collarbone broken clean in two. one broken end of it (seemingly) pulled out of the shoulder joint. jagged edges of bone pushing against muscle and broken nerve endings. any left arm movement really hurts the left arm and shoulder muscle.
i can't swim, i can't run and i can't bike. i wish i could get back on my bike or at least go out and run a cheeky 4 or 6 mile run just to be out there doing something. i think i'm going to set my bike up on an indoor trainer and bike arms free to keep fit. this isn't the best start to my ironman training. somebody has offered to lend me her indoor trainer and could bring it around my place this saturday so i can start some training in a couple of days.
appointment with orthopaedic surgeon tomorrow morning to see how it should be realigned and whether or not it'll need surgery to pin it back together. managed to sleep for 9 hours last night without waking up once. that was probably the vicodin that i was prescribed.
i think I'm going to have to scratch the
there's the tiniest bit of anger left in me about the guy who pulled out in front of me on the bike trail without looking. i sort of wish i'd just let him know how much this was his fault and how much a broken collar bone has buggered up my life. when you rely on getting 4 or more hours of exercise a day, a broken collarbone pretty much buggers you every which way possible. i did the entire - "don't worry about it", "stuff happens", "it's alright, how are you?", "spilt milk", etc.. - after my initial reaction as i laid down after the crash and ask him "what the eff was that?" - about a minute afterwards he asked if i was alright and i told him "got a puncture on my front tire, couple of scratches, and think i've broken my left collarbone" so at least there's a chance he understands how much damage he did. and then he went off one way and me the other.
oh well. i'll bounce back from this like everything else. i wish i could be outside running or biking now. maybe i should practice my one armed press-ups or pull ups? yep, cause i have any upper body strength.
My body seems to be controlling the pain very well. I hope realigning it doesn’t take too much manipulation cause I don’t want to endure too much more of the acute pain I felt yesterday when it happened. About 15minutes after it happened, when the adrenaline had all but gone, it really was a bit of a bother.
