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Dressing up in cling film :)
Been to a few special night clubs where that was the dress code :)Try not to over do things, moving around to not seize up is good, but be carefull you don't keep pulling the wound open while it's trying to scab up.
Alcohol thins the blood and might slightly effect clotting............... a stiff cognac shouldn't matter, but several might, so does Asprin.
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Cling film works.
Was less like a skirt, more like very cheap and ugly sausage. But it worked so what do I care.
The whole healing thing feels great. It's just a shame I can't tap into it, use it. It'll fade soon enough, once the body is over the worse.
Hmm... I may have pulled some scabs, that knee is weeping again. Oh well, I'll go shopping for my wife's pressie :)
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Over in 'The Gallery' on 'Yet Another Cycling Forum', there's a 'Cycling Injuries - the gorier the better' thread, where posters can display their wounds, with or without spoiler tags, for the squeamish.
Mend well V!
Sounds like you're progressing well.
So well that I wouldn't be surprised if you felt terrible on Monday or thereabouts. Sorry, sometimes these things thump you after a few days...
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I need to tone down the whole "this is interesting" thing. That freaked the ambulance and A&E people out.
Conversely, I accompanied a friend to A&E when we were 19, she'd cut her arm quite badly - long cut along the inside forearm down to the bone. The doctor treating her was very obviously interested (clean cut, amazingly didn't slice anything important), so much so that he called in a bunch of students and demonstrated in a kind of "and look what happens to the hand if I prod this bit here... and see this tendon here" way, before getting down to the treatment and closing up. She was pretty stoic about it really.
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I think it's pretty natural to be interested in stuff, especially if you aren't fearing imminent death.
The thing I remember most about heart surgery was just how interesting it was being able to feel something going on in there. I regretted getting more drugs cos I passed out or at least didn't remember the end of it. But it was a bit too ouchy.
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What?
It was keyhole, no general anaesthetic. Not sure keyhole is right - they went in via big blood vessel in the groin, so that's the only external wound. But you can feel this weird sensation when the stuff is happening (burning things that are misbehaving), something you can't normally feel. Those old bus posters that said if you feel like there's a tight belt around your chest you're probably having a heart attack, they made a lot of sense. -
Just seen this. Heal fast @Velocio.
My brother was targeted by a hit and run back in January. He is certain it was because a) he is a cyclist, and b) of the floro colours he was wearing and the number of lights on his bike. Stupid really, you do this sort of thing for safety, then people do it to "give us a lesson".
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the floro colours he was wearing and the number of lights on his bike. Stupid really, you do this sort of thing for safety
A general point about getting seen. Conspicuity with more lights and flouro is not the answer, but commonly construed as such by 'cyclists'. And used as a stick to beat cyclists with by drivers who think the rider isn't making enough effort with such artifacts.
It's perspicuity that is key. Achieved by road position and communication...
...cycle training anyone?
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So sorry to see this thread - sending healing thoughts, and also I hope they catch the cunt thoughts
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I think the act of being in a car is quite disassociating so that drivers don't really understand the implications of their actions, and combined with the very particular mentality of London/British 'my car is my castle' drivers it creates a really fucked up situation where they feel entitled to bully and abuse people they perceive as a nuisance. I remember waiting at a junction on my bike and a driver behind me literally pushing me into the road by edging forward against my back wheel-it wasn't until I turned round and stared into his eyes that he seemed to come round from whatever violent reverie he was in and he looked immediately embarrassed (and possibly fearful as I was about to get off my bike and drag him out the car/beat him to death with my D-lock) . I genuinely think he just didn't see me as a real person but just another object to get around like a parking bollard.
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All of which is entirely negated by drivers just not bothering to look
Perhaps, though riding in a central position, away from the parked car, effectively in front of the drivers field of vision would minimise the not being seen factor, coupled with the riders constant awareness of what is happening behind
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I turned round and stared into his eyes that he seemed to come round from whatever violent reverie he was in
Indeed the look back does really change how drive interact with riders. Riders often don't look back enough. These are simples changes in behaviour that reduce risk without loads of additional protective kit....
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The last two times I've been knocked off (in the last year) were both drivers driving into me from behind, through give way lines, when I was in the middle of the road.
Like I say I'm not arguing that primary and cycle training doesn't help in most situations, just that for a small sample of incidents, there is nothing (reasonable) you can do
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This was in London of course.
I cycled 1500km through Italy and France in 2013 and had maybe one incident of a driver willfully being a total dick, came back to London and in one 50km ride had perhaps 6/7 drivers deliberately cutting me up/overtaking on blind corners/honking aggressively on hills/overtaking 50 yards from the lights and blocking any filter lane deliberately. People in this country hate cyclists like they hate immigrants and feel just as justified denigrating them-you only need to look at the legal response to fatal accidents to see that it's socially acceptable and culturally sanctioned and the result is either accepting that and trying to avoid it as best you can, or having to strap yourself up like a fucking mobile CCTV station. And this is from experience riding in London's famous London to the rural island of Skye where I was riding with a friend towing his 2 year old child on a deserted road and had a twat in a chelsea tractor pass us with millimetres to spare just to prove a point.
It's one of the reasons I really have no interest in living here longer than I need to.
Anyway, TLDR, Parklife! etc. What's the point of fixating upon the unfixable. People are cunts.
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Yes, but there's also weird cultures that are tolerated within sub-groups of drivers, i.e bus drivers/Addison Lee cabbies.
In Glasgow, busses are privatised and the drivers are universally antisocial, aggressive cunts to cyclists. In Edinburgh the busses are publicly owned, and drivers are far more friendly, tolerant and accepting of other road users and the civility is returned. I think that's far more about how they are valued and treated as professionals within their own companies and communities. I think there was a study on heavy goods drivers accident rates and contract types that also supported the idea that better working conditions equated to safer drivers.
I was working with a Dutch guy a few weeks ago and we were talking about how good Holland is for cycling (of course) and he said "we're not any better than anyone else, but everyone grows up riding a bike so we know what it's like being on the road around cars" and I think that's the most simple reason for British drivers being absolute cunts (alongside entrenched self entitlement and selfishness driven by Neo Liberal Economics and hereditary privilege of course...)
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2016-12-08 - Rider Down, Stamford Street SE1 9NH 20:14, Velocio
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Spinach (lots), broccoli, mushrooms, rice, steak, pasta, cheeses, fish, beans, glasses of milk. Just lots of stuff. Anything where I think there's protein, iron, calcium, oils.
I had a kind of risotto for breakfast yesterday, a weird dish of mushrooms, rice and olive oil, salted.
I don't care for flavour (which is good as my combinations sometimes are odd), this is just a "give the body whatever it may need and give it abundance in those things" kinda thing.