10-22-08, a day that will LIIIIIVE in my memory.

Locked up my front brake (couldn't feel the feedback from the gloves I was wearing in 34F), and dead-sailored off the bike onto head/R shoulder. Broke the c-bone in five places.

I got plated, closed up, and forbidden to ride for seven weeks. Seven weeks and one day, of taking ONE oxycodone a day for the pain, no sling (made the pain 5x worse), resting the arm on a couch pillow out away from my body -- seven weeks and one day, I was back on the bike. Sure, it ached. Didn't care.

But I took almost a year to get past a bit of 'unease' in hard right turns......