OOHH NOO!!! Gav's coming back!!!!

[gav]

oohhhh i no tell you me not that stooopid :P


and all our stuff arrived yay!! including the bike YAYAY - has a small scrathc on it grrr, but it'll survive - time to head out for a ride soon methinks, overtake some of these starion thingys on the back wheel with the one finger salute on show :P

[decoy]

They scratched the paint pulling a mono or doing a burnout? hehe

[gav]

hehe ner :P they folded the mirrors in, and it rubbed on the paint :(

[gav]

well, long time no post sorry - partially due to crash tho :(

this happenned 7 weeks ago (3rd march) (have no recollection of 5 mins before to 4 days after this by the way!!)
Was going for a light ride with a few mates down through the National park South of Syd - apparently we were not hooning, just sensible speeds (police have confirmed this) - unfortunately which i think was yet again my letdown was the shite hard tyre on the back, my mate (starjunk) came around a corner to see a big cloud of dust - i had lost control, hit the kerb and fallen off, hitting a tree (which also my bike did a few flips and hit another tree too ) Chopper lifted to St Georges Hospital, spent about 3 days in a coma and a week in intensive care - was there for 3 weeks in total, then 6 days in the brain injury rehab clinic in Ryde doing all the tests with therapists and neuro peoples to prove i am ok in the head :-) Then home for 2 weeks rest and now been retested, told i'm more advanced (read - farking LUCKY) than any other case in Syd and allowed to drive and get back to work (first day was monday) for 3 days a week at 3 hrs, then next week 5 hrs, then 8, then back to full time...

End results were severe bleeding of the brain (the thought was permanent brain damage) Back has one mushed vertebrae and 2 broken ones in the middle of it, and a 7 hour operation 4mm from my spinal cord to "screw" and rod 4 vertebrae together (if they bumped the spinal cord i woould have been paralyzed!!!) And right wrist broken. But apparently i'm a bit of a miracle recovery boy, once the brain stopped bleeding and the morphine wore off i snapped back to normal, hence only having one week in brain injury clinic (record) and only waiting 2 weeks after leaving there to get driving and work privileges back (another record)...
At the moment its really just loss of back strength (annoying!), discomfort that grows to an ache by the end of the day(multiplied by the damn plastic brace that also hurts my ribs that i have to wear grrr), and a annoying section of my back that has no sensitivity - pin pricks feel just like a gently thumb push - wish i had that in my tae kwan do days :-)

So yer, bit of a life update for you all :) will still want to catch up with y'all, just give me a bit longer to lose the brace so i look slightly more normal and we can coffee it :) unfortunately no waterskiing with wantsom and gotsom for quite a while tho :?

[Alspos]

Faaaark me Gav.

Glad you're alright (relative term) now.

I know (sort of) what you're going thru, my brother was in a car accident (rear seat passenger) and he did coma, hospital, rehab etc. It's a long road.

Keep pedalling mate. :beer

[Cookiemonster]

JESUS!!!!

Glad you're ok Gav.

[Darkelf]

You're a farkin idiot Gav.

Hoony and I are really pleased you are OK though. Take it easy man.

[decoy]

then 6 days in the brain injury rehab clinic in Ryde doing all the tests with therapists and neuro peoples to prove i am ok in the head :-)

I still don't know how you passed! Couldn't have even passed that one before the accident! haha

[gav]

thats what i thought deeks - they actually classified me as having a higher than normal intelligence!!!! Fark me

[decoy]

haha, well you do know mechanics... i'm thinking you made some slight alterations to the machine before you were tested :D

[JPC]

they actually classified me as having a higher than normal intelligence!!!!

What kind of 'normal' vegetable were they comparing you to?

[gav]

one of the smart vegetable i guess JPC :D :D

sorry to heear Alspos, hope he gets better!!

getting some feelings back in my back now, sharp shooting pains aren't as fun as numbness :x :x :x got re xray on the 3rd and chat with surgeon, find out what the go is then - can't believe i love my job and hate sitting around doing nothing now - got pissed off when found out wed was public holiday!!!

[Rallyant]

then 6 days in the brain injury rehab clinic in Ryde doing all the tests with therapists and neuro peoples to prove i am ok in the head :-)

I still don't know how you passed! Couldn't have even passed that one before the accident! haha

I know! Its weird,
I think hes actually gained intelligence.

[WANTSOM]

Well it was physically impossible for him to lose it. LOL