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Old July 29th 05, 12:22 AM
dogbowl
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i can't believe this completely rotten thing has really happened to me.


Last week I seriously smashed up my elbow while riding my 29er. I was
taken to the hospital where I underwent surgery, and was required to
stay for 4 nights. It was a multiple compound fracture and the surgeon
explained that I may need 2 or more additional operations and perhaps
years of physical therapy before before I am anywhere near “back
to normal.” this is especially disturbing to me because I am an
artist and for now I can not use my right hand very well, (I am slowly
pecking this out with my left hand) so I dread to imagine the future
consequences of all this. The surgeon told me that my elbow was like a
shattered glass. It felt like it. It still does....

I wish I wore elbow pads. the irony is that I was protected by knee
pads, wrist guards, and of course, a helmet. But not elbow pads. In all
my unicycling adventures, when taking a fall, I always went forward and
never had a problem because I was always well protected. But you know
what they say—it only takes one bad fall on that ONE unprotected
place.

And its not like I was doing anything remotely fancy—I was out on
long island visiting my brother, and I went for a ride. I followed a
road that took me down by the beach. It was a beautiful twilight, and
for a moment, I stopped and sat on a park bench that faced the water. I
noticed a sidewalk that ran parrellel to the beach and that went up into
a small forest, so I decided to ride it. I attempted to freemount, and
failed. I tried to freemount again, and I still went nowhere. On my
third try, the world slipped upside down and a second later I was
cradling my broken arm and bleeding all over. It was terrible. Luckily,
some nice people quickly drove me to my brother's house, who then took
me to the hospital.

I think its the freemounting that did me in. I was always lousy at
freemounting, I always considered it to be my achillies heel, the one
thing I did not like about the unicycle, but still, my success rate was
good enough to keep me going. Till now.

This event has made a mess of my life—luckily enough, I have
health insurance, but my family and I were scheduled to go live in Paris
for a year and I had to cancel the flights an cancel the sublease on our
apartment, and we may not go at all, or at least I may not go at
all—the complications of this have been unbelievable.

I still love the unicycle, and I am grateful to have experienced the
pleasures of riding the one wheel, and I am delighted to have met so
many interesting unicyclists along the way (both live and on this forum)
and just a week into my injury I really miss riding the old 29er like
you would'nt believe, but –seriously--i do think my unicycling
days are over.... for now.

Bummed out beyond belief,
Steve

PS--don't overlook those elbow pads!


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Old July 29th 05, 12:28 AM
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Glad to hear that you're as ok as you can be. I hope things turn out for
the better. I have a gnarly scar on my elbow from a muni ride a while
back, where I managed toland with a jagged rock sticking inside my elbow
an inch, 3miles from home.

I hope you can get back to uni'ing soon.


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Old July 29th 05, 12:34 AM
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Sorry that happened... i hope everything works out ok.
My friend broke his leg in 2 places a day before he went to Japan for 3
weeks.


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dont do anything, they do it to us. We are part the victims, we are not
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Old July 29th 05, 01:46 AM
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Hello Steve,

I am sorry to hear about your smashed elbow and how this has disrupted
your work and family plans. I hope your arm heals quickly.

I've been tooling around the neighborhoods on my Sun 28 lately and
consider myself a member of the Sun 28 Appreciation society.

Get well soon.


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Old July 29th 05, 01:59 AM
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I did a faceplant into a wet vert ramp (wet being the key thing wrong
with this sentence. without it, faceplant wouldn't even be needed!).

I am currently missing a tooth, and it's bumming me out a bit.
Apparently we're looking at 2500$ for smile reconstruction. Yay health
insurance?


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Old July 29th 05, 02:24 AM
Brave Sir Stupid
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In article st.com,
"dogbowl" m wrote:

i can't believe this completely rotten thing has really happened to me.


Last week I seriously smashed up my elbow while riding my 29er.


What an awful cautionary tale! You have my sincere sympathies and best
wishes.

Thank you for the timely and hard-earned reminder. Seriously -- it's
particularly apropos to me, as we're effectively the same age (although
your birthday parties are bigger than mine, i'd guess). There but for
the grace...

My only advice is: Let It Heal.

..max
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Old July 29th 05, 02:41 AM
boo radley
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those elbow pads are important. i bought some about a month after
learning to uni, and during my very first ride with them on i hit my
elbows hard attempting a freemount. it happened so fast and i hit so
hard that i don't dare ride without them anymore, at least not yet.
still haven't gotten around to buying knee pads though...


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Old July 29th 05, 04:05 AM
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Ouch. I'm glad to see the "for now" qualification regarding your
unicycling days. It would be depressing for me to not have that outlet,
I can only imagine how you feel.....along with being an artist with
injured chops. I hope you heal well enough to be able to get back on it
without fear of making it worse. I'm always impressed with the body's
ability to heal. I had a minor shoulder separation a few weeks ago that
at the time made me wonder if I would be riding any trails this summer,
but only a mild residual soreness remains so I'm going for it. I hope
you get to that point. Good luck.

--unidaddy


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Old July 29th 05, 07:14 AM
Brave Sir Stupid
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unidaddy wrote:
Ouch. I'm glad to see the "for now" qualification regarding your
unicycling days.



Shhhhhh!! I was going to try to buy his killer unicycle off him until
you went and encouraged him!

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Old July 29th 05, 07:23 AM
Klaas Bil
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Steve, that's really bad! I hope you heal quickly (insofar possible)
and completely.

I usually MUni with 661's (shins & knees), helmet and wrist protector
gloves. I have realised for years that my elbows are the "next" thing
to protect, yet I never got around to buying and using elbow
protection. Maybe I should? But then what's the next next thing?

(I've never hurt my elbows badly. The worst was during the 2005 Dutch
MUni weekend. I fell backwards on my left elbow when I tried to make
it to the top of a skatehall ramp. It's more than a month ago but it
still hurts when I press it 'wrong' such as on a chair's hard arm
rest.)

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