I got a chance to actually read the medical reports, and I understand why my shoulder drifted. Both my scapula and my clavicle are broken in 2 places, and I've got "clean and easily read" fractures in ribs 3 - 5. They should have operated on my clavicle Friday night, but the orthopedic staff was mostly out for Thanksgiving... The resident made a call, ordered me slung. They called today, they can "get me in, in 2 weeks."
I called a different orthopedic practice, they have a fracture surgery clinic that'll see me Thursday.
My poor baby:
I gotta get pictures of my gear.
Glad your still with us. Heal up man!
Thank you. I've got appointments scheduled to get an assist healing!
Glad your in 1 peice-Hope you heal Well
Thank you! Yeah, I'm a bit tilted, but no "compound" fractures. I'm getting sorted.
I went down this past winter. All ended well and hopefully yours will. Here's the thread of my get off.
After 37 years and several hundred thousand miles accident free, I went down. Was heading to Austin from Houston, by myself, at 4am, freeze line moved south and I hit some ice. Just got home a bit ago. No I didn't get checked out, I'm hard headed. Doctor Carla, wife, had me take a long empson...
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I finished reading that thread. That was a rough exit. Ice doesn't play. It looked like you hot lucky, as well. Glad you're ok! Definitely glad you didn't break your scapula, it's a pain in the back. Have you healed up?
Did you ever replace your bike? It sucks that they totaled yours. That was some serious damage, though!
Sorry to hear about your wipe out. Cagers will always be the biggest hazard to those of us on 2 wheels.
Dont be surprised if the insurance totals the bike there may be more damage than you have noticed and they go by what the stealership will charge to fix it so if it totals to half of the bikes value they will total it out.
Rest up and heal up it suck that you got smashed but bikes can be replaced people cant.
That's the second cager in the last 15 years that just pulled out in front of me and caused an accident. The first one wound up seeing me as they were crossing a highway, freezing, and stopping in my lane. This one pulled out, just clipped me and kept going.
I looked at the claim online today. It looks like the person that took my statement didn't document the damage correctly. They added front forks and factory bags. I think the forks might total the bike for safety because the triple tree and actual frame neck comes into play, like frame or swing arm damage. It was just the reflector on the right fork, where the car's plastic bumper hit it as it pulled into the lane and sped away No actual fork damage, not even any misalignment. It looks like the only damage is the guard, bags, rim from when it flipped down, that reflector, and the levers got scuffed in the slide. It was low speed, 25-28 mph, The broken bags took the brunt of it.
I'll definitely be resting! I have a visit with my primary's supervisor on Wednesday... And a visit with my primary in February. My PCP signed off on my handicap plate on one condition "no accidents!"
