Posted: Thu Aug. 20, 2009 6:49 pm
I was riding up at Fox Park in Plymouth with a few friends (sidebar: which definitely a worthwhile place to wile away a couple hours if you're ever in that neck of the woods). I can make excuses, but basically I came to a spot where the trail went around a small bit of ledge and made a sharp turn down to the left (slightly steep, but nothing I'd really think about most days). Well, I came at it at a bad angle and decided to just go over the ledgy bit and turn hard. I should have thought "I'm coming at this at a really bad angle, maybe I'll just stop and try again" because as soon as my front wheel went over the edge I noticed that there were big rocks right in front of me and perhaps my turn needed to be sharper that I'd anticipated. I cut the wheel, my suspension compressed, and I went flying towards the aforementioned rocks. I avoided death (thank you helmet) but came up thinking "golly gee, my shoulder hurts." My buddy asked if it was dislocated, I said "it hurts." He poked at the bit that was sticking out funny and confirmed that it was. Fortunately he'd dislocated his multiple times and told me I could pop it back in if I used my other arm to pull the damaged one upwards while rotating it outwards (or something like that.) I figured that beat going to the hospital, so I gave it a shot... and let me tell you, once you get over the wanting to vomit sensation, the feeling microseconds after putting it back in is better than sex.
Anyway, now a week and a half later I'm biking again but somehow running just doesn't work out very well. If I'm not running by monday of next week I think I might see the doctor. How long do these things take to heal up?
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