Please cheer me up / keep me entertained... I've just spent the night in Merthyr hospital after a crash at bpw. Four fractured ribs, minor fracture of spine and whizzing blood.
Massively over cleared a table, landed hard, worst winding I've ever experienced then lost consciousness for a second.
Tell me your awesome crash stories. Awesome because no one got SERIOUSLY injured.
Nothing to add to that really - other than OW! and heal quick....
(Thankfully only bruises and cuts for me, but finest crash was off a small cliff in Rivelin Valley while trying to find new trails. I went off about 15' vertical, and bounced down another ledge before stopping in deep heather...just bruises)
Heart attack BPW
Right Rotator cuff BPW
Smashed knee BPW
Wallet bled out in the cafe BPW
Not in the same day,that would have been a bit much.
Half a backflip
Wallet bled out in the cafe BPW
Okay, you win.
Nothing more than a bruised ribcage for me. But there was a cracking photo of me taking out the cameraman at glentress7, taken my the camera man.
It's gone now alas. Should have bought it.
Another good one was the fast descent on verderers @fod normally I ride my ebike which is heavy and easy to squash jumps on at speed, forgot I was riding my orange five 2017 with fast semi slicks on in the summer, took off on one jump and I massively over jumped landed on the upslope of a much further jump and speared off to right which is a drop down the valley. Ended up about 15m away from the bike having had my bell rung well and truly and a very sore knee and ankle injury.
Fun times.
Half a backflip
Which half?
I've ridden a KTM Duke2 head in into an oncoming car at 50mph. I saw a nice panoramic strip if sky as I somersaulted into a forest.
Ripped my bike in two and put a 2' V into the front of a brand new Toyota Yaris.
I got up uninjured and got a lift home on the back of my mates Fire blade.
I ached a bit for a few months after.
A farmer put a rope across a trail, strong enough to stop a herd of cattle and divert them into the field. Also strong enough to stop a bike coming down the hill at 20mph. But not the rider, who carried on several yards further than the bike
Slight scarring to face, damaged shoulder, handsome payout for all the physio from the farmers insurers.
Mine was only impressive because of the number of people watching, including many I know.
FoD recently in a race, over the bars on newly built drop on Cougar Roots. Got it all wrong. Toppled down the trail to be picked up by 2 mates who were waiting for their kids.
Then at Rheola last weekend I was chatting to a bloke and the same drop came up in conversation
"Were you the bloke in the red TLD jersey?"
Ummmm. Yup
"Oh you were never making that at that speed"
Mmmmm 🤫
Massively overestimated my skill on scorpion at Yair, fortunately managed to avoid head into tree and hit it shoulder and ribs. Mrs 100th took me to hospital just heavy bruising. But it shocked shingles out of hiding and that was hellish.
Ouch get well soon. For me
Fractured elbow about 100m off the summit of a Munro.
With friends fortunately so inner tube sling and I walked off hill while they did a shuttle of my bike down the hill (ride mine walk back up get own bike and repeat etc).
Quick pint once off the hill before the local medical centre (not my choice but the fact I walked off and it was now 2 hours since kinda removed the urgency for getting seen to!).
Doc described it as a completely freak fracture in that I could move my arm freely and without chronic pain hence not realising I’d actually fractured it. That shouldn’t have been possible.
One way to get some Ti bling free off the NHSH (holding elbow together).
Approached a couple of coppers on Poole Quay for assistance as I couldn’t remember where I was going. Turned out i also couldn’t remember who I was or where I lived. I was stuck on a spinal board by the nearby lifeboat crew and taken to the local hospital by ambulance. Or at least that’s what they told me, I remember absolutely none of it
Two I suppose.
In 2010 riding with friends one of them took me out by squeezing past me on a gravel descent clipping my bars, we went tumbling. Broken thumb, broken elbow, and shattered the opposite shoulder. All calm until the X-ray revealed a piece of collarbone 2mm from my lung then I was rushed to surgery for emergency re-assembly pins and plates. Both arms in slings for a few weeks had its comedy moments at home.
2018 Scott Marathon Exeter, hit by an out of control rider on the first rocky descent. Broken funny bone, broke the other thumb and had split my elbow so badly I need an inner tube tourniquet after sitting up wondering why my legs were covered in claret. I had friction type grazes to a large % of my body so much so wearing clothes and showering was painful for a good few days.
