Ok so during the final week in Ventura things really started to go well. My heart rate was getting lower and the body started to feel better as each day went on. On March 12th I beat my previous record up wheelers canyon by over 1 minute, stoked when on the way home I had a brutal crash. I went over a guard rail smashed my head on a post breaking the spinus process on my c7 vertebrae before getting caught up in a barbed wire fence. I knew something was wrong immediately because of how hard it was to breath.
Initially the doctors looked at my x rays and said I was fine, I was so relieved to leave the hospital and go home. I had a shower and skyped my folks when Jeff's phone rang. It was the doctor he said I needed to go back. This was the scariest car ride of my life thinking if I turned my head I could cause irreversible damage. Jeff and I spent 5+ hours in the ER, I was braced up and put into a CT scanner as and we awaited the ER doctors prognosis. When we got home I couldn't sleep I don't know if it was the stress of being in the hospital all day the new neck brace I was sporting or just the unknown of what was to come.
I got up the next morning opened my computer to email and facebook people back home but the screen just went black. I thought to myself "Oh it must have turned off" so I tried turning it back on......nothing. Perfect timing. I now had 4 days to kill before my flight home. I wrestled with the idea of flying home early but because the ER doc said not much could be done and the fracture was stable I decided to stay. Its been exactly 14 days since the accident and I am improving, and still waiting to see a specialist back home in Vancouver. I am super lucky I can still walk or to be alive for that matter. A huge shout out to Jeff Ain for helping me through this, carrying my stuff in the airport and spending hours and hours with me at the hospital. Don't know how I would have made it home without ya buddy!
Once returning home I helped out with Cycling BC's spring break camp, it was great to see all the juniors and dEVo kids again. I could only help at the track sessions because I cannot ride but it was nice to get out of the house. I am hoping all goes well with my recovery and hopefully I can get this brace off in the next 4 weeks. Less would be awesome but at this point I really just want to get back to 100%. Hopefully I have something to write about in the coming weeks.
As always I gotta thank everyone for all their support it means a lot.
cheers,
Mike
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