In the ER
The next day all stitched up
Life happened. July 11, 2017 I was involved in a 5 bike pile-up on the track that granted me a crushed T9 vertebrae. I remember laying there on my back yelling fuuuuuuuuuuck unable to catch my breath. I literally felt crushed, the weight of an elephant standing on my back. The road to recovery sucked. I stayed in bed for a month. During this time my girlfriend took excellent care of me. After 6 weeks I was stir crazy and started to make hour long field trips somewhere almost everyday. I slowly started getting back to normal life. Around this time I snuck back onto my bike and road up 5th Ave, I remember riding through the pain and not being able to breathe on that first ride. I went back to work because I love being there and my coworkers supported me heavily during this time. I was having a fiasco with my insurance to get approved to get a surgery that was highly recommended by my doctor. Finally on September 1, 2017 I had a vertebraplasti operation done by Dr. Kortman at Sharp Imaging near Mesa College. The operation took one afternoon, I went home that night with a new lump of glue in my back. The pressure I felt from the collapsed vertebrae was gone but I had a new pressure like I had a balloon in my back. For the following month my body was tight, I had medical remorse, the new pressure sucked. I was able to ride again but I felt that the bars were too long and low for me on my road bike now. I had an adjustment done my doctor and it felt like that was what needed to happen the whole time. I started doing Monday night training in the Velodrome again with Pam mid-September. Before the season was over I got back on and raced TNR October 23, 2017.
Flash forward to today, I feel pretty much normal! Although I do feel the barometer in my back when weather changes. I don't feel as limber and flexible as I was before, but I can happily ride for hours on end without my T9 hurting at all. Right now I feel like my fitness is skyrocketing!
Flash forward to today, I feel pretty much normal! Although I do feel the barometer in my back when weather changes. I don't feel as limber and flexible as I was before, but I can happily ride for hours on end without my T9 hurting at all. Right now I feel like my fitness is skyrocketing!
September 1, 2017 I am repaired
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