MikeYork5
Well-known member
Well boys and girls thatk you for your support and king thoughts. they make things feel a litle bit better.
This thing so far (and well beyond I'm sure) has been no fun at all. the pain is ever-present in my hip and upper leg, my rigt wrist and recently around the toes of my left foot. Right now I have a left 'foot flop'. I can push down with my left toes but can't raise them up (like is needed when shifing a normal bike other than the Harley where you have to pretty much raise your whole leg up to engage the next gear. We're all hoping it's just localand tempoary nerve damage and will some back, I guesss time will tell as nerves repair from what I'm beginning to understand are the slowest healing things (other than the brain) in the body
I know its going to be a slow heal, the pain fom my hip/leg negat the ability for any type of restful sleep at nigh other than maybe a hour or two at a time, but guesss at the end of a 24 hour period it all works out to maybr 5 or 6 hours of sleep. They (the surgeon) is teling me it will be another 4 weeks probaby before I can put any more weight on it, right know it is '0' weight on the left leg - same for the wist. Consequently it is hard to judge progress akthough I know/can tell I am building muscles back stronger that have been weakened and arophied since the accident.
Some comments on some of the other thread responses - the ipod had bothing to do wih the accident. altough custom fitted earphones themselves block out all the ambient noise level, add the tunes to that and all your pretty much going to br hearing your tunes and little else. But again, would it of made a bit of difference in this situation. Now if I would have been on one (any) of the other bikes would it made a difference - I don't know but it might of. As was said on the Duc I porbably could of stopped short with room to spare. Also. the seat height on the Harley at around 26" put my hip right in line with the bumper level with the car I hit. All the other bikes have a what 32-34" seat height meaning (if this infact what happened) my upper leg would of impacted the bumper not my hip. Would that have been a better scenario or an insant leg amputation, who know? I do know the Harley is heavy, don't stop quickly, and doesn't respond to rider input quickly, so who knows.
with regard to surgurical/hospital infection ecpecially my surgeon couldn't have been happier. They worry about infection on any incision/wound never mind mine which starts aboud 5 inches to the right of my belly buton and moves around my waistline to the left to almost the middle of my back. There was no infection, thank God.
The recivery is going to be long - the're saying maybe 1 year to ge back to 100% or as close to it as I'm going to get, but we'll see. I'm thinking at this rate two more months I should be getting around effectively, with regard to everyday living, going to work etc, we'll see..
Thanks again people - and keep your eyes on the road. This could of so easily been avoided - never should of come close to happening.
This thing so far (and well beyond I'm sure) has been no fun at all. the pain is ever-present in my hip and upper leg, my rigt wrist and recently around the toes of my left foot. Right now I have a left 'foot flop'. I can push down with my left toes but can't raise them up (like is needed when shifing a normal bike other than the Harley where you have to pretty much raise your whole leg up to engage the next gear. We're all hoping it's just localand tempoary nerve damage and will some back, I guesss time will tell as nerves repair from what I'm beginning to understand are the slowest healing things (other than the brain) in the body
I know its going to be a slow heal, the pain fom my hip/leg negat the ability for any type of restful sleep at nigh other than maybe a hour or two at a time, but guesss at the end of a 24 hour period it all works out to maybr 5 or 6 hours of sleep. They (the surgeon) is teling me it will be another 4 weeks probaby before I can put any more weight on it, right know it is '0' weight on the left leg - same for the wist. Consequently it is hard to judge progress akthough I know/can tell I am building muscles back stronger that have been weakened and arophied since the accident.
Some comments on some of the other thread responses - the ipod had bothing to do wih the accident. altough custom fitted earphones themselves block out all the ambient noise level, add the tunes to that and all your pretty much going to br hearing your tunes and little else. But again, would it of made a bit of difference in this situation. Now if I would have been on one (any) of the other bikes would it made a difference - I don't know but it might of. As was said on the Duc I porbably could of stopped short with room to spare. Also. the seat height on the Harley at around 26" put my hip right in line with the bumper level with the car I hit. All the other bikes have a what 32-34" seat height meaning (if this infact what happened) my upper leg would of impacted the bumper not my hip. Would that have been a better scenario or an insant leg amputation, who know? I do know the Harley is heavy, don't stop quickly, and doesn't respond to rider input quickly, so who knows.
with regard to surgurical/hospital infection ecpecially my surgeon couldn't have been happier. They worry about infection on any incision/wound never mind mine which starts aboud 5 inches to the right of my belly buton and moves around my waistline to the left to almost the middle of my back. There was no infection, thank God.
The recivery is going to be long - the're saying maybe 1 year to ge back to 100% or as close to it as I'm going to get, but we'll see. I'm thinking at this rate two more months I should be getting around effectively, with regard to everyday living, going to work etc, we'll see..
Thanks again people - and keep your eyes on the road. This could of so easily been avoided - never should of come close to happening.
