Tuesday my bike group was going for a journey East of Gilroy up within the hills. We might begin at Mendoza ranch car parking zone, so I carpooled up there with our journey chief, my good friend Kris.
We headed as much as the beginning, and took off up Gilroy Scorching Springs highway, a gorgeous mountain journey.
On the best way again, I began to show onto Canada highway off of Gilroy Scorching Springs highway. That’s the very last thing I bear in mind till waking up with somebody asking me questions. Apparently I had slipped on some gravel on the junction and went down, hitting my head, and was out for five minutes.
This was out entrance of the CalFire station, so my buddies didn’t even should name for assist, the firefighters got here operating out. The CalFire paramedics verified I used to be coherent, obtained my wounds stabilized, then obtained me on the backboard and fitted with a cervical collar. They shifted me to the ambulance gurney. My buddies waited with me whereas this was occurring. Subsequent I used to be transported to San Jose Regional Medical heart, the closest trauma heart.
At Regional they took a Cat scan and it got here again regular, so no severe head trauma. I had a extra extreme laceration on my face which obtained super-glued, all the things else was minor owwies that I’ve to maintain clear. That knee bandage on my proper leg was simply masking a bunch of miscellaneous minor scrapes. So I obtained to go residence, with directions to keep away from bicycling (or some other contact sports activities) for a number of days, and observe up with my major care doc. This might have been quite a bit worse, I’ve scrapes on my fingers so apparently caught them out to brace myself as I used to be falling. That would have simply resulted in a collarbone break. And my abrasions had been minor in comparison with severe highway rash.
Classes:
- Select rides rigorously
- Sirrus (skinny drained highway bike) is for easy highway rides solely
- use solely vado (bike with fatter tires) if something however a easy floor (after all, this can not at all times be predicted, we thought yesterday was going to be on easy highway floor, however the county is busy repaving these roads).
- cut back quantity of motorcycle driving, crash hazard is proportional to time on highway.
After all, crashes can nonetheless occur, nevertheless it’s good to take measures to attenuate the hazard. At the moment I’m on the mend. The principle symptom is a minor headache and a few abrasions. All’s effectively that ends effectively!
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