Well it was suppose to be a quiet little ride up at Woburn Sands before some of my friends went off to Canada to do a season out there. I rolled up to do one of the drops which I've done loads of time before but my rear tyre slid out a little and scrubbed out a bit of speed, but I just keeped on going. As I got to the drop I knew I was going way to slow but it was to late to stop and I had to do it, I prepared for a massive hang up but somehow manages to land it OK. Because I my body position, I shot off quickly to the right and got high sided into a tree. I knew it was broken as soon as I hit it, I heard that crack and felt my arm moving in the most unusual way.
Well I when straight to hospital where I was X-rayed and put into a cast pretty quick, the orthopedic specialists where all very impressed by how bad the break was and said I would probably need surgery but they only keep me in over night and sent my on my way some time after lunch the next day.
After ten days, I when back for my check up where I had another x-ray and it was determined that I'd need an operation to make sure my arm doesn't heal bent. I was booked in the following Friday but being the NHS, it was canceled. I finally got a call on the Sunday morning telling my to come in straight away, so off I went but I told it wouldn't be done until Monday lunch time, so I when off home for Sunday lunch and came back at about bed time. The operation was a complete success and I was back home the next day.
Sadly four weeks later while I was having some physio, it was noticed that my scar looked inflamed, the doctor looked at it for just a moment and turned to me saying it had got infected. I had another operation two days later which was also successful, lucky it was only a small infection which was cleaned out and treated with a lot if antibiotics.
It been really annoying not being able to ride for the last two month and it with how much it has healed, I still have another two months to go. I did miss out of a ten day trip to Les Gets but none the less I did enjoy the sunshine out there and I got some awesome photos out there.