My First big break
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Well, it
finally happened. Here I am at age 49 and I’ve never broken a bone
in my body-until today. I still don’t know how it happened. My wife
and I decided to go out for a bike ride together. We were pedaling
along at an easy pace when I suddenly found myself pitched sideways
in an instant, on the ground, my left foot still clipped in to the
pedal. I remember hitting my right shoulder on the pavement. A
woman in a car stopped next to us on the shoulder as I sat upright
and assessed my injury. I was briefly nauseated but it passed
quickly. I had some ugly “road rash” on my arm and leg. I could
move my arm but the shoulder didn’t feel too good. The good
samaritan in the car (thank you, Julie S.) piled our bikes and us
into her vehicle and took us home. Vikki found me a large bag of
cold ice and I drank a beer and went to bed. There was a pretty
good lump at the top of my right shoulder but I thought it might
just be a hematoma. Nonetheless I went for an Xray and sure enough
I had fractured my collarbone distally just before the joint at the
shoulder. Luckily I got ahold of one of the local orthopedic
surgeons who was on his way home but graciously agreed to come
review the film, then went back to his office and rummaged around
for a shoulder sling.
Fortunately I don’t need any surgery. Unfortunately, Vikki and I are scheduled for a husband-and-wife getaway trip to Vermont in a couple of weeks in order to-you guessed it-go biking. Oh, well, I may have to pull a “Tyler” a la’ Tyler Hamilton who in 2003 won a stage of the Tour de France about two weeks after breaking his clavicle in a bike crash. It’s too late to get a refund of the payment for the trip and I didn’t take out travel insurance so it’s grin and bear it or lose the money.
Fortunately I don’t need any surgery. Unfortunately, Vikki and I are scheduled for a husband-and-wife getaway trip to Vermont in a couple of weeks in order to-you guessed it-go biking. Oh, well, I may have to pull a “Tyler” a la’ Tyler Hamilton who in 2003 won a stage of the Tour de France about two weeks after breaking his clavicle in a bike crash. It’s too late to get a refund of the payment for the trip and I didn’t take out travel insurance so it’s grin and bear it or lose the money.