Thanks guys.
Thanks all. I'm just awake & about to have a restorative cup of tea.
The coming together of bikes was unintentional: the joys of being part of
the peloton. :-/ A guy alongside Nathan locked handlebars with him and
Nathan was off. In his youthful attempt not to bring anyone else down,
Nathan apparently barrel-rolled *away* from the group over to the side away
from the rest of the bunch according to someone who was there.
B*gg*r. Thing is, he was doing very well, in the top quarter of the bunch.
Such is the way of things.
The St John's people attended immediately and, according to the A&E staff at
the horsespittal, made a very good job of cleaning up the wounds and also
according to the A&E nurse doing the dressing of bloody bits, she now
understands why cyclists shave their legs as it made it really easy for her
to spot any *really tiny* bits of dirt to ensure the wound could be
thoroughly cleaned to her even higher standard.
It was a huge relief to find that the orthopedic guy who saw Nathan last
night was a fellow cyclist. he even raced the same series of races, last
season, as Nathan was trying out last night. As the morphine kicked in to
Nathan, natters were had about bikes and fettling.
Today we'll find out just what is required as regards surgery on Nathan's
shoulder and we will hopefully find out what is going on with his right hip.
He got a haemotoma (sp?) the size of a melon come up and his hip was causing
him more pain than his broken shoulder. There were mutterings about
hip/pelvis/fracture in the same sentence without the mention of shoulder,
and we could not get it confirmed last night if his hip is or isn't broken -
we'll be pressing to find out more about that today.
The rest of him all down his right side is covered in road rash large &
small. Brand new Northwave skeleton jersey totalled, new DeMarchi shorts
totalled, Bell 'CSC' lid totalled, glvoes totalled. Brake lever/saddle on
bike in need of replacing. When Nathan gets home, we are having a ceremonial
burning of kit in the garden!
In A&E, Vernon & I had gone without food for 12 hrs. Vernon suddenly became
light-headed & green at the edges, so was put on oxygen and laid on a trolly
(next to Nathan - I had husband & son flaked out on trolleys in front of me)
to stop him fainting. Duly a cup of hot sweet tea & couple of biscuits each
was rapidly provided for Vernon & I which was very welcome and did the trick
to get Vernon back on his feet. I was gald of that, as I really didn't want
both husband & son admitted to hospital - it's bad enough with just the son
admitted!
Nathan may be operated on anytime between today (after the CAT scan) and
Monday. So he's in horse spittal for a few days anyhow.
Cheers, helen s