Horrible? No, it's wonderful and admirable how you have worked your way out from under from this major injury and are riding again!! You are some woman.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xrayted
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Horrible? No, it's wonderful and admirable how you have worked your way out from under from this major injury and are riding again!! You are some woman.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xrayted
Maybe I will be an exeption, but I hate my scars. I still have my scars from the first crash that I had in March. It is only left shoulder and elbow. I can deal with the one on my elbow, but that shoulder pink bright thing is just horrible. I live in Phoenix and could not wear tank tops or any open shoulder dresses the whole summer. I can show off my scars in front of the cycling crowd, but not anywhere else. I've been always proud of my skin, but now I just get upset when I see this scar. I hope that it goes away one day.
Let me clarify something here: I said I'd never wear glasses on the bike and I put it badly, because I meant prescription lenses - I too wear sun glasses and Sliders with clear or yellow lenses - but there was something about waking up laying on the ground after my first major crash, with an ambulance, paramedics, and a crowd surrounding me and not being able to see anything clearly because my glasses had broken when they hit my nose that was really frightening. No matter how early I get up to ride these days, I'll always put my contacts in. I never want to be in that situation again.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeniseGoldberg
Now, back to scars ... :)
Fortunately, the 5-6" scar left on my right hip from surgery to repair my broken ilium (cycling accident in April 2005) is now, just as my orthopod promised me, a thin little white line. If I wore bikinis at the beach (which I don't), it wouldn't even show. I'm less pleased with the large numb area on my upper thigh below it where a nerve was cut during surgery. Surgeon warned me this would probably occur. Kind of a bummer.
I do have one particularly heinous picture I had DH take while my surgical incision was healing, at a lawyer friend's recommendation. It shows butterfly bandages (complete with dried blood) from one end to the other, along with a nice red incision. I won't subject y'all to that one! :D
Emily
Just came back to this thread only to find that I had missed my (Warhol-ian) 15 minutes of fame.
I have my one and only cycling scar on my right calf. I fell on a path that was like riding on a cheese grater (DH got a flat!) and road rash-ed a good 6 inch patch on my leg. I wore skirts and gauchos to work all week so I could show it off. It's like my badge of honor!! I fell again last week (stili getting used to those new clipless pedals!) and re-scraped some of the old rash and got a heart-shaped bruise on one heiney cheek and a bow-tie-shaped one on the other. Tee hee! My bike has scars from that first crash too.
I rode my bike a lot when I was a kid. When I was 7, I thought I would get fancy with my riding and try riding really fast while zig-zagging (turning the handlbars right-left really fast). I ended up turning the front wheel too far one way and basically crashing face first onto the pavement. When I got up, one of my front teeth (a permanent, adult tooth) was knocked out, but still hanging by a nerve. :eek: A neighbor lady was kind enough to get my mom and my mom and aunt drove me to the dentist. I remember my mom telling me to hold my tooth in, so the dentist could re-attach it.
The dentist was able to re-attach it by wiring it to the tooth next to it until it could grow back in place. I had to eat through a straw for a while! :D
More recently while MTBing, I was flying down a trail (too fast) and came up upon the gravel section. At the last minute I realized that new, loose gravel had just been put down. I tried to slow down, but my front tire hit it and just kind of sunk in causing me to fly off of the bike, roll/skid down the gravel hill and then roll into a bunch of pokey sticks/brush. I had a huge gash on my back from sliding down on the gravel. The shirt I was wearing still has the blood stain. hahaha.
I've had a couple of little bloody scrapes on my legs so far, but they have healed with no scars.
I'm kind of envious of some of you! (but I hope I don't get any really serious injuries, of course)
I just have a couple of small scars. The first is from a slow motion fall over due to user error
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...g/100_0487.jpg
This other is the imprint of my big chain ring. I don't know how it happened. I was racing my first tri and someone told me while I was running that my leg was bleeding.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...g/100_0482.jpg
I never had any bike scars till last season. A teenager was skidding past the stop sign,turning toward me, so I turned right and laid the bike down. My hybrid bar went in to my breast. I still have the imprint and bruise of the handlebar end. Glad the worst of that is over. This season I scraped my knee when I couldn't get my foot out of the clip (new shoes) that still give me problems getting clipped in and out. I adjusted the spd pedals as loose as I dare. I just went back to wearing my old shoes. I think I will try filing of some of the treads around the cleats before I give up on them. What wonderful, strong women we have to learn from at TE forum!
Mine is still relatively new. You saw the picture on my crash report back in September but here it is again.
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And here is what it looked like at the Hilly Hundred earlier this month.
http://ebbs.us/Hilly%20Hundred%20200...s/DSCN1725.JPG
Healed up well.
OMG why the heck is this so huge!