Not me, but I wish it was. Yesterday my eldest (she's 26) was riding home from school (she just started an intense ASL Interpreter course at a local college) when her back wheel got caught in a streetcar track. She went down, landed awkwardly on her leg and fractured her tibia (shin bone) just below her patella (knee). It will require surgery (plates and screws and all that) and she's just kind of hanging around (as an inpatient) waiting for an operating room. Othopaedic surgeries are done mid-afternoon to about 11pm, but due to the non-life-threatening nature of her injury, she's not too high on the list it seems; hopefully in a day or two.
She's heard different stories as to the timeframe for convalescing, anywhere from 6 weeks to 3 months. Luckily she's young and in pretty good shape, so her prognosis is good. It could have been worse to be sure, and she's taking it like a trooper, but she's not too comfortable right now. I feel responsible, being a PDML member. Obviously the PDML Bike Curse is communicable (or perhaps genetic)... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
