Show us your biking scars!

[Xrayted]

Actually, I think margo wins hands down. Now that girl sounds tore up!

I love my sapphire blue polish. Indigo, sapphire, any dark blue just does it for me. We're not allowed to wear any polish on our fingers at the hospital due to bacteria so I overcompensate on the toes.
Tough? I'm actually quite a softy. My progress is solely due to those who were there for me, especially when I needed a good swift kick in the, um, shin. (the other one ) (And to the one who left me when this all happened... thank you very much. I couldn't have done it with you.)

KnottedYet - (sorry, still can't call ya KY, it makes me lose my train of thought ) This is gonna kill ya but... I went to physical therapy ONE time when going through this. I didn't like their attitude of "there's not much hope but the insurance is paying so try this". I got them to send me home with some big rubber bands, (sorry, I don't know the right term) some basic moves and a lot of my own determination, creativity and good sense. My orthopod agreed with my philosophy (LOVE YA Dr. Alfred Cooke! - aka pops) and trusted me not to do damage. In the end, he thought I had much better progress because I wasn't held back by that group of PT's. (only ones my insurance paid for then) 15 yrs later, I'm still looking for a PT that shares my thoughts on "alternatives". I don't think they exist in this conservative area, however.
I may have to move. Or at least, fly to Seattle every now and again so you can "play with my leg a little". **Ahem. I can pay in lentils.

To all of us who've lived through life's scars (of all kinds) and came out better than before. And thanks everybody for not going "Gasp, how horrible!" That always just knocks the life out of me.

-X.

[Xrayted]

DebW - one word

Ouch!!

Ok, I lied, here's some more... That is a very nasty clavicular fracture. I can only assume they went in and screwed a plate on there. Those are some of the most painful fx's to have too. There's just no way to completely immobilize them until healed. Now look who's tough!

[DebW]

DebW - one word

Ouch!!

Ok, I lied, here's some more... That is a very nasty clavicular fracture. I can only assume they went in and screwed a plate on there. Those are some of the most painful fx's to have too. There's just no way to completely immobilize them until healed. Now look who's tough!

Nope. No surgery. No plates. No screws. It's healed in that configuration, though the sharp edges have rounded themselves off. Actually, the doc told me that it would heal better because it was so smashed up - something about pulverized bone working like a graft. He actually said to me "The only reason you would want to have surgery on this is if you are a big-time backpacker." I let the collarbone heal as it was and modified my backpack (sock on right shoulder strap to hold some foam that evens out the offset in the bone). The collarbone healed up fine, my torn deltoid still bothers me, and recovering from frozen shoulder sucked big time. Recovery was 5-6 months with PT. Sounds small compared to what Xrayted went through.

[Kitsune06]

I may have to move. Or at least, fly to Seattle every now and again so you can "play with my leg a little". **Ahem. I can pay in lentils.
-X.

*covers her ears first, then her eyes* OH MG. giggity giggity legumes.

[Aggie_Ama]

I don't have any photos of my cycling scars. I did crack my tailbone mountain biking back in 2004, but no X-ray for that. My normal injury is to bruise my calf badly when I try to get going and hit it with my pedals.

[TerraNik]

I don't have any scars (yet) though my current injuries from my most recent accident might turn out to leave some scars... I have some lovely pictures of my wounds while still healing *mmmmmm*!

This was only 2 weeks ago when I was riding my brand new bike (!!) up in the mountains (mtn biking)... I don't remember the accident but basically I must have been going too fast and got caught in a water groove and overcorrected and just slammed myself into the ground. That's all I can imagine happened.

Anyway, I ended up with a concussion + mild head injury (don't remember the accident and had a couple of minutes of lossed consciousness). I also had a nice bruise around my eye where my sunglasses slammed into my head! I fractured my radial head (elbow) and cut up my legs (as you can see from the pics). The x-ray for my arm is pretty boring, so I won't bother putting that on.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

And thanks everybody for not going "Gasp, how horrible!" That always just knocks the life out of me.

-X.

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.

[Lenusik]

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.