Some days are meant to put life in perspective

And this past saturday was one of them!  thankful and grateful for every sequence of events that occurred on Saturday that helped me to overcome the bike wreck...from remember to wear gloves (which I never do), to copying my driver's license and insurance card right before the ride, to trying new nutrition that was working!!! To angels on the road who stopped, to my friends that stopped and made sure I wasn't alone until the ambulance got there, to those who stayed with me in the hospital until I could go home!!!

There are angels all around us...for this I am sure.

Thank you to all those who made this day so LESS traumatic for me.  I don't remember much of the accident.  I remember slipping (I thought I had hit a pothole - apparently I hit wood in the road)..I thought I had just made a right on to the major road, and as it turns out, I was almost a mile down the road from that turn....I though the people who saw me fall were right behind me and it turns out that those sweet ladies were in a car and had to turn around and come back....my friends stopped for me, but I do not remember who was there..except for Mairead..I remember Mairead..and maybe Matt...but other than that..I don't remember.

I do, however, remember checking for teeth the first second that my eyes opened...and being grateful that my mouth did not take the brunt of the fall.  I remember saying over and over, "I still have my teeth" and yet I couldn't remember any of my friends names...until I remembered Leanne.  I tried to tell the lady how to make a call on my phone..so I must have remembered the code...but I don't really know who found out what and how.

I am grateful that I did not fracture my cheek, that I did not break any bones and that my road rash will heal.  I think I may have a concussion...after hearing the sequence of events retold, I am sure now that i lost consciousness....so then..why do EMT's and ER physicians ask the patient that?  I had no idea..as far as I was concerned...people were right there the second I fell....

anyway...thank you to everyone and anyone who helped me that day.  Team Z has given me so much support and some of the best friends of my life.

Wear your helmet people!!! Wear your helmet!!! AND your ROAD ID...even though the EMTs didn't know anything about RoadID's...they do now.

In the ambulance

The helmet that saved my noggin

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