Originally Posted by
dahut
I'm glad youre alright. Im interested to hear what sort of accident you can have while riding all alone, that lays you up for a month in hospital. and at home with brain injury.
What did you do to yourself? More importantly, maybe the rest of us can learn from your mistake, if you share it with us.
I agree - things can happen to you. At any time. You can be struck by a car in the grocery star parking lot, for example.
But your incident puzzles me, in particular, because I've ridden for 40+ years, long before we heard of helmets, and have never been hurt while riding alone - unless I, myself, did something to get into trouble.
Well I wish I could tell you what happened. I have no memory of it other than what a witness told the police. From what was said I must have gone down on some leaves and my head hit the granite curbing breaking my helmet. The witness said I got back up brushed my self off got back on the bike and went right back down again and never got back up. The lady who's house that it happened in front of call the police and they had me transported to the hospital which in turn because I had a bleeder in the brain sent me right into a Boston hospital. I also fractured my right cheek bone right arm and broke my nose.
As far as what I did to make it all happen I have no idea. I will only say that I wish it on nobody. I never want to go through that again. But hey I still ride.
