PA 120.3 and MCR320 in parallel

[Cathar]

Is that the source of your injuries right now? What happened?

I was an idiot is what happened. I took a chance on a worn front tyre at one of the world's fastest motorcycle race-tracks, that being Phillip Island.

Rounded Turn 2 at around 85mph (one of the slower corners actually), and the front wheel started to slide. Did everything "right". I know this 'cos the slide lasted a good 20m (~60'). I did everything I could to give the front tyre a chance to re-grip, and it did re-grip for small fractions of a second, but let-go again, and in the end it wasn't to be.

Low-sided the bike, but must've dug some part of me into the track, and before I knew it I had somersaulted with my right-ankle as the pivot point (ie. an 80mph one-legged somersault) which micro-fractured the Talus, and 'cos it happened so fast, after the somersault I slammed the right wrist into the track for good measure, chipping the top off the ulna, and causing multiple cross-fractures to the radius where it joins the wrist. The damage to the radius was fairly serious, with risk of the bone collapsing, so they had to plate the radius to hold it together, and did a bone-graft to put the chip off the ulna back into place.

Am near totally house-bound. Won't be able to walk for 9 more weeks. The Talus is the main weight-bearing bone in the foot, so the usual 6-weeks healing time isn't the case here. 'Cos the bone is such a structurally important bone, the doctors recommend a full 13 weeks (3 months) before it can be considered to be healed completely enough to not risk expanding the fractures through walking/running/whatever.

Wrist, at the moment, is aching. Am on pain-killers. Only have around 50% full mobility in the wirst, but it's still very inflamed and swollen and it'll get better in time as the swelling settles. Strength in wrist is about 1/50th of normal. For example, picking up a cup of coffee is about the limit of what it can do, and even that hurts. Will probably be another 5 months before the wrist gets back to a semblance of normality.

Typing is not an issue though, and I telecommute for work, so my work has been unaffected.