Thanks Roger for filling in all the detail - no fun for you, but it makes it a lot easier for us to accept when we know exactly what happened.Roger wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 1:33 pmHardest day of my life.
Chris and myself met 31 years ago and have been good mates since, not only working together, but sharing very similar recreational passions.
Chris and I were out on a cycle at Crossways (half way between PE and Jeffreys Bay), where he lives. We were a bunch of 20 on the ride. Chris was his normal joking self one minute, and the next, he just fell off his bike. We were going up a rocky hill and initially I thought he had just bumped into the rider next to him and fell. Sadly that was not the case. Not 100% certain as to the cause, but it was pretty much instant. No warning signs before it happened. It was as if someone had just turned a light switch off.
In the bunch we had a training paramedic (as in he trains paramedics) and he came to Chris' assistance within seconds and worked on him for over an hour and half. Everything that could have been done, was done, and could not had any better assistance than he had. EMS helicopter also came to site.
Loneliest ride ever back down that mountain without my mate.
I can only hope I go suddenly like that when it's my time. There can be nothing worse than being a burden on everyone for months or even years as sometimes happens.
Strongs to you, my friend, and to his family and loved ones.
jim
