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I'm starting to feel better, so I figured I'd give a little more details. My arms still aren't 100%, but I can use both of them to type.

I was biking to work on Wednesday, and was almost there when I fell. I didn't hit anything, nor did anything hit me. I've got about twenty different theories about what caused it, but my best guess is just operator error. All I know is that one moment I was biking and the next I was falling. I hit the ground, slid, and then as quick as I could, pulled myself and my bike off of the road. I laid there in a daze for a bit, trying to get up my strength to get out my cell phone and call someone at work. Before that happened, someone pulled up in a truck and took me and my bike the rest of the way to work. People at work helped clean my wounds, then one guy took me to the hospital. As I was waiting, both of my arms began hurting a lot, and I was afraid that I'd broken both of them. Fortunately the x-rays showed only a single crack in the right arm. My left arm was just severely bruised. They put me in a splint and sent me home. I spent the rest of the day watching DVDs, one of the few things my half of a capable arm was able to do. Seriously, I could hardly do anything that day. It was only with a ton of pain that I could even use the bathroom on my own.

On Thursday morning I saw a specialist who told me I couldn't be put in a cast because the proximity of the break to my elbow meant that scar tissue would lock up the elbow if I didn't keep moving it. At the advice of both the doctor people at work, I took the rest of the week off, returning on Monday.

I've been having to get a lot of help, including people to drive me everywhere, but all in all it hasn't been too bad. I have an appointment to see the specialist again, and I'll see how the healing has been going according to x-rays. Right now I have most of my full range of motion back in each arm, they are just weak, particularly the broken one.

Thank you to everyone for your prayers and your help as I'm on the road to healing.