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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
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Watch out for those cowboys, 'Poke.
Sorry ya got hurt, but glad you're not dead.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Crimpergirl:
The best advice I have is to sign up for Netflix. The instant viewing is a life saver when you are forced on the couch.
She's right, do that if ya haven't already. Think of it as an experiment to see how low your movie-watching standards will go, when so many C-movies are free.
Facebook, too, there's another fine time-structuring activity!
Tough breaks, man, we're thinkin' of ya.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, cowpoke... oh my... very sorry to hear this.... but i will second this:
i am very glad you are still with us!!!...
bikes vs cars, are a very far worse thing, in far too many cases...
always scary.... :O
will be rooting for you to get well soon as possible...
say, i had a neat picture for you here, but the ol computer
froze up, so i had to start all over... whewww, that was about 20 min.
agao... :))
also, bmacd, i will be praying for the surgery to go well, if i
am not too late reading this...
god bless, to you both...
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
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Hey, we need all the CowPokes we can get, right? ;-)
Or some such.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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stay off the vikes,
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Sorry to that, dude!
Heal up!
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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you've got all the shucks i can muster cowpoke. if it's any consolation, when my doc walked in the the x-rays he said if you're going to brake a bone you picked the right one. i counted about six pieces of clavicle, and with good care, your little bundle of joy
will grow up as big and strong as mine. just figure on sleeping on side b for a while.
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grover
climber
The Gar, BC.
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Wow.......Glad to hear you won!
Heal fast Cowpoke.
Some pos-vibes from the nord-land for ya.
Just think ..from now on, every time you see a car/truck you can grin and say "meh"
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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one word...
Meh
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Ha! So true Chiloe! I watched some real dogs...but I also stumbled on some really excellent movies (e.g., Everything is Illuminated). I can't imagine what I would have done with myself without Netflix - perhaps consumed a lot more pain killer out of sheer boredom?
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Good luck I hope you get well soon. Mike
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sportcamper
Trad climber
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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Cowpoke, are You a NH climber, thought I heard that...Whitehorse!
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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I feel ya.
Busted my Tibia Plateau skiing into a tree last Novemeber, didnt climb or anything for 6+ Months.
I did play my guitar a lot though. It helped!
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cowpoke
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 2, 2010 - 08:19am PT
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hey all,
thanks so very much for the kind wishes, encouragement, and advise.
A few answers to questions:
 where: mean streets of Boston (Cambridge, technically)...which also answers the NH question = whitehorse would be the right slabbin' area, but see below.
car or truck: small sedan, I think...mostly just remember the color = red.
details of accident: I was in the bike lane (i.e., in Boston, bike lane = 2ft wide street gutter with picture of bike painted on it). The driver, apparently not seeing me, made a left turn across traffic (i.e., me and cars in the car lane) to enter side street. I saw a blur of red and then was broadsiding her. Pretty much hit the car and bounced back to the ground -- didn't flip over the car, which is why the road rash is pretty minor. EMT/police, who were there in less than 5 minutes, said I broke her window out and dented the car pretty good (other than a sea of faces I didn't see much...was busy spittin' blood from slice through upper lip created by teeth...by the way, there were two kickass smart bystanders on the scene immediately who kept me from trying to move, kept the riffraff away from scene, and called 911...gotta pay that forward).
JimE, one of the first things I thought about was how this screwed up our plans. damn. I'll email in a couple weeks to see if we can figure something out...I'll still be good for the hiking and hangin' in beautiful family-fun spots...tie me off to a tree with a gri-gri and I can be the girls' belay slave.
fingers ok, despite shoulder? so hit the slabs: actually, not really = left hand is swollen. I can't make a fist and left forearm has that weird just woke up tingly feeling...doc says it's due to the two breaks at either end of my left collarbone. even slabs will have to wait a bit, but the rest of my body is so sore I can hardly get off the couch anywho...Warren Harding, Doug Scott or any other hardass hero, I am not! I'm taking Crimpergirl and Chiloe's tic list advice as my new fall goal.
one "funny" story: as I'm lying with neck brace digging into my very ouchy shoulder (had to do the head-n-neck prevent and ct scans), a nurse leans over me with one of those hospital wrist bands in my face, saying "did I spell your name correctly?" it was hard to tell though, cause the band had some other patients name on it!! was like a horror movie where they give you the wrong "procedure."
wait, one more tidbit: doc says "you cambridge bikers keep me in business." two minutes later, biker comes in er with nasty road rash on his chin...
Ghost: loved hearing your healing quick experience...very encouraging and my doc was doing the same thing, because one of the breaks is near the shoulder and the other near the sternum, which is apparently a rare combo. maybe our docs can trade x-rays/ct scans.
AND: you're right bmacd = I'll be thinking of you today -- sending you good doctoring and recovery wishes.
again, to all of ya: SUPERTHANKS!
(whew, back to the couch)
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slabbo
Trad climber
fort garland, colo
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Oh come on now POKE- You should be fine in week or so. Maybe with any luck it will heal a bit offset like mine did.
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cowpoke
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 2, 2010 - 10:37am PT
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no fair making me laugh, slabbo -- it hurts :0)
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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Bummer, I commute regularly on my bike and have had some close calls. I know it is a matter of when not if I will have the same fortune. Yesterday, I about took out bus pax who got off between stops and stepped right into the bike lane in front of me. Both the bus driver and pax would have been at fault had I creamed them.
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slabbo
Trad climber
fort garland, colo
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Maybe next time combo with getting a tire stuck in a trolley track as well !
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Jim E
climber
away
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cowpoke,
I told Maxine about your accident. She was very concerned and hopes you're going to be ok. She said she knows all about broken collar bones because her friend, Leah, told her all about it when she broke hers falling off her swing set. She says Leah cried a lot and you probably did, too. I said you probably didn't start crying until you realized you wouldn't be able to climb for the rest of the year. She said that would make her cry, too.
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