dgalbraith100
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Feb 1, 2006
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I am 36 years old, and have broken only one bone. When I do something I don't believe in holding anything back. So in this case, my one broken bone would be my neck . Flipped mountain biking, landing on my neck/shoulders.
Thought I broke my arm at first cause I was getting massive sharp pain there... Thumb, index, middle finger tingling... I decided that I tweaked a nerve, hiked out, went to the ER.. They decided not to take X-rays (yea I know, crazy)... 3 days later, I decide to goto my Primary Care Physician (PCP) who I have never seen... in the 10 years I've had "him" as my PCP...
I still have no idea why I decided to goto my PCP, I never goto the dr, unless I'm on my death bed... which means I goto the ER/Urgent care. PCP take an X-ray... says don't move, I'm putting a collar on you, and see here.. you have a "dislocated, fractured vertebra"... the scary thing is I could actually see it in the X-ray, a chip of bone, and things definatly didn't "line up" anymore... that means it was bad... usually I don't see anything the Dr or Vet is refering to in an x-ray... (seen more dog x-rays than human x-rays)
A couple days of traction where I had a bunch of weight hanging off screws "bolted" into my head... a few hours surgery, a titanimum plate, a couple screws later... and about 2 years recovery time (took way longer than I thought it would)...
I'm back to riding. I don't do as much crazy downhill stuff that I did (I walk stuff that before I would have bombed down without even thinking about it), alot more road over mountain biking, and I am always very careful to tell somebody where I will be, and when to check on me to see if I'm back, or out laying on the trail bleeding to death.
Laters,
-d.
Thought I broke my arm at first cause I was getting massive sharp pain there... Thumb, index, middle finger tingling... I decided that I tweaked a nerve, hiked out, went to the ER.. They decided not to take X-rays (yea I know, crazy)... 3 days later, I decide to goto my Primary Care Physician (PCP) who I have never seen... in the 10 years I've had "him" as my PCP...
I still have no idea why I decided to goto my PCP, I never goto the dr, unless I'm on my death bed... which means I goto the ER/Urgent care. PCP take an X-ray... says don't move, I'm putting a collar on you, and see here.. you have a "dislocated, fractured vertebra"... the scary thing is I could actually see it in the X-ray, a chip of bone, and things definatly didn't "line up" anymore... that means it was bad... usually I don't see anything the Dr or Vet is refering to in an x-ray... (seen more dog x-rays than human x-rays)
A couple days of traction where I had a bunch of weight hanging off screws "bolted" into my head... a few hours surgery, a titanimum plate, a couple screws later... and about 2 years recovery time (took way longer than I thought it would)...
I'm back to riding. I don't do as much crazy downhill stuff that I did (I walk stuff that before I would have bombed down without even thinking about it), alot more road over mountain biking, and I am always very careful to tell somebody where I will be, and when to check on me to see if I'm back, or out laying on the trail bleeding to death.
Laters,
-d.