[Magdalen] Another bicycle question

[Charles Wohlers]

Since my own accident in mid-October and subsequent surgery on my knee, 
things have been improving steadily (TBTG!). I can now bend my knee by over 
90 degrees - initially it had to be perfectly straight, meaning I had to sit 
in the back seat of the car (and, needless to say, couldn't drive), and my 
dear wife had to put on my sock & shoe & tie said shoe. No longer. I am 
hoping, though for complete recovery, although the doctor has warned me 
that, if my knee doesn't get "more bendy", it may end up permanently stiff. 
As you say, it is what it is.

Hopefully, when hiking season resumes in late May, I will be able to be out 
there.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: James Oppenheimer-Crawford
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 9:22 PM
To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Another bicycle question

When I got the compression fracture in my back (undiagnosed osteoporosis) I
went through a recovery period where I was not to lift anything heavier
than twenty five pounds. It was altogether expected that I would never be
able to do any heavy lifting ever again.  I'm not an athlete, and heavy
lifting isn't much of a part of my identity as a musician. However, the
loss of that function tore me apart. Fortunately the limitations were
temporary, as it turns out, but we didn't know that then...  Oh yeah, any
loss of that type can be terribly devastating. It takes a period of time
for a person to deal with it, and then of course, it is what it is.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 5:42 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> Google news can explain this better than I can,
> but he had a bicycle accident last year in Central Park,
> and now has a titanium elbow, which isn't as good as
> his original (I *get* that ... my titanium knee isn't a
> perfect replacement for the old knee).
>
> But he's a singer, not a guitarist, isn't he? Doesn't he
> just strum his guitar along with the real guitarist in
> his band?
> -M
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I heard the tail end of something on the radio yesterday stating that 
> > the
> > result of a bicycle accident, Bono said he may never play guitar again. 
> > I
> > hadn't heard anything about this; has anyone else?
>