Need A Little Cheering Up

risky1 · Oct 10, 2006

DezDuster said:
Kez,
You and I are going to have fun comparing injuries. You win the title on most damage for one incident, but I think I have you beat on greatest variety of injuries overall and certainly for motorcycle related damage. .
I had polio when I was six and survived unscathed when it went into remission. Now I have to worry about post-polio syndrome.
The plate in my skull is from a military incident when much younger.
The most ribs I have ever broken at one time was 5 in a motocross race in '74, but I have broken a total of 14 at different times.
In 1982 I rode over my own rt leg while riding a Honda ATC tearing my rt foot off peeling it up to my rt knee. Included compound fractures in the right leg with resultant plate and six pins. .
When landing from a jump on a remote jeep trail in 2000 I rammed my leg straight into the ground pushing my left femur through my knee splitting the tibia. One big screw in the top of the tib to hold it together. That one put me off the bike for nearly a year.
My first heart attack occurred while riding my Husaberg in the desert and I had to drive myself to hospital after getting help to load the bike into my truck.
Those are the highlights.
At least I have managed to spread my injuries over a period of 5 decades. I cannot imagine having to endure the misfortune and pain that you suffered from 1 incident. With the extent of your injuries it is amazing that you still ride. Hats off to you.
I am looking forward to being your host in Las Vegas when you come here for the Moab Ride.
Dez

Hey dez,

My pops has Post-Polio syndrome, It took a long while before anybody could diagnose it, MANY people thought it was just his depression getting worse and they just treated him for that. do you have itdiagnosed now? or are the docs just on the look out for it? take care

kez · Oct 10, 2006

DezDuster said:
At least I have managed to spread my injuries over a period of 5 decades. I cannot imagine having to endure the misfortune and pain that you suffered from 1 incident. With the extent of your injuries it is amazing that you still ride. Hats off to you.
I am looking forward to being your host in Las Vegas when you come here for the Moab Ride.
Dez

To Be Honest It Was Quite Funny,I Tried To Get Out Of The Car But The Door Was Wedged Shut,Didnt Realise The The Cars Roof Was Bent Like A Nikey Swoosh With The Rear Wheels About A Foot Off The Ground While The Front Of The Sills By The Front Wings Were Sitting On The Ground.
When The Doors Didnt Open And I Saw The Windscreen Badly Cracked I Went Mad Banging The Steering Window,Swearing,Etc As It Cost Me A Lot Of Money Getting It Back On The Road With A New Engine.
Mate Came Running Over Yelling At Me,Couldnt Hear What He Was Saying So I Turned The Ignition Back On To Open The Window,He Was Shouting To Turn The Ignition Off.
When He Stuck His Head Through The Window To Grab The Keys He Went A Sort Of Yellow/White Colour And Made An Urgh Noise,Though It Was The Sight Of My Eye Which Was Bleeding.
So I Grabbed The Keys And Handed Them To Him,Realising The The Steering Colunm Was At My Chest Height,Thats Not Good I Thought So I Looked Around With My Good Eye And Realised That I Was Now Sitting On The Edge Of My Seat With the Seat Belt Going
Halfway Across My Face And One Of My Trainers Had Come Off My Foot And Ended Up On The Passenger Seat. I Looked A Little Closer And Saw A Sock In The Shoe as Well,Strange I Thought To My Self,How Did That Happen???.
I Leaned Over And Had A Closer Look...A Hairy Looking Leg With White Things Poking Out!!!! What The??? I Followed This Strange Looking Leg Back Down Into The Footwell Behind The Centre Console And Around Into The Other Footwell Straight To My Hip!.
Crap!!!.
I Remember Saying To The Mate Who Was Still White "What A Pickle I'm Stuck,Look At My Left Leg!!!"
"Its Not The Left One Thats the Problem" Came The Reply.
I Quickly Looked Down At The Right One And Followed That From The Seat Into The Footwell Straight Between The Brake And Accel Pedals,Nothing Too Bad I Thought,What The Hell Is He On??? Look My Other Shoe Came Off Too,Again I Looked A Little Closer As Its Quite Hard Looking At Things With One Eye Shut.
Yep You Guessed It That Shoe Also Had A Strange Sock Still In It.
Now It Was A HOLY CRAP Thats My Foot,Which Was Pointing The Wrong Way And And 4" Away From The Side Of My Leg!!!!!!!.
At That Point I Felt A Little Queazy,Then It Dawned On Me.....Why Didnt It Hurt????.
Oh My I Thought To Myself I've Broken My Back,Then I Fellt Really Sick! I Leaned Back In My Chair And Stayed Completely Still Then Some Woman Started To talk To Me And Scratched My Neck.
Dont Remember Anything After That But It Took An Hour And A Half To Get Me Out Of The Car.

