While I was away, life changing event..!

[Nicho]

As some of you may know, I've had a little internet downtime recently, happily I'm back again. Unfortunately I've had a really negative, eventful time whilst away. Let me fill you in..! So, I bought myself a new bike in February, a DRZ400sm. Lovely little toy, wanted one for years. Spoiler for DRZ400sm: Anyway, on the 11th June I was out on my bike, it was a lovely, red hot day, I was literally 30 seconds from home, I came round a slow bend doing approximately 20 - 25 mph behind thin traffic. The car in front braked to turn into a car park, I braked also. The bike slid from under me to the right, front wheel first and I went down to the left. I landed full force on my left elbow. Spoiler for Not for the squeamish: I thought I'd dislocated it. As I was so close to home, the ambulance medics allowed two young lads to push my bike home and for me to get changed as I was in full leathers, they would normally cut them off, nice of them to oblige I thought. So I get to hospital and now I can hardly walk either, it feels as though my leg is broken, just what I need, a dislocated elbow I can deal with, but a broken leg, please..! After x-raying various parts of my anatomy, I was pleased to hear my leg wasn't broken, the good news ended there. My elbow was shattered, no, the doctor said 'obliterated' and I would need surgery. I was scheduled for 2 hours of surgery, but I was in fact in surgery for 5 hours. My girlfriend was panicking, I was oblivious, thankfully. The result of all of this drama. Spoiler for After surgery: I have of course doubled my reality checks, but to no avail, lol, one can hope. I now face months of physio and the slim chance my body could reject the metal plates and pins, I dread to imagine where they go from there and no, I don't require any speculation people, my imagination has filled all the details in on that issue. And so, that's what I've been doing while I was away. I still don't know why the bike acted in such a way, but the question of diesel or oil on the road has come up. Time to visit my solicitor I think. Thanks for reading, Nicho..!

[SpaceCowboyDave]

Wow, even as bad as that looks, it could have been much worse, eh? Wish you a speedy recovery.

[JoannaB]

+1 on wishing you speedy recovery. You know they say that exercising the appropriate muscles during lucid dreams can help with recovery if you believe in it.

[ParadoxOwl]

Damn that was a pretty "eventful" time you had there, hope you recover well .

[tommo]

It slid out because you hit the front brake too hard. Hope it heals well.

[melanieb]

Dude! I really hope that works out and you regain full use of your arm! In the meantime...lots of time to dream, yeah?