MY STORY︎
Who am I, my photos, the crash, and why it triggered the creation of a book.THE CRASH.
In 2023, I’ve got involved in an accident which had a big impact on my life. Here’s the story.
This bike was only eight months old, and suddenly it was gone, almost just like me.
BOOM!
• How:
As I was returning home from a weekly group ride around Paris, in the blink of an eye, BOOM! I was like unplugged from life. According to the police, I crossed an intersection without checking for oncoming traffic, when I should have stopped to let a car go by. So I was apparently the one at fault.But I don’t remember any of this at all, so all I can say is “okay”, shrug my shoulders and deal with it, which isn’t easy.
I lost consciousness on impact, got a few broken bones, a severe brain injury with internal bleeding despite my helmet, and I remained in a coma for over three weeks. The medical staff could not tell if I was going to make it. They also told me that without a helmet, I would have been dead.
• The damage:
After spending three weeks in a coma, I woke up. The medical staff told me that without a helmet, I would have been dead for sure.
I stayed glued to bed at hospital for a few months. At first I couldn’t walk anymore, or even just stand up on my own. Taking a shower consisted in getting washed by someone else…• June 2025, as I write this:
I attended a rehab hospital several times a week for over a year. I learned how to walk again, how to ride bikes too. My first bike ride of 2024 had to be done on a rehab bike, something I would have never expected to happen at some point in my life. Today, I still have a few after-effects from that: I have very annoying speech difficulties for neurological reasons, and my right eye is no longer aligned with the other one, which is forcing me to mask it to avoid double vision.But that’s OK, at least I’m not sitting in a wheelchair, or laying underground in a wooden box.
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