I broke my hip last Tuesday. It was a bright sunny morning asI was rounding a corner a block away from home with a car close behind. My mind was on completing the turn and totally disregarded the water running across the road from somebody's sprinkler. The wheels lost traction and I went down right on my hip. I didn't slide hardly at all, as I was expecting to do, so all the energy of my momentum was absorbed by bone when it hid the pavement. The right femur broke right below the hip. They put a pin inside the bone to hold the pieces together.
I get out today, Monday. No weight on the right leg for six weeks then another six weeks before I am good to go....riding!
If you have any words of advice, precaution or whatever, let me have 'em. I was riding too fast for the conditions. Needless to say, I am still marveling how a great 11 mile ride was transformed into three months' recuperation in the blink of an eye.
Rick