Crash

[Fazer99]

Hey Fazer99,
That was good going riding again in 6 weeks must of hurt like hell.
I, being a silly old sod fell of a plastic garden chair while standing on it reaching over to do up the hinge side fixings on my Mrs Top Box on her car, reaching over standing on tip toes chair flew backwards and I fell down, just at the point that the chair settled laying flat on the ground I went down 13 stones of pure flab and landed on my ribs on the edge of the seat part of the chair.
I thought to start with that one of my ribs had punctured a lung, I just could not catch my breath, but, struggled to my feet and flew around the side of the house hoping that nobody had seen me go down.  :lol


Sleeping was really difficult to find a place the lay and be comfortable, it took about 12 weeks before i could lay on my right hand side again (My natural sleeping position) so how the heck you managed to ride after only 6 weeks I don't know. The main thing apart from the pain obviously that I remember was my dread fear of coughing or sneezing for that first 10 or 12 weeks. I only did 2 ribs in, but suffered a lot of bruising on my right lung.
so well done for being back on the bike in 6 weeks only and that with 3 broken  :'(

the shocking thing is that, when it happened and I was able to breath clearer I was able to pick the bike up. I think that my nerver system just switched off and I just felt no pain as my focus was just to clear the obstruction from the road but once I stopped and rested against the fence at the side of the road all the pain kicked in  :eek . I had to sleep sat up for about 2 months before I could even try laying down. It was actually more comfortable to ride the bike than it was to keep climing in and out of our tiny little car. Like you I dreaded having to cough or sneeze and it didn't help that my wife and daughter decided to try and cheer me up one day and put me in a fit of laughter, holy shit! that was painful but I couldn't stop laughing :rollin :eek :rollin :eek