Thursday 26 April 2012

Landing, A great photo, movement, colour with friends as content. Wonderful, simply had to share it! Inspires me to mend soon!

Sunday 22 April 2012

My last thought


This is a picture of my spine, for those of you that know what your looking at, its L2 or Lumber 2 that has a compression fracture. Ouch! After falling backwards off a scaffold onto my backside, I was doing 19mph at impact and the force was around 18g running up the spine which is why L2 is a little busted! I know your impressed with the numbers, alas I can't claim I know these I simply supplied the data to be entered into the formula by my Father in Law Barry, who was a Physics Teacher. 

People have asked what was going though my mind on the way down, well I don't know, I recall slipping, the rest is a blank, the next I know was the pain running through my body like a the noise of a MIG21 taking off, Afterburners on, its all consuming. 

Sitting in the Hospital, thinking about the fall from 10 feet and how much it hurt (s) my mind flips over the flying scenarios, your slowed to 60mph on finals, coming down from circuit heights 1000 feet up, controlling the touch down to be gentle kiss. What happens if you get it very wrong? 10 foot hurts so much, Well 10 foot and 19mph. Perhaps for the first time I am thinking about how much it would hurt falling out of the sky any considerable distance? Would it hurt at all? I guess the trick is to fall so far that there is no waking, falling not far enough would be a disaster. Suddenly I can see why 20mph is a good idea in built up areas, and why doing 40 in a thirty is such a bad idea. 

I am told that the bones will be knitting together in 6 week, which is when Fly France 2012 starts! Here's hoping for any advice that will speed the knitting of the bone? If you have any do let me have it! 

And finally, if your wondering how many bits of my body I can get scanned or X-rayed and posted here, I sincerely hope this is the last! 

UPDATE - October 2012: I did not make Fly France 2012, which was just as well as they ended up in Scotland! The 6 week time frame is only to keep one going, I was hardly moving at 6 weeks, but to hear the news that in another 6 you will be able to walk was a relief, I am still taking painkillers every day, but I am up and about and as you can see from the rest of the blog flying and doing well. 2012 will be a year to forget for me, its time to press ahead!