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Patrick said:
Being recently involved...

One lawyer will say one thing, another will contradict. The threat might resolve the the hospital bills, and create a lawyer bill.

There is no actionable loss.

Look at the bill and decide if paying a lawyer to contest it is worth it.
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So, definitely agree with this based on the latest course of events!

The original culture from the cut that was taken on Saturday came back this morning and confirmed that there was a drug resistant bacterial infection. Based on that information, the ID doctor put me on levaquin, which I promptly had an allergic reaction to so I'm now back in the ED (difficult to type "ED" without chuckling) getting treated for that. Just an absolutely crazy series of events, but at least the information is now available to guide treatment so...fingers crossed?

(Really just cultivating my own "things that make you say wow" thread at this point.)

Looks like I'll get discharged shortly. Allergic reaction not appearing to be a threat to life and drug resistant bacteria problem can wait until the morning.
 
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ebarker9 said:
So, definitely agree with this based on the latest course of events!

The original culture from the cut that was taken on Saturday came back this morning and confirmed that there was a drug resistant bacterial infection. Based on that information, the ID doctor put me on levaquin, which I promptly had an allergic reaction to so I'm now back in the ED (difficult to type "ED" without chuckling) getting treated for that. Just an absolutely crazy series of events, but at least the information is now available to guide treatment so...fingers crossed?

(Really just cultivating my own "things that make you say wow" thread at this point.)

Looks like I'll get discharged shortly. Allergic reaction not appearing to be a threat to life and drug resistant bacteria problem can wait until the morning.
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Sending positive vibes..
 
ebarker9 said:
So, definitely agree with this based on the latest course of events!

The original culture from the cut that was taken on Saturday came back this morning and confirmed that there was a drug resistant bacterial infection. Based on that information, the ID doctor put me on levaquin, which I promptly had an allergic reaction to so I'm now back in the ED (difficult to type "ED" without chuckling) getting treated for that. Just an absolutely crazy series of events, but at least the information is now available to guide treatment so...fingers crossed?

(Really just cultivating my own "things that make you say wow" thread at this point.)

Looks like I'll get discharged shortly. Allergic reaction not appearing to be a threat to life and drug resistant bacteria problem can wait until the morning.
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After all that you have to get treated for ED too? Man, this wins the BooBoo thread for sure! 😛

Hope the end of your ordeal comes soon.
 
Reluctant to post after reading @ebarker9 's ordeal. Last night during my warmup before the weekly Belmont Thurs evening #notarace, had a basically 0mph stumble and toppled over without un-clipping to my left. Landed in a patch of P.I., roots and a twiggy stump. Left thigh contusion from a root and the twiggy stump seems to have punctured me behind my left ear. Had a buddy look at it and he advised me to get it looked at. Made it to the Cooper urgent care just before 7:30pm closing and they cleaned me up, put in 1, maybe 2 stitches and took pictures because they never saw or heard of something like this.
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Dangerous time to be the ear of a NJ mountain biker.

Sorry to see this. Fortunately that spot looks a lot easier to treat and heal so I'm sure that you'll have a good outcome. My only piece of advice is that if there is any sign of an issue with infection to get the infectious disease specialists involved as soon as possible and keep good records of everything because it can get confusing between providers, medications etc. Good luck, sure that things will be a lot more straightforward than what I've been dealing with.
 
ebarker9 said:
Dangerous time to be the ear of a NJ mountain biker.

Sorry to see this. Fortunately that spot looks a lot easier to treat and heal so I'm sure that you'll have a good outcome. My only piece of advice is that if there is any sign of an issue with infection to get the infectious disease specialists involved as soon as possible and keep good records of everything because it can get confusing between providers, medications etc. Good luck, sure that things will be a lot more straightforward than what I've been dealing with.
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Thanks, man. Definitely will keep an eye on it. Urgent care told me to come back in a week to get the stitches out.

Honestly, it wasn't bleeding much and thought it was just a scrape. The friend who looked at it on site, said I hope I'm wrong, but it looks like you ripped your ear pretty bad. He then mentioned, "You do remember what happened to Scott? You should probably get it looked at in case there's any splinters in there." I've never gotten what happened to Scott out my head. This is why I went to urgent car.

Scott was riding in Wiss, took a direct hit to the shin from a stick. He thought it was just a simple flesh wound. Well, he actually got impaled and a piece of the stick was still in there. This was some time after and when the infection set in, the stick was discover and removed, then weeks of packing the wound.
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JDurk said:
Thanks, man. Definitely will keep an eye on it. Urgent care told me to come back in a week to get the stitches out.

Honestly, it wasn't bleeding much and thought it was just a scrape. The friend who looked at it on site, said I hope I'm wrong, but it looks like you ripped your ear pretty bad. He then mentioned, "You do remember what happened to Scott? You should probably get it looked at in case there's any splinters in there." I've never gotten what happened to Scott out my head. This is why I went to urgent car.

Scott was riding in Wiss, took a direct hit to the shin from a stick. He thought it was just a simple flesh wound. Well, he actually got impaled and a piece of the stick was still in there. This was some time after and when the infection set in, the stick was discover and removed, then weeks of packing the wound.
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OUCH SCOTT
 
Yikes! Reminds me of when I caught a pedal to my left shin during a high-speed crash in mud at Mt Snow back in 2000. The result was 30 min of scrubbing by the nurse at the mtn care center and 14 stitches along with a bottle of antibiotics with the warning, "I'm pretty sure I got all of the mud out, but it's hard to know for sure, so take these for a week."

While I was in the care center Pro practice had started and before I left I was joined by Steve Peat (separated shoulder, I think) and a very young Mick Hannah (broken collarbone).
 
Bike N Gear said:
Posted the "how" over in the Lifetime Injuries" thread. Here's the inside and outside of the fractured patella. No fun photos of the rotator cuff.

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Wow, I had a very similar injury from a few year ago. This was at nica practice riding stuff that would not be nica approved. The kids got a good in person first aid session. It could have used stitches that i didnt get and there is a feel-able divot. I definitely dogged a bullet on this one.
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stb222 said:
Wow, I had a very similar injury from a few year ago. This was at nica practice riding stuff that would not be nica approved. The kids got a good in person first aid session. It could have used stitches that i didnt get and there is a feel-able divot. I definitely dogged a bullet on this one.
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My patella was fractured right underneath mine so they didn't want to seal it up to prevent covering up any infection. They only put in one stitch to sort of hold it together. Stitch comes out tomorrow. I'm really hoping they will allow me to use some type of brace that has a hinge because being in a full immobilizer sucks.
 
Bike N Gear said:
My patella was fractured right underneath mine so they didn't want to seal it up to prevent covering up any infection. They only put in one stitch to sort of hold it together. Stitch comes out tomorrow. I'm really hoping they will allow me to use some type of brace that has a hinge because being in a full immobilizer sucks.
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Jesus dude. I missed the post where you told us how you f'ed yourself up? I hope I'm wrong, but with fractured patella, you can't bend the knee until the fracture calcifies. That means you're in a full immobilizer for a few weeks. 😟
 
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