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[tigerblade]

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

[PJ721]

wow...heal up Steve....going to miss chatting with you at Summit 

[Gixxerblade]

Thanks bro.

[svmoto107]

How are you doing now 4 days after surgery?  How has life changed?

[Gixxerblade]

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. 
Thanks for askin'!

[dicatirider944]

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????

[Ducmarc]

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.

[Gixxerblade]

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.

[Jason748]

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.

Do I Win????

Do you even need to ask? 
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. 

[dicatirider944]

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

[Super Dave]

How many times can I post this?

Buy this bone suppliment today.  It will shorten your recovery time, period.

[Ducmarc]

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.