Hospitalized but now at home

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I did wonder why you weren't posting and now have the answer. After such a serious incident you are lucky and probably tough to have survived. Hope you get back to some sort of normality soon. I was on deaths door 3 years ago , but apart from a few issues I have made decent progress. Sorry to hear about your wife as well, at least you have your daughter to rely on, I owe my survival to my missus. I wish you all the best.
 
John
I hope physically you recover well & can hopefully one day ride again. Cant imagine losing my wife, that must be awful to say the least. But your daughter must bring a smile to your face & warmth to your heart. I hope the toys you sold were the ones you intended to sell anyway.
All the best for the future.
Chris
 
Thank you all for your kind comments. It Will take time before I can ride again as my left arm is quite compromised in my right arm while functional has lost muscle strength both arms seem to improve with physical therapy and occupational therapy and I am optimistic about being fully functional soon. At this point I am ambulatory and I can get around without a walker although I am more safe and confident if I use the walker. This is a matter of muscle strength and loss of my sense of balance after being on my back in bed for five months

I lost weight, dropping from 275 pounds to 188 pounds between October 15 and March 13 the last day I was in the hospital.

as for the details of the accident, I cannot say because I have no recollection of what happened. I first became conscious about five weeks after the date of the accident when I came out of the drug induced coma that I have been placed in. The highway patrol officer who wrote up the incident was not a witness and his statements were cursory and indeterminate. All I know is that I was going slow in the slow lane because I was on a dirtbike with short gearing and white handlebars so my suspicion is it someone came flying through thinking there was a wide open spot to the rightAnd I just got run over. No one knows for sure
 
Sounds plausible and not a day goes by without an incident on the road where I ask myself 'what if'. I try to drive and ride like a fighter pilot: a moments inattention means you get shot down. Every ride should be as if you are on a check ride. Constant attention and even then it only helps even the odds.
May you hang in there and keep up your determination to return to a full life. Keep in touch we all need these stories.
 
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Sounds plausible and not a day goes by without an incident on the road where I ask myself 'what if'. I try to drive and ride like a fighter pilot: a moments inattention means you get shot down. Every ride should be as if you are on a check ride. Constant attention and even then it only helps even the odds.
May you hang in there and keep up your determination to return to a full life. Keep in touch we all need these stories.
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I, too, lost the joy of motorcycling "free" after being clobbered / blindsided from a guy who ran a stop sign ONE BLOCK AWAY from my driveway. Since then (about 30 years ago), every ride is a "full alert" ride, unless i am out in the familiar countryside where I only raise my alert level near blind curves and rural intersections. I am thankful I've never been seriously injured, and am determined to ride until I can no longer physically manage it alone.

I'm not an ATGATT person, but definitely good shoes, gloves and full helmet...
 
Sad to say but this stuff comes with the territory. We have all known it from our first motor bike rides... I finished up underneath a car with a broken hipand my head a foot away from its offside front wheel!. And it hasproved to be life changing. Irksome but I figure as I am still here that isthe main thing and am lucky to be alive. All speed with your recovery and best wishes
 
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Your explanation of what happened is what I would have guessed.

Gotta keep up on the freeway these days. I ride in the slow lane when I ride, which isn't often anymore. I spend a lot of time looking in my rear view, because riding at the speed limit means I'm in the way of all the very important entitled people, and an old skinny motorcycle doesn't register as an object worth paying much attention to in those entitled important caffeine filled minds.

I doubt I'd ever ride again after what happened to you. I'd probably do little more than pull weeds, if I recovered enough to do it. 40 years ago I probably wouldn't have quit riding, but times do change.

Anyway, I hope you recover and can get back to a fruitful life. You are one lucky son of a gun.
 
I’m afraid when I’m in a car on an LA freeway.

It was sheer terror when I was on my Guzzi in Bay Area freeway traffic.

But you’ll never feel more alive.

Until you aren’t.
 
Sad news, for sure. Welcome back, best wishes on your recovery, and please accept my belatedly condolences for the loss of your wife.
 
Best wishes for a successful recovery.
There are a lot of distracted drivers on the road these days with their handheld devices and cyclists (motorized or not) need to be ever so defensive.
 
What an ordeal! Thankfully, you survived and are rebuilding your life.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Condolences as well.
Russ

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Sad to say but this stuff comes with the territory. We have all known it from our first motor bike rides... I finished up underneath a car with a broken hipand my head a foot away from its offside front wheel!. And it hasproved to be life changing. Irksome but I figure as I am still here that isthe main thing and am lucky to be alive. All speed with your recovery and best wishes
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I totally agree, but what we signed up for when we first got the bug is a long way from what we witness and have to be aware of these days. There are just so many other distractions to drivers now. Over the past few years it has become very common to see cars veering into the wrong lane only to be corrected at the last moment or people on the phone approaching a roundabout which you are already on then looking straight at you whilst pulling out in right front of you. Over here many bike riders take unnecessary risks as well. The mountain passes are marked at regular intervals with crosses that have withering bunches of flowers at their base.
 
Hope you're young enough to recover correctly. It's brutal when you've been on your back for even a couple weeks. Amazing how fast you loose strength and the nerves have to come back. Good luck with your recovery sorry about the accident.
 
Good to see you finally on the recovery trail, John. I've been hoping you would be able to ride again. Wouldn't be the same on the Norton club rides without you to chase.

Ken
 
WOW, just read this. Sincerely wish all the best.
Has the perpetrator been held accountable?
 
Gee Wizz John I really do wish you a fast and quick recovery.
I hope you feel yourself much better since being at home and a medal of honour to your daughter.
I wish you a Happy Easter
John
 
Good to hear that you are on the mend, hope you will ride bikes soon.
Condolences for the passing of your wife.
 
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