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SLIPS, SLIPS!
BROKE MY ARM
April 15, 2004
51 years old and never a broken bone….. But the surgeon, Dr. Sword in Hurst, said I have made up for it bigtime.
I was riding at Mosier Valley Thursday the 15th. It was about 7pm. I went up the "mountain" as my boy calls it. Went down the other side then uphill on the first jump. I had waited for most folks to leave before I started because I don’t like getting run over.
I was having so much fun. A kid stopped right in the tabletop of the second jump. Bad place to stop but I safely avoided him to his right. I think he was riding a 230 fourstroke Honda. Reason I think so was I had noticed it before my group was allowed to go.
Anyway, if you know Mosier, I went down the next straight then up that hill that has the neat bermed turn to the left and downhill. There are two smallish downhill jumps. I am careful on both of them because the second makes me "reach" for the ground. Since it’s downhill it takes longer to land so I was being nice and patient.
I landed really nice! I was already planning the right hand berm to the next hill. Then disaster struck. That kid must have taken off right behind me and have been using me for passing practice or maybe simply trying to hurt me. There were no other riders within 100 yards of us and he landed on me off the second jump. It was sick because he had tons of room to land on either side of me and of course in front or rear.
But he landed on my left leg from behind me. My left leg is not broken but looks bad. Its swollen twice normal, has every color imaginable and no feeling in the knee part.
I went down instantly and heard my right arm shatter. Oh dear Jesus did it hurt! Looking at my bike I think the front brake lever somehow leveraged my wrist between the lever and throttle. Shattered wrist and dislocated. Radius pulled out of the elbow socket and one of the two knobs shattered (using the surgeon’s terms). Then the whole mess was pushed to the other side of my arm.
I was trying hard to crawl off the track but kept collapsing in a heap. LOL I did NOT feel like getting landed on again, please trust me! The idiot kid fell and I was asking him to please help me get off the track because he got up ok. He jumped on his bike and left me laying in the track. During the rest of the ordeal he never came over, or asked to help etc.
Thankfully Jeff the paramedic came in a mule and splinted my arm. A friend whose son was riding with my son took me to Harris HEB hospital there in Bedford. My wife is a nurse there so that’s a good place for me.
The pain was real bad because of the dislocations. Dr. Sword set it around 11pm. It was a long four hours but they gave me demoral and phrenegrin shots and that helped.
I missed the dallas sx race Saturday nite. Dr. Sword pinned the wrist yesterday. He said it will be a long time ( around 6 months) till he will remove the bone parts from the elbow. He says it’s tricky because a little bone is still left etc. and he wants to keep that.
My wife wants me to sell the bike. But I was having fun so I don’t know.
I wanted to post on the forum cause I miss riding already. Someone please blow up a berm and yell "Slips!" if u get a chance.
Thanks,
Ron
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SLIPS, SLIPS!
BROKE MY ARM
April 15, 2004
51 years old and never a broken bone….. But the surgeon, Dr. Sword in Hurst, said I have made up for it bigtime.
I was riding at Mosier Valley Thursday the 15th. It was about 7pm. I went up the "mountain" as my boy calls it. Went down the other side then uphill on the first jump. I had waited for most folks to leave before I started because I don’t like getting run over.
I was having so much fun. A kid stopped right in the tabletop of the second jump. Bad place to stop but I safely avoided him to his right. I think he was riding a 230 fourstroke Honda. Reason I think so was I had noticed it before my group was allowed to go.
Anyway, if you know Mosier, I went down the next straight then up that hill that has the neat bermed turn to the left and downhill. There are two smallish downhill jumps. I am careful on both of them because the second makes me "reach" for the ground. Since it’s downhill it takes longer to land so I was being nice and patient.
I landed really nice! I was already planning the right hand berm to the next hill. Then disaster struck. That kid must have taken off right behind me and have been using me for passing practice or maybe simply trying to hurt me. There were no other riders within 100 yards of us and he landed on me off the second jump. It was sick because he had tons of room to land on either side of me and of course in front or rear.
But he landed on my left leg from behind me. My left leg is not broken but looks bad. Its swollen twice normal, has every color imaginable and no feeling in the knee part.
I went down instantly and heard my right arm shatter. Oh dear Jesus did it hurt! Looking at my bike I think the front brake lever somehow leveraged my wrist between the lever and throttle. Shattered wrist and dislocated. Radius pulled out of the elbow socket and one of the two knobs shattered (using the surgeon’s terms). Then the whole mess was pushed to the other side of my arm.
I was trying hard to crawl off the track but kept collapsing in a heap. LOL I did NOT feel like getting landed on again, please trust me! The idiot kid fell and I was asking him to please help me get off the track because he got up ok. He jumped on his bike and left me laying in the track. During the rest of the ordeal he never came over, or asked to help etc.
Thankfully Jeff the paramedic came in a mule and splinted my arm. A friend whose son was riding with my son took me to Harris HEB hospital there in Bedford. My wife is a nurse there so that’s a good place for me.
The pain was real bad because of the dislocations. Dr. Sword set it around 11pm. It was a long four hours but they gave me demoral and phrenegrin shots and that helped.
I missed the dallas sx race Saturday nite. Dr. Sword pinned the wrist yesterday. He said it will be a long time ( around 6 months) till he will remove the bone parts from the elbow. He says it’s tricky because a little bone is still left etc. and he wants to keep that.
My wife wants me to sell the bike. But I was having fun so I don’t know.
I wanted to post on the forum cause I miss riding already. Someone please blow up a berm and yell "Slips!" if u get a chance.
Thanks,
Ron
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