[CherylNYC]

Originally Posted by Medusa

Reviving this thread for this New Year!

1. Did you make any New Year's resolutions last year? If so, what?

Nope.

2. Did you keep your resolutions?

See above.

3. What is the biggest/most important lesson you learned over the last year?

Dyke bikers are the best, most supportive people on earth.

4. What is one thing that you meant to accomplish but didn't?

Finish and rent out that studio apartment on the ground floor of my house.

5. What was the biggest change in your life over the last year?

Getting hit by a car in April 2011.

6. Do you like cheese?

I loooooooove cheese! I look forward to being able to eat it again in my next life. For the remainder of this one, I'm happy to watch others eat cheese. If we go out to dinner together I hope that you will order something with cheese so I can watch.

7. Did anyone new come into your life over the last year?

I think so. This may be what they call 'dating'.

8. What are you most thankful for over the last year?

Not ending up in a wheelchair, or worse, as a result of getting hit by a car in April. There were 9 breaks to my lumbar spine, including 4 breaks in L5. I had no spinal chord injury, which seems impossible. Or miraculous. Or both. Even more miraculous, because nothing was displaced, spinal surgery was not necessary. My pelvis was shattered, but the doctors put it back together beautifully. My broken ribs didn't puncture my lung. My broken hand healed perfectly, which is important when you're a professional sculptor. My femur was not broken, which seems impossible when the extent of the soft tissue damage in my thigh became known. My bones are strong, and writing that I was fortunate seems like the world's biggest understatement. My body produced a huge adrenaline surge that carried me through months of aggressive PT. I healed as fast as a teenaged athlete. No, I'm not exaggerating. I was dragging my knees around the track for two glorious track days in August, just four months after I got hit. (I was between surgeries.) My friends took care of my needs before I even knew I had them, (see #3). To top it all off, even though I've had a few setbacks, I'm going to get 100% function back by late winter of 2012, just as I said I would. Not 90%. Not even 98%. I will absolutely get 100% back. Period. And I'm still financially solvent. That's its own miracle, and I never take it for granted.

9. Will you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If yes, what?

Nope.

10. Name one new thing that you plan to do in 2012.

Buy a new race bike!
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And finish renovating my house.