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cantfly -well i can, just dont land well...
Hi all -have been on this site a couple of weeks now. i found it when looking for answers / info on tramadol and oxycontin withdrawrels -the addiction forum helped heaps, i may well owe it my life. but i am on the better side of that now. one problem though -my new friend pain... but at least i can logic that -i should be in pain. now i have to learn about it...
I had a bike accident 16 mths ago, and ummm well did a little damage... it realy helps me to talk about it at times and i have learnt a lot that i may be able to share (not in a dr sort of way -but am getting good at reading x-rays etc. lol...)
i do have a sort of twisted sense of humour and hope u can all put up with it... please...
thanks T.
I had a bike accident 16 mths ago, and ummm well did a little damage... it realy helps me to talk about it at times and i have learnt a lot that i may be able to share (not in a dr sort of way -but am getting good at reading x-rays etc. lol...)
i do have a sort of twisted sense of humour and hope u can all put up with it... please...
thanks T.
pmsl @ mushies...
- trees that attack -ground that jumps up and gets u ... -thought i was in the land of topsy turvey in Inid Blyton's magic faraway tree stories -hmm showing age. but honestly what do kids read these days??? ok... harry potter was ok...
Thanks all T.
- trees that attack -ground that jumps up and gets u ... -thought i was in the land of topsy turvey in Inid Blyton's magic faraway tree stories -hmm showing age. but honestly what do kids read these days??? ok... harry potter was ok...
Thanks all T.
happyhbmom - I had one of those too. LOL! Horse spooked and decided he was back on the race track again. I made the first 3 turns and he slipped and kicked on the 4th. I landed arse-end on a metal fence post and bashed my head on the boards. One each: busted tailbone. Didn't find out that I hit the fence until a couple weeks later. While I was airborne, I kept thinking, "This arena has a good 3 feet of sand in it. The landing won't be that bad." I only WISH I had hit the ground!
cantfly - my hubby has had several bikes in his life - and more than his share of crashes. Thankfully, they were all when he was young and stupid - well stupid-ER. Not exactly a bike crash story, but being very young and very stupid at the age of 16, he was out riding with a buddy one fine spring day. They both rode their bikes into a wooded area that also housed cattle. The goal was to harvest the halucinogenic mushrooms growing in the cow patties.
After they filled their bags with a quantity of shrooms, they returned to the bikes. Hubby reached down for his helmet which now contains a copperhead snake who was enjoying the nice warm spot in the sun. The snake latched it's jaws on hubby's right index finger and didn't want to let go. He fingally ripped the snake off his finger and threw it in one of the bags of shrooms for future indentification. Had to leave his bike in the woods while the buddy rode him down to the hospital. When the triage nurse asked if he knew what kind of snake bit him, Hubby says, "Sure. It's in here" and put the shroom bag on the desk. Nurse looks inside, sees the live snake and shrieks at the top of her lungs. The shrieking brings the resident ER cops to investigate. They took the bag out to the parking lot and shot the snake. The shrooms were never seen again. (This IS Texas!)
Hubby nearly died from the snake bite because he was allergic to the antivenin. He was in the hospital over a month having fasciotomy surgery every few days. The scarring runs from his finger almost to his armpit and looks exactly like you would expect when a limb swells to 5 times normal size and splits open. I don't know what the moral of the story is here, but I suspect there are several. :-O
We currently have a police-issue Harley Electra Glide that we're about ready to ditch. The original owner souped it up so much that it eats starters. Too much compression and now electrical problems cropping up. Let some hotshot take it over and play with it. We're old enough to be happy with a stock bike that'll reliably take us out of state in relative comfort. LOL!
cantfly - my hubby has had several bikes in his life - and more than his share of crashes. Thankfully, they were all when he was young and stupid - well stupid-ER. Not exactly a bike crash story, but being very young and very stupid at the age of 16, he was out riding with a buddy one fine spring day. They both rode their bikes into a wooded area that also housed cattle. The goal was to harvest the halucinogenic mushrooms growing in the cow patties.
After they filled their bags with a quantity of shrooms, they returned to the bikes. Hubby reached down for his helmet which now contains a copperhead snake who was enjoying the nice warm spot in the sun. The snake latched it's jaws on hubby's right index finger and didn't want to let go. He fingally ripped the snake off his finger and threw it in one of the bags of shrooms for future indentification. Had to leave his bike in the woods while the buddy rode him down to the hospital. When the triage nurse asked if he knew what kind of snake bit him, Hubby says, "Sure. It's in here" and put the shroom bag on the desk. Nurse looks inside, sees the live snake and shrieks at the top of her lungs. The shrieking brings the resident ER cops to investigate. They took the bag out to the parking lot and shot the snake. The shrooms were never seen again. (This IS Texas!)
Hubby nearly died from the snake bite because he was allergic to the antivenin. He was in the hospital over a month having fasciotomy surgery every few days. The scarring runs from his finger almost to his armpit and looks exactly like you would expect when a limb swells to 5 times normal size and splits open. I don't know what the moral of the story is here, but I suspect there are several. :-O
We currently have a police-issue Harley Electra Glide that we're about ready to ditch. The original owner souped it up so much that it eats starters. Too much compression and now electrical problems cropping up. Let some hotshot take it over and play with it. We're old enough to be happy with a stock bike that'll reliably take us out of state in relative comfort. LOL!
I also want to welcome you to the PM forum.
I also had a "flight failure" experience with a bike - however, mine was a bicycle - and I was 7 years old!! LOL Silly me thought I could ride my bike down a flight of outdoor stairs - boy was I wrong!! LOL Oh, and yes, those trees really DO jump right out in front of you - that's what the one did that I hit!
Fortunately, probably due to me being a kid and being so, so much more flexible than I am not, I wasn't hurt terribly bad - lots of bumps, bruises and scrapes - the most severe being a gash in my chin that required 8 stitches. Of course, being only 7 at the time, getting those stitches I thought was the most traumatic event of my life.
I will say - I am definitely very happy that they now require kids to wear helmets when riding bikes - had I hit the tree with my head instead of my jaw/chin, things definitely would have been MUCH worse.
I also had a "flight failure" experience with a bike - however, mine was a bicycle - and I was 7 years old!! LOL Silly me thought I could ride my bike down a flight of outdoor stairs - boy was I wrong!! LOL Oh, and yes, those trees really DO jump right out in front of you - that's what the one did that I hit!
Fortunately, probably due to me being a kid and being so, so much more flexible than I am not, I wasn't hurt terribly bad - lots of bumps, bruises and scrapes - the most severe being a gash in my chin that required 8 stitches. Of course, being only 7 at the time, getting those stitches I thought was the most traumatic event of my life.
I will say - I am definitely very happy that they now require kids to wear helmets when riding bikes - had I hit the tree with my head instead of my jaw/chin, things definitely would have been MUCH worse.
I'll take twisted as well! It's always great to have some humor in our lives. Welcome to the PM forum!
if i can ever ride again think i will stick to dirtbikes -never had a tree jump out in front of me.... all the trees i hit were my fault....
yeah one of THOSE damn motorbikes... i am an addict -i have a few... and worked for honda -should have known better lol.
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