June 10th
Posted on June 12, 2013
Well, the mountain biking is going to take a break for a while. Fractured and dislocated my wrist at Duthie Hill coming about twice the intended speed off a rather large jump. Four people helped me out to my car and got my bike loaded up, and I drove myself home and my parents and I went directly to the ER.
Pain slowly but surely jacked up from around 3/10 when we arrived at about 6pm, to an absolutely unbearable 9/10, as the fractured bones were crushing the nerves in my hand and cutting off circulation to my fingers. Around that point I was sedated with Propofol and Ketamine (Google them), and traction was applied to my  hand and wrist to pull the bones back into place. Propofol is some incredible stuff, I was tripping HARD (like, think time travel scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey) for about an hour.
Slowly came down for the next four hours and went home without a shirt on and clutching a sickness bag full of my own vomit.
Oh, and hand surgery tomorrow.
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