My son
Ol'89r said:
Tony. How's your boy doing??
Terry,
He still can't ride a bike (powered or otherwise). He used to be able to ride a wheelie on a bike all the way down the block. And, of course, he could do scary stuff on the YZF450. I may have mentioned on here that he was doing those crazy desert natural terrain jumps over 100 ft. I don't think I had those kind of balls at 16. It's kind of odd that a motocross triple jump did him in.
He's in special education at his "normal" high school. He does OK with math now, maybe at a 5th grade level (he's 16). He looks completely normal looking at him, and talks normally (for a 16 year old). He did get his driver's license recently (he had done all the book work prior to his head injury on Jan 23).
He and I have lost alot. I'm just a guy that lives 2 hours away from him that he's seen a handful of times in the past 5 months. Things we would do together in the past, he's not even excited about. I'm worried that it's easy for him to get in the wrong crowd.
We normally spend the summers together in Montana, riding bikes, and flying planes, shooting gophers, river rafting, piddling around in my dad's machine shop, or at my uncle's ranch. He's not interested now.
I flew the Baron up to my parent's place in Montana in April. He never even asked to handle the controls, or fiddle with the radios / GPS. Five hours each way.
I sold almost all the bikes, since I didn't think I'd be able to ride for a year or so after my foot fractures on Jan 1. I can run on a tread mill now, but I pay the price the next day with limping. I'll keep working it.
My 5 year old keeps asking me to take him out on his PW50, like I did for his older brother when he was 5. Just don't have the heart in it anymore.
I would like to do a ride, though. I might even buy that new YZF450 when it comes out for 2006. Might even get a new FJR1300 street bike... I've never had a *real* street bike.
I suppose I should at least clean my riding gear !