Racing Brighton Big Dog a few years back. I had attached over the top of a climb and into the single track and suddenly found myself in the dirt, I quickly jumped up to get back on the bike and fell right back down after my right leg just have way. That's when the pain hit me. I dragged myself of the course and withered in pain for about 30min until I conceded defeat and allowed another rider to get a Marshall. The medics followed, looked at my leg and said 'I think you've broken your femar'. They cut my shorts to my groin to get a splint on, I refused to let them cut of sidis off. Splint went on, IV in and carted down to the arena when paramedic arrived and gave me morphine and agreed my femar was bust. High as a kite I then called and told my wife the news. Ambulance arrived, agreed with paramedics diagnosis and off to A&E. Triage nurse looked at my leg, agreed broken femar and said get ready for overnight stay and surgery in the morning. Doctor arrived, agreed with broken femar diagnosis and off I went to x-ray. Five x rays later and a confused call with the doctor, they could find no break. Doctor scratched her head and concluded I had a massive dead leg. I still feel robbed of an injury after all the drama and still have to defend myself cause it really really hurt.
Needless to say my buddies were very supportive and didn't take the piss. Much.
My strangest was when I managed to undo my seatpost quick release lever with my hamstring tendon.
There was very little blood, just a deep puncture wound that needed a good flushing out.
I've had some bad crashes, broken hand and heel bone- that last took ages to get mobile again
Worst was evening after uplifting at Cwmcarn, decided I was too tired to cook, went to get a curry, on way back there's an alley I'd cycled down 100 times but never noticed the low concrete bollard that sent me OTB..
And landing on the cobbles with my forehead, curry in my backpack was also a write off
Even though nothing broken, was weeks before I could ride again
Aged 12 a car pulled out in front of me so I ended up going over/onto the bonnet. Bruised, dazed, but OK - very lucky... The car bonnet wasn't as it had a human shaped dent apparently. Only told this after the event when a kind person came to help me as the car driver buggered off in a hurry. Hamsterley - over the bars on a downhill-ish rock-gardeny bit (my nemesis 😂) bruised elbow and shoulder, dented lid, ripped jacket and shorts. Chopwell Woods - less than 5 minutes in and rather muddy...rather deep puncture on my left knee. I've done way worse playing American Football though - cracked ribs, dislocated fingers, broken finger and toe, and probably several concussions 😳 explains a lot. I crashed a jet-ski once too heading back in to Cullercoats harbour. I misjudged the tide and hit rocks just below the surface. Apparently, according to onlookers, I was quite a sight flying through the air! I remember nothing except suddenly becoming conscious under water and looking up at the surface. More importantly, the jet-ski was repairable, I was black and blue for weeks. Mrs Fazzini was not impressed.
Get well soon OP 😁
Amateur hour compared to some of the otheres.
On a local downhill run, think more red than black if you were going to grade it. Riden it loads of times was flying down no problem and was on the easier flatter wider part. Turning and my front wheel caught on something and threw me OTB. Broken helmet and unable to use my left arm without a lovely grinding feel from my shoulder.
Pushed the bike to the nearest exit, which was fun as I had to carry it over a few obstacles. Arranged for my wife to pick me up at a pub as I realised cycling the 5 miles home wasn't on the cards.
Impromptu trip to A&E turns out I'd broken my AC joint in my left shoulder. Resulted in a good two months off the bike, having to miss the Long Mynd Batch burner and I now have a wonky shoulder.
Oh also managed to break two of my fingers on my right hand, which I didn't notice at the time so they're a bit mangled looking now.
Frustrating thing is I went looking for the thing that my front wheel got caught on a few days later and there was nothing there at all.
Approached a couple of coppers on Poole Quay for assistance as I couldn’t remember where I was going. Turned out i also couldn’t remember who I was or where I lived. I was stuck on a spinal board by the nearby lifeboat crew and taken to the local hospital by ambulance. Or at least that’s what they told me, I remember absolutely none of it
Was this cycling or a stag weekend?
One of the nurses just said "bike park? All the youngsters we get are from there...". I'm 47.
Oh shit OP - get well soon! My worst is a shattered left collarbone, punctured left lung and 4 broken ribs at the 2019 Ex enduro. I was sprinting along a narrow flat section and one of the pedals hit something solid. I went flying immediately and hit ground hard, then went flying again and came to a stop. I sat up and couldn't breath for a few seconds which freaked me out, then I looked at my left shoulder which was a lot lower than where it should have been. Had collarbone plated, the lung healed and ribs healed, I made a full recovery.
