retromike3
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Well I am using my laptop at my folks house and am back on the net after about five months laid up in a EMT unit and then a nursing home and finally the Reeducation institute of Oregon.
It started when I was coming back from the store(and gas station) I had my groceries and a two gallon plastic gas can strapped to my rear rack. I was crossing the light and was in the bicycle lane when a gal in her Chevy Nova saw that the left turn lane was flashing. She thought that meant that it was going to turn red instead of watch out and cut over two lanes and crushed me like a bug on a window of a sports car.(sometimes your the window, sometimes your the bug).
When I look at myself in the mirror I see two tracheotomy scars. the first one was done by the EMT who first saw me and it kept me going till the surgeon at the operating room could get me going with his own hole.
Both of my legs were shattered and they had to put them both in traction until they replaced my femurs with a titanium shaft and then put my bones on like a Shiskabob. My shoddier had a two inch hole in the left shoulder blade and a fracture of the bone on front of it. I also have about six crushed crushed vertebra they are about 25% smaller than before the wreck.
I also have trouble with my right hand, it seems that my too small fingers are partially paralyzed and I can't use them very well, plus I can't open pop bottles like I once could and I can't use chopsticks worth a darn.
One thing you might note is that if you are injured on a motorized bicycle you don't get the same brakes as you get in a none motorized bike. if I was riding a pedal bike there is a fund that helps pay for expenses that I had to pay for like the ambulance to the hospital and other things.
Then only thing I know about my bike is that the wheels are both potato chipped and the head tube has been broken off. I don't know if anything can be saved even if I want to (It does look like the handlebar is still strait and I have had that since 1978. so I will keep that)
mike frye AKA retromike3
It started when I was coming back from the store(and gas station) I had my groceries and a two gallon plastic gas can strapped to my rear rack. I was crossing the light and was in the bicycle lane when a gal in her Chevy Nova saw that the left turn lane was flashing. She thought that meant that it was going to turn red instead of watch out and cut over two lanes and crushed me like a bug on a window of a sports car.(sometimes your the window, sometimes your the bug).
When I look at myself in the mirror I see two tracheotomy scars. the first one was done by the EMT who first saw me and it kept me going till the surgeon at the operating room could get me going with his own hole.
Both of my legs were shattered and they had to put them both in traction until they replaced my femurs with a titanium shaft and then put my bones on like a Shiskabob. My shoddier had a two inch hole in the left shoulder blade and a fracture of the bone on front of it. I also have about six crushed crushed vertebra they are about 25% smaller than before the wreck.
I also have trouble with my right hand, it seems that my too small fingers are partially paralyzed and I can't use them very well, plus I can't open pop bottles like I once could and I can't use chopsticks worth a darn.
One thing you might note is that if you are injured on a motorized bicycle you don't get the same brakes as you get in a none motorized bike. if I was riding a pedal bike there is a fund that helps pay for expenses that I had to pay for like the ambulance to the hospital and other things.
Then only thing I know about my bike is that the wheels are both potato chipped and the head tube has been broken off. I don't know if anything can be saved even if I want to (It does look like the handlebar is still strait and I have had that since 1978. so I will keep that)
mike frye AKA retromike3