Going Long and Hard.

Steve Vai said:
Not sure how many know already, but I put myself in the hospital last night commuting home. Front tire blew out on the last corner coming down Washington Rock.

Stopped traffic for about 20 minutes. The homeowners where I crashed came out and helped get out of the road.

I initially thought it wasn’t bad but when I couldn’t stand and my leg was clicking around I knew we had to go to RWJ.

Bunch of road rash on my left side where I slid down the hill, cracked my Pelvis clean through this time, which is a lot more painful than it sounds 😂

Also smacked the shit out my wrist, didn’t break but I can’t use it to prop myself up and that kinda sucks.

I was able to get around on a walker with an armrest so they opted to not do surgery. Took me almost 30 minutes to walk from the car to door and then my 2 boys had to carry me up the porch.

Not sure how long I’m out for, this is a pretty bad injury for a cyclist so we need to make sure to do it right.
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Feel better!
 
Now ur milking it. Suck it up and get back to work. The dropper on my rain bike isn't going to fix itself.


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Steve Vai said:
Not sure how many know already, but I put myself in the hospital last night commuting home. Front tire blew out on the last corner coming down Washington Rock.

Stopped traffic for about 20 minutes. The homeowners where I crashed came out and helped get out of the road.

I initially thought it wasn’t bad but when I couldn’t stand and my leg was clicking around I knew we had to go to RWJ.

Bunch of road rash on my left side where I slid down the hill, cracked my Pelvis clean through this time, which is a lot more painful than it sounds 😂

Also smacked the shit out my wrist, didn’t break but I can’t use it to prop myself up and that kinda sucks.

I was able to get around on a walker with an armrest so they opted to not do surgery. Took me almost 30 minutes to walk from the car to door and then my 2 boys had to carry me up the porch.

Not sure how long I’m out for, this is a pretty bad injury for a cyclist so we need to make sure to do it right.
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Wishing you a speedy recovery Jim!!
 
Follow-up #1. This was just to establish the Medemerge next to my house as my Primary so they can take care of the Insurance and PT prescription. Seems really dumb that the HOSPITAL can’t take care of that but here we’re are. In America.

I have made minimal PT progress on my own. I can’t lift my leg still but I took the arm rest off the walker and can put pressure on my leg at least. I made it to Medemerge and back, including a set of stairs without too much problem.

Finished all the Pixar movies and waiting for my wife to come home to watch Wicked.

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Steve Vai said:
Follow-up #1. This was just to establish the Medemerge next to my house as my Primary so they can take care of the Insurance and PT prescription. Seems really dumb that the HOSPITAL can’t take care of that but here we’re are. In America.

I have made minimal PT progress on my own. I can’t lift my leg still but I took the arm rest off the walker and can put pressure on my leg at least. I made it to Medemerge and back, including a set of stairs without too much problem.

Finished all the Pixar movies and waiting for my wife to come home to watch Wicked.

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Sorry to hear that you were seriously hurt. Wish you a speedy recovery.
 
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