Nice pins. I've never seen the balls on the end like that.
Any damage on the elbows apart from the bruising? I probably worry about them more than anything. I'm thinking I should get some pads for my son and me.
the pins are called K-wires, meant to be a temporary stabilisation of the broken bones. i'd broken the heads of the two metacarpals.
elbows were fine, i was wearing elbow pads as i always do, i'm a bit paranoid! did chip an elbow bone in a fall down my steep driveway a few years back tho.
holy geez, so what happened?
got to the finals at State Titles (bmx) this year in a mixed cruiser class of 17+ through to me at 49. a rider 15 years younger than me had been trying to take me out all day and in the practice meet a few days earlier. she tried to t-bone me in the first corner and ended up throwing herself off the bike backwards and landing between two sets of doubles as i came over the back of the first set airborne. had to twist the front wheel to miss landing on her face, almost landed it but went down. the hand took the brunt of the impact and the bike came with me because i was still clipped in. over the bars, bars in the liver, was very badly winded too. three days in hospital on a catheter drugged to the eyeballs and also dealing with histamine reaction to Fentanyl while they waited for my liver to hemorrage, (it didn't, thankfully) ten weeks off the bike between the bruising, the casts and not being able to grip.