Subject: Re: Advice for you all:
I hope you have a speedy recovery.

I clipped a tree, with the handlebars, on my mtn-bike a couple of weeks ago.
It was on single-track, wasn't going real hard, but it was downhill and tight.
I was very surprised as my front wheel turned perpendicular to direction of
travel, and I found myself going forward, over the bars. I wear clip in
shoes, so my feet stayed connected to the pedals, and as the physics experiment
played out, I landed hard on my left shoulder, and the rear end of the bike came
up and almost over, before the force unclipped my feet from the pedals.

It hurt pretty good, I still had about 10 miles to get back to my vehicle,
and it wasn't a problem going easy all the way back. But the next 10 days or
so was kind of rough, very sore shoulder. I knew nothing was broken ( been thru
that before ), so just had to back off upper body type workouts for 2 weeks.

Back at it now, for about 5 days, easing into it.

Listen to your body, don't rush your comeback. Foot powered stuff is good
for ya, too. This is a fantastic time to be out in the woods hiking, I'd
stay off the bike till Spring, but you get to make that call. Have a
good recovery !