the older you get the less writhing you do. no point in it. i’ve been through this three times now, once on the bke about a decade ago, once getting thrown from a horse last year, and, this. (well, once skiing too). the only thing about broken ribs: it’s hard to get in and out of bed, you sort of want one of those hospital beds that rotate you into the forward position
Dan…sorry to hear about your digger. Are you going to have your clavicle fixed? If you’re interested, I have a paper from back when I broke mine that allows you to predict the likelihood of non-union at various time frames based on the severity of the break and your age. It was the piece of data that finally convinced my orthopedic surgeon to operate a month after the accident after I showed him that with an overlapped, multiple-piece break at my age would result in an extremely low likelihood of union on it’s own even out at 6 months. If you’d like to see that study paper, I’d be happy to forward it.
then, you want to avoid sneezing if you can.
My experience with broken ribs and sneezing is that you do it only once…after that, my brain actually “shut down” the sneeze response once it started…it’s a very odd experience
Dan, are you the rider that went down on the downslope coming out of the little “tunnel” on Olive? I was across the street looking up the hill and heard the crash, turned and saw someone and their bike rolling down the street. Quite a few people actually bunny hopped that manhole cover as the day went on. Hope you recover well and quickly.
