What Do You Say?

[LAB]

Gobles - I thing Susan is giving you some great advice. To just take it easy for awhile and consider a tandum (if anything) until your head is healed.

I am, however, appreciating your passion for bicycling. A golfing friend of mine is a commuter biker and within the last 5 weeks, had a serious bike accident when she went head over heals (with bike still attached) after a car pulled out in front of her. She was VERY VERY lucky to have escaped paralysis after fracturing 3 cervical spine vertebrae. The good news is that the vertebrae didn't move and she had an operation to fuse her spine with cadaver bone and some temporary screws and a plate put in to ensure stability until the cadaver bone fuses with her own. I saw her less than one week after the accident and her words to me were "I can't wait to get back on my bike!" Her family is encouraging her to give up biking all together, but there is no way she will give into their wishes because she is so passionate about biking. She loves it even more than golf! Can you imagine?

I wish you a speedy recovery!

[Chimiska]

Proprioception is a lovely word. It means that your body parts (arms and legs and things) give you feed back as to where they are and what they are up to. You know where your hand is without looking at it. When you wreck or have surgery, you lose that sense of where your parts are. It takes time to re-learn. Be sure and give it time. If you don't, you will wreck again all too soon because your sense of where your parts are will be off a smidgen.

Ask your PT for exercises to improve your proprioception. In the mean time, be a stoker, go to spin classes, etc.

It takes time to heal. More time than you will have the patience for I promise you!! And if you are 40 it will take more time than when you were 30, etc.

You will be back on your bike.

One of my favorite sayings is:Lord give me patience, and I want it NOW.

[IFjane]

Her family is encouraging her to give up biking all together, but there is no way she will give into their wishes because she is so passionate about biking. She loves it even more than golf! Can you imagine?

What's golf?

Gobles - hang in there and do what you love, but be safe and don't push yourself. I know what would happen to me if I HAD to give up cycling - I'd drop into deep depression and probably wind up weighing 500 lb!