I know most of you guys are having fun at DW05. this is one of the resons that I could not attend this year.
It was a great day last sunday, but I was not riding that great as I had a coulpe of minor spills. Dabbing foot when nothing was there and loosing balance. We broke for lunch and then played at a coleche pit for a while. Took off on some trail (easy stuff). When laying out our race (enduro) we needed to fill some milage without using the roads so we layed out a trail that parallels fence lines through a few pastures.
We were riding down these trails throught a flat field. The trail was kind of grown over a bit with tail "broom stick weeds". If you pulled the weed out and turned it upside down it looks like a duster or broom. They are almost knee high.
I grabbed a gear and took off. I realy don't know how fast I was going, but I was moving along at a good clip in proably in 4th. Didn't see a rock on the outside of the trail (large rock). I hit it hard and fast. It threw the balance off me and the bike. I shot into a ceder tree (small scrubby stuff under 6 foot tall). I took half of it out. Didn't seem to slow me much. There were braches a good 30 feet from it. I could here stuff snapping.
The tree threw things off bad. Seperated me and the bike. I was air born over the bars. Flew for a ways. Me and the bike "touched down" That was a hard hit. Lost my googles and was air born again. The guys behind me said I did about 5 cart wheels and landed in a pile. He was a firefighter with parametic training.
He ran up on me as I was trying to get up. I could not breath at all. He asked if I was alright. All I could muster up was a "uuugggghhhh" I was thinking "breath dumbass" , but I could not. I kind of drifted off to sleep. When I came to everyone was there standing around me. He thinks I passed out due to lack of oxygen. It took quite a while for me to get to my feet, get the gear off and catch my breath.
My friends were great. You find out who your friends are when something like that happens. We were about 200 ft from a road. One took off to wait by the road and the other took off to get a truck for the bike. They were able to drive to my location. I got back to the camp were they got me out of my gear. BTW I had boots, knee pads, hip inserts with riding pants, Vented jersey (trashed and torn) Elbow pads, chest protector with shoulder protection, Googles, helmet, gloves, and a camel back filled with water (extra cushing around my spin). So I was pretty suited up to say the least.
It was 3 hours after the crash before I ended up in the emergency room. Masive pain in my chest, right upper back, lower back, and elbow. After several X-rays and cat scans of head and chest. They took a urine sample. Full of blood. They then took some blood samples.
The news was in. I was admitted for observation. A chipped bone in my elbow which was pulled away by a ligament. Bruised kidney and liver. The blood has left the urine. I ran a serious fever Tuesday night and almost went back to the ER.
As of Friday Morning I felt mucho better, but I was still soar as hell. I'm off work for a while and staying doped upped up for a while. They said take activity as I can stand it. My work is being pretty good about it. My boss and his wife showed up at the ER when they found out. They sent me some nice flowers. Makes my living room brighter and has a cool vase the GF will be using later for something. She has been great with it taking care of me. My right elbow is messed up and I'm right handed. I will see how it goes. I still have dizzy spells when I tilt my head back for to long. I was in wally world today and almost fell down looking for some thing on the top of the isle. Its pretty scary. I hope my marbles come back and the noodle is not out of wack :yikes:
I will see how Aflac and my work insurance treats me. Nobody has had to use it yet. We are mostly a new company. With Aflac I had Emergency policy as well as a hospitalization policy. She is estimating that I from those I might see about 900 bucks or so cash which is just enough to cover the 1K deductable on my major medical. It would have been well over 1K paid out for Aflac if I had stayed admitted for 24 hours. I think it was about 18. depends on what time the admission is marked in my records. I might also get paid for the fracture on the bone from aflac as well. I will know more when the aflac lady sees my medical records.
The fireman behind me said it was a "Spectacular crash" and wishes he would have had a helmet cam. He saw the whole thing. He was watching me while getting on the brakes and hit the same rock. I was thinking off digging it up and chunking it off a cliff as well as chopping that tree down and burning it. I will be having a beer next to a toasty fire :laugh:
Becareful out there, cuz it sneaks up on you when least expect it!
