Accident

[murielalex]

Very scary! I'm glad you're okay enough to heal from the bruises. Helmets are good. I know too many people (mostly the patients I work with that commute daily) that absolutely refuse to wear them. Heal fast!

[pll]

Grey,

Glad to hear you are OK. Bikes can be fixed and helmets replaced. I cannot imagine your husband's panic while you were unconscious. Allow your brain time to recover (don't risk another hit right now).

Team Estrogen has a couple of Giro helmets in high visibility yellow (see here). They look nice!

[hirakukibou]

That's scary. Take good care of yourself.

[goldfinch]

Team Estrogen has a couple of Giro helmets in high visibility yellow (see here). They look nice!

I have the Aeon in the high viz yellow. It is a very comfortable helmet, light weight and bright.
http://www.teamestrogen.com/prodGO_2030473.html

Take care of yourself!

[Eden]

Ouch - hope you feel better.

I can personally vouch for the Specialized Prevail helmet.... earlier this week I did some damage that sound a lot like yours to my helmet, but not to my head... I hit something on my commute - I'm not sure what, it was dark and my light didn't pick it up. It was on a street I'm quite familiar with - only about a block from my house, and I think it was either a small pothole or a small icy spot, but the affect was a rather long slide mostly on the top of my head... I crunched the back of the helmet pretty good. The whole left hand back side was shattered and the retention system was torn out on that side too, but I only had a bit of a headache for about 2 hours and certainly suffered no loss of consciousness. I've never cracked a helmet so dramatically.... I feel quite lucky to be undamaged - other than the headache I only got a tiny raspberry on my left elbow and a few scattered minor bruises. I'm sticking with that helmet. Until now I had some 2nd thoughts about the retention system - it's not as adjustable as all of my previous helmets and I wondered a bit about it, but I'm convinced it works now.

[spokewench]

Sorry about your accident - hope you heal quickly

[grey]

I think the worst at this point is the dizziness and mental fog! Trying to find out how long this goes on for but it seems it varies to the individual. I've spent the past 2 days trying to get my marketing plan put together and... I've not progressed very far.
I haven't heard of the retention system for a bike helmet before?

[radacrider]

Wowser! Do take things slow and maybe check back in with your doctor. I have to be careful, even to the point of how far the dentist tips me back. Too far and the inner ear goes whacko and I have to do exercises to reset it, otherwise it is major vertigo issues. Head hits are rough for sure.

[Eden]

I haven't heard of the retention system for a bike helmet before?

The plastic framework inside the helmet that generally has an adjustment at the back, plus the straps is what I mean by retention system.

[Bike Writer]

Oh my goodness Grey! Thank God you are OK, relatively speaking. Take care of yourself while you are healing, be kind to yourself, that's quite an accident you had.