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Monday, August 09, 2004

My bike and me
Ah, friends, it's me, healing and with my poor cut spleen still in my body. As splenic injuries go, mine was a fairly minor one, a "2" on a scale of 1 to 5. But still enough to land me in the hospital for 3 days.

I'm glad Weiss kept you all up to date, but I should correct a few items:

1. I was not hit by a car. My body hit a car, but our vehicles didn't collide (which matters for the car driver, who can't be charged for a hit and run accident.) I was on my way to work, gaining speed while coasting down a steep hill, and looked up to see a car with its left turn signal facing me in the intersection directly in my path. I clamped down both brakes instinctively, which sent me flying face first into the ground, then flipped me up to ram my shoulder into the car's fender. A kind woman helped me to the curb, and called the ambulance. I saw the driver before I blacked out, and he said, in my memory, "I thought you would swerve." At the time, I responded by bleeding some more onto the pavement. When I thought about it later, it struck me that "I thought you would swerve" is not a fair reason to get directly into the path of another vehicle that he admittedly saw. And it pisses me off that, even if I could have lessened the severity of the accident myself by biking more slowly, for his part of the responsibility he got to drive away, and I spent three days in the hospital.
2. I don't recall lying at all during the medical history. Even with my parents in the room. I answered "occasionally" to drinking, which was easier to respond than "about half of the nights in a week during the summer, and less during the school year."
3. To everyone who finds this a good time to let me know they already thought biking was silly and too dangerous, I say bah to that. I'll be back on a bike as soon as I'm medically allowed! Bikes are the superior way to travel!

All in all, I'm super super glad to be home, and many thanks to everyone who came to visit me, or thought of me, or lit a candle for me or any part of my body. And I'm glad Espree, my beautiful bike, made it through ok.

posted by celestial @ 5:08 PM

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