November 26th, 2016, 10:10 PM | #1 |
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dirtbike crash (warning: graphic pics)
ate **** going down hill on an xr200. trail was rocky/leafy. think I got too much momentum, brakes didnt work, hit a rock and flipped sideways or something. landed screaming and then slowly couldn't hear and then couldn't see and then blacked out. paramedics took 20 mins to get there as we were a quarter mile in from the road just off some train tracks. had to shut down CSX railway for 30 mins (they were legal trails though). they called it in as a tibia/fibula fracture and gave me 2 doses of morphine on the way to the ER. long story short, I was at the hospital for about 4 hrs and they did a bunch of x rays and scans. nothing broken! nasty puncture wound and all the muscles in my right leg seem to be mashed potatoes and completely locked and torn up but no bone/tendon injury thank god. they gave me more morphine and ativan at the hospital because I was freaking out and in so much pain (how, when it wasnt broken??? I have a high tolerance)... I had good people to help me.. it was still terrifying. I was being slow and started that hill from 0mph on a day that was (of course) supposed to be chill wandering through the woods on some slow little hondas. heres some cool pics. got some crutches and tylenol 3, supposed to drive back to pittsburgh tomorrow from DC, we'll see how it goes. EMT teams are great. ER team I wasn't impressed with. putting the dirtbikes up for a few months, had one too many semi-serious wrecks this year what with the separated shoulder in july. was wearing the whole dirtbike get up including tech 3 alpinestars mx boots. they prob saved my leg from being snapped or worse. wear your geeeeeear
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November 26th, 2016, 10:15 PM | #2 |
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Ouch! Wear your gear, for sure. I'm glad you didn't break anything- muscle heals relatively quickly. Feel better!
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November 26th, 2016, 11:00 PM | #3 |
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November 27th, 2016, 12:08 AM | #4 |
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Ugh, puncture wounds suck! Feel better soon.
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November 27th, 2016, 12:52 AM | #6 |
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Gnarly wound.
Did I get this right? A train sat at a train crossing for you?! There's a Chuck Norris joke somewhere in there... |
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November 27th, 2016, 04:59 AM | #7 |
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Glad you're OK! On the plus side, that's a pretty cool head scan.
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November 27th, 2016, 05:33 AM | #8 |
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Glad it wasn't more serious. Good call on taking a break from the dirt bikes. Sometimes it's what you really need. Also, I don't think anyone blames you for thinking it could be broken based on the pain. Reasonably big puncture + poking your muscly bits under the skin = hurts like hell. Heck, if I take my finger and jam it into the same spot on me hard enough, it starts to hurt a lot.
Could a more qualified armchair doctor than I explain what that glowy bit behind her ears in the open-ish part of Katie's cranium is? It's right above the beginning (end?) of the spine and to the right. |
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November 27th, 2016, 11:14 AM | #9 |
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Pretty sure that's the implant the aliens insert. If you figure out how to interface with it, it allows you to control your bike with your mind.
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November 27th, 2016, 12:32 PM | #10 | |
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I have a cartilage earring which shows up on the Xray. I think I remember asking if I needed to take it out and they said no don't worry about it. And then they gave me Ativan and I was wondering whether i was breathing or not and if it was even necessary to breathe because it didn't seem like it was... ??? argh Quote:
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November 27th, 2016, 10:40 PM | #12 |
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Probably just one of them scary Obamacare RFID implants used to control your mind.
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November 27th, 2016, 10:48 PM | #13 |
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http://www.fredericknewspost.com/new...0b9c44cd0.html
Most of this information is flat out wrong... I didn't break my leg, no bones were sticking through my skin, I wasn't riding on CSX-owned land (it's privately owned) and we had received verbal permission to ride from someone involved in the club that manages the dirtbike-designated trails. Just another example of how the media gets it wrong. It also wasn't my bike lol. I'm going to call them tomorrow and see if they will change some stuff to at least say we were riding on legal trails, not the tracks, and I didn't break my leg. |
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November 28th, 2016, 07:11 AM | #14 |
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Ah...dirt bikes...
