jogging etc. I think fine I can handle that bit of gentle riding after 3 weeks and I will be fine. So he sends me for an MRI to be sure and books me in for the operation 2 days after that. He comes and tells me just before the op that I had broke my leg and a cyst that has grown in it, this has been the cause of the pain. He tells me I wont be able to put any weight on my foot for 5 weeks and after 3 months I can get on an exercise bike. But I wont be able to do impact sports for 5 months! In my head within 3 minutes my total recovery time has gone from 6 weeks to 5 months. I'm sat here at work feeling properly sorry for myself, I cant even get myself a drink, it takes 10 minutes to get to the toilet (as it is downstairs) where I have to sit down to pee as it is difficult to take aim while balancing on one foot. I'm two weeks in now and feel like a prisoner in-between work and home. I am so used to spending time outside no matter what the weather I'm starting to go coco-loco staring at 4 walls all the time. This is like looking into my head at the moment. [videoAnyway enough of my sob story tell me yours.

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twonks

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I don't spend much time posting on STW it seems, but frequent it often enough 🙂

My list seems a tad tame to some on here.

Was out for 3 months in 2008 due to a herniated disk.
Was out for 2 months in 2009 due to a heart attack - oops.
Was out from August 2011 to January 2012 due to a snapped achilles tendon - ouch.

Never broke a bone beyond toes and nose, but I seem to make up for it in other ways 😀

Having said that, I'd rather have a broken leg than snapped AT, as it is a nightmare to heal.

Still, there's always somebody worse off and I'm about to go for a couple of hours riding through the local woods.

Mustn't Grumble 🙂

Posted : 15/07/2012 1:34 pm

mmannerr

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I'm finally almost pain free after couple of years hurting almost constantly from series of health issues. First appendix removal (wounds inflammated then slipped disc and then knee problems but yesterday I reversed my car on top of my best bike and broke the rear triangle... Other bikes are not in rideable condition due missing parts and I can't make one complete due fork / wheel / shock incompatibilities. What a feeling it was to hear the sound of crushing aluminium...

Posted : 15/07/2012 6:37 pm

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