Wear your lids kids
Darcy brings bottles to the depot in a shopping cart. He hasn’t ridden a bike since the accident in 2007.
This is Darcy, six years ago he was an active bike binner, bombing around through the back alleys of Fairview, collecting cans and bottles. Today he’s come into the Go Green bottle depot with a shopping cart, filled with not much, reminding me of a day back in 2007.
It’s amazing, man, what can happen at five miles an hour!
November 17, 2007, I saw Darcy in the bottle depot with a small shopping cart, filled with a few bottles. No bike, and his face looked awful! His left eye was blood red, framed by black, purple, and yellow. He explained to me that on the Tuesday, four days previous, he’d gotten a stick caught in his front spokes, and the bike flipped back over front. He did a hard face-plant on to concrete.
The damage around his left eye was severe, so much so that he need subcutaneous stitches — stitches not only on the surface, around his eye, but also under the skin. Darcy always wore a bike helmet, and he told me that the doctors who stitched him back up felt that the helmet probably prevented a very serious head injury.
Talking about it today, Darcy, who turns 55 on the weekend, says the injury left no lasting damage. It took the doctors over two hours, and some 60 stitches to sew it up, and it healed perfectly, though he adds that two layers of [sub-dermal] skin actually dissolved.
“It’s amazing, man, what can happen at five miles an hour!”
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