Hit by a friggin' boulder

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by RudAwkning

This is where it happened. The most benign portion of the ride. The only paved, residential segment of RR Grade.

Yikes well, judging from you map, you most likely protected Sammy Hagar's former home from getting smashed.

[djdj]

Originally Posted by joosttx

Yikes well, judging from you map, you most likely protected Sammy Hagars former home from getting smashed.

Maybe where he sang "Rock Candy?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtDO3qBo72M

[jimcav]

I second the lottery ticket idea--use your various accident dates for your winning combo...

Glad you are on the mend. I'm impressed by your resiliency. When my dad was a kid, he quit playing hockey when a puck imbedded into the old wood side boards inches from his head. I thought that was a mature viewpoint for an 12 year old, but one I don't have.

As I read your story, I thought not of the timing to hit your leg, but of the luck that it wasn't your chest or head. Here is to hoping your luck, such that it apparently is, continues.

Wishing you a speedy recovery

[verticaldoug]

Rock fall can always be worse.

You are on the road to recovery, and you have some of the best tales to tell.

[RudAwkning]

Originally Posted by jtakeda

Really... and you have reach? The plan I signed up for only charges you if you demand to be taken to your home hospital vs the closest hospital

No. Did not have Reach at the time.

[RudAwkning]

Originally Posted by joosttx

Yikes well, judging from you map, you most likely protected Sammy Hagar's former home from getting smashed.

My friend's daughter went to school with his daughter.

lol. Red "Rock"er.

[redir]

Like the blues song goes:

If it weren't for bad luck
I'd have no luck at all


Dang dude heal up fast and get back on the bike but for the love of god take up something else like knitting next August

[RudAwkning]

Originally Posted by redir

Like the blues song goes:

If it weren't for bad luck
I'd have no luck at all


Dang dude heal up fast and get back on the bike but for the love of god take up something else like knitting next August

My bones are knitting. Does that count?

[junpgwu]

Speedy recovery man. This does not sound in literally any way shape or form. **** happens but jesus.

[Greatestalltime]

I’m happy you won the weight guessing contest. Great job!

[shinomaster]

Holy Cow dude, that's unreal, get well soon!!

[dougefresh]

Originally Posted by Plum Hill

I’m trying to figure out how they got the metal in there.
Reynold’s 531 or domestic titanium?
On the other hand, I don’t think I want to know how it got in there.

for me they opened my knee up, moved the patella over and drilled a hole in the top of the tibia. inserted the rod (stainless, not Ti) and secured it with 2 screws running perpendicular to the bone, one at my ankle and one just below the knee. never had a cast, just a soft boot.

it hurts like a mother when i occasionally whack the top screw against the top tube.

again, to OP, heal up and don't push it.

[Germany_chris]

Originally Posted by RudAwkning

So 1 month ago to the day I was hit by a boulder that came flying down the hillside. Smashed into my leg while I was riding and ended up with a severely fractured Tibia/Fibula combo. My calf was pretty much a jellysack. Fortunately I was not in a super remote area so there were plenty of good samaritans around to assist. I was eventually taken to Marin General by ambulence. Boulder hit me at around 12:30. Was in ER by 3:00. On the surgery table by 8:30. Spent 4 days there recovering and being monitored

My home healthcare nurses and PT were concerned about the level of swelling in the leg and 10 days after the incident I admitted myself to the ER. Had an Ultrasound. Doctors didn't like what they saw so got me in for a CT scan. They definitely didn't like what the saw there, and was in for emergency vascular surgery to repair a Pseudoaneurysm in an artery in the left leg the next day. If you look at the x-ray with all the hardware, you can actually see the platinum coils they shot into the artery via catheter to "plug the leak". Modern medicine is pretty amazing.

Yesterday my friends hosted a "Boulder Party". Mainly just an excuse to get together, but we ended up taking guesses and then weighing the thing. I came closest with a guess of 67 lbs. It ended up being 72.9 lbs.

So August 2 years ago I smashed my face into a guardrail during a 1200k and was taken by helicopter to Lacrosse Medical in Wisconsin. Last August, I endo'd and broke my jaw in 2 places and was taken from Bishop to Reno via fixed-wing life-flight. I was super careful this August, and came through unscathed. But apparently August wasn't happy with that so tagged in his partner September to get the job done!

The dog looks unimpressed with your story..

That's going to be a great "no chit there I was" story in a couple years

[barnabyjones]

Now you'll totally be riding "fixed."

[jpw]

Ouch. However, there's an enormous boulder (the size of several Volvo estate cars) lying on the high side of a trail half way up one side of the valley at Chamonix, France. It's huge, and it obviously came down from higher up and came to rest where it now sits. Bolted to it is a metal plaque with the name of a man ('Robert Simon', if I remember correctly) and a date (1956?) engraved on it. I've always assumed that he died when the boulder hit him. I also wonder if it did more than just hit him, and that his remains might be under the boulder. His final resting place? No CT scan required.