numbnuts
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Diggs
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Thanks all for your kind words. Got a few hours of sleep in last night. Felt a bit queezy as Mrs D changed the dressing on the shoulder. First time I'd seen it, looks a bit messy so I'll spare you the gory details but at least I have a little movement in it today.
@Specialeyes , It was coming out of Stock on the NCN13. White's Hill/ Furze Lane, usually the quieter part of my rides. Are you quite close by then?
@Specialeyes , It was coming out of Stock on the NCN13. White's Hill/ Furze Lane, usually the quieter part of my rides. Are you quite close by then?
Specialeyes
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@Diggs I commute from Leigh to Laindon taking the straight (A127) route in the mornings and a nice loop round through Billericay, Stock, Downham and the Hanningfields in the evenings. Sunday morning rides usually loop out through Billericay somewhere along the way too: you have nicer lanes around there and my bike has a homing instinct to Yellow Jersey in the High Street! Get well soon 
Mrs M
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Wishing you a speedy recovery and hope you're back on the bike soon.
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Diggs
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Initial inspection today and I've adjusted the stem and straightened the brifters. The front still spins true (need to check what caused flat but the rim on the rear wheel has taken a bit of a bang. Fortunately I had the stock wheels on, so I feel an upgrade may be in order.
Accy cyclist
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Have you seen that pic of his helmet you anti helmet hoodlums?!
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Diggs
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Now now, no more of that helmet talk. Each to their own please.Have you seen that pic of his helmet you anti helmet hoodlums?!
Today I am looking quite coordinated - well at least the purple on my shoulder is matching that on my head/face
raleighnut
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I once broke a collarbone and 5 ribs (plus grazing/bruising my face) it looked like I was wearing a tye-dye t-shirt. 
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Diggs
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OWW! Only hurt when you breathed?I once broke a collarbone and 5 ribs (plus grazing/bruising my face) it looked like I was wearing a tye-dye t-shirt.
Hospital just called me back in, there is an issue with my shoulder that they have spotted on the X-ray. They think it's either an old injury or I have the highest pain tolerance they've ever seen.
Orthapedic apointment made
Easytigers
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Diggs...only just caught this thread but I wish you a speedy recovery and hope that the issue they have found can be sorted quickly and that you're back on the bike ASAP! Well done for not getting involved in the helmet debate...we're all adults and make our own decisions :-)
Pumpkin the robot
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Leodis
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Ouch, get well soon. I've had too promise the wife i will stop cycle commuting after this weeks off.
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Diggs
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Ouch Update:On return from the Diggs postponed summer hols break. Another visit to hospital, shoulder was definately separated but I have a degree of movement (and they certainly wouldn't operate with the cuts and grazes at the moment anyway), so I've been referred to shoulder specialist and for physio. Hopefully if I can live with the asymmentry of my shoulders, I may not need to go under the knife (even reading the Cav op details in Rouleur was making me feel sick on the plane last week 
) . At least I had an excuse not to pay a fortune to be dragged up and down the coast behind a speedboat with the Diglets all week.
) . At least I had an excuse not to pay a fortune to be dragged up and down the coast behind a speedboat with the Diglets all week.
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Diggs
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Reverting to my original thread, rather than continuing to hijack @Sods_Laur 's post.
Another chat with a different consultant today, the shoulder expert. As there are still some deep cuts healing, they won't consider operating yet.
Still no real issues with mobility, and the suggestion is that it will be sufficiently strong even if left as is so he wants to give it another month to see how it goes (and for the cuts to heal) so I'm just continuing with physio for the time being.
It's a good one though, and you can just about see the calcification where I dislocated the shoulder 20 odd years ago..
Another chat with a different consultant today, the shoulder expert. As there are still some deep cuts healing, they won't consider operating yet.
Still no real issues with mobility, and the suggestion is that it will be sufficiently strong even if left as is so he wants to give it another month to see how it goes (and for the cuts to heal) so I'm just continuing with physio for the time being.
It's a good one though, and you can just about see the calcification where I dislocated the shoulder 20 odd years ago..
raleighnut
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That's almost an identical break to the one I've had for 6-7 years now. My consultant said it was too close to the end to repair but only because I would continue to cycle and falling on it again (If plated/screwed) would leave me in a mess.
The only thing I struggle with is lifting things above head height with my left arm and it does grate a bit if I stretch, yours may be more of a problem though as its the right arm (or it looks like the right from that X-ray) other than that I'm now reasonably pain free unless I do something silly with my arm or overdo things (wallpapering is painful, that's my new excuse for taking a week to do a room.
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