Another one thats broke his spine. On a fixed gear road bike. Car turbed right across my path. Hit corner of bumper about 13 mph (after mild braking) Bike and I stopped dead but somersaulted. It was at this point the pain hit, way before I landed flat on my back somewhere in the middle of the road. Driver drove off but then decided to stop.
Bike took off and landed many feet away on a verge (quite handy having a garmin).
Broke 4 ribs, and my L1 and T12 straight through. Very serious I believe, and straight into resuscitation at hospital, express service.
Loads of morphine for weeks. Consultant said operations go wrong (as you know as he had seen my records). I can operate today, you'll be walking tomorrow, or you may not. Or you can opt to let nature take its course and we can operate if anything goes wrong.
Went for over 6 weeks in hospital, then months of wearing a TLSO brace (other than in bed). Over 7 months off work, but got gentle riding again after 4.
Now missing 1/2 of my L1, instead of a rectangle, its a triangle. I'm alot better 7 years on but still get lower back pain and stiffness, but at 53 thats to be expected.
Back road riding after 5 years, although quiet lanes. Switched back to MTB after the accident and bought a new FS at the time.
Back commuting 3 days a week by bike after covid, but 70% is off road, the remaining quiet roads.
Fair few other incidents. Banged my shoulder up at Llandegla a year after breaking my back, and then last year, went through a car wing mirror as it turned to avoid a queue as I was filtering on the right. Tore a fair hole in my left arm as it ripped the bottom of the cowling off. Landed on my right shoulder, which is still sore after 9 months.
Hey ho, all part of the fun
Racing at Castlegate TT last year, there’s a big (for me) double over a gully, that taking the taking the chicken line costs maybe 10 seconds on a 1 min run, I was psyching myself up to it but kept bottling it. Final run comes and I take a brave pill, and hit it with all the speed. Didn’t pull up hard enough, cased hard, think I went OTB but no idea, broken collarbone and 6 broken ribs. Almost a year to the day since I last broke the same collarbone in a different place…
Coming down a fire trail of all things, after a hard ride, think I must have launched myself off a drainage ditch and used my head as a brake (not recommended), 3 column break of T11 (broken right through) and occipital condyle (lump where spine attaches to skull), and a broken finger which took then longest to heal. One time I've been in an ambo and don't remember it or the week after in hospital, although apparently I did beat my wife and daughter at scrabble for the only time ever.
All healed OK, had been training for the pioneer in NZ they rolled the entry for us over to the next year.
My favourite is still from the early 90s. The weather was too bad to do the planned mtb PE ‘lesson’ but I was insistent so went out after school anyway. Took my Raleigh Massif up a big hill in a cow field and let it rip down the steep bit. All 2.0 inches of my Farmer Johns rear tyre was having none of it and turned into a mud ski with no braking at all. At the base of the hill was a choice of brake. The remnants of a wall or a barbed wire fence. I decided that a fence post was the safest option and braced for impact hanging off the back end.
Forks bent in half, balls into the seat and my newish Nike shell suit trousers (!) were torn by the barbed wire. 30 years later and my left shin still bares the scars.
Mates arrived at the top of the hill to see me laying in a heap at the bottom. Was pretty funny… albeit a long walk home.
During a road race back in the day. Bike was fitted with a wired bike computer (remember those?!) with a magnet on the wheel and a sensor on the fork leg. The sensor got dislodged and rotated slightly into the magnet and was ticking every wheel revolution.
For some bizarre reason I thought it would be a good idea in a crowded peloton to reach down and twist the sensor back round. Suffice to say it turned out not to be such a good idea. Went over a bump, fingers went into bladed spokes of front wheel. Took the side of my thumb clean off, but like a pro I managed to stay upright.
Had plastic surgery but still a big chunk missing and no feeling in the thumb. As part of the recovery I had to have the hand strapped to my upper chest, which then developed gangrene. The smell was unbelievable!
Otherwise, just the usual knocks, ribs, grazes etc.
Worst overall was on my Ducati 748, Broke T5,6,7 & 8, cracked pelvis, few ribs and collar bone.
Worst recent one on mtb was my elbow falling off after a taking the wrong line (to far right) down the slab drop on Top Chief at Ft William. July 2021, 9 weeks off the bike in the best bit of summer and still waiting to get the nails out.
