Three years ago today, on 23 June 2012, I broke my left collarbone in a bike accident at the Cow Creek Country Classic in Waxahachie, Texas. The collarbone was in so many pieces that the surgeon had to implant a titanium plate with five screws to hold it together. (See the X-ray image above; click to enlarge.) Surgery was on 29 June, six days after the accident. I was on a stationary bike 11 days later and got back on the road 24 days after surgery. I did a bike rally (in Cleburne) 29 days after surgery, against doctor's orders. Fourteen months after the accident, I broke the collarbone again in another bike accident, this time adding a broken rib and a broken vertebra to my growing list of broken bones. (I broke my left elbow in 1991.) The second accident, in 2013, didn't require surgery, though the bone was broken in at least two places. It has healed just fine, though one of the screws is conspicuous. Since the first accident three years ago, I have pedaled 11,209.8 miles, which is an average of 10.23 miles per day and 71.6 miles per week. I love riding.
