Last Saturday I was coming back home from the grocery store and fell down pretty bad.
It seems a contractor was setting a gas pipe installation that same morning on my building and left the work undone, unmarked, without any warning tape or orange cone around.
I rode back home, riding the same pavement I ride with confidence everyday, never thinking there would be a new curb right outside of my building’s lobby on the high transit pedestrian zone.
This was the curb (I got these pictures after the accident)
Here is my fall:
After the fall I couldn’t breath or stand up, I was laid on the ground for 5 minutes, trying to breath again and trying to find out what bones where broken, moving my wrists and my arms waiting for the pain to come.
Fortunately, I wasn’t at high speed, but the impact against the pavement was pretty hard, doctor said I have 5 broken ribs on my left back, fortunately not displaced, so surgery was not necesary.
Here the lady worried, eating her fingernails, waiting for the xrays results:
The pain is pretty bad when I breath, when I lay down, when I on a car, when I’m cough and the sneezes are the worst.
Taking Tramadol for the pain which makes me sleep like a rock but also makes me dizzy.
I’m glad I was wearing a full face helmet even for such short trip, as you can see the helmet hits the ground pretty bad. This is second time in my life a helmet saves my life, so I’m in love with them, the first one was a pretty bad motorcycle crash 10 years ago.
Guys use a full face helmet ALWAYS even for short trips