Weather warning storm just before Xmas 2013 days after turning 40, got up for work and looked fine, so jumped on bike and headed down the hill. Suddenly got much worse, went around big sweeping bend and ploughed into the back of a stationery refuse collection lorry... Unconscious for 30mins, lost four teeth, turned upper jaw into a jigsaw and fractured two metacarpals plus made a mess of same hand wrist.
Never seen lorry near there before or since.
Xmas in Southampton General and then plaster came off hand I literally could move joints millimetres, so spent Monday morning to Friday afternoon at the amazing Wessex Rehab Centre at Salisbury, while staying at the on site League Of Friends accommodation for five weeks.
Took a while to get confidence back on a bike, fatbike really helped and now cycle for fitness around the South Downs lane hills it took me 25 years of living in Southampton to find! 😆
Heart attack BPW
Right Rotator cuff BPW
Smashed knee BPW
Wallet bled out in the cafe BPW
Seems to be a common theme...
My best one is wiping out at full speed through the ford that features in the opening credits of the original 'All Creatures Great and Small'. Wasn't much water in it, just some lovely slime.
Big gash, but got patched up with the help of a lovely passerby MTBer, and managed to get back to the car.
Re my last post, here’s a pic of me (very) shortly before the crash,
And a more detailed one of me, a few hours after.
That'll be the time I poked my finger through a rotating brake disc. Personally I didn't think it was impressive, my wife certainly wasn't impressed, but the staff at stornoway A+E seemed impressed. They all came to have a look at it, and I lost count of how often i was asked to repeat the story of how it happened. I
They managed to push the nail bed back in where it was meant to be, so I was impressed with that, wasn't much fun though.
At the SSWC2007 in Aviemore, we went out for a night ride and I hit a metal bar that had been left in place between two benches, face meet ground at speed, snapped the head tube from my soulcraft (that hurt the most), got two nose jobs out of it and 3 new front teeth that are now coming loose
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All these replies and nobody’s asked the OP the most important question of all.
How’s your bike?
Fine thanks for asking. I rode (well, rolled down) sixtapod to get out. Mildly off centre bars that I'll fix later. Everything else seemed fine.
This thread needs a warning in the title, I started feeling a little wobbly at somafunks pic!
This thread needs a warning in the title, I started feeling a little wobbly at somafunks pic!
Yeah sorry, seeing that broken soulcraft really hits hard eh? 😉
I've had 2 helicopter rescues!
First one in Switzerland, final day of a mountain biking holiday and on one of the simplest trails of the week. Slid sideways, landed on my hip on a tree trunk and fractured my pelvis. I actually had an inkling of what I'd done cos I'd had to call out Mountain Rescue in the UK only 3 months previously for a mate who'd done exactly the same.
Airlifted to a Swiss hospital, 2 days stay (missing my flight home) and then an air ambulance evacuation flight to the UK. Thankfully the insurance covered everything.
Second one was playing around on some small rock drop offs on a group ride in the Lakes. Lunch stop, everyone sat around eating and dickhead here are a sandwich then rode off to jump off rocks - first couple went fine, the next thing the rear wheel caught on the lip and stopped dead and I pivoted over the bars and landed on my head. Knocked out, blood everywhere from a deep cut on my lip and, because of the remote location, it was decided to airlift. That and the helicopter was 5 minutes away on a training exercise anyway.
Had stitches in my top lip and a hell of a headache but was fine otherwise.
Forgot my knee pads on my last training ride (having trained for a year prior) a week before the Relentless 24hr race I was gonna solo, but went over the bars, my knee picking a particularly sharp rock to land on…
It’s a bit grim…
tried to ride relentless, against advice, I couldn’t make it all that far out of the car park 😭 haven’t been in as good shape since…
I've had plenty of broken ribs etc, but the worst injury was from the most stupid crash. Sniper stump put me into a tank slapper the next corner wasn't happening so went straight on into the undergrowth and OTB faceplanted the ground, got stabbed just below nose with a stick, lots of blood, but the worse part was that I had split open the inside of my mouth right across the base of my jaw.
Spent a few hours in the hospital having mouth washes and nurses using tweezers to pick out bits of forest floor.
3 stiches below my nose and 9 inside my mouth and eating liquid food for 9 days.
I was told it was the worse one they had ever seen.
Rode Gisburn once. Soul was sucked out through my anus, never to be seen again.
Soul was sucked out through my anus, never to be seen again.
Terrible thing to happen to a Cotic.
