Originally Posted by
gettingold
. . .I have a broken pelvis (3 places), bruised ribs and had some bleeding on the brain. It was my second crash in the last year (a car tuned in front of me last time while I was going downhill). . . .
All of my non-cycling friends and my family think I should give up cycling. My response? I am shopping for a fat bike so I can ride in the snow (when my pelvis heals in about 6 weeks).
By a remarkable coincidence, I had a crash in 2007 that resulted in three fractures of the pelvis. Everything else, like the broken collar bone was more or less incidental by comparison. For what it's worth, at six weeks after, I was still using a walker.
Another coincidence: I also have a few moments of missing memory, and with no head injury at all. There must be a name for this.