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Pretty cool, huh? Jut got it done. I would safely say that race season is over now. :biggrin:
Ouch!
Quote from: Gixxerblade on April 28, 2007, 09:32:55 AM
...........I would safely say that race season is over now. :biggrin:
Why?
I want to be fully healed before I get on the bike. That means about 9-12 months after I will have the plate removed so the bone can be on its own.
I know that feeling... Finally got back on a bike last weekend after 7 months, because of this:
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But mine is staying in.
Quote from: Gixxerblade on April 28, 2007, 02:26:25 PM
I want to be fully healed before I get on the bike. That means about 9-12 months after I will have the plate removed so the bone can be on its own.
is it just your collarbone or is there something more that's hard to see?
i'm just curious because i jus broke mine in 3 places and got it screwed
back together with a full length plate but i'm expecting to be back on
the track in 7 or 8 weeks rather than 7 or 8 months.... so wondering
waht was differnet.
hard to explain. it was splintered and quite destroyed. it was almost healed when i got the surgery but had to be rebroken. doc says it was the worst collarbone break he had ever seen. i will be back near the end of the season but probably mostly trackdays and all that. racing will wait till next year.
I can trump those. :biggrin:
what's that? Looks like your back??? damn, looks ugly.
DAMN!!!!
You win...
Quote from: Court Jester on April 30, 2007, 05:15:20 PM
what's that? Looks like your back??? damn, looks ugly.
Two rods and 16 screws worth of titanium, courtesy of Rockford Memorial.
Kris, your confused. When they say to use titanium bolts for racing they mean on the bike, not your spine!
Quote from: funsizeracing on May 01, 2007, 09:52:13 AM
Kris, your confused. When they say to use titanium bolts for racing they mean on the bike, not your spine!
I'm trying to get down to your race weight. I have a ways to go... LOL
wow...heal up Steve....going to miss chatting with you at Summit
:cheers:
Thanks bro.
How are you doing now 4 days after surgery? How has life changed?
My shoulder is numb. Doc musta cut a nerve or something. Getting more use out of the arm even though he said I am not supposed to use it. I still feel a little pain but just at the surgery spot but the Percocet helps with that. I have another 40 or so days off of work to heal. The Marines do that for their troops. :biggrin:
Thanks for askin'!
Ok, I will try and trump all so far. I don't have copies of x-rays but might try and scam some tomorrow when I go back to the doc. Here is the small list:
1-Shattered Left Shoulder one plate 10 screws
2-Broken Right shoulder
3-Broken left hip 5" screw & washer
4-Broken Right hip
5-Shattered Pelvis
6-Snapped Tib/Fib right leg W/16" rod that a hole was drilled in my kneecap to install
7-(2) Broken vertebras in my neck
8-(4) Fractured vertebras in my back
9-All right ribs boken/fractured
10-1/2 left ribs broken/fractured
11-(2) Calapsed lungs
All thanks to turn 5 HTP 6/15/06
Do I Win???? :biggrin:
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I thought I go ahead and post my measly $111,000 box of screws.
you still in the hospital steve? I've been home for two weeks watching nascar 24/7 and it really sucks. Ducrider I hope your able to walk sounds like it tried to kill you.
marc.
Yeah I am home. Just got back from seeing Spiderman 3. Good flick, predictable but entertaining. I am jut being a big baby. A little tight a little sore, I am ready to go racing! Except the doctor wants me to keep it in a sling for 6 weeks!!! That lasted about 3 nights.
Quote from: Gixxerblade on May 02, 2007, 07:04:33 PM
My shoulder is numb. Doc musta cut a nerve or something.
Yep, did the same to mine. Got most of the feeling back after about 5 months, but I still have a couple of small numb spots.
Quote from: ducatirider944 on May 03, 2007, 01:08:43 AM
Do I Win???? :biggrin:
Do you even need to ask? :lmao:
We're just all glad that your well on the road to recovery, even those of us -like me- that have never even met you. :thumb:
Gixer-
I know what your going thru, all you can do is watch tv and surf the net. I don't know that I would worry a hole lot about the numb part. My hip and thru my lower back was really numb when I came out of the coma 5 weeks later, but it has improved alot after 10 months. I still have a little numbing sensation but nothing like it was before.
Ducmarc-
Your hip looks nasty, you have my hip beat. Hopefully you will get lucky and be able to have the hardware pulled out after 9 months like they just did to my shoulder. I'm starting to get more movement out of it, but I think it will be a few more months of theropy.
