Crashed on Tuesday - 6 broken ribs and scrapes

[Bazzer]

Take it easy and personally I'd try to manage your expectations re the TT.. IME hips, whether bruised or broken take ages to recover.

 

[steve50]

Good luck with the recovery, unfortunately we don't bounce back like we used to.

 

[jefmcg]

I've been referred for x-rays and possible surgery on Wednesday.

take everything into account. The NHS was ready to operate on my unhealed clavicle, that wasn't giving me any problems. Check the positive results from surgery, the expected side effects, the possible side effects, whether the surgery is urgent etc etc.

I was pretty well being lined up for a 2 hour operation, with a best case scenario of months of rehab and an endless list of possible side effects to relieve me of pain and discomfort that I wasn't suffering from. And the surgery could literally be done in 15 years as within the next four weeks.

(but if they are offering surgery to sort your hip out, sounds like you should take it)

 

[raleighnut]

take everything into account. The NHS was ready to operate on my unhealed clavicle, that wasn't giving me any problems. Check the positive results from surgery, the expected side effects, the possible side effects, whether the surgery is urgent etc etc.

I was pretty well being lined up for a 2 hour operation, with a best case scenario of months of rehab and an endless list of possible side effects to relieve me of pain and discomfort that I wasn't suffering from. And the surgery could literally be done in 15 years as within the next four weeks.

(but if they are offering surgery to sort your hip out, sounds like you should take it)

Another one here with an unhealed fracture in my left Clavicle but the consultant doesn't want to 'pin/plate' it as it is too close to the end and as he put it
"You're going to continue cycling"
"Yes" (me)
"If I plate it then next time you come off you'll be in trouble if you land on it, how many times have you broken it before"
"The left one, this will be the third time"
"Oh I thought it was the 4th time"
"No I broke my right one once"

 

[h1udd]

More importantly, how is your kid recovering ? .... Nothing is more damaging to s child than have there dad turn up somewhere then proceed to old man injur themselves by trying to play .... Cue, sprained hip on the dance floor, broken face trying to use the scooter, collar bone snap from a bouncy castle etc etc

P.s ... Only joking, nothing is cooler than a badass dad !

 

[DCLane]

It's been a while since I've updated this thread:

- In September last year they discovered that no scan had been done of my hip area
- Cue a scan which found some issues (tendons, fluid)
- I was then referred in November to a specialist (supposedly) who was useless [so I'm not sued they were called Health and Connect, but maybe the other way round] as they didn't do the service they promised the doctor and took weeks to process a response
- In February I was referred to a specialist, then the correct one, who I saw and asked for X-rays and a better scan
- The X-rays showed I'd also fractured my pelvis in the crash
- The enhanced MRI showed torn tendons and fluid
- In June I had a painkilling operation for the tendons
- Last weekend I had a major op to remove the fluid, scarify the tissue and hopefully stick it all back down. I'm just out from that, where they discovered I'd also split my IT band . Chapel Allerton Hospital in Leeds have been lovely throughout the process since February.

Recovery will be 3 months, back on the bike after 6-8 weeks when there might be an operation on the tendons.

 

[ColinJ]

In September last year they discovered that no scan had been done of my hip area
- Cue a scan which found some issues (tendons, fluid)
- I was then referred in November to a specialist (supposedly) who was useless [so I'm not sued they were called Health and Connect, but maybe the other way round] as they didn't do the service they promised the doctor and took weeks to process a response
- In February I was referred to a specialist, then the correct one, who I saw and asked for X-rays and a better scan
- The X-rays showed I'd also fractured my pelvis in the crash
- The enhanced MRI showed torn tendons and fluid
- In June I had a painkilling operation for the tendons
************
- Last weekend I had a major op to remove the fluid, scarify the tissue and hopefully stick it all back down. I'm just out from that, where they discovered I'd also split my IT band . Chapel Allerton Hospital in Leeds have been lovely throughout the process since February.

Recovery will be 3 months, back on the bike after 6-8 weeks when there might be an operation on the tendons.

************ But you thought you might as well squeeze a 1,400+ km LEL in here to kill time time while you were waiting ...?

 

[PK99]

It's been a while since I've updated this thread:

- In September last year they discovered that no scan had been done of my hip area
- Cue a scan which found some issues (tendons, fluid)
- I was then referred in November to a specialist (supposedly) who was useless [so I'm not sued they were called Health and Connect, but maybe the other way round] as they didn't do the service they promised the doctor and took weeks to process a response
- In February I was referred to a specialist, then the correct one, who I saw and asked for X-rays and a better scan
- The X-rays showed I'd also fractured my pelvis in the crash
- The enhanced MRI showed torn tendons and fluid
- In June I had a painkilling operation for the tendons
- Last weekend I had a major op to remove the fluid, scarify the tissue and hopefully stick it all back down. I'm just out from that, where they discovered I'd also split my IT band . Chapel Allerton Hospital in Leeds have been lovely throughout the process since February.

Recovery will be 3 months, back on the bike after 6-8 weeks when there might be an operation on the tendons.

As in "Lovely but incompetent"? Who was managing your case?

 

[DCLane]

As in "Lovely but incompetent"? Who was managing your case?

I was under my own GP until October and it was the original A&E admission who didn't scan the hip, then the GP and physio who didn't check. The referral to Chapel Allerton meant I didn't start with them until February but since then it's been good.

************ But you thought you might as well squeeze a 1,400+ km LEL in here to kill time time while you were waiting ...?

True. And that didn't include a 730km practice LEL 2 weeks beforehand

 

[PK99]

I was under my own GP until October and it was the original A&E admission who didn't scan the hip, then the GP and physio who didn't check. The referral to Chapel Allerton meant I didn't start with them until February but since then it's been good.

My observation, from two pretty awful A&E failings for my wife (Undiagnosed fractures and untreated open fracture) and outstanding A&E care for me (DVT) is that once consultants are involved (in my wife's case, both times) and in my case a well defined consultant specified computer based treatment algorithm, things go well, but there are gaping holes when trainee doctors are left to their own devices.