It was a great day last sunday, but I was not riding that great as I had a coulpe of minor spills. Dabbing foot when nothing was there and loosing balance. We broke for lunch and then played at a coleche pit for a while. Took off on some trail (easy stuff). When laying out our race (enduro) we needed to fill some milage without using the roads so we layed out a trail that parallels fence lines through a few pastures.
We were riding down these trails throught a flat field. The trail was kind of grown over a bit with tail "broom stick weeds". If you pulled the weed out and turned it upside down it looks like a duster or broom. They are almost knee high.
I grabbed a gear and took off. I realy don't know how fast I was going, but I was moving along at a good clip in proably in 4th. Didn't see a rock on the outside of the trail (large rock). I hit it hard and fast. It threw the balance off me and the bike. I shot into a ceder tree (small scrubby stuff under 6 foot tall). I took half of it out. Didn't seem to slow me much. There were braches a good 30 feet from it. I could here stuff snapping.
The tree threw things off bad. Seperated me and the bike. I was air born over the bars. Flew for a ways. Me and the bike "touched down" That was a hard hit. Lost my googles and was air born again. The guys behind me said I did about 5 cart wheels and landed in a pile. He was a firefighter with parametic training.
He ran up on me as I was trying to get up. I could not breath at all. He asked if I was alright. All I could muster up was a "uuugggghhhh" I was thinking "breath dumbass" , but I could not. I kind of drifted off to sleep. When I came to everyone was there standing around me. He thinks I passed out due to lack of oxygen. It took quite a while for me to get to my feet, get the gear off and catch my breath.
My friends were great. You find out who your friends are when something like that happens. We were about 200 ft from a road. One took off to wait by the road and the other took off to get a truck for the bike. They were able to drive to my location. I got back to the camp were they got me out of my gear. BTW I had boots, knee pads, hip inserts with riding pants, Vented jersey (trashed and torn) Elbow pads, chest protector with shoulder protection, Googles, helmet, gloves, and a camel back filled with water (extra cushing around my spin). So I was pretty suited up to say the least.
It was 3 hours after the crash before I ended up in the emergency room. Masive pain in my chest, right upper back, lower back, and elbow. After several X-rays and cat scans of head and chest. They took a urine sample. Full of blood. They then took some blood samples.
The news was in. I was admitted for observation. A chipped bone in my elbow which was pulled away by a ligament. Bruised kidney and liver. The blood has left the urine. I ran a serious fever Tuesday night and almost went back to the ER.
As of Friday Morning I felt mucho better, but I was still soar as hell. I'm off work for a while and staying doped upped up for a while. They said take activity as I can stand it. My work is being pretty good about it. My boss and his wife showed up at the ER when they found out. They sent me some nice flowers. Makes my living room brighter and has a cool vase the GF will be using later for something. She has been great with it taking care of me. My right elbow is messed up and I'm right handed. I will see how it goes. I still have dizzy spells when I tilt my head back for to long. I was in wally world today and almost fell down looking for some thing on the top of the isle. Its pretty scary. I hope my marbles come back and the noodle is not out of wack :yikes:
I will see how Aflac and my work insurance treats me. Nobody has had to use it yet. We are mostly a new company. With Aflac I had Emergency policy as well as a hospitalization policy. She is estimating that I from those I might see about 900 bucks or so cash which is just enough to cover the 1K deductable on my major medical. It would have been well over 1K paid out for Aflac if I had stayed admitted for 24 hours. I think it was about 18. depends on what time the admission is marked in my records. I might also get paid for the fracture on the bone from aflac as well. I will know more when the aflac lady sees my medical records.
The fireman behind me said it was a "Spectacular crash" and wishes he would have had a helmet cam. He saw the whole thing. He was watching me while getting on the brakes and hit the same rock. I was thinking off digging it up and chunking it off a cliff as well as chopping that tree down and burning it. I will be having a beer next to a toasty fire :laugh:
Becareful out there, cuz it sneaks up on you when least expect it!
