Friday 7th August, 2015 - I was coming back from a quick morning spin on my folding bike, and just round the corner from my house ran over an 1.5" wood screw. The wood screw lodged itself in the back tyre at right angles, rotated round and hit the back of the mudguard. The mudguard compressed and shattered, and a section of the mudguard rotated around underneath the back tyre. Within a single rotation of the wheels I had a shiny piece of pvc mudguard lodged under my back tyre, at which point the frictionless nature of the contact with the road, coupled with the existing forward momentum and downward force of gravity of my 13 stone body, caused the bike to 'pop-out' completely from underneath me, resulting in a left hand superman dive into the tarmac. Due to the instantaneous nature of the above I did not have time to get my arm down and the entire force of impact was taken by my left shoulder.
The rest of Friday was a blur. I had passed out several times with pain, was taken to hospital in an ambulance, given morphine and xrayed... luckily the sharp fractured end did not quite pop out of my skin - just
A few days later a 2 hour op, 10cm plate and 12 screws - followed by 6 weeks in a sling, no driving or lifting... life on hold
Still doing the exercise to try and loosen up my shoulder - got about 30% of original movement so far...
