Ouch, sounds like pretty bad luck to land the way she did. We have a token tourist tram here which runs in a loop within the central city. Those tracks cause quite a few cycle accidents (they have warning signs up in a couple of places).
I was lucky to avoid surgery when I broke my collarbone. The ends had quite a bit of separation and the doc was concerned about how much the bone was poking the skin. There's still a pretty good lump there and it feels very weird (and still causes problems with my camera bag strap). I hope she heals quickly without any complications. - Dave On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:18 AM, frank theriault wrote: > 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. -- 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.
