Keep us in your thoughts!
Hello my OH family. I have been gone for a few days.
As some, if not most of you know, my partner is an avid road biker. She is training for the Aids Lifecycle next year. On Saturday during a metric century ride, she was coming down a mountain at 30 miles an hour (to fast for a raod she didn't know!!) and a turn came to quickly. She misjudged the distance, feathered her brakes, but since the mountain had been wet at the top her brakes locked up and her bike skidded out from under her. She went 30 miles an hour head first into a guardrail (thank God for helmets. I would be posting funeral information if she hadn't been wearing one!). Thank God she is going to be ok. But she has 3 lacerations on her head (a total of 24 stitches between the 3) a broken collar bone and blood on the brain. The bleeding on her brain has stopped, thank God. We are home now, but I'm sure we will have a long and painful recovery ahead of us. The hospital released us without much information (she was air lifted to an out of network hospital. But thank God because it has the best trauma department in the state!) So we don't know how long of a recovery to expect. How to take care of her broken collar bone, or even when to expect the stiches to come out. We have a follow up appointment with her PCP on Friday and will know more then.
Keep her in your prayers, thoughts, however you send good Karma, please do so....
Thank you everyone!
Love,
Heather
As some, if not most of you know, my partner is an avid road biker. She is training for the Aids Lifecycle next year. On Saturday during a metric century ride, she was coming down a mountain at 30 miles an hour (to fast for a raod she didn't know!!) and a turn came to quickly. She misjudged the distance, feathered her brakes, but since the mountain had been wet at the top her brakes locked up and her bike skidded out from under her. She went 30 miles an hour head first into a guardrail (thank God for helmets. I would be posting funeral information if she hadn't been wearing one!). Thank God she is going to be ok. But she has 3 lacerations on her head (a total of 24 stitches between the 3) a broken collar bone and blood on the brain. The bleeding on her brain has stopped, thank God. We are home now, but I'm sure we will have a long and painful recovery ahead of us. The hospital released us without much information (she was air lifted to an out of network hospital. But thank God because it has the best trauma department in the state!) So we don't know how long of a recovery to expect. How to take care of her broken collar bone, or even when to expect the stiches to come out. We have a follow up appointment with her PCP on Friday and will know more then.
Keep her in your prayers, thoughts, however you send good Karma, please do so....
Thank you everyone!
Love,
Heather
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Geez Heather, "thank god for helmets" is right -- it's a wonder she didn't break her neck on impact! I am so happy that her injuries weren't worse, and I am sending my prayers and best wishes for her steady and complete recovery.
Please keep us posted, okay?
(Your heart must have dropped to your toes after getting that call!)
We saved the helmet which is disgusting, and we are going to do a show and tell with all my son's friends who skateboard and INSIST on not wearing a helmet. Other than my son who knows I will ground him for a month if I find him not wearing one.
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Thank God for helmets is right! Prayers from CT being said for you two. Good luck with the stress that I am sure you are under. Remember we are here if even for just venting purposes. 
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