and end to pain and painkillers in the near future.

All the best to you.

something similar, very painful and takes a long time to heal.

I feel for you, g. Take it easy and let it mend.

Good luck.

Sounds like a long road to go.

As you start to get better, consider spending time in a pool. You can at least keep your legs moving around, even if you need to use your good arm to hold onto a floatation device.

Actually, I kinda know what you're going through, from an injury I had some years ago. It will take a long time. The first month is the worst, of course, but you'll have pain meds for that, so kick back. In month two, as you are definitely getting restless, dial those meds back enough to feel your body telling you when you're overdoing it. You really will want to know. After that, it should be mostly twinges as you push the boundaries -- you still have a bunch of structural reinforcement taking place.

Eleven screws in a clavicle, eh? As always, you impress.

Heal up, we'll have a place waiting for you on your return.

I was hoping that you were on vacation and having tons of fun. Sorry to hear about why you have been gone.
Lots of good advice, especially spending time in a pool.
I would add eating foods that are rich in calcium and taking glucosamine with MSM and turmeric.
Glucosamine helps rebuild cartilage and lubricates joints turmeric helps with inflammation.
I buy the glucosamine from target and look for deals on turmeric. I buy the Shiff brand glucosamine 1500 mg because it's made with high potency glucosamine. I buy it online and buy enough to get free shipping.
Two summers ago, Abby who is part lab could barely walk because of her arthritis and after I started her on this, people couldn't believe she was the same dawg. It took less than a month for me to see the difference.
I take it during the winter when my ankle flares up because I broke it a few years ago.
Take care and please check in now and again to let us know how you are doing.

Rest, take care and get well soon. It sounds like even reading would be a hassle, but you could take up mindfulness (or other) meditation, it could even help you heal. Make sure to keep that lung and ribs doing what they should as best as you can. Good luck.

and a complete recovery. I'm going to miss you.

For what it's worth, though I work from home these days, I was a long time cycle-commuter and I've been in that same boat (truck ran me down from behind...leveled me).

Try to stay sane, you'll go a little stir crazy after a few weeks if you're accustomed to a lot of cycling. When you're able, do your physical rehab! Especially working on your range of motion. I must have missed a spot and as a result, can't just tuck my left arm behind my back without grabbing it with my other hand to help pull it back there...kind of amusing now, but I regret not noticing that piece of motion I should have worked on.

Broken ribs are a real bummer. A cosmetic surgeon gave me some advice for getting out of bed in the morning (it sucks and hurts to do the typical prop up and out and he once broke a couple ribs getting tossed off a horse, so offered me his tidbit from his own broken rib story); he suggested to tie a rope to the end of the bed and use that help pull yourself up, obviating the need to engage those muscles that will wreak pain around those ribs.

Wishing you well for your healing.

Sounds like a tough fall. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. We'll miss you excellent analysis on all things economic.

to you, my friend. I hope your healing will be relatively quick, one that is complete and hopefully with as little pain as possible.

You had one hell of an accident. Many years ago I suffered a bicycle crash which left me with a separated shoulder and a nice little gash in the head. Later in a separate accident, I once broke a rib and found it to be very painful, more so than the separated shoulder.

But you, my friend, decided to do it right with multiple and severe injuries. Ouch! That had to be one hell of a crash and I hope you will never have to endure one like that again.

I hope you will heal quickly and completely. Your voice and your outstanding essays will be sorely missed by all us. Please keep us up to date on how you are progressing. Until then, I am sending you peace, love, and healing vibes your way. Take care of yourself.

Guatemala had no probs there but was coasting downhill in natl forest adjacent to Boulder and had a deer step out in front and fcked him up pretty good. All the best on your recovery.

If you do feel like writing and can not type with one hand, consider Dragon Naturally Speaking.
https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html

Oh, hang on. It's like $300 now. Some time back I think I paid about ⅓ of that.

Our granddaughter fell off the mountain bike trail yesterday. We've spent all day dealing with that. Fractured jaw, lost teeth. But she's bored already and texting.

Hope you get to that point quickly and find you want to and can write. I've been away from the site for a few months because I think things are not going to change but I do check in every once in awhile for your doomsday predictions.

Get some rest, get better and get back!

I'm a relative newbie around here, but I enjoy and appreciate your posts. Take care of yourself and let the healing process do its thing.

No pun intended.
Gonna miss your writing greatly.
On the plus side.......gonna be one hellova celebration when you return!
Take care my friend.

You've been a tremendous contributor to this website for a long time, writing and commenting on a wide range of policy/political topics. And in the process, have established a degree of credibility which only comes with dedication and hard work.

The very best to you as you recover over the next several months. In the meantime, until you return, we'll try to keep each other amused!

To draw a Harry Potter analogy, may your next few months be as unlike Azkaban as possible and as much as possible like a time under the care of Madam Pomfrey.

That beakerful of Skele-Gro, for example, would probably come in very handy.

I will be waiting patiently for your return as a frequent diary writer.

Hopefully the rest and the painkillers will work and maybe you won't have to be on the painkillers for too long.

Sending you some get well soon karma and hopefully something that will give you a chuckle.

I quess you have to expect getting rolled when you pedal ass all over town. The rest of your life allow an extra six hours entering courthouses and boarding planes for the depantsing and wanding.

posted that the jg Energizer Bunny was using this holiday weekend to recharge. Welp, they were right (kinda) on the recharging, wrong on everything else!! Take it easy. Rule #1--listen to your body and that will help big-time! You will be missed fer sure. However, we will hold the fort until you get back fully healed. Thank gawd, it was a bike and NOT a motorcycle! Vitamin B-12, calcium, and vitamin C are definitely needed here. And....fer what it's worth: REC'D!!!

it can't be said as to what you mean
to us all.

So here's to an easy and speedy recovery

Audio book selections from your loyal readers might be one tool to help you through the non-sleeping hours.

Would reader/commenters like to propose books for collective selection and/or purchase?

Hope you'll be on the mend soon. If reading and holding books/computer is too much maybe you can find yourself getting into podcasts and lectures off YouTube. Best Of the Left is an excellent one we've always loved.

Far too many bicycle accidents in this car-obsessed country. In NYC we're always hearing of yet another one, many times fatal. You'd think people would be more open to riding, and therefore more aware too, for so many obvious reasons.

Bicycling is much more ingrained in the cultures of the rest of the world, whereas here it's almost looked at, as part of the capitalist conditioning, as lower class or trivial or something. I'll never forget being in the middle of Sweden in the winter, in a small town on a beautiful snowy night, and walking to a nearby train station. There were literally hundreds of bicycles chained up and even people riding on that night. Another is something that to this day is the snapshot in my mind of sheer beautiful femininity embodied. It was in a small village in Switzerland, the kind with uniform flowers on every window sill. I saw an elegant older woman in a dress, riding a bicycle with a basket in front, filled with groceries from the market. To me it was the picture of vitality and well-being. I immediately thought of how few older woman ride bicycles in America, or if they do it's as a novelty, not really embraced as an integral, essential part of their lives as it was there.

Heal up, we'll miss you. I'll be on hiatus very soon too, with the expectation of a second baby.