Kelly
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We rode our dirtbikes for several hours on Sunday. I took 2 of Dean's friends and let them share time with me on my Honda CRF-230 and with Dean on his XR-100. And another one of his buddies was out there with his Dad and bike. We rode on the track and through some trails.
Well, I decided to go off to the trails by myself towards the end of the day. DUMB! I don't let them do it, so why did I? I wrecked....BAD! I'm not sure what happened, but I got 'a little out of the groove' and into some deep sand. I hit my right knee dead on and flipped up and landed directly on the top of my right shoulder. Your immediate reaction is to get up and off the trail. That's when I dropped to my butt! Anytime I moved anything....my right shoulder would be in excrutiating pain. I couldn't even pick the bike up with my left arm.....it hurt the other side too badly. So, I waited.....
It seemed like I was back there forever when one of Dean's buddies came by on his bike. He helped me get my bike up and I tried to get on it. Nope! Not gonna happen. I managed to get on Dean's bike (it's alot smaller), but I could hardly kick start it or throttle it out of there. I made it back to the car somehow. There was only one other kid there. Everybody else was either riding or watching the riding on the track. So, the 2 asked me if I was OK. I uttered 'yep....go have fun' and they took off on both bikes. I went to sit on the trailer and my legs dropped out from under me. I was shaking.....I've never had pain like that.
So, they mosey over about 20 minutes later and I said I'm gonna need some help trailering the bikes. The one kid's Dad could tell how much pain I was in. I don't even know how I managed to drive home.
We got home and they got the trailer off my car and in the garage. I had decided it was time to tell them to take me to the ER. I got in my car to move it and out of habit went to grab the gear shift with my right arm. I heard a bunch of popping and crackling. WOW! It scared me, but all of a sudden.....I wasn't in as much pain. I could actually move the rest of my body without disturbing the right shoulder. THEN I focused on the knee.....holy crap! It was extremely swollen.
<SIGH> So, I laid in bed watching the finals and trying to decide if I was gonna make it. I had ice in 2 spots....and feeling like I got hit by a bus.
Long story short.....too late, huh? Went to my General Practitioner yesterday and got x-rays. Took them to the Ortho Doc today and he thinks I have a Grade I separation of my AC joint in my shoulder. The ligment is stretched or slightly torn where the collar bone meets the shoulder blade. According to what I told him, he thinks at one point it was partially dislocated and that I got it back in place. He wasn't worried about my knee based on the physical exam. So.......no MRI for now unless I don't get any better in a week or so.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to limit your movement in your right shoulder when you are right handed? I do!
So........I think I'm gonna take a break from the dirtbike for a bit. It takes too damn long to heal nowadays! All in all it could have been alot worse!
Well, I decided to go off to the trails by myself towards the end of the day. DUMB! I don't let them do it, so why did I? I wrecked....BAD! I'm not sure what happened, but I got 'a little out of the groove' and into some deep sand. I hit my right knee dead on and flipped up and landed directly on the top of my right shoulder. Your immediate reaction is to get up and off the trail. That's when I dropped to my butt! Anytime I moved anything....my right shoulder would be in excrutiating pain. I couldn't even pick the bike up with my left arm.....it hurt the other side too badly. So, I waited.....
It seemed like I was back there forever when one of Dean's buddies came by on his bike. He helped me get my bike up and I tried to get on it. Nope! Not gonna happen. I managed to get on Dean's bike (it's alot smaller), but I could hardly kick start it or throttle it out of there. I made it back to the car somehow. There was only one other kid there. Everybody else was either riding or watching the riding on the track. So, the 2 asked me if I was OK. I uttered 'yep....go have fun' and they took off on both bikes. I went to sit on the trailer and my legs dropped out from under me. I was shaking.....I've never had pain like that.
So, they mosey over about 20 minutes later and I said I'm gonna need some help trailering the bikes. The one kid's Dad could tell how much pain I was in. I don't even know how I managed to drive home.
We got home and they got the trailer off my car and in the garage. I had decided it was time to tell them to take me to the ER. I got in my car to move it and out of habit went to grab the gear shift with my right arm. I heard a bunch of popping and crackling. WOW! It scared me, but all of a sudden.....I wasn't in as much pain. I could actually move the rest of my body without disturbing the right shoulder. THEN I focused on the knee.....holy crap! It was extremely swollen.
<SIGH> So, I laid in bed watching the finals and trying to decide if I was gonna make it. I had ice in 2 spots....and feeling like I got hit by a bus.
Long story short.....too late, huh? Went to my General Practitioner yesterday and got x-rays. Took them to the Ortho Doc today and he thinks I have a Grade I separation of my AC joint in my shoulder. The ligment is stretched or slightly torn where the collar bone meets the shoulder blade. According to what I told him, he thinks at one point it was partially dislocated and that I got it back in place. He wasn't worried about my knee based on the physical exam. So.......no MRI for now unless I don't get any better in a week or so.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to limit your movement in your right shoulder when you are right handed? I do!
So........I think I'm gonna take a break from the dirtbike for a bit. It takes too damn long to heal nowadays! All in all it could have been alot worse!
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