Magnus Manson was riding with Mark Wallace and McKay Vezina on Vancouver Island yesterday when a mistake during the ride landed him in the hospital with a broken leg and cracked pelvis.
| Made a little mistake yesterday riding my bike and managed to snap the big bone in my leg and cracked the pelvis a bit! I would have to say this is the most pain I have ever experienced in my life but with the help of @markwallacebike @mckay_vezina Ian Wallace and the Cowichan emergency services I’m doing all good today! Got some TI hardware in there now holding everything back together and I’m gonna keep it positive while I get better!!!—Magnus Manson |
You don't need to be a doctor to tell something's not right here.
We reached out to Magnus for more details on what exactly happened and he told us this:
| I was riding downhill on Prevost. I just misjudged the speed on a creek gap and overshot onto the next lip and then got air into a tree and hit my hip and legs hard against it, head and rest of body are doing great! Doctors are saying 6-8 weeks till weight bearing and then 6 months till we’re back together, but a ton of people are reaching out already and saying things will move really quickly once the bone fuses to the TI rod that’s in my leg!!
Happy to be safe and thankful for the amazing people around me assisting with this insane experience via social media and the ones who were slicing me open. I am going to start counting the days till I can throw a leg over the bike again!—Magnus Manson |
We wish Magnus all the best with his recovery.
As for the recovery, I always thought the titanium was going to speed things up. But there is more to it. I broke one collarbone once. Took a few weeks out of which only one week (part time) with the sling. I think after six weeks or so it was as if nothing ever happened. Years later I snapped the other collarbone. It turned out to be a more complex fracture (in multiple little bitty pieces) so they put a plate in it. Apparently the surgery is kind of a violent process to collect all those pieces and get them in line. So it took me a good while to recover from just that surgery and a good lot longer before I was back on mtb and bmx. This fracture looks complex as well to me. And that's just the leg in the picture, not the pelvis. So yeah, the 6 month recovery doesn't seem odd to me. That said, of course I wish him a speedy recovery!
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/14/healthcare-job-cuts-coronavirus-worker-layoffs
www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-02/coronavirus-california-healthcare-workers-layoffs-furloughs
Depends on how you look at it I guess.
The city of Vancouver has the best death rate percentage of ICU admitted patients in the world at only 15%. The hospital there is using an intensive team based approach that has paid off!
Go to the beach and you’re accused of being a selfish moron that wants to get everyone sick. The hypocrisy is baffling.
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Totally agree, but you’re referring to New York, not the states where beaches are open. Wonder why there is no media outrage over the crowds in Central Park? We all know why.
Those cases were always there , but funny thing everyone(most98%) recovered from the Wujan Flu with little to no symptoms. Go figure?
The only people that need protection are the elderly especially in nursing homes and sick people.
Just say no to the fear porn.
When you use the "fear porn" term, it is politically charged and cliche. How about dial it down a bit and have a reasonable discussion.
What is going on now is absolute fear porn and political games to further the leftist agenda items. Or did you forget Nancy and Rahm and any of the other retards they have talking about taking advantage of a crisis?
Bringing politics into it only makes you seem even less informed than when you were only purporting falsehoods without a political spin. If you really want to understand it, go study epidemiology. No, not on YouTube or wherever you think reliable information comes from. Go to an actual school - I hear University of Washington has a good program.
In the meanwhile, please stop talking. You are not helping, only hurting.
Just maybe start to listen to the actual experts in the way that a scientist would listen - don't cherry-pick your sources to support your opinions. Consider all the evidence, and draw conclusions on the preponderance of evidence, and be OK with the fact that your conclusions might be different than they were before. For this to work, you have to be willing to admit that you're currently wrong, which might be the biggest barrier for you.
I really hope this helps you better navigate life, like when you find yourself confused as to why people think you're uninformed, and you truly don't understand why.
I hope Magnus gets better fast. Prayers are with him. Stay positive, it gets better. But it will be a struggle. Facts. I am out.
www.mountainbikingbc.ca/ride-safe-during-covid-19
"Stay local and avoid crowded parks and trails
Bike solo or only with members of your household
Keep at least 2 metres (6 feet) from others when not riding
Allow at least 10 metres (30 feet) of space when following another rider and provide at least 2 metres (6 feet) of space when passing another rider
Practice low-risk riding"
Use your brain- If masks worked then why all the uproar. Wear one if you are scared. The rest of us who are comfortable with the constant bacterial/virus risk that is everywhere will go on or way. You flattened the curve. Your done.
The rest is tyrannical douchebag democrats who are hellbent on keeping this going until the rioting is so loud they need military or the election is over. Pick one.
www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/05/27/dr-fauci-intv-coronavirus-wear-mask-sot-nr-vpx.cnn
"Dr. Fauci: I wear a mask because it's effective"
The human brain sucks at making complex decisions, if it wasn't for guys like Fauci and other Dr's making educated decisions based on data, who knows where we'd be. Folks like yourself wouldn't have taken any of this seriously back when it started and the curve certainly wouldn't have been flattened.
Just because you don't understand doesn't make you right. There was a time we though the sun revolved around the earth, until science and observational measurement proved that wrong....but of course there were and still are folks that believe it.
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I'm guessing the tree is in the ER bed next to you with a few broken limbs as well?
The power of the mind plays a huge role in how well and how fast you heal.
You felt hurt that others insulted you, and now your point has been legitimized, but you might have been the only one who remembered. Sometimes we just got to walk it off.
COVID IS OVER
(jkjkjk, but seriously, it’s mostly not an issue in almost all area)
This is the exact reason I’ve been taking it easy on trails and not been going anywhere crazy where this can happen.
Yes @roadstain, show us on the doll where the bad man diddled you
The fact remains, humans are nomadic for a reason. If someone opts to stay in the cesspool of NYC, that is a choice they make. Much the same as my lack of care or compassion for people who use IV drugs, I do not care if they do, I also do not care if they OD (as long as I do not have to pay for the cremation). Unfortunately, all of the US is having to pay for the idiotic lifestyle choices of those who are in NYC. They are not worth my time, my concern nor my tax dollars.
Add Minneapolis and their failed leadership to the list. Reaping what they sow.
Currently, blacks are having their long overdue Boston Tea Party, if you will. LONG overdue to demand for well deserved rights. Police, courts, public schools and public aid LOVES to keep the status quo for that consumer base, keeping them in the system and hopeless.
Plus we get shitbirds like Biden saying real "blacks" will vote for him!!!! (And his pro slavery party, yes, the Democrats are and were pro slavery)
"When we fail to honor their rights, we not only tarnish the badge we wear, we completely erode the trust so many of us in law enforcement work so hard to build, particularly within minority communities. The events this past week in Minneapolis clearly illustrate just how quickly that trust can be lost."
Either way, heal up quick Magnus!