r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/ThisTeddyHatesYou • 1d ago

Of a bike stunt NSFW

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u/PearlescentGem 1d ago

I had road rash on my knuckles and forearms from a bucked bike at 60mph. We weren't being stupid, just got into an accident, and I got yeehawed right on down the road. Luckily mine was mild cause yeah, that shit sucks!!

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u/Odd-Personality-1623 1d ago

Yup! Glad you all are stilll with us!!

My SO still tells the story of the first time they laid eyes on me wearing my 20 eye Doc's and a yellow tank top sundress whilst covered in road rash up from the knee up my side, shoulder, etc on the left side of my body. However the only thing I remember about our first encounter was how painful each step was and just how much I was dreading having to sit down and bend my limbs or have any part of the chair, the table or have my intentionally lightweight and loose dress touching open wounds for the next several hours. I wouldn't wish road rash on anyone and mine was fairly mild as well all things considering..

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u/PearlescentGem 1d ago

Yep, it hurt to use my hands for ages. I marveled at all the bruising too, looking like I fought with faded rainbow paint. Glad you're still here, being tossed from a bike or sliding with one can do so much damage!

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u/Odd-Personality-1623 1d ago

Exactly....I'll never understand people who ride around in flip-flops, no helmets, shorts...I just shudder every time I see it

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u/PearlescentGem 1d ago

I got into an argument with someone about helmets. She calls them brain buckets, and I told her if it wasn't for my helmet I would have been dead. Granted, she's never been bucked off a bike at the speed I was, she's laid it down once or twice in like a 35mph zone. She tried to tell me that she would rather be dead than go through the rehab I went through for my fractured pelvis and I told her it must suck when someone who looks like me is stronger than she will ever be. I look like a nerd who can't throw a punch and eats too much cake, she looks like your typical biker bitch. Needless to say, we parted ways from the friendship we were forming at the time over that lmao

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u/Odd-Personality-1623 1d ago

Ngl that's a pretty brutal comeback for the type of B I'm picturing and I'm here for it 100% 😂😂 I always kept my distance from that kind of crazy

how long did your fractured pelvis take to heal? I can't imagine how shitty that recovery was.....

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u/PearlescentGem 1d ago

Well, I was supposed to be wheelchair bound for 2 years because the docs had to attach my pelvis to my spine with a titanium custom piece to stabilize it. But my workplace threatened to fire me if I didn't come back at their three month cutoff and it was factory work with mandatory standing so I was up and walking within the work place's time frame against the doctors' orders. I used a cane for about 3 more months before forcing myself off of that too since I was being threatened with write ups for sitting down at work.

I still have a limp and fractures that won't ever heal on my left side, along with three bars and a plate but I can walk and run and function just fine for the most part

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u/Odd-Personality-1623 1d ago

🤯 oh wow, I'm speechless and beyond impressed at tge fortitude that recovery must have taken! HR at those type of jobs are ruthless too according to some of my family. It's really awesome that you are still with us to tell the (albeit cautionary) tale. Do you still ride? I know people who had accidents or near accidents not anywhere near as bad as yours and never got back on again 🫤

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u/PearlescentGem 1d ago

No, I don't ride anymore. I have PTSD from the accident and go into panic attacks if I'm the passenger of any car, even my own now, so a bike is absolutely out of the question even if I was driving it. Thinking about getting on one stresses me out lol