Broken femur whilst out on my BMX as a kid. 2 months in hospital. Not my best bike ride.
Got hit square off my bike by an accelerating car who didnt see me, flew over the bonnet and roof, not a scratch but my whee l got buckled.
Hit a stone/ root and had an epic tank slapper at speed somewhere on the zigzags. Had to decide between hitting a big stone slab or a big tree, decided trees are slightly softer and hit it square on. Massive endo which I somehow managed to avoid turning into a faceplant. Unfortunately though, I then slid down the top tube of my bike where the oldschool braze on cable guides gutted the inside of my left thigh and left a vein dangling put of my leg.
Tib & Fib, crossed someones drop kerb at an angle on my road bike, was only on the path as the road had been chip resurfaced the day before and I could see the unchipped part as I left my house, it was wet, didn't see the 5 metre long 25mm high metal bar they'd had fabricated to stop rain water running down the drive that they bolted to the kerb, slipped and fell, guess I clipped out at some point and my weight went through my leg, ouch
First day BPW opened after lockdown, and the first run at BPW hit a tree and almost knocked my hand off, the wrist was broken and the hand was pushed an inch to the side. It wasn’t the first time I’d hit that tree either.
When I recovered from that, back at BPW I messed up on the new popty ping and screwed my knee, had to stop again, no hospital but it felt shit for months.
Back in the day after descending Walna Scar we were heading down the steep road to the village and I got pretty bad brake fade. Somehow laid the bike down and crashed into the garden wall of the house at the bottom - bruised back but noting major. Very lucky!
Forgot to mention the joys of being married to a GP, no sympathy for self-inflicted injuries. Another fall a few years ago, washed out front wheel and gave myself nasty gashes on forearm and broken thumb, rode the half hour home one handed to be told to drive half an hour to after hours clinic as local A&E will be chaos (saturday arvo). She was well unimpressed when she had to drive me an hour to an A&E last year after doing my shoulder 16 km into a 100 km race, she went to the local beach while I sat in A&E in Geelong to be told I hadn't broken anything, cue relief till I found out the next week I'd torn the rotator cuff so was booked in for surgery, if it had broken would have healed quicker.
After racing MTB & CX most weeks for 3-4 months without incident, I went for a gentle road ride…
Front wheel wash out due to road surface and hit the ground hard.
6 broken ribs, 4 of which were flail breaks. Fractured pelvis in two places. Two nights in hospital.
Ooh I have some ok ones from 1989
I'll check back in with them
Best ever was a road crash- car pulled out, I t-boned it, went right over the front of it and perfectly through the back window of a parked car into the back seat, like posting a letter. I was covered in wee cuts and bruises but nothing worse, I think the driver thought he'd killed me!
I made Pinkbike Friday Fails when I smashed my wrist BMCC, I've had much bigger crashes offroad but that one had a combo of camera, a decent amount of drama, and my best injury
Oooh, you’re famous. Which crash is you?
Hope you recover ok, OP. 🤞🏻
OTB on the Cafall Trail at Cwmcarn 6 weeks ago resulted in a dislocated shoulder, smashed rotator cuff and fractured humerus.
Dislocation was relocated in hospital the same day but they waited a couple of weeks to see if the fractured piece of bone (the greater tuberosity) would stay in place. It didn’t so had an op’ to screw and suture it back in place 4 weeks ago.
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Not the worst one i've had, but probably the weirdest, this hole was caused by a part of the bike assaulting me, and i only noticed it after getting back on and finishing the run!
Oh apart from the 2 helicopter trips (previous page), I've done both my collarbones, both times just chipping the end.
First time was riding out to Ladybower to watch the Lancaster Dambusters memorial flypast - it was the time when the Canadian Lancaster was over as well so they were doing a double, the only time I'm ever likely to see that!
Was out with richpips, both on the CX bikes doing an off-road route. He was in front and on a descent I highsided the bank at the edge of the trail and landed on my shoulder. Kind of guessed what I'd done but eventually got up and limped down to the bottom of the trail where Rich was waiting completely unconcerned and having a sandwich. He assumed I'd punctured or something.
He asked what I wanted to do but as I could still ride (carefully) and certainly walk, we decided it wasn't a mountain rescue job and besides, I wanted to see the Lancaster flypast! So we carried on carefully out to Edale and Ladybower, fought through the crowds and pushed/carried the bikes up to a vantage point on the hill above the dam. Lancasters came, flew by, all good.
