How did you get pictures from your surgery?!?
Maybe the doctor texted it to his wife.
I blanked when I saw the pictures and didn’t read the text
When my wife had her c-section, the doctors thought I was squeamish and freaked out a little when I took an accidental peak over the curtain.
Started cycling in 2012 as a 52 yr old
I had 2 concussions as a kid. Hockey and Soccer
2013 Me versus truck = right clavicle, 4 ribs. Concussion #3
2016 Me versus dog = flight to shock tramua. Nothing broken but a helmet and bike. 2 1/2 hours of my life missing however. Concussion #4
2017 Me versus another cyclist who just decided to turn left = 3 broken ribs and concussion #5
2019 Me versus concrete floor carrying my grandsons bike. Concussion #6
2022 Me versus a truck who drove off. Right clavicle, 10 fractures on 4 ribs and concussion #7
2023 - Went down at a BMX race. Start your BMX career at 63, it will be fine. 3 broken ribs and concussion #8
2024 - Went down at a BMX race. Broken Rayce Full face helmet and concussion #9
I’m told once you get a concussion it’s easier to get subsequent ones.
I was a Navy Corpsman for 20 years, Independent of 8 of them, time in the USC ER, Level II facility Iraq etc.
When my wife had a C-section I asked if I could watch, NO was the repsonse, but I am a Corpsman, NO YOU ARE A HUSBAND AND DAD. yes sir.
I’ve been cycling since about July 2017. I did some in high school before that but nothing consistent (aside from biking to the neighborhood pool).
Right now I primarily race road bikes. I’m riding ~10k miles per year, intervals, racing, etc. I’m racing maybe 15-20 days a year as a Cat 2 and competing decently as I’m part of my way to my Cat 1. I’m saying that to point out that I’m not riding solo off the back of the field, I’m in the mix in the ‘most dangerous’ parts of the race.
The worst injuries I’ve had were some pretty extensive road rash on my shoulder and hip from crossing wheels in a 30mph sprint finish in a crit. Other than that I’ve had some more minor slide outs, mtb OTB type crashes, etc. Though all those have resulted in just minor abrasions and bruises. Never broken a bone or anything like that.
To recover I used tegaderm for a while. Keeping it moist and preventing scabbing reduced scarring a ton. It was more annoying because you have an open would for longer so you have to be more careful keeping it clean and keeping it from sticking to clothes but it heals better and faster.
I’ll add that I came from ~6 years of heavy olympic lifting and have continued to lift heavy 1-2 times a week throughout my cycling ‘career’. I truly think lifting has both reduced the injuries I might have otherwise had from these crashes and allowed me to prevent many crashes. The extra muscle mass is extra padding on impact, the increased bone density makes fractures less likely, and the strength allows me to maintain control when I might have otherwise lost it (mostly in mountain bike scenarios). There have been scenarios where I used so much strength to prevent a crash on a mountain bike that I hurt my shoulder but that prevented me from tumbling head over heels down a rocky descent.
OB/GYN married to a gyn surgeon. C-sections x 3, I stayed well behind the drape each time.
Not many, but a pretty bad one.
Fractured my left humerus back in 2018 coming of the mountain bike. Took almost a year to be fully recovered and I still have some limitation in my should mobility.
Ouch that looks nasty. Are you still doing therapy to get it at 100%?
I continue to work on mobility. But not really shifting.
And tbh it does not bother me day to day.
Well maybe I will have to add a broken finger to my list
MTB race yesterday on a steep descent with very bad terrain I looked for the best path and picked the left side near the pine trees and Im sure one of those trees moved
