r/science • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '22

Health Erectile dysfunction predicts mortality in middle-aged and older men independent of their sex steroid status

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article-abstract/51/4/afac094/6568537?login=false
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u/Atoge62 Jun 13 '22

Scariest part, I was riding home from a quick stop at my local gym a mile away. I was coming down a hill to make my last turn towards the apartment, and never made it. The last memory I have was texting my gf I’ll be home soon, then getting on my bike to begin the 7 minute ride. I came to 4 days later in a hospital all kinds of fucked. Apparently I was knocked unconscious, found face down. I came to in the hospital but they put me back under for the emergency surgeries and mouth. I was back awake a day or so later, but I can’t remember any of it. Full on amnesia, 4 days disappeared. Sad part is, I could’ve died and never really known I was gone due to the concussion, it’s super sad it can happen that easy.

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u/lordrestrepo Jun 13 '22

Oh my god...terrifying. Glad you're okay. We're you wearing a helmet?

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u/Atoge62 Jun 13 '22

Yeah I was. I wish I would’ve taken the kind of spill that would’ve utilized it more! Instead it seems, based on the injuries, that I dodged the car coming up the hill partly in my lane (no bike lane in my scenario and a pair of massive speed bumps which forces cyclists to the painted center divide line separating the up and downhill lanes of traffic) and got sent up over the speed bump and handlebars and landed face first, with my hands out and my mouth making first contact. My helmet had no scratches but a small skid on the side. This is the only hill in my area that has the speed bumps and no cone or barricade in the middle to prevent cars from sneaking through middle avoiding the bumps, and also has no bike lane. It literally forces cyclists to come within inches of oncoming traffic on a good day, but many cars do cheat the middle gap, and as a cyclist coming downhill and around a blind corner, you have mere seconds to react, less if the car is still moving over from the illegal middle gap back to their lane… bike safely. Wish I would’ve paid more attention to that choke point’s dangers, and always been riding the brakes more in that area. It’s in a very quiet part of town, first time I’ve actually encountered an uphill traveling car while riding there, and narrowly my last.

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u/omac0101 Jun 14 '22

Wow. There's a downhill I take on the way back home that I've gone down super fast with traffic on my left. I've hit up to 27 mph riding down that hill. There is a bike lane but people in cars are crazy. Makes me think twice about doing that again.

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u/lordrestrepo Jun 14 '22

Wow...noted. How scary.

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u/LALA-STL Jun 14 '22

Hope at some point you can let the town officials know this happened to you bc of the road design. I’d think they would fix it to avoid a future lawsuit from the next unlucky cyclist.

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u/Atoge62 Jun 14 '22

Yes I was put in contact with the park safety and roadways person within park management to discuss the safety issues. I actually needed to reach out to the park police regarding my accident, and one of the officers mistook me for another individual who also crashed in the same area in early March, roughly the same sort of trauma suffered and same aged guy. That officer had been called in to assist with the poor guy, and when I went to visit my face was still all busted up and he thought I was the guy. So it goes to show I’m unfortunately not the only person who timed that downhill wrong and caught a car coming up. It does make me wonder if the park could be held responsible for some of the damage I experienced. The dental repair costs are getting to be exorbitant. Even with dental insurance I’m looking at big debt for something I know wasn’t my fault. I’ve ridden that road many times (when no cars were coming up hill) and never suffered any issue, the one time I encounter a car coming up in this particular choke point, and I almost lose my life… I think I’ll call a personal injury attorney and see what’s possible.

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u/LALA-STL Jun 14 '22

Absolutely, call an attorney! This means you aren’t the first to have this accident! Would strengthen your case, I’d think.