Big Hit in Eastern Wyoming, Healing the Weeks After a Get Off

[beemerdons]

Brother Bounce, I sincerely do appreciate your Wicked Sense of Humor! JSNS, Beauty!

 

[dudeckp]

Now what will you count to fall asleep when checking into the IBH?

Since "1 sheep, 2 sheep, OH SHIT!!!!" will probably no longer induce sheep... I mean sleep!

(has it been long enough yet?)

Seriously, all the positive thoughts and emotions from this crowd (myself included) toward getting you back to whole must be overwhelming! Stay strong, get better, maybe consider cow (sheep) catcher or 20mm gatling on the next ride?

 

[wnyfjr]

Seriously, all the positive thoughts and emotions from this crowd (myself included) toward getting you back to whole must be overwhelming! Stay strong, get better, maybe consider cow (sheep) catcher or 20mm gatling on the next ride?

Hmm, mount TWO 20mm gatlings, one on each side of the bike, and they can also serve as tip-over guards. Getting the most functionality of each farkle is a key to rallying success, I'm lead to understand...

Heal well, and fast!

 

[03silverbullet]

Matt, don't stress the surgery for the clavicle. VERY few broken clavicles heal correctly without intervention. You will actually heal faster by them putting a plate over it and pinning it.
Continue to take it easy, and let stuff heal. You're on the right path.

Later...

Yep, that's what I did and it worked great. It heals faster and you gain instant mobility.

 

[HotRodZilla]

Matt: 1

Sheep: 0

Well, maybe .5

 

[rogdeb]

Thanks for the update Matt. Glad you're able to write about it, and can start another bike build from scratch this fall.
--G

+ 2

RogDeb

 

[James]

Sorry about the get-off, good to hear you're mending. I had my left clavicle plated about a week after I broke it in a deer strike, just about the amount of time for you to start feeling decent you start over, damn it. I suggest working hard to keep your range of motion in that shoulder, moving the arm (or having someone do it for you, gently) daily rather than staying in the sling 24/7 in the beginning, rather than working to get it back. Much easier in the long run. I imagine you'll be ready to get back on a bike quicker than the Doctors feel you should, but that's a given for most of us on the list, eh? Good Luck!

James

 

[mcatrophy]

Wow. Just come across this.

Great to hear your positivity and humour coming through.

I've some indirect knowledge of your injuries, Son had an accident on a ski lift (more accurately off a ski lift), broke five and a half ribs, punctured lung, collar bone, various bruises and lacerations. He too had a (very expensive) helicopter ride, then a lung drain and a private nurse to be with him to fly back from Vancouver to the UK, his flight delayed by several days while the skies cleared a bit from that Icelandic volcano in 2010 (long story, and thank goodness for insurance).

iPhones? His had its glass shattered, but still worked. Trouble was that he kept getting cuts on his finger when using it.

Took him a while to recover, but, after a few months he was back riding his Hornet and a bit later snowboarding again.

The good news? Manages to get bought a few beers while he recounts his experience. Nothing like making the most of it.

Heal quickly and well.

 

[bigjohnsd]

Have you got the Bill for the two sheep you killed yet?

Normal rule in Wyoming is that you have to pay for any livestock you kill with a vehicle, and the owner gets to keep the dead stock.

 

[TomInPA]

Have you got the Bill for the two sheep you killed yet?
Normal rule in Wyoming is that you have to pay for any livestock you kill with a vehicle, and the owner gets to keep the dead stock.

Injury + Insult = ouch!

I bet it's covered as liability.

 

[Ignacio]

Have you got the Bill for the two sheep you killed yet?
Normal rule in Wyoming is that you have to pay for any livestock you kill with a vehicle, and the owner gets to keep the dead stock.

Injury + Insult = ouch!

I bet it's covered as liability.

Yes, I believe they'll be part of the insurance settlement process.

 

[Proteus1952]

What a thread! Any man with so many folks to wish him well and poke a bit of fun at him truly is a dang lucky guy!

Best wishes for a speedy physical, mental and financial recovery. Get back at it and go for broke.

 

[Bounce]

Have you got the Bill for the two sheep you killed yet?
Normal rule in Wyoming is that you have to pay for any livestock you kill with a vehicle, and the owner gets to keep the dead stock.

In TX there are Farm-To-Market roads. They are marked FMxxx. They were established for just the reason it seems. If you kill livestock on one of those roads you aren't just liable for the current market value of the animal but for all lost potential income from said animal. An example would be the value of all potential milk sold from a killed milk cow. So ValueOfAnimal+LostPotential.

 

[puppychow]

Threadjack on.

Lost potential? If they buy another cow with the replacement money, will it not also have earnings potential? If so that's double dipping and makes no sense.

Threadjack off.

 

[Uncle Hud]

Laws don't have to make sense. Ask any attorney.

Back on topic. Fearless Leader: Hope the surgery goes well -- seriously; and -- less seriously -- if they use cadaver bone matter for the graft, get assurances that it's not from a zombie.

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But if you DO get zombie-fied, you can ride all day AND ride all night and you would be the biggest, baddest IBR rider ever.

 

[Big Sky]

Matt's insurance company should be thankful the sheep weren't dispatched on a reservation, where a tribal court would likely agree that the deceased were champion breeding stock valued in the many, many thousands of $$$.

 

[Bounce]

Back on topic. Fearless Leader: Hope the surgery goes well -- seriously; and -- less seriously -- if they use cadaver bone matter for the graft, get assurances that it's not from a zombie.

Small bit of trivia. About a year after I got my c5,c6,c7 vertebral fusion using donor bone, they uncovered that a clearing house for this material was found to not be properly radiating the bone to insure it wasn't carrying anything with it from the donor. Turns out that clearing house is who my neurosurgeon used. He didn't know and it was too late for me. Wait 7 years to see if I got anything nasty and, other than a bad attitude...

So, Iggy, check not only your surgeons but his/her suppliers too.

 

[extrememarine]

I remember my air lift - and thinking when I saw one of the bills come across afterwords - boy, that was worth every penny!!

The bike can be replaced, and re-farkling is a complete pita, but going through that is a good problem to have versus what the alternative could be.

And if anybody is curious what a helicopter cost to ride about 40 miles? $45K!

 

[wheatonFJR]

Casket rides cost money too...but they do nothing to save the occupant.

 

[TomInPA]

Casket rides cost money too...but they do nothing to save the occupant.

That certainly brightened my day.