Injured cyclist -- Nathan Simmons

I know that all regulars on here will know Helen "wafflycat"

Her son Nathan was badly injured on a closed circuit race at the Lotus track
last night when he locked handle bars with another bike.
He is now in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital with a broken shoulder bone and
possible broken pelvis and many bumps and abrasions

Helen is obviously worried and upset and I feel that she would appreciate your
support either on here, or by more personal contact if you know her well.

Trevor A Panther
In South Yorkshire,
England, United Kingdom.
www.tapan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Her son Nathan was badly injured on a closed circuit race at the Lotus
track last night when he locked handle bars with another bike.
He is now in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital with a broken shoulder
bone and possible broken pelvis and many bumps and abrasions

Ouch, sounds painful. Pass on my best wishes Waffles. Hope it won't
affect any exams and stuff?

in message , Trevor A
Panther ') wrote:

I know that all regulars on here will know Helen "wafflycat"

Her son Nathan was badly injured on a closed circuit race at the Lotus
track last night when he locked handle bars with another bike.
He is now in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital with a broken shoulder bone
and possible broken pelvis and many bumps and abrasions

Helen is obviously worried and upset and I feel that she would appreciate
your support either on here, or by more personal contact if you know her
well.

Oh, ****.

Best wishes, Waffly, tell him to mend quickly. Broken pelvis doesn't sound
at all amusing. But things do mend, particularly when you're young.

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Trevor A Panther wrote:
I know that all regulars on here will know Helen "wafflycat"

Her son Nathan was badly injured on a closed circuit race at the
Lotus track last night when he locked handle bars with another bike.
He is now in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital with a broken shoulder
bone and possible broken pelvis and many bumps and abrasions

Helen is obviously worried and upset and I feel that she would
appreciate your support either on here, or by more personal contact
if you know her well.


That sounds nasty!

Internet hug to Waffly.

pk

Thanks guys.

Thanks all. I'm just awake & about to have a restorative cup of tea.

The coming together of bikes was unintentional: the joys of being part of
the peloton. :-/ A guy alongside Nathan locked handlebars with him and
Nathan was off. In his youthful attempt not to bring anyone else down,
Nathan apparently barrel-rolled *away* from the group over to the side away
from the rest of the bunch according to someone who was there.

B*gg*r. Thing is, he was doing very well, in the top quarter of the bunch.
Such is the way of things.

The St John's people attended immediately and, according to the A&E staff at
the horsespittal, made a very good job of cleaning up the wounds and also
according to the A&E nurse doing the dressing of bloody bits, she now
understands why cyclists shave their legs as it made it really easy for her
to spot any *really tiny* bits of dirt to ensure the wound could be
thoroughly cleaned to her even higher standard.

It was a huge relief to find that the orthopedic guy who saw Nathan last
night was a fellow cyclist. he even raced the same series of races, last
season, as Nathan was trying out last night. As the morphine kicked in to
Nathan, natters were had about bikes and fettling.

Today we'll find out just what is required as regards surgery on Nathan's
shoulder and we will hopefully find out what is going on with his right hip.
He got a haemotoma (sp?) the size of a melon come up and his hip was causing
him more pain than his broken shoulder. There were mutterings about
hip/pelvis/fracture in the same sentence without the mention of shoulder,
and we could not get it confirmed last night if his hip is or isn't broken -
we'll be pressing to find out more about that today.

The rest of him all down his right side is covered in road rash large &
small. Brand new Northwave skeleton jersey totalled, new DeMarchi shorts
totalled, Bell 'CSC' lid totalled, glvoes totalled. Brake lever/saddle on
bike in need of replacing. When Nathan gets home, we are having a ceremonial
burning of kit in the garden!

In A&E, Vernon & I had gone without food for 12 hrs. Vernon suddenly became
light-headed & green at the edges, so was put on oxygen and laid on a trolly
(next to Nathan - I had husband & son flaked out on trolleys in front of me)
to stop him fainting. Duly a cup of hot sweet tea & couple of biscuits each
was rapidly provided for Vernon & I which was very welcome and did the trick
to get Vernon back on his feet. I was gald of that, as I really didn't want
both husband & son admitted to hospital - it's bad enough with just the son
admitted!

