I should just kill my bike, right?

ireman_1 said:

So, I've been away from here for a bit (doesn't seem as
though a lot has changed). Been a bit busy. Selling my old
house, buying my version of the "dream" house (decent
house and a bit of land to play with), working on new
house, playing uncle, trying to be a good husband and good
at my job. That's all fine, but I have to vent now and you
are the victims I choose, thanks for putting up with me.

I have been known to be hard on bikes and bits (including
my own bits). I've had a few broken thats or sprained this
over the years as have all of us.

Here's my complaint: I had my shoulder worked on last year
and had to sit out for a large part of the late season in
rehab. I did some "light" or safe trails as confidence
grew but nothing noteworthy or all that exciting frankly.
I rode pretty tentitively(?)when I was out on the trails.
Not a lot of fun, but good for the sanity none the less.
In the interest of making a "painful" story less painful
(to read!) I'll just say that I "get" to have my shoulder
"worked on" this Thursday, again. It will be my 4th
shoulder surgery (thanks to football for two of them) and
the first on my right shoulder. My AC joint is over 1 CM
out of wack, the coracoclavicular (sp?) ligament is shot,
there's some Cartilage work to be done and other "little"
things to clean up (doctor speak I suppose). Nice.

So there is another prime riding time shot. This sucks! My
vacation going back "home" (CO) is now going to suck, if
we go at all, my plans of where to put a jump(s) (although
I'm apparently horrible at it), trail building, etc on the
new property are on hold and now I'm sent to the bench to
"heal". Good times. At least, I guess, this time I didn't
crush a frame as well as my [censored]. Just a replaceable
derailuer hanger and the deraileur. I shall be back
(freakin' when?), but apparently not in my time frame.
Have fun and thanks for allowing me to [censored].

I feel your pain, almost literally! I'm in mid-rehab
following my first (and hopefully only) shoulder surgery in
mid February. The jury's still out to determine if it was
worth the pain, aggravation, and time spent as an invalid. I
don't feel any better now than I did before the surgery, but
I've still got weeks of PT to go. Not much I can tell you
that you probably haven't already heard. None the less, it's
good to hear some one tell you to hang on and that you'll be
back in no time. So....hang on, you'll be back in no time.
If you get too bummed out, remember -- the doc didn't give
you all those pills so you could feel *bad*. Just make sure
you follow all label directions and warning stickers.

Tom (future founder of alt.mountain-bike.orthopedic.support)

tcmedara said:

ireman_1 <[email hidden]> wrote:

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Quoted message said:

I feel your pain, almost literally! I'm in mid-rehab
following my first (and hopefully only) shoulder surgery
in mid February. The jury's still out to determine if it
was worth the pain, aggravation, and time spent as an
invalid. I don't feel any better now than I did before the
surgery, but I've still got weeks of PT to go. Not much I
can tell you that you probably haven't already heard. None
the less, it's good to hear some one tell you to hang on
and that you'll be back in no time. So....hang on, you'll
be back in no time. If you get too bummed out, remember --
the doc didn't give you all those pills so you could feel
*bad*. Just make sure you follow all label directions and
warning stickers.

Tom (future founder of alt.mountain-
bike.orthopedic.support)

Me too. I'm about three months ahead of Tom if I remember
correctly. It's pretty good now, so you have that to
(hopefully) look forward to. Last night's SS slog up the
ridge gave me a couple of tinges of pain when I'd loose a
little traction when climbing out of the saddle (that
spastic motion kind of hurts). But today it's fine again, so
I'm not too concerned.

Good luck, take your pills when you want to, but let up when
that feels right too.

Matt

Thanks for the thoughts. It may not be fun, but it will be something. I "guess" the bright side is I'll have plenty of time to figure out where/how I'll put trails on the property. Thanks again and keep the rubber side down, please.

K.

Come on get yourself together boy. I spent just about all of
last summer down with a snapped collarbone,3 places. I was
out of the saddle from July 12th till October 22nd. And the
year before with a messed up ankle from June till October
26. At 50 I get on up after healing and ride and have fun.
Life is what you make but please no more tears.

I MTB 2004

Quoted message said:

Come on get yourself together boy. I spent
just about all of last summer down with a
snapped collarbone,3 places. I was out of
the saddle from July 12th till October
22nd. And the year before with a messed up
ankle from June till October 26. At 50 I
get on up after healing and ride and have
fun. Life is what you make but please no
more tears.

I MTB 2004

Yeah, I know that you've had a hard go of it lately. Was
just joking with you. I'd like to think that I'll still be
riding hard out when I'm 50 ;-)
--
Westie (Replace 'invalid' with 'yahoo' when replying.)