Hi all just wanted to say "thanks" for all your text messages, e mails, cards and flowers ! After my recent fall at Knockhill resulting in a dislocated ankle, broken tibula and fibula.Still smiling and it could only have happened to me really. Lots of stories circulating but wot really happened was that we were waiting on the supersport race starting and just as the race started, it started to rain after being really nice. I was a bit concerned for the guys out there as of course everyone was on slick tyres.So counts them round after the bikes appeared from behind the hill coming towards the hairpin.Our Bryan was 13th (lucky white heather i hear you all say) from the 30 starters when he went off into the gravel probably due to the by now damp conditions. So i set off to meet him knowing that he was fine but expecting him to be disapointed. What i didn`t know was that it wasn`t Bryan that i saw but another racer with the same colour scheme (different colours for this year, blue and silver instead of the yellow and black from last season) and as i set off to meet him Bryan "highsided" coming out of the hairpin rather spectaculary according to everyone that saw it. He was unhurt but the race was stopped due to the rain. Bryan thenm set off back to the garage as his handlebar had snapped off to meet us all at the garage when he got there he wondered where we all were ? Meantime as i made my way down to the hairpin i slipped in the mud, tried to regain my balance and my dignity only to find myself sitting in the mud amongst a few hundred spectators with my what i immediatly realised was a broken and dislocated ankle !!
The rest is a bit of a blur to be truthfull but two really nice spectators came to my rescue. The paramedics arrived and the paramedic reckoned he knew me ? yes you do i said, you looked after my husband this time last year when he had a stroke at the racing !! Alex, Bryan and Grant had found me by this time and the nice paramedic was trying to keep Grant occupied by asking him to hold things for him while he dealt with his mum, next thing i hear is someone saying "the wee boy has fainted" Please don`t let it be mine i thought.....to late, me and grant went into the back of the ambulance, Alex in the front and Bryan off to see if he could fix his bike for the second race !!
Big thanks to the medical facilites at Knockhill which as always were excillent. An orthopedic surgeon was working that day fixed me up 90% the rest was done at the hospital. Ouch, ouch and more ouches !!
To cut a long story short i got out of hospital the following wednesday afternoon complete with pinned ankle and crutches. Still smiling and hoping to get to East Fortune this weekend.
cheers,
Stella
PS. Just incase you were wondering Bryan got out for the second race but had to pull in with mechanical problems !