Re: Injured cyclist -- Nathan Simmons

wafflycat <w*a*ff?y?cat*@?btco*nn?ect.com> wrote:

Thanks guys.

Thanks all. I'm just awake & about to have a restorative cup of tea.

The coming together of bikes was unintentional: the joys of being part of
the peloton. :-/ A guy alongside Nathan locked handlebars with him and
Nathan was off. In his youthful attempt not to bring anyone else down,
Nathan apparently barrel-rolled *away* from the group over to the side away
from the rest of the bunch according to someone who was there.

B*gg*r. Thing is, he was doing very well, in the top quarter of the bunch.
Such is the way of things.

The St John's people attended immediately and, according to the A&E staff at
the horsespittal, made a very good job of cleaning up the wounds and also
according to the A&E nurse doing the dressing of bloody bits, she now
understands why cyclists shave their legs as it made it really easy for her
to spot any *really tiny* bits of dirt to ensure the wound could be
thoroughly cleaned to her even higher standard.

It was a huge relief to find that the orthopedic guy who saw Nathan last
night was a fellow cyclist. he even raced the same series of races, last
season, as Nathan was trying out last night. As the morphine kicked in to
Nathan, natters were had about bikes and fettling.

Today we'll find out just what is required as regards surgery on Nathan's
shoulder and we will hopefully find out what is going on with his right hip.

Once the nature of the injuries is known, you'll have some time to
look up recovery physiotherapy and so on, just in the unlikely case
one of those injuries is involved where how you behave during recovery
has a lot to do with how quickly and completely you recover full
mobility etc.. That's an aspect of recovery rather variably addressed
by the NHS, some places being very good indeed, and some places having
apparently forgotten to include it in the management tick boxes.

Sympathies and best wishes!

--
Chris Malcolm cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

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