[douglas]

I never realized how many awesome friends I have, I am so totally blown away..To everyone that helped me get out of the woods and to the hospital, or visited me, or called me, or sent me healing vibes, or posted in the monkey down thread, or did a Tequila shot in my honor, or hooked me up w/magazines / games / booze, or said a pray - YOU ALL ARE THE BEST! and thank you so much

I am home, still in pain (feels like I did a couple million situps yesterday) but its less pain, and I have a big bottle of Loratabs. Oh, and at least 5 days off from work.

The bad news, Doc says 3 months before I can bike again.

I'll write more later, its nap time now

 

[stoney]

good to hear you're back and getting better. Keep us posted to your recovery.

 

[binary visions]

Welcome back, douglas... Just goes to show you can't keep a good monkey down

 

[McGRP01]

Rock on Tequila Doug!! Glad you're doing better! If there's anything you need give me a buzz and Kell and I can run it down!!

 

[Konabumm]

glad your home - now take some pills and a shot of Tequila and let the healing begin

 

[Total Heckler]

Good to hear you are back man. =]

Take your time with the healing.

 

[spincrazy]

Welcome back and heal quickly Douglas. Can we get a run-down of what happened?

 

[COmtbiker12]

Welcome back Douglas.

Hopefully you heal up quick and are able to get out there on the bike soon.

 

[tonyhawk]

glad to hear you're ok, doug. I'm sure you'll make a full recovery in less time than the doctors anticipate.

got a play-by-play of what happened? I've never heard of anyone lacerating their liver while biking...

 

[N8 v2.0]

Here's to a sspeedy recovery!!!!!!

 

[I Are Baboon]

Nice to hear you're back in the comfort of your own home, Doug! Heal quickly.

 

[robdamanii]

Welcome back Doug! You need a hot nurse to take care of you at home!

 

[T-Dog]

No place like home, eh? Best wishes for a speedy recovery from both of us!

 

[binary visions]

I've got about two hundred back issues of Bike if you need something to oogle while you go through riding withdrawls during your recovery...

 

[MMcG]

Hooray!

Glad to hear you are home Doug - heal up well and heal up fast my friend!

 

[peter6061]

Glad to hear you're back home.

Take your time healing up. You'll be back on the bike soon enough.

 

[splat]

Yee haaa , Glad your Home doug! Hospitals SUCK!!

 

[Cooter Brown]

glad you're back Dalton Doug, take them drugs and heal that liver.................the tuh-kill-ya needs ya

 

[narlus]

doug, glad to hear you busted out of the sterile hospital environs, back to yr abode. heal up fast. the three months off the bike sounds like a long time, but i be it will fly by.

 

[MtnBikerChk]

HOORAY! DOUG IS BACK!

Heal up bud!

(ps, I hope the hospital forwards the card we sent!)

 

[TreeSaw]

YEAH!!! I called the hospital before I left school and they said you were just discharged! PLEASE let me know if you need anything at all!!! I don't live that far away and I would be happy to help!

REST and you'll be 100% in no time!

 

[Trainwreck]

Doug- home already! That's great, man. Get some rest and take care.

 

[Graphics]

hey doug...hope you got my card....wish i could write more...glad you're on your way to recovery!!!

 

[The Toninator]

Welcome back Douglas! Be sure to fill ALL OF YOUR SCRIPTS. Use them too, with tequila makes everything better.

 

[Instigator]

Ok, this is for Doug. We are still sending you get well vibes. Just sending them to your place now!

 

[binary visions]

Hahaha... The chick drinking out of the bottle is hard core!

 

[splat]

Hahaha... The chick drinking out of the bottle is hard core!

thats Tree saw

 

[binary visions]

thats Tree saw

Go Treesaw!

 

[ghostrider]

Good to hear you are home and healing. Now get busy and write up the details on how you managed to get in this mess, so we can all learn a valuable lesson regarding livers, spleens, and handlebars.

 

[reflux]

The bad news, Doc says 3 months before I can bike again.

I disagree. 1) You had a major injury and will still be around in 3 months and 2) it's a great day whenever we hit the trails, good ride or bad (serious injuries excluded of course...).

Glad to have you back.

 

[Konabumm]

thats Tree saw

I'm in love :love:

 

[Upgr8r]

Glad you're home & healing. You'll be riding in no time

 

[biggins]

good news that you are healing well and home now.......youll be back onthe bike soon and we can all read about your adventures again. maybe you should start writing your memoires?

 

[TreeSaw]

Go Treesaw!

Thanks...we were one shot glass short so I made sure to drink up a little extra for Douglas

 

[dhbuilder]

Rock on Tequila Doug!! Glad you're doing better! If there's anything you need give me a buzz and Kell and I can run it down!!

i don't know the guy.
but it seems to me that you should be giving HIM the buzz.

 

[TreeSaw]

I'm in love :love:

neaky: You really should come to Deck Party sometime. It gets crazier as the night goes on and there are many bottles consumed!

 

[jdcamb]

Thats cool. Glad to hear your going to get better. Take it easy for a bit my friend.

 

[mud'n'sweat]

If there's anything you need give me a buzz and Kell and I can run it down!!

After all that hospital food, roadkill is probably the last thing he wants to eat right now! :looney: j/k

Glad your doing okay Doug! Heal up quick.

 

[Dartman]

This'll keep ya busy for a bit...

Take one down,
Pass it around,
99 bottles of Tequila on the wall!

Heal well!!

Mike

 

[douglas]

I wish I could say I was doing something exciting like a One foot no hander 360 but.....not the case


Every Friday's theres a group ride at Grafton (state Park) followed by a pot luck BBQ. Grafton can be pretty technical due to tons of rocks.
14 of us meet up and hit the trails, it rained that morning so it was extra sliperly. I was in take it easy mode (had to save some for Treesaw's ride & Sunday's darkhorse40 race). We were only riding for maybe 30 minutes. I was going slow, passed a tight tree, and I think my front tire slipped on a root, and my bike slams to the ground (tree side). It lands so my handlebar is sticking straight up, I had nothing to grab/reach for to stop my fall, so I basically belly flopped onto my bar which knocked the wind out of me. And man, that is not fun..Once I caught my breath I was still in major pain, everyone went from "are you alright" to asking "whats wrong"

Thnak you Chris for bringing a cell so a 911 call could be made immediately. But I had a mile walk to the road. The pain was crazy bad. Then I had a 30 minute ambulance ride to Samaraton hospital. It felt like a knife was in my chest, the pot holes really sucked.
They did xrays & a cat scan and determined my Liver was lacerated & bruised, so the call went out to Albany Med that they had a critical patient to transfer> But before that I started sweating bad, and ontop of the excruiating pain started feeling reall bad. Next thing I knw my friends get booted and there 6 or 7 people working on my. Not sure what, besides 3 IV's of saline that put in me..but thankfully the stuff worked.

Albany Med's determination for surgery would be to see how bad the internal bleeding was. This is monitored by your bloods hemoglobin levels. I was borderline. So basically the next few days was spent pumping me full of morphine, Saline & who knows what and closely looking at my "crits". Luckily mine leveled and I didnt need surgery. Even with morphine every 2 hours the pain was so freaking bad. Its been slowly getting better. Oh, at some point my potassium was realy low too. Oh it was a long time to get to have water, then even longer for food!

So no surgery, and its just going to be letting the body heal itself.

And again thanks for caring so much, you all are great!


ouch..stuff hurts - must be nap time again