Best to Worst in a Day

[kaybee]

Wow! So sorry about the accident, but glad to hear that you'll be okay. Do not secondguess yourself -- as someone else said, what happened happened and you need all your energy to concentrate on healing right now. So sorry about the bike, too, but it can be replaced and you can't. Take it easy for a while and let us know how the recuperation progresses.

KB

[pooks]

Healing thoughts your way!

MY $0.02 is
$0.01 Take the pain meds. Pain simply depletes your resources, physical and non-physical. There are a zillion pills out there and if one doesn't work, try another.
$0.01 Let people help you. People want to help and like to help. They do not like to see others in pain or distress.

Keep us posted
Thinking of you.

Listen to Margo! This is not the time to be a big girl and tough it out. Your PT and everything else will go better if you're conisistently taking whatever pain meds are recommended by your doc. And don't wait until the pain is excruciating before you relent and take them. Pain meds can keep your pain under control if you take them consistently and keep a reasonable amount in your system, but often can't handle severe pain if you wait too long to take them.

How did the drive react? (Or do you have any memory of that.)

Prayers ascending!

Pooks

[Cassandra_Cain]

Listen to Margo! This is not the time to be a big girl and tough it out. Your PT and everything else will go better if you're conisistently taking whatever pain meds are recommended by your doc. And don't wait until the pain is excruciating before you relent and take them. Pain meds can keep your pain under control if you take them consistently and keep a reasonable amount in your system, but often can't handle severe pain if you wait too long to take them.

How did the drive react? (Or do you have any memory of that.)

Prayers ascending!

Pooks

Actually I do remember the reaction - once I got up off the pavement. She (it was a gal), kept saying she was sorry and didn't see me. I honestly did believe her, I didn't think she was making it up. Then again, if she had looked, she would have seen me, she just didn't.

Every day, I'm getting a little better, though admittedly my anxiousness to ride again is far outpacing my recovery

[Cassandra_Cain]

Holy Smokes Cass - you live like within Blocks of me (Candalaria & Eubank). Please let me know if there is anything you need or anything I can do/bring, heck I can probably Walk to your house! and what Is it about Comanche?....do ALL the crazy drivers in our fair town pick That street to drive on? keeping you in my thoughts and prayers that you heal well, heal quick and take it slow getting back into cycling, the road (and the crazy drivers) will still be there waiting for you.

Hey~!

You aren't kidding about being a neighbor - that's really close! I was riding comanche because I had written straight from it (heading east to the mountains), to get to the fingers - sunset canyon, etc. I hate to say this, but in florida, (in tampa bay), there were always quieter, single lane roads with large shoulders and w/o masses of stop signs that I could always take instead of the main ones. Here you have that north-south, like pennsylvania or morris, but not in the east-west direction. Instead you only seem to have larger 2+ lane roads were cars zoom by you, in those tiny and dangerous bike lanes.

I need to take my bike to ABC today, to get an estimate on the damage, or to see if it has seen its last ride

[pooks]

What about your rotator cuff? Will you need surgery?

[mtbdarby]

Cass, sorry to hear about your accident. Sending healing vibes your way - and how cool to find out you have 2 TE gals near you. I think you need to have Corsair come over so you gals can post a picture, lol. Keep us posted on your recovery.

[tulip]

I hope you feel better soon! I hope you get a fantastic new bike out of this, paid for by the driver's insurance, of course. Rotator cuff injuries can be slow to heal, so be patient and do what the PT says so you won't reinjure it. Okay enough advice!

Be well!

[Cassandra_Cain]

Pooks - thankfully no surgery on the rotator cuff. I was a swimmer way, WAY back in high school and had an injury to it, but that also didn't require surgery. I'll be buying a set of 1/2 pound dumbells real soon!

Darby - it is very very cool to have two fellow TE gals so close by, it would be fun to meet them.

[esther231]

Yikes. That must have been scary as all get out.

Glad you are safe.

Keep my fingers crossed you heal quickly.

[pooks]

I don't know how similar the injuries are, but my sister had a couple of shoulder injuries -- once from crashing on her bike years ago, and another from an auto accident. No amount of PT ever made her pain go away. She always had trouble with that shoulder. Finally last winter she had surgery. The doctor was surprised when he got in to find her shoulder "frozen." He had to physically "unfreeze" it -- twist it? Break it loose? All I know is she had horrible pain afterward, worse than ever.

But she did the PT religiously, even when it brought her to tears. The therapists told her they'd rarely seen anybody take it so seriously who wasn't an athlete. Her doc was amazed at her progress and speed of healing.

And now she's doing physical things she hasn't done in years, including looking into buying another bike.

All that is a long way around the block to say -- do your PT, be faithful, stick to it. You'll be glad you did. (My MIL refused to do PT for a torn rotator cuff because it "hurt too bad" and for the past twenty years she hasn't been able to lift her arm without pain. Sigh.)

I'm sure you already know this, though, and will stay on top of it!

[CorsairMac]

I don't know what size you are but I have a bike (or 2) you can borrow once you're up and riding again until you either get yours fixed or get a new one. Just PM me.

[Geonz]

Ouch, ouch... take care of that shoulder. ROtator cuffs ... you'd think "it's my arm, it's my legs I need for biking" but yea, communicate well with the docs and PTs aand don't assume it'll just get better.
Yea, you can't help but wonder "should I have been further out in the lane," "should I have been closer to the side?" Do you have a mirror?

[WrensMom]

So we are all Heights Rats here (you, me, and CorsairMac) I am over by Comanche and Louisiana. It would be fun to meet up with you guys sometime, either for a ride or just coffee (while you are on the mend!)

[Cassandra_Cain]

Update...of sorts anyway...

Managed to drive myself to the LBS. I already knew the front wheel was destroyed but sadly, my frame is toast as well. RIP lovely bike that was new just 3 weeks ago

Now I'm waiting on the police report to be filed, which it hasn't despite 3 days having passed. I'm sure if I don't contact the driver's insurance company, that they'll do nothing on their own - (unless the driver was a rare breed who actually called and reported it herself - I'm not counting on that).

I wiggled myself into the saddle of a few nice bikes they had there, all women's models....a Lemon Alpe D'Huez, a Trek 1600 (2007), Trek 5000. One of these is probably going to be the next bike I get, once this whole insurance thing gets settled. Who knows how long that will take.

[maillotpois]

Scary scary story!! I am glad it sounds like you are basically going to be okay. I hate when they turn right in front of you!! And even worse, when they speed up to pass you and then turn right in front of you!! Grr.

I hope that the driver's insurance takes care of you. Do not sign any release without talking to an attorney or being sure that your medical issues are fully resolved.

Good luck!