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man survives fatal accident
Categories: ouch
Tags: Accident, Compensation, Arthritis
Date: 19 February 2012 11:27:27
Man survives fatal accident
Diary of an accident victim
Part 49
Sunday 14th March 2010
"Man survives fatal accident," is a genuine headline, according to the a advert the BBC are running for the satirical/comedy show
Russel Howard's Good News. While I have not survived a fatal accident, at around 7.45 this evening it will be exactly four years since I survived a near fatal one.
How am I? The forehead scar is almost invisible due to wrinkles lining themselves up with the scar tissue. Ageing provides its own cosmetic surgery.
The ankle is not getting any worse, I still spend as much time as possible on a weekend with my feet up to recover from a week on my feet. A busy weekend means an uncomfortable following week. But worst are the lungs, having a cold is not so bad for most people, but someone who had lungs damaged in an accident and commutes by cycle it can be a problem. Fortunately I work in the valley and live part way up the moor the hills are on the way home, but it's a jolt to my pride to get off and walk up hills, especially as I was good at cycling hills not that many years ago. But the exertion of cycling uphill is causing pain down the side of my ribcage, so doing it the slow, easy way is the only option.
But I'm alive and in reasonably good health.
Things are good.
Edit to add:
I've been reading through the old entries from four years ago. Some of those were written when when I was still on opiates for pain relief. The writing style is bizarrely different to the way I usually write.
I also noticed that I failed to blog that the compensation claim was settled in the late summer.
...to be continued.
This was first posted on St Pixels blog on 14 March ’10
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