Discussion: That picture is a classic, ...

That picture is a classic, a still from the new cult movie 'The night of the living Eric'. Glad to see you with that big smile!

And YaYa's smile too...kind of a combination of an impish grin and bashful restraint. You two make a cute pair...

Good luck with the cure. Sometime we'd be interested in getting a diagnosis of the crash, if you can remember anything. You must have been coming down a really big hill, really fast, to do so much damage. Were you knocked out too? I'm guessing your front wheel hit something, perhaps while trying to make a tight turn, and you rotated over the handlebars, still clipped in.

The most benign looking crashes often cause the most damage and this was no exception. Tumbling and sliding scrape you up, but the energy is dissapated at a rate your body can handle. Internal injuries and concussions are typically the result of coming to a complete stop very quickly.

In this case, I was riding a slightly downhill section of trail at something like 20mph when I caught the left handlebar end on a branch. That had me going down to the right, but before I hit the ground, I hit a tree with my right shoulder and something like 0.05 seconds later was stationary. I'm sure my head hit the tree as well, but I was wearing a helmet, so no damage done there. Bike and lower body took nothing.