Sure is, and there's lots of stuff worse than the ground! I crashed 6
weeks ago on my bike and I'm messed up plenty. I'm talking bicycle
here. I was out training on a Saturday morning on my road bike like I
usually am on Saturday mornings, and ran into the back of a car that
stopped in front of me in the middle of a 6-lane road. We heard later
from witnesses their version of what happend but I have absolutely no
memory of it. I was riding my bike and then I wake up laying on the
ground with the EMS guys cutting my clothes off. I didn't know what
happened but I knew something bad had happened. I had to ask them what
happened.
I was wearing a helmet and glasses, my face went through the rear
windshield of the car. The impact had some affect on a disk in my neck,
and somehow messed up some muscles in my back. The rear windshield
tried to slice my face off. A couple of hours with needles and thread
and my face is back in one piece but it might be a year before I can get
most of the scars removed. I spent 24 hours in the ICU and a couple of
more days in a normal room before they let me go home. I think they
were surprised that I didn't have brain damage or internal organ
damage. I had MRI's, CAT scans and Xrays.
Oh and the bike is toast too. I don't have any interest in riding
anymore this summer, maybe next summer I'll feel differently about it.
> Just a lesson, it doesn't matter the size of the bike, the ground is just as
> hard and unforgiving to everybody.
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