Non-work incident

I am omit­ting the ques­tions from this FAQ be­cause they are largely self-ex­plan­at­ory.

A: It’s a sling.
A: No, I don’t really want to talk about it.
A: <sigh>
A: A bike wreck.
A: Yes. Yes, an­oth­er one.
A: I know, I know.
A: Early this morn­ing, be­fore work.
A: Ra­cing.
A: Be­cause!
A: No, no cam­er­as in­volved this time.
A: Yes, I had both hands on the handle­bars. Why do you ask?
A: Well, it’s called “cross­ing wheels”… it hap­pens some­times dur­ing sprints.
A: He was drift­ing to the right, I was cut­ting to the left to jump around,
touched tires, my front wheel went hard right, and then WHAM!
A: I think I would’ve got­ten second place, and might have been able to just take the line.
A: About 34mph at time of im­pact.
A: Nope, just me, thank­fully.
A: Slid across the left lane… no cars com­ing, which was a big pos­it­ive.
A: Broken col­lar­bone. But only one frac­ture.
A: Yeah.
A: Yeah.
A: Yeah, same one. Left shoulder.
A: Yeah, ex­actly. The one that had the ti­tani­um plate I just re­moved.
A: <sigh>
A: Also some ma­jor road rash, but oth­er­wise ok.
A: Oh and I ripped the tips off most of my fin­gers, which makes typ­ing pretty ex­cit­ing.
A: Nope, no im­pact to the hel­met. My head’s ok. Well…as good as it ever was!
A: 6-8 weeks, de­pend­ing on sur­gery plans. I’ll know more on Monday.
A: No, not too much. Well, ex­cept when I move. And then it’s really bad.
A: You’re right, it doesn’t look good. Oh well. That’s why someone else is
in charge of risk as­sess­ment.
A: I wasn’t go­ing to tell any­one, ac­tu­ally… but it’s sort of ob­vi­ous.
And people get curi­ous.
A: Well, now that you ask - don’t tell Mark. I’ll nev­er hear the end of this.
A: Of course I’ll keep rid­ing. Oth­er than break­ing bones peri­od­ic­ally, it’s
been really good for me. And it’s a blast.