( Pred probably better fire up the ole waaambulance) OK some of ya know I've had knee problems for a while and they got a lot worse this year, so I decided to start the process with my HMO to get repaired. For the last month and a half I have been goung through the process, of referrals and such finally got an MRI last Mon. and am supposed to talk to the sawbones about it tomorrow. In the mean time I wanted to ride as much as possible ( the only real bad effect is that if I spring too hard off a jump face the knee comes out of joint, so just carry a little more speed and jump em smooth :) ) I was on spring break last week so I planned to ride a bunch long story short by thurs, I had ridden only once (race sun) and had to cut that short, Got invited to ride at a buddy's private MX track thurs and up in the mtns Sun, so things were looking up. Thurs I had to get on the roof and get the swamp cooler ready for summer, took a lot longer than I thought so at 4 pm I am just climbing down and it will take too long to meet Bear atr his track so I think OK I'll go do a few laps at Broadmore (a practice track near my house ) there will be some kids out there and I can get in a little moto and salveage the day. Got there, not a soul, shoulda gone home then. Started riding, felt OK but the track was hammred, some of our lounge chair riding friends had been riding on it so the jump faces were worn down in places, the berms were pushed way back and there were some wierd ruts form the last time it had rained going diagonaly in places (can't blame quads on that one) the surface is hardened kalichi (cement and talcum powder) should have loaded up: I'm not very smart. rode for about an hour, the light is getting bad so I think one more lap and I'll quit, on the last section leading back to the truck (lterally 15 yrds from stopping) there is a section with 3 single jumps on the last one as I hit it (4th gear accelerating) something kicks me violently sideways in the air and i highside upon impact. Once I stopped rolling I thought, Larry fall hard, (I am really eloquent when I crash) . Took inventory, knees were ok, (thanks asterisk) hand hurt a little (strained ligament) ears were ringing, and my left side felt like Mike Tyson had heard my imitation of him (and didn't like it much). Bike has bent bars, trashed plastic and wasted pipe. well crap, I'll be slow on Sun, put on my less dinged pipe and ride with the bars, but ride. Get home I have a couple of more chores (My wife is a firefighter and is gone for 48 hrs, I was gonna clean before she got home) I was sore but not as bas as I thought. I start vacuuming, and had to do a little at a time cause I felt dizzy. Stopped and ate sat on the couh felt better. got up to finish now I am REALLY stiff and my left hip is sticking out about 3 inches (swelled up when I sat down ) go to do the dishes , felt dizzy, sat down, felt better give it another go stand up fall to knees, can't stand, put my head down fell better stand to go to sit in chair, fall to knees agagin, crawl to chair, get scared a lilttle, call wife tell her I'm gonna call 911, evidently I trailed off a little cause she was yelling in the phone when I next remember. Call 911, they come ( i know one of the guys) I think i have a concussion and tell em so, they run my vitals and my blood pressure is REALLY low, ( i think they said 70/20 but I can't remember a lot of detail) so I get loaded on a gurney and taken out. They start an IV and I fell better as we are goin, after a long time in the ER till, 2 am, the doc says I was critically dehydrated and all of the fluid had gone into the hematomas on my left side, They also looked at my new hypertension meds and asked me how much water i had drank I said about 2 of the plastic water bottles, she said with a diuretic you should be drinking a gallon when you're active, I said diuretic? I had been given a new med and it makes ya pee more, but I hadn't noticed any real effect. I wasn't told and didnt know to increase my water (not diet doc) intake by a large amount. I have never felt worse or more stupid, Now I probably can't ride for at least 2 weeks. I feel like crap I literally can't wear any of my pants, (the hematomas are still 2-3 inches) my wife says I look gross and I have to go to the Ortho tomorrow to find out the prognosis on the knee. Let's turn this into a contest, how many stupid things did BEEF do on Thursday? ist prize gets 2 pictures of the left side of me, second prize gets one. Let the flaming commence :flame: (my longest post ever, sorry)