Before and After

Lothring · 08-08-2007, 4:13 PM

Since my parents don't know the whole truth about my accident I just needed to share it with someone...
It was last Septmeber. When I think about it now, I can't understand why I had such a great desire to go on that trip. I even had a quarrel with my parents because they didn't want to let me go. Eventually, I left the house and set out in the rain. It was really cold and the rain was pouring down quite heavily. I was wearing thin gloves without fingers and after the first 100 km I couldn't feel my hands. When I passed about 300 km, my clothes soaked up and began to leak. Awful. And the worst part of the journey was still in front of me. I stopped for a hot tea and then entered the treacherous mountain pass. The road was narrow and the rain made the field of vision smaller. I was getting used to it until a thick fog came down. That crushed my spirit. I was driving slow, full concentrated but I couldn't see anything. The last thing I remember is someone's headlights.
My friends were driving in front of me with a car. Some weeks later, when I asked how did it all happen, they told me that the rear tyre slipped and the bike got a little bit in the opposite traffic. As I said, it was a narrow road and exactly in this moment, there was a car there. It was a frontal hit. As they explained me later, after the crash I had a little flight with the bike, then we broke the crash barrier. In this moment somewhere I let the bike go and flew between some woods. My friends found me there, with the bike on my back. They removed it and woke me up. I didn't know where I was and what was happening. Next thing I remember was the ambulance and the funny doctor there. I guess that was the time when I regained consciousness. Anyway, when I got to the hospital, the doctors couldn't believe that I got off so lightly from such a crash and put me one more time on their medical examinations. I was really lucky, I suppose.
Few weeks later, when I saw the bike... Don't ask. I wanted to burst in tears. But eventually all got alright.
I don't have a picture of the bike, crushed, but I'll show you one before the accident and another in the day I fixed it. Alsо pics of myself, 2 weeks after I got home.

SamoanzRR · 08-08-2007, 4:28 PM

ouch! well glad you're alright....

Phadreus · 08-08-2007, 4:52 PM

You didn't tell us; how did your parents react? I could imagine...but sometimes parents can surprise you with their reactions. Are you all healed up now? Another bike?

Lothring · 08-08-2007, 5:59 PM

How did my parents react... They accept the news almost well. My father was avoiding me until my face regained its normal look. As a whole, they were sad.
I am still with the same bike. No spoilers, new headlight, new radiator, a motocross handlebar and so on... It looks like a streetfighter now. There is more to be done on my bike - I have only one mirror now, only rear turn lights and I'm thinking of hidihng all the cables under the tank. But the most important is that we are both in working condition now

*Fastrr* · 08-09-2007, 11:04 PM

Damn, "Dawn of the Dead" not making fun of you, just looks like a horor picture. Sorry you wrecked on your bike. Here's to you getting 100% healed up

Was your Doctor the MotoGP doctor.. Fossa? or however his name is spelled. lol

He's a funny guy.

So now you have learned your lesson about riding in the rain and what to wear right? Also get gloves that have plenty of padding on the palm. it helps reduce the numbness and paint in the hands while riding.

Lothring · 08-10-2007, 10:53 AM

[quote=Fastrr;625627]
Was your Doctor the MotoGP doctor.. Fossa? or however his name is spelled. lol

He's a funny guy.

I'm not quite sure but I think the guy in the ambulance was actually a gay. He was picking up one of my friends (a handsome young man with blue eyes) or at least he was acting strangely... My friends told me they had to carry me all the way to the ambulance car by themselves because the doctor was afraid to go down in the woods.

Phadreus · 08-10-2007, 6:44 PM

Lothring; were your doctors able to remove the shrapnel from your eyebrow?

just kidding...

slickwill · 08-10-2007, 7:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Phadreus

Lothring; were your doctors able to remove the shrapnel from your eyebrow?

just kidding...

I was wondering how that got there...

Lothring · 08-14-2007, 6:36 PM

Oh, come on... Don't be mean

Phadreus · 08-14-2007, 7:52 PM

Sorry Lothring, really; no offense intended. I should have explained myself; I went to a convention one time for tattoos and piercing and there was a fella there that served in Viet Nam with the US Forces. As we were standing next to each other watching people get various piercins, he commented to me "funny, the US government frantically performed surgery to remove shrapnel from my leg from a grenade that exploded by me, and yet here I am today paying to have someone to insert metal into me purposely, strange animals we are...". Seeing your brow ring just reminded me of that, that's all. I personally never found the..."what ever it takes inside", to get a tattoo or a piercing of any sort, so my hats off to ya.

It's all good...enjoy!