Then Rich was like "right, I've got to go get the kids from school, are you OK getting home?!"
So I rode/pushed/carried down to the cafe at Edale just to get away from the crowds then got the train home from there. I knew if I went straight to hospital they'd cut my top off and it was a decent Rapha one so I wasn't having that. Made it home, undressed and that was far and away the most staggeringly painful part taking the top off. Showered, got dressed (carefully and painfully) then got the bus to the hospital.
There followed an interesting conversation at A&E as they asked when I'd done it. Apparently the answer "oh about 6hrs ago but then I rode 25 miles to watch a flypast, stopped at a cafe for lunch, got the train home and got changed because I didn't want you to cut my nice cycling top off" wasn't what they were expecting...
When I was a kid I snapped my leg at the tubular and fibula in a trial, it was snowing and i lay in the snow for an hour waiting to be found, I also hit my teeth off my bars smashing them all over, I had to have braces, twice.
In 2018 we drove from North Yorkshire to Morzine, day two we rode to Morgins which just reopened, I came off on the baked ground so hard I nearly sh!t myself, I rode all the way back to Morzine with my arm hanging out, I paid £150 for an X-ray and was prescribed 1 paracetamol, turns out I separated my shoulder and to this day it’s an inch out at the top.
Last year I fell on some cobbles and tore a hole in my arm, there was loads of grit in it and my mate insisted he washed it out with his water bottle, I was a bit too dazed to stop him and nearly passed out, it was a pig to stitch and healed terribly.
In July i was riding DH in Les Gets with my daughters. I cased a big double and had a massive OTB landing on my head and popping my collar bone from the achromium.
Medical centre visit and i had a lovely x-ray of my displaced collar bone. However i also had a brain bleed. So having driven home and gone on to do lots of other stuff, i got admitted to hospital and a blue light ambulance ride to Stoke Neuro hospital, where i had two large holes drilled in my head and the bleed stopped and the clots removed.
About a week later i was back with a further bleed and bigger holes in my head including a drain.
Upshot is im still banned from driving by DVLA, and ive been told no more head bumps. So no more DH or enduro motorbikes for me.
Im 57 and was genuinely terrified as i went down for surgery. Take care out there please
Ian
1983, 12 years old. Hit a boulder in long grass, over the bars of my BMX. Land on collar bone and crack...
Not so special so far?
Walked home and told my mum, who had at least 25 years as a nurse by then. She proceeded to take my t-shirt off by the normal arms up over your head method, instead of cutting the t-shirt off...
That nipped a bit.
All a bit superficial really.
Last bit of downhill before I got married. 7 weeks before, just in case I crashed. 😂Somewhere around Moel Famau.
Knackered helmet. Significant gravel rash. Luxurious scabs.
Air ambulance called as it was in the area, but I ended up walking off the hill in the end. Couldn't see clearly out of the lower half of my eyes, but the top hemisphere was fine. That was odd.
Swipe for helmet / dodgy boxer shorts.
She proceeded to take my t-shirt off by the normal arms up over your head method, instead of cutting the t-shirt off…
That nipped a bit.
Yeah, I smashed my shoulder up a few years back, collarbone fractured in 4 places, shoulder dislocated and a few other bits, had to get the bike in the car and drive home an hour away “, can still remember the pain of using my right arm to do a 3 point turn as the road was blocked at one point!
4 ribs and a punctured lung. Ft Bill DH course. Last run of the day, obviously. Rode all the rocky stuff just fine and then managed to land on my front wheel on the first table top on the motorway bit. The noise of me trying to breathe captured on the GoPro after being horribly winded was grim. Managed to roll to the bottom. Had a bit of millionaire shortbread and a coffee, but even that didn’t cure it. Breathing was getting tricky and I was told I was going a bit grey. Driven to Belford by my dad in my not very comfy Clio 182 - damn those stiff springs! Couldn’t get out of the car myself when we got there.
The hospital were great. Despite (or maybe because of the morphine) I remember it was a very weird feeling as the chest drain went in…as the guide wire rubbed against the ribs it felt just like a brake cable rubbing against the outer cable.
Was meant to be the first day of a week’s family holiday. Oops.
Bloody hell this is painful... I had a pin inserted in a hand bone last year, they sent me home with loads of painkillers I didn't even use. Now I'm chomping through. co-codomol and it's still taking my breath away...
Some impressive crashes here everyone. stay safe out there...