Nathan may be operated on anytime between today (after the CAT scan) and
Monday. So he's in horse spittal for a few days anyhow.

Cheers, helen s

wafflycat wrote:

Thanks guys.

Thanks all. I'm just awake & about to have a restorative cup of tea.

The coming together of bikes was unintentional: the joys of being part
of the peloton. :-/ A guy alongside Nathan locked handlebars with him
and Nathan was off. In his youthful attempt not to bring anyone else
down, Nathan apparently barrel-rolled *away* from the group over to the
side away from the rest of the bunch according to someone who was there.

B*gg*r. Thing is, he was doing very well, in the top quarter of the
bunch. Such is the way of things.

The St John's people attended immediately and, according to the A&E
staff at the horsespittal, made a very good job of cleaning up the
wounds and also according to the A&E nurse doing the dressing of bloody
bits, she now understands why cyclists shave their legs as it made it
really easy for her to spot any *really tiny* bits of dirt to ensure the
wound could be thoroughly cleaned to her even higher standard.

It was a huge relief to find that the orthopedic guy who saw Nathan last
night was a fellow cyclist. he even raced the same series of races, last
season, as Nathan was trying out last night. As the morphine kicked in
to Nathan, natters were had about bikes and fettling.

Today we'll find out just what is required as regards surgery on
Nathan's shoulder and we will hopefully find out what is going on with
his right hip. He got a haemotoma (sp?) the size of a melon come up and
his hip was causing him more pain than his broken shoulder. There were
mutterings about hip/pelvis/fracture in the same sentence without the
mention of shoulder, and we could not get it confirmed last night if his
hip is or isn't broken - we'll be pressing to find out more about that
today.

The rest of him all down his right side is covered in road rash large &
small. Brand new Northwave skeleton jersey totalled, new DeMarchi shorts
totalled, Bell 'CSC' lid totalled, glvoes totalled. Brake lever/saddle
on bike in need of replacing. When Nathan gets home, we are having a
ceremonial burning of kit in the garden!

In A&E, Vernon & I had gone without food for 12 hrs. Vernon suddenly
became light-headed & green at the edges, so was put on oxygen and laid
on a trolly (next to Nathan - I had husband & son flaked out on trolleys
in front of me) to stop him fainting. Duly a cup of hot sweet tea &
couple of biscuits each was rapidly provided for Vernon & I which was
very welcome and did the trick to get Vernon back on his feet. I was
gald of that, as I really didn't want both husband & son admitted to
hospital - it's bad enough with just the son admitted!

Nathan may be operated on anytime between today (after the CAT scan) and
Monday. So he's in horse spittal for a few days anyhow.


Very best wishes for a speedy, complete recovery. There's little more
to be said, really.

--
Brian G
www.wetwo.co.uk

On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:11:03 +0100, "wafflycat"
wrote:


Thanks guys.

Thanks all. I'm just awake & about to have a restorative cup of tea.


snip


Nathan may be operated on anytime between today (after the CAT scan) and
Monday. So he's in horse spittal for a few days anyhow.


Damn. Best wishes to Nathan for a speedy recovery. And best wishes
to you and Vernon. It's not nice when your flesh and blood gets hurt.

Keep those maternal bazoomas heaving.


Tim

On Thu, 24 May 2007 06:10:37 GMT someone who may be "Trevor A
Panther" wrote this:-

Her son Nathan was badly injured on a closed circuit race at the Lotus track
last night when he locked handle bars with another bike.
He is now in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital with a broken shoulder bone and
possible broken pelvis and many bumps and abrasions

That is sad. Hopefully he will mend as rapidly as possible.
Youngsters tend to mend better and faster than oldies.



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On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:11:03 +0100, "wafflycat"
wrote:

Thanks guys.

Love to you both. It sould like Nathan's alive and will make a
complete recovery, that's what matters.

Look after yourself, Helen, you are important too.

wafflycat wrote:

The coming together of bikes was unintentional: the joys of being part of
the peloton. :-/

Ouch. Hope he's ok before too long and all the best to you.

Arthur

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