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I fought hard to keep my mojo after breaking my elbow in a big crash last year. It seemed to take forever but eventually I felt confident again and was loving riding my bike. That lasted about two months and then this year I first had a big crash and got neurapraxia and tore the ligaments in my hand, then secondly got hit by a bus. My hand still isn't totally better (I don't know if it will ever be 100% again) and I freak out in traffic, particularly around buses. I still commute by bike and there are occasional moments where I think "this is great, whoooossssh" but more often I'm thinking "I'm going to die, I'm going to die in the world's slowest crash, this is shit, I am rubbish".
I'm going to stick at it. I've bounced back from worse. But I miss the old me.