Bike riders, be careful out there

[ron_newman]

this afternoon at around 12:30 pm, I was riding my bike southbound across the temporary Lowell Street Bridge. I suddenly fell after taking the last little turn from the bridge onto the Lowell Street sidewalk, in front of the Visiting Nurses Association building. I guess I must have hit some ice but I'm really not sure.

I somehow managed to get myself up and ride home to Day Street, but I'm in a lot of pain right now, on my left side from my underarm around to my back. Probably bruised a bunch of ribs. [Edit: My doctor phoned me a couple days later to inform me that I didn't just bruise a couple of ribs, I cracked them.]

If you're riding your bike this week, be careful -- at least, more careful than I apparently was.

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Bummer. Hope you heal quickly and completely.

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Be really careful with yourself for a few days.

(and did I miss a post about what tags are being used? )

[ron_newman]

It's going to take a little longer that I hoped. The doctor called me back this morning and said that the radiologist found a couple of cracked ribs. I doubt I'll be getting back on that bike until at least March.