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well we knew it would happen sometime...*new pics added*

14,733 848 September 9, 2008 at 05:12 PM
Sunday my husband went riding with friends and didn't come back...until today.
yes, he crashed on hwy 215 up in NC. Got a call around 5 til 2pm on sunday saying I needed to get up to Asheville and that my husband was admitted to the ER there. Evidently he was turning a very simple turn, not even speeding, and something made the bike slip off the edge of the road and he rode into a ditch, tearing off the front of the bike and sending him flying into a rock wall next to the ditch. His head hit the wall, but thank god he had his helmet on. Don't know yet if the bike is totaled, I have to call the bike shop that his brother and dad took it to and see if they are done with the estimate or can give me a rough idea as to when it will be done.
Anyway, he has a mild concussion and keeps repeating himself, and has very bad short term memory loss. It's gotten a lot better since Sunday, but still he asks me stuff a few times before he can remember the answer to it. He also broke his 3rd finger bone behind the knuckle on his hand and has major road rash on both knees. (wearing a jacket with pads, but no pants with pads...just blue jeans)
I have pics of the bike, but I will have to figure out how in the hell to get them off my phone using this USB cord. I just tried to do it and can't get it. He had the camera on the bike with him, and it's completely ruined. the SD card inside showed that he hadn't even taken any pictures or filmed at all that day.

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09-09-2008 at 05:14 PM.
09-09-2008 at 05:14 PM.
you can text the pics to your email address.
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09-09-2008 at 05:14 PM.
09-09-2008 at 05:14 PM.
Wow...just...wow.

Thankfully he is still alive.

(and maybe this will settle him down a bit)
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09-09-2008 at 05:14 PM.
09-09-2008 at 05:14 PM.
Quote from arjunsr :
you can text the pics to your email address.
thanks! I'll do that now then.
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09-09-2008 at 05:14 PM.
09-09-2008 at 05:14 PM.
Glad he is still alive but like you say, we knew it was coming. Keep that life insurance paid up. nod
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09-09-2008 at 05:15 PM.
09-09-2008 at 05:15 PM.
Wow, I'm glad your husband is okay. That is so terrifying.

I hope this doesn't worsen his depression.

hug
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09-09-2008 at 05:16 PM.
09-09-2008 at 05:16 PM.
He can still count his lucky stars nod
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09-09-2008 at 05:17 PM.
09-09-2008 at 05:17 PM.
luckily he was wearing proper riding gear(for the most part).....i see people riding out here in just a tshirt and shorts..... EEK!

your hubby will be in our prayers...hopefully he gets better soon!
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09-09-2008 at 05:17 PM.
09-09-2008 at 05:17 PM.
Damn that sux mel. Hope he feels ok. Glad he wasnt injured worse. AUGH, I hate when shit like that happens. How long is the memory loss expected to last?
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09-09-2008 at 05:18 PM.
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good thing for that helmet nod
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09-09-2008 at 05:20 PM.
09-09-2008 at 05:20 PM.
hey, I'm from Asheville.

Be careful of that hospital please nod
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09-09-2008 at 05:23 PM.
09-09-2008 at 05:23 PM.
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Damn that sux mel. Hope he feels ok. Glad he wasnt injured worse. AUGH, I hate when shit like that happens. How long is the memory loss expected to last?
They said up to 2 weeks, and if it continues past that to take him back to a neurologist or even to his GP to see if they want to look into it further. But he only failed on one of the 'tests' the mental therapist gave him...and that was remembering 5 words in order. So he's doing better because when I first went into the ER, the 2 questions he asked over and over was "Where am I?" and "Where are the kids?" At first I thought he was being funny, but then I'd show him his helmet, and go to put it down, and he'd say "oh cool! Is that my helmet? Let me see it!" And he did that about 10 times before I hid the helmet so he wouldn't ask again.

I forgot to mention he was airlifted off of the mountain in "MAMA" ...the hospital's helicopter. He thought that was neat. I have pics of that too from his friends he was riding with...just the copter though, not him inside.

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hey, I'm from Asheville.

Be careful of that hospital please nod
he was at Mission up there. They sucked. Bad. A few nice nurses, but the doctors were pure shitheads.
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09-09-2008 at 05:23 PM.
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Oh wow...I'm glad he's mostly ok. You must have been so scared when you got a call from the hospital hug
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09-09-2008 at 05:23 PM.
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Quote from Melmo :
They said up to 2 weeks, and if it continues past that to take him back to a neurologist or even to his GP to see if they want to look into it further. But he only failed on one of the 'tests' the mental therapist gave him...and that was remembering 5 words in order. So he's doing better because when I first went into the ER, the 2 questions he asked over and over was "Where am I?" and "Where are the kids?" At first I thought he was being funny, but then I'd show him his helmet, and go to put it down, and he'd say "oh cool! Is that my helmet? Let me see it!" And he did that about 10 times before I hid the helmet so he wouldn't ask again.

I forgot to mention he was airlifted off of the mountain in "MAMA" ...the hospital's helicopter. He thought that was neat. I have pics of that too from his friends he was riding with...just the copter though, not him inside.



he was at Mission up there. They sucked. Bad. A few nice nurses, but the doctors were pure shitheads.
Iagree I hate that place.
Glad he is still with us nod
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09-09-2008 at 05:25 PM.
09-09-2008 at 05:25 PM.
Quote from Autumn :
Oh wow...I'm glad he's mostly ok. You must have been so scared when you got a call from the hospital hug
oh yes....I drove 100mph from my house to Asheville and made the trip in about 30 min. It took us an hour and a half to get home todayBlush Thankfully my neighbor took the kids and her husband rode with me to keep me semi calm and kept calling family members for me.
It really sucks because all they told me was that he was in the ER. Not if he was dead, alive, how bad he was, etc. NOTHING. Imagine being 100 miles away and not knowing anything.
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