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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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There are some major problems with feeling 15 at heart.
I cycle to the office. A couple of miles each way. It helps keep me fit. I have this impressive mountain bike with about 53 gears, almost none of which I use. I have all the safety gear. Helmet (which I wasn't wearing today coz it's cold and I needed a hat for my ears), loads of lights, reflective jackets for headlights, the lot. And most of the trip is on dedicated cycleways anyway.
If only it had been the road.
Today, on the way to work, on the cycleway, downhill on a wiggly bit, going slowish coz it was slippery (but hey, I have big knobbly tyres), the front wheel gathered up a pile of leaves, and I was off. Slam. Tarmac Approaching. I managed to get my arm between my head and the tarmac, so got a bang iinstead of a crack,, but have bruised my left thigh full length, screwed my left shoulder and am hoping not misaligned my neck.
OWWWWWWWWWW
Oh, and a grazed elbow, through a thick jacket and shirt! Wrecked trousers, hurt pride, and damaged vocabulary
If I were 15 I'd be playing rugby this afternoon. I am the palindrome of that, so am in shock and suffering
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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oh gosh, timmy. i'm really glad you're okay, and that it wasn't any worse than it already was! bangs over cracks any day.
i know that i have no room to talk (yet!), but i can feel that i will be the same way, some day. i am still fourteen at heart, and i think i always will be (and pray this is the key to shi not hating me as most teens "hate" their parents until the alloted teen angst time is over). which is fine and heart-warming, and something most say is a good way to remain, but at the same time it can be more bitter, than sweet some days.
i hope your bruises and bangs feel a little better today, and in the days to come. *hugs*
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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Oh, yes...for sure..middle age has to be experienced in order to be understood...and you surely do understand it!
Last month when I injured my knee, it was due to a motorcycle taxi I was riding on at the time over-balancing when it hit a wet patch, and my leg caught underneath and my knee twisted.
As you say, if we were 30 years younger, it would have been a bruise compared for size with friends' other bruises. For us middle-agers, it takes some weeks. Plus for me, it took physio for a while plus a trip to the doctor to find out if I had any internal bleeding cuz I have been taking blood thinners for more than 2 years.
Bummer. Get some tender loving care for the ouchies, and don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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Well no concussion. Shock took ages to go.
End result: Lord I am sore! Head aches a bit, neck is stiff, lower back is stiff, both palms sore, sore elbow, wrenched left upper arm, bruised left shoulder, solidly bruised thigh. I spent most of the day in bed after a hot bath. At least I can lie on my right side.
I think tomorrow night I'll go swimming to relax it and loosen it up. Probably. Tonight I just want to be indoors in the warm.
Maybe I should go to bed with a good book. Or with someone who can read one.
When I got home (yup, I had to cycle back!) I couldn't get undressed or take my rucksack off or anything useful. Over the road lives a gorgeous 18 year old 6'5" blond hunk who weard tight sleeveless T-Shirts in the coldest weather. Muscled and just yummy. I was dead tempted to knock on his door and ask for a hand. Or more than a hand!
I have a one track mind.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Get well soon. At 53 I know how much longer it takes to get over physical injuries, but hang in there! Chin up! Hep! Hep! And all that rot!
Hugs, Charlie
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Alles wird gut... Everything will be okey,
as long as you do not have any serious injuries.
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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timmy
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Today is more sore. Ah well. I went swimming to try to ease things up though. and a nice hot spa pool massage. With the water, oh you gutter minded people
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Sounds like one part of you wasn't injured! 
