The show us your scars thread...
If you have had a crash and lived to tell the tail, give us a story and show us the photo's. I'll leave it to the mods discression whether they want this thread and its contents or not.
Heres the result of my March Forrest of Dean poor landing after a decent jump. (I blame the modern Epic I was riding giving me fools confidence on the approach)
Broken Collar bone, Bruised Kidney and a dose of internal bleeding.
The bruise has all gone, but a bit of swelling remains. the most permament sign of the crash now is a 1" scar from the wound under the dressing.
Crashed in the Forest of dean, Initially assessed at a cottage hospital close by then told to go to Gloucester or Oxford since I was living there at the time.
When I was in the hospital (John Radcliffe, Oxford) I kept pointing out that aswell as my collar bone feeling decidedly crapped, it also felt as though I had grazed my side. One nurse said "oh it will be superficial like the cuts on your hand".
I was told that with the pain of a bust collar bone it is common to feel sick or faint, I held it all back (till later)
It was ages until some one lifed my T shirt up to investigate, at which point they had me peeing into a bottle and ordering an emergency ultrasound.
They never actually got around to dressing the wound on my back. After being discharged late at night a mate gave me a lift home, I made it to bed and woke up attached at the wound to the dressing.
Made it to the ensuite after peeling myself off the bed and then flaked out on my way back. Getting up off the ground with a side full of congeled blood and a broken collar bone was not easy. Probably took me best part of 2 hours to summon the strength and grit my teeth.
Whilst I was on the floor pondering if I should add painting the cieling to the chors list I missed a call on my mobile, tantilisingly just out of reach on my bedside table.
Virtually as soon as I managed to get up it wrang again, Serious case of mothers intuition, her words were "we are on the M1 , be with you in 2 hours" I was very happy to see my familly
After a quick parental med-evac to my folks house in Leeds I spent the next 2 weeks being looked after
To add to it all though, the initial collar bone break was perfectly alligned, I was told if your going to break it do it like that, it will heal fast and be almost unnoticeable. Sadly 1 week into my r&r after a bath I managed to dislodge this position and ended up in a&e again after effectivly re-breaking it.
Still got some good photos! and also learned my mates (most of em atleast) are absolute heroes in getting me and my kit out of the forrest and back home, sitting with me for hours in a&e. seeing one of my pals actually crap himself running around looking for me after he had been informed I needed an emergency ultrasound. Its weird but its times like that you see how good your friends are!
If you have had a crash and lived to tell the tail, give us a story and show us the photo's. I'll leave it to the mods discression whether they want this thread and its contents or not.
Heres the result of my March Forrest of Dean poor landing after a decent jump. (I blame the modern Epic I was riding giving me fools confidence on the approach)
Broken Collar bone, Bruised Kidney and a dose of internal bleeding.
The bruise has all gone, but a bit of swelling remains. the most permament sign of the crash now is a 1" scar from the wound under the dressing.
Crashed in the Forest of dean, Initially assessed at a cottage hospital close by then told to go to Gloucester or Oxford since I was living there at the time.
When I was in the hospital (John Radcliffe, Oxford) I kept pointing out that aswell as my collar bone feeling decidedly crapped, it also felt as though I had grazed my side. One nurse said "oh it will be superficial like the cuts on your hand".
I was told that with the pain of a bust collar bone it is common to feel sick or faint, I held it all back (till later)
It was ages until some one lifed my T shirt up to investigate, at which point they had me peeing into a bottle and ordering an emergency ultrasound.
They never actually got around to dressing the wound on my back. After being discharged late at night a mate gave me a lift home, I made it to bed and woke up attached at the wound to the dressing.
Made it to the ensuite after peeling myself off the bed and then flaked out on my way back. Getting up off the ground with a side full of congeled blood and a broken collar bone was not easy. Probably took me best part of 2 hours to summon the strength and grit my teeth.
Whilst I was on the floor pondering if I should add painting the cieling to the chors list I missed a call on my mobile, tantilisingly just out of reach on my bedside table.
Virtually as soon as I managed to get up it wrang again, Serious case of mothers intuition, her words were "we are on the M1 , be with you in 2 hours" I was very happy to see my familly
After a quick parental med-evac to my folks house in Leeds I spent the next 2 weeks being looked after
To add to it all though, the initial collar bone break was perfectly alligned, I was told if your going to break it do it like that, it will heal fast and be almost unnoticeable. Sadly 1 week into my r&r after a bath I managed to dislodge this position and ended up in a&e again after effectivly re-breaking it.
Still got some good photos! and also learned my mates (most of em atleast) are absolute heroes in getting me and my kit out of the forrest and back home, sitting with me for hours in a&e. seeing one of my pals actually crap himself running around looking for me after he had been informed I needed an emergency ultrasound. Its weird but its times like that you see how good your friends are!