If you haven't heard, I ate it while biking through West Oakland yesterday, tried to avoid some train tracks, inadvertently steered into a pothole and somehow broke my femur. Went through surgery this morning, and I can already walk mostly fine though with a bit of pain. They're going to keep me for another night here, not sure if it'll last longer than that but we'll see. Modern medicine is amazing, there is no cast!
I've been in good company so far (Al is sleeping in one of those crappy hospital room chairs) and the hospital staff here has yet to fail. I'll most likely be here for another night. Some people have asked for visitor information, poke me if you'd like to visit (but honestly nothing special is happening).
Thanks for all the well wishes, but what I would appreciate far more is for folks to (properly) wear their helmets. There's a good chunk of my helmet that compressed and crumpled during the fall, I would have been seriously fucked if I wasn't wearing it. And don't give me that shit about not riding in traffic. There were no cars around when I hit the pothole from hell.
Photo by Sofauxboho, shared under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
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Good FSM, +1 to ALWAYS wearing helmets, people! Fuck arrogant vulnerability for fashion.
Todd Blair + SRL. Fuck “avoiding” situations you assume to be the bad ones; all Todd did was fall backwards (ok sure, after something fell atop him in the dark)- but that’s what caused the injury itself, just falling backwards. Nobody is smart enough to avoid ALL the dangerous stuff. If you’ve never had a Traumatic Brain Injury or watched a love one spend ~5 years of their life attempting to re-gain their old self, trust me: you never, ever want to do that. Tweed, hairdos, adornments, a nice breeze; none of it is worth it to pay that price.
Heal-up Rubin, serious suckage; tho glad to hear you were wearing a helmet & that the surgeons gotcha plated/rodded-up! Folic Acid will be your friend in the days ahead, that’s a $#%!$ of blood-loss in el femur!! Shit tho, that sounds so goddamn paiiiinful. I shattered my humerus snowboarding, and it was too messy for surgery to do anything w/o nerve damage: so, you’re very fortunate to not have to take the “natural” path of healing. Mega awesomesauce for asap mobility… !!!
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Hope you have a quick recovery. Sorry to hear about the accident.