Thanks Phil. Sounds bad, but glad his head seems okay enough to message you. Keep us updated and send him our best wishes.

Rick?  Phil can I get some back story? He crash at the race last weekend? On the hill?

Rick crashed at Floyd last night. 

Oh shit...been there done that 

Hoping for a thumbs-up from the emergency room shot.  

Spoke to Rick this morning. I suggested to him he post his room number/etc if he's up for visitors.

I'm sure he wouldn't mind reading your text messages.

Without breaking HIPAA too badly, I also think he wouldn't mind y'all knowing he will be out of the ICU, but spending at least one more day in a regular room. I'm sure he'll post more when he's feeling up to it.

Nice work Marc

Rick update: I got the "okay" to share some deets.

So, as has been previously reported, broken ribs, compression fracture of the vertebrae, punctured lung. Today Rick was feeling physically better, but going a little crazy from being in the ICU and lack of sleep. He's not alone, "ICU Psychosis" is a real and troubling thing that happens.

What the doctors initially thought would be a collection of injuries that would heal up on their own without any invasive action, turned out to be some bigger issues today. The vertebrae situation is going to heal just fine on it's own it sounds like.

But, they punched a hole in his chest to let air and blood drain out of his chest cavity. This is a fairly common procedure when lungs are punctured. This will allow lungs to inflate more normally.

Also, it seems the collar bone situation is more serious than initially thought. He's going to have a titanium plate attached tomorrow during surgery.

All of this is fairly routine for us cyclists, but you know, it's still surgery and it's still always a little scary.

He's feeling a little more normal since being moved to a regular room out of the ICU, but you know...he's stressed.

His cell number is 646-283-7083. He's at King's County Hospital, room 11B.

Thanks for keeping an eye out for him Marc. It's great to see how good our own Kissena-net coverage can be when the chips are down.

Status update:

I got let out of King's County last night after doctors determined that all the air and blood was out of my chest activity. This was after Friday morning when I'd had surgery where the orthopedists  attached a plate to my broken clavicle. The surgery went well and It sure feels a whole hell of a lot better. The broken pieces had displaced earlier and by Thursday night I was pretty close to having an open fracture there….scary looking and super painful.

I'm home now and feeling  a lot more like a human being again.  I got some much needed sleep last night. I'm  pretty groggy, he ribs still hurt a lot and I tire out real fast. But overall I feel a thousand times improved. Phil just dropped off my backpack and smashed helmet. He says I look night and day's difference better. 

I'll be taking it easy work wise for a while. On Tuesday I have my fist orthopedic PT session  to start rehabbing my newly titanium clad clavicle

Thanks to everybody for all the support e.g. text messages and well wishes here and FB and to Marc for advice/counsel over the phone. Big big thanks to Phil and Bruce for stopping by and spending time with me at the hospital. It all served to boost my spirits and get me through a really tough time.

Good to hear you're home again Rick. Heal up quick.

Wanted to report Coach David Lipscomb of CIS was in an accident with a car this afternoon.  I rode past the scene on Hudson Terrace, just after Strictly, where there was an ambulance, and the cops had closed off the road, and a car up on the sidewalk, with his team standing by the side of the road.  The scene looked awful, as all bike accidents do.  I don't have any further news just yet and I didn't see him.  I'm assuming that's what happened, but the cops made us get out of there pretty quickly so they could take pictures.

Oh ffs!!! Do.not.want. Please keep us posted DL is a Gentleman of the first order.

An update on the Coach. He's going to be ok, spent the night in the hospital, broken nose, broken ribs, cuts on his face, but everything will heal and he should be home today. I still don't know what happened, but the news is better than the scene suggested. No update on the bike.

Bike is in 3 pieces.

carbon?

JohnMalcolmson said:

Bike is in 3 pieces.

Whose?!?

^ David Lipscomb. Really cut up face required lots of stitches, he says lip below nose all the way through. Yikes. A person pulled a U-turn in front of him, poor guy.

^ouch

This is crazy but interesting
http://gizmodo.com/the-seashell-inspired-material-creating-a-new-wave-of-s-1707384192

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I lived through a rough couple weeks folks, I decided to get lumbar epidural shots for my achy back which has been bothering me for the last 9 months. Unfortunately, I was one of the 1% who get that operation to have what they call a "post dural puncture". It means that the needle punctured my spinal sac which resulted in a leak of spinal fluid. The effects were instant, the worst migraine headache you could imagine. I felt better the next day but the migraine came roaring back last Sunday even drugs containing opoids were not working for the pain, it was horrible. Finally last Thursday, the physicians performed a blood patch on my spine sac in order to clog that hole and thankfully the healing effects from that procedure were immediate. I don't feel that I'm out of the woods yet, the only thing that I have to remind myself is to take it easy for the next few months and slowly get back into training.

Argh Thierry! That sounds horrible. Hope you feel better soon. 

Thanks Jules for your support 

No prohibition on beer though, right?

Damn that sounds awful, Thierry. Wishing you a fast recovery.

Feel better Thierry.

Thierry, that sucks! I've heard that the pain is off the charts for that. Wishing you a quick and proper recovery.

pics or it didn't happen.

At least you've plumbed the depths of the pain cave.  Bring on the hard training when the hell is over.

My back hurts just reading that description. Sending healing thoughts your way!