As regular readers will know, on August 1st 2014, an errant driver in a Toyota Aygo hit me while I was riding my bicycle.<\/p>\n
The crash<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0was pretty brutal, I broke my collarbone.<\/p>\n The break was a bad one, three surgeries later I am still not fixed.<\/p>\n Today I was seen by the medical assessor who will create the report for the insurance company that will be looking to settle my compensation claim.<\/p>\n This is the final opinion, it has been close to two years, it is time to put this to bed once and for all.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n in the past months my recovery has stalled, I have lost a significant percentage of\u00c2\u00a0the range of motion in my left shoulder, it has not magically got better. Things still hurt, often fairly dramatically and rather significantly. I have a big scar that is rather wide, at one end it is utterly numb, in the middle it is hypersensitive.<\/p>\n Added to that scar I have one on the palm of my hand – thanks to the gravel, and one on my shin – thanks to the pedals.<\/p>\n Beyond that things are mostly healed, my big toe is a little painful, my neck spasms occasionally on the right hand side and I have a few other small scars that I am certain did not exist pre-accident.<\/p>\n What this all means is that swimming is hilariously difficult, no backstroke, crawl or butterfly for me, breaststroke sees me gently arc as I attempt straight lines. Riding a bicycle is painful, a mountain bike is probably out of the question, sadly and even things as simple as carrying a backpack can cause me to let out a yelp of pain.<\/p>\n To think that this is it, to think that I will get no better, is one thing.<\/p>\n To have a professional assessor tell me is a whole order or two worse.<\/p>\n I will probably not get any better, this, my friends, is it.<\/p>\n Bum Hats !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As regular readers will know, on August 1st 2014, an errant driver in a Toyota Aygo hit me while I was riding my bicycle. The crash\u00c2\u00a0was pretty brutal, I broke my collarbone. The break was a bad one, three surgeries later I am still not fixed. Today I was seen by the medical assessor who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-fitness","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}