The Girl Who Scratched My Neck was The First Paramedic To See Me And Came By After I Was Off The Ventilator And On A Normal Ward,Apparantly I Had A High pain Threshold??? Only 1 Shot Of Morphine Time She First Saw Me To Me Going Up To Theater.

risky1 · Oct 10, 2006

kez said:
DezDuster said:

At least I have managed to spread my injuries over a period of 5 decades. I cannot imagine having to endure the misfortune and pain that you suffered from 1 incident. With the extent of your injuries it is amazing that you still ride. Hats off to you.
I am looking forward to being your host in Las Vegas when you come here for the Moab Ride.
Dez

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To Be Honest It Was Quite Funny,I Tried To Get Out Of The Car But The Door Was Wedged Shut,Didnt Realise The The Cars Roof Was Bent Like A Nikey Swoosh With The Rear Wheels About A Foot Off The Ground While The Front Of The Sills By The Front Wings Were Sitting On The Ground.
When The Doors Didnt Open And I Saw The Windscreen Badly Cracked I Went Mad Banging The Steering Window,Swearing,Etc As It Cost Me A Lot Of Money Getting It Back On The Road With A New Engine.
Mate Came Running Over Yelling At Me,Couldnt Hear What He Was Saying So I Turned The Ignition Back On To Open The Window,He Was Shouting To Turn The Ignition Off.
When He Stuck His Head Through The Window To Grab The Keys He Went A Sort Of Yellow/White Colour And Made An Urgh Noise,Though It Was The Sight Of My Eye Which Was Bleeding.
So I Grabbed The Keys And Handed Them To Him,Realising The The Steering Colunm Was At My Chest Height,Thats Not Good I Thought So I Looked Around With My Good Eye And Realised That I Was Now Sitting On The Edge Of My Seat With the Seat Belt Going
Halfway Across My Face And One Of My Trainers Had Come Off My Foot And Ended Up On The Passenger Seat. I Looked A Little Closer And Saw A Sock In The Shoe as Well,Strange I Thought To My Self,How Did That Happen???.
I Leaned Over And Had A Closer Look...A Hairy Looking Leg With White Things Poking Out!!!! What The??? I Followed This Strange Looking Leg Back Down Into The Footwell Behind The Centre Console And Around Into The Other Footwell Straight To My Hip!.
Crap!!!.
I Remember Saying To The Mate Who Was Still White "What A Pickle I'm Stuck,Look At My Left Leg!!!"
"Its Not The Left One Thats the Problem" Came The Reply.
I Quickly Looked Down At The Right One And Followed That From The Seat Into The Footwell Straight Between The Brake And Accel Pedals,Nothing Too Bad I Thought,What The Hell Is He On??? Look My Other Shoe Came Off Too,Again I Looked A Little Closer As Its Quite Hard Looking At Things With One Eye Shut.
Yep You Guessed It That Shoe Also Had A Strange Sock Still In It.
Now It Was A HOLY CRAP Thats My Foot,Which Was Pointing The Wrong Way And And 4" Away From The Side Of My Leg!!!!!!!.
At That Point I Felt A Little Queazy,Then It Dawned On Me.....Why Didnt It Hurt????.
Oh My I Thought To Myself I've Broken My Back,Then I Fellt Really Sick! I Leaned Back In My Chair And Stayed Completely Still Then Some Woman Started To talk To Me And Scratched My Neck.
Dont Remember Anything After That But It Took An Hour And A Half To Get Me Out Of The Car.

The Girl Who Scratched My Neck was The First Paramedic To See Me And Came By After I Was Off The Ventilator And On A Normal Ward,Apparantly I Had A High pain Threshold??? Only 1 Shot Of Morphine Time She First Saw Me To Me Going Up To Theater.

Having been a paramedic for 10 odd years in a former life (in dezDusters neck of the woods no less), your accident sounds very nasty, many people would not have survived something like that. good jobs those medics did getting you out. fortunate for you, it was the rest of your body busted up and not your neck as you originally thought. My brother was in a wreck, totaled the car, not a speck of blood spilled except for a small scratch right between his eyes... but his neck was turned to powder and he had double pnuemo-thorax (basically popped his lungs)... he was a medic student and was traveling with other medic students. they performed CPR until the ambulance arrived which was quite some time since they were in the middle of nowhere and it was snowing so the helo's would not fly.

All the doctors told us there is absolutely no way he was going to live , but today he teaches high school Spanish.

kez · Oct 10, 2006

Dont Know When It Was,Maybe Either When The Nice But Quite Smug Registar Who Fixed My Left Leg Or The Young Doc Changing My Dressing That Made Me Determined To Show Them.
The One Who Fixed My Leg Said "It'll Be Near On 2 Years Before You Can Start Walking On Them Legs If Yer Lucky" While Junior Doc Said "Theres Still A Chance You Can Loose This Foot Of Yours You Know?"
It Was Like A Switch Inside My Head That Went Click And I Remember Thinking "B*****KS To You I Can Do Anything"
Funny Things These Accidents.

DezDuster · Oct 10, 2006

[/quote]Hey dez,

My pops has Post-Polio syndrome, It took a long while before anybody could diagnose it, MANY people thought it was just his depression getting worse and they just treated him for that. do you have itdiagnosed now? or are the docs just on the look out for it? take care[/quote]

Risky1,
No, I have not been diagnosed. In fact I have been avoiding even thinking about it, but over the last year or so I have been experiencing a lot of inexplicable fatigue... my understanding is that the symptoms later in life tend to be fairly mild if the disease was originally not very severe and mine was not. Guess I should find out huh?

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