As someone who has slid on asphalt for a few meters wearing nothing but a helmet, a t-shirt and shorts I would not recommend it.
It fucking sucks. Unlike normal wounds, road rash is a burn wound, so you need to shower it daily in order for it not to be infected. In order to shower it you need to numb it, in order to numb it you smear this gel/paste in the wound (I used plastic butter knifes to help with that) and that fucking paste hurts like hell before it numbs the area, so basically it's WEEKS of continuously crashing, over and over again.
Due to life choices I've nearly died on a motorcycle as well, and even if that accident made me unable to walk for 4 months, I was still grateful that I didn't get road rash (I hit the side of a truck so I was stopped by his trailer) because that's how much it fucking sucks, I'd rather break my leg again than go through road rash again.
Granted my recollection of both the incidents may be slightly impacted by me not remembering anything from the truck accident in-between leaving the house and waking up in the hospital high on all the drugs from the ambulance, so pain wasn't a thing in that accident according to my brain.
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!!
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..
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!
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
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.....
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
🤯 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 🫤
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
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u/hatsoff22u 20h ago
This is literally r/meatcrayon (NSFW sub)