Quote Originally Posted by channlluv View Post
Um...is your bike okay? Were you on the Synapse?

How is your wrist and how are the stitches today? Where did you get them? I had to have stitches in my nose from a skin cancer removal and it was horrifying, but five years out, I can hardly see the scar anymore. Maybe yours will be a good war story if nothing else.

I wonder why that person would stop short in front of you. You're not in one of those areas where the shock jocks encourage morons to abuse cyclists, are you?

Roxy
Thanks for asking.

I visited my bike at the shop today. With the Christmas rush, they hadn't had a chance to really check the frame and fork out, but I'm sure it's fine. It looks fine, just the handlebars are tweaked out of position in the stem a little bit. I don't think it really hit the ground at all. Neither did my brand new helmet, which was a big surprise to me. The noise of something scraping against the ground, which at the time I thought was my helmet, was apparently just my $8 sunglasses. Even my gloves are undamaged. I managed to save everything with my face.

Two stitches in my upper lip, three in the chin. The doctor said he didn't expect a scar on my lip - which was a fairly clean split - but my chin probably will scar because there was some skin missing. That was probably your situation. Mine's on the bottom of my chin and shouldn't be very noticeable once it heals. The roadrash on my chin might leave a more noticeable scar...

Hand and wrist are pretty sore, but they'll heal sooner than later. Same with my chest/upper abdomen, which is much sorer than I thought now that I'm up walking around. It was fine for lying on the couch all day yesterday but what I didn't think about is that that's where all the abdominal muscles attach to the sternum, so the more shopping I did, the more it hurt. Not awful, just enough.

I doubt the driver did it intentionally - just not paying attention. Anyway I'm well aware of how much worse it could've been, and it's all good.