I don't wish what happened to me to happen to anyone else. It does look like HTP has mad some improvement to their track, little to late for me, but at least they have made it better for everyone else that still races. I know a broken bone here and there comes with the sport, mine was just on the extreme end. Heel up and get back on. I would if the wife would let me, I would just make sure to ride tracks that were without much for walls. I was told I could pick, her or racing. I might end up missing her someday :lmao:
How many times can I post this?
Buy this bone suppliment (http://www.seacoastvitamins.com/product_info.php?products_id=803) today. It will shorten your recovery time, period.
I'm glad to see everyone is recovering, especially ducatirider. I feel lucky after reading about your injuries. It does give you a lot of time to reflect, it's hard to believe that some race tracks are so dangerous for no reason at all. I see where Santiago Villa, who races with us got hurt bad at Fontana by falling on plastic rumble strips that were nailed down in a parking lot set up for a race track, and this is the AMA. The Europeans would never show up for a race like that. As far as Superdave, what kind of bone supplement do I need to take? I am open to all ideas, oops, nevermind I figured it out, I'll check out the site and see what I can find and try to help. On the bright side, I'm home for all the races on "Two Wheel" Tuesdays..lol. For all of the pain and discomfort in the hospital, not pooping for a week before and after surgery was the worst... I tell all of my friends when you're in the hospital, do what you have to before the nurses come in with poop removal equipment...lol. I hope ducatirider that you don't have to miss your wife. Maybe starting off with some track days will put her mind at ease. I suppose I need to count myself lucky as my wife made me put my 748 in the living room near my hospital bed so I can pick at it from time to time and my 16 yr old daughter has the body work on the back porch trying her hand at fiberglassing it. I believe she'll even let me race again..lol.
Click the link I have posted. Buy it from there at that site. It's inexpensive, and it works.
Europeans? Um, they do races on street courses. IOM is a quick example with houses imediately off the course. They do it, and they recognize the risks also. The European based FIM world championships had courses like the IOM on the world championship schedule. Spa was on the schedule for a long time, and it's actually made up of public roads. The "Bus Stop" is actually a bus stop.
I heard this today...
QuoteRider Donnan killed at Tandragee
John Donnan was a former Irish Superbike Champion
The Tandragee 100 motorcycling meeting was abandoned on Saturday following the death of a competitor.
Ardglass rider John Donnan was killed during the Supersport 600 race at the Northern Ireland road racing event.
The 42-year-old crashed at the chicane near the start-finish area when attempting to avoid another competitor.
Donnan's bike was catapulted into the nearby paddock area by the crash and narrowly avoided hitting a number of team officials and spectators.
Donnan was a former Irish Superbike Champion and had also run his own road racing team for a number of seasons.
He had competed in motorcycling events for 20 years.
Clerk of the course Bobby Edgar said that the meeting had been abandoned "as a mark of respect to John's family".
"The North Armagh Motorcycling Club extend its sympathy to John's family. We have done a lot of work on the circuit to improve safety but it's a dangerous sport," said Mr Edgar.
There had been an earlier crash on the same part of the circuit in Saturday's meeting although that rider was not seriously injured.
Earlier, Cameron Donald had produced a record-breaking lap to win the first open race at the meeting.
Donald became the first rider to produce a sub-three minute lap in the event by charging to an average speed of 106.3mph on the circuit.
The Uel Duncan Honda rider edged out Dubliner Martin Finnegan by .20sec while Keith Amor took third place.
William Dunlop took victory in the concurrently run 250cc race.
you're right dave I forgot about the English equation but with all the good tracks in the country plastic rumble strips in the parking lot of a stock car track seems absurd for the AMA and my friends that raced supersport last weekend tell me that if you touch the rumble strip you crash I guess that's what happened to Santiago. we'll see tomorrow on the speed channel.
Quote from: Ducmarc on May 05, 2007, 10:43:05 PMif you touch the rumble strip you crash...
I'll agree.
But if you put a tire in the dirt, a similar thing can happen too.
Also, Keith Code pushed a curbing idea probably fifteen years ago for race tracks. His idea was to develop a curbing system to be put down temporarily at every track, especially those that cars raced on, to develop a new line that wasn't through so many bumps.
In years past, there have been haybale chicanes, 2x4 chicanes, garbage can chicanes (when riders got injuried by them because they held them down with blocks, they changed to water jugs...which shot water everywhere), and cones.
At some point, something is needed. As a racer, one has to recognize the risk and deal with it. Don't run over the stuff...
really enjoy chatting about these subjects with my business and racing Fla and southeast i have not spent much time thinking about the logistical problems in our sport now that i have a couple more months of bed care it gives me time to think about these issues and maybe not have the standard knee jerk reaction that i have had in the future . and maybe do something constructive for the sport.