Glad nothing was broken, but it still looks really painful. Good job on wearing all the gear. It could have turned out much worse if you hadden't had it. Don't feel bad. Marquez crashed on the dirt before the start of the season and broke his leg. Nicky Hayden just crashed on the dirt last week and needed knee surgery. Just part of the game. Heal up, and get back out there another day. |
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November 28th, 2016, 07:13 AM | #15 | |
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November 28th, 2016, 07:41 AM | #16 |
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Yeah.. getting hurt on the dirt bike sucks big time when EMT, FD are involved.. but when you have to close down the railroad.. that's when media go bonkers with the story.
I'm surprised they let you keep you earrings on while taking the X-ray. Drugs are your friend.. hope you a speedy recovery. |
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November 28th, 2016, 09:05 AM | #17 |
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The media is often wrong, often due to laziness, sometimes incompetence, and often for better ratings. I don't know if it's worth trying to get them to correct it, they didn't use any names, will locals be able to identify you from that article? If not, I'd probably just let it go, not worth the added aggravation. Concentrate on healing up!
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November 28th, 2016, 10:11 AM | #18 | |
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I keep tryin to tell folks that, only person that listened was my cousin that hooked on the heroin; an I been tryin to tell him the opposite
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November 28th, 2016, 11:34 AM | #20 |
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Ah, yes, moms. Mine hasn't expressed much of an opinion about me riding, though I don't think she's thrilled. They mean well, they really do!
They seem to have written that piece with the information from the time of the crash, when it seemed like you had broken your leg, so I'm not surprised that's how it was reported. Follow-up is rare these days. Misinformation is sadly rampant. Take it as a reminder not to believe everything the media reports. |
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November 28th, 2016, 09:23 PM | #21 |
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I'm glad to hear you are relatively well, and nothing's broken. I've been worried a few times! Worst was broken scapula, 20 miles from town, no cell service.
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November 29th, 2016, 06:34 AM | #22 |
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Maybe switch mountain biking instead..
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December 1st, 2016, 11:29 AM | #23 |
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It's been almost a week and my leg is not much better. The puncture wound is healing okay, slowly, but there seems to be a lot of damage to the muscle(s?) in my calf... Getting around is really difficult and making it to all of my classes is nearly impossible. And my dog is sick and I have final exams in the next two weeks. This is not an easy time
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December 1st, 2016, 12:13 PM | #24 |
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That sucks... hopefully its the "worse before it gets better" and you (and pup) will feel better soon.
Good luck with the exams!
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Sorry your healing is a rough road! Then again, a week isn't a lot of time to heal up a serious muscle trauma. Give yourself some time.
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February 17th, 2017, 10:58 PM | #27 |
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Top pic is day 1 bottom pic is 4 weeks later. It's been another 7 weeks since the bottom pic and it still looks like that. The skin over the smashed muscle is still numb and its like weird to touch... still sore in a weird way. Meh. Haven't ridden since I wrecked except my 2 mile commute and back, a couple times a week. Lost interest in flat track racing totally (not that this injury was from racing).. I just don't want to get F'ed up like this again.
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In 2014 I broke my collarbone bad enough to need surgery. Lost feeling in a part of my shoulder. Reading this post made me wonder about that old injury. I suddenly realize my feeling was fully back 100% and I never noticed it before! Nerves just take a while but they come back.
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February 25th, 2017, 03:50 PM | #30 |
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I'm sorry you're healing more slowly than you'd hoped. Hang in there! Let me add to the chorus of nerves-taking-a-while-to-come back. I lost part of a fingertip pad, which reattached, but the nerves took a LOOOONG time to come back. I crashed in October, super minor, but the scrape on my knee felt numbish until fairly recently. So that's... four months? For an almost non-injury injury?
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February 25th, 2017, 04:54 PM | #32 |
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Thanks for weighing in! I hope it will return to normal eventually, but luckily it's not in a spot that I really notice it. My leg is 100% functional so that's the most important thing to me.
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Yeah, brains tend to stay broken once they're broken Good call.
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Smart choice to get a good helmet. Don't go cheap.
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