Took my last ride on Sunday.

[benebob]

Going home today.  Woo Hoo. 

[mat-tiger1]

Get well soon benebob! Hope the driver gets her comeuppance!! 

[benebob]

Slow and painful recovery.  Developed blood clots in my leg last week, spent another night in the hospital.  Am completely immobilized now spending 23 hours a day lying flat on my back with leg elevated.  Miserable am I.  Today it has been a month since I was hit.  Can't remember when I went a month w/o riding.

[Mustang]

bummer
hang in there , hopefully gets better soon

[benebob]

Got out Saturday for the first non-medical trip.  Went to the local yamaha dealer to sit on a 10 Tiger SE.  Hurt like hell getting my leg over but have decided I prefer a Girly over the roadie for now,

[Triple Pete]

Wow, sorry to here the tales of woe, can relate to your situation I am into 7th month recovery of same situation. 3rd ride out on my 1972 export rocket three 60 miles on the clock after three year rebuild.
Being told your lucky to be alive by surgeons, so go away and deal with it as nature will heal you, doesn't always work.
But keep positive it will get better, but in the mean time trying to keep your head straight and wanting string up the guilty party will be a difficult thought to get rid of. Insurance and legal issues won't have your best focus at present, I am sure friends and family are supporting you, but?

Just a word of advice, start logging all the detail and daily horrors you go through, charge all incidentals even the diary to write up the stuff, keep all receipts. Record all mileage related to appointments and if you are excluded from major stuff, not just loss of earnings, such as what jobs you would be doing apart from polishing the bike bits left in one piece. I.E dreaded DIY household duties, then keep bills and claim the labour part (get the house painted etc)
If anybody helps you dress, eat or wash then log it.

Oh and one more thing, get the best looking physiotherapist there is, it helps, beleive me.
Pete 

[Fross]

Oh and one more thing, get the best looking physiotherapist there is, it helps, beleive me.
Pete

No one told me you could choose. I had a bloke help make my leg work again when a tin box on wheels hit me side ways.

The advise to log every thing is so important, I found it very hard to try and remember all that stuff 6 months later when you're asked to present it as part of your claim.

Benebob, I wish you a speedy recovery, keep dreaming of your new bike, the first ride on it will be one of the greatrest feelings you can get (on two wheels, that is)

[benebob]

Thanks guys, I've been emailing a weekly update to my lawyer of how I feel and what's happened since the last email.  As  for the therapist, I'm frightened on what they'd find. :)

[benebob]

Prelim hearing day. Seems the public defender has talked the girl who hit me into a plea deal where the felony hit and run is dropped and the felony assult with a m.v. stays along with the dui and other chargesl She will get a 6-14 month sentance, 5 years probation, must pay tbd restitution and will not get her license back until it is paid in full.

Unfortuately there was no hearing and there were a ton of peopele there so I didn't get to personally thank both the witnesses who without them she never would have gotten caught but I'll definately send them a thank you card. I did get to see a picture of her car from the Swatara cop. I did a good job of making the damage noticable. Apparently Japanese steel isn't as strong as English alloys as I did a solid 4k in damage to her car and IMHO as a former trained cr writer ther is no doubt that the car has "frame" damage

[Sin_Tiger]

Result of a sort, I feel it lacks a sense of closure. Do you think it will change her "frame" of mind?

[Bixxer Bob]

I like the bit about not getting her licence back till she's paid in full.  That somehow seems right and proper.

[John Stenhouse]

It's longer than you get over here for Death by Dangerous Driving, the guy who hit me and the queue on the M4 and killed the guy three cars back got 6 months, and a three year ban.

[benebob]

I like the bit about not getting her licence back till she's paid in full.  That somehow seems right and proper.

As do I my civil lawyer actually suggested that even though he knows I'll get like $5 a week until I take a dirt nap.  She'll be able to get a bread and butter license that allows for work and groccery shopping but that's it. 

Do I think she'll change-no but I'm a negative person to begin with and would love to be proven wrong.  The 5 years probation wil give her every opportunity.

As for closure, I still have that opportunity to speak at her sentencing so we'll see.

Yeah, ideally since I will never be able to swim, play tennis sail on my small sailboats, or throw a baseball and technically will never be 100% so who knows where work with go on letting me back I'd love to see a 5 year sentence but I also know that isn't the most realistic as there are murders who serve less time in our overcrowded underfunded prison system. 

[coachgeo]

Benebob, for other Tiger riders reference/consideration when thinking of riding gear to wear......... what gear were you wearing? You mentioned helmet so far.

[benebob]

Bilt steel toe boots
Jeans (I'm bad unless I'm riding all day but lucked out w/o a bit of road rash)
Triumph Richmond textile jacket w/ the armor in it
Bell Vortex helmet
Cortech Scarab winter gloves

Ysterday I went to a local dealer to waste some time and get out of the house.  Seems they took a trade in the night before complicating my bike replacement.  Its a 06 Silver Tiger fully bagged with crash bars and looks BRAND new.  Has 7k miles.  Salesman claims to have known the owner for years saying he's a VW of America Master Tech.  Said it just had 2 Mich tires in the fall, fork oil, brake fluid,oil, coolant changed and steering stem bearings repaced over xmas so it sounds ready to ride and very well maintained.  Did I mention it looks BRAND new?

Problem is I really want a roulette green Girly but for an asking $1700 (would like to settle for a hundred off plus a $250 clothing allowance there to replace my jacket but the price is fair as is) over the green one I've narrowed down to (owner is out of the country so I haven't pulled the trigge).  I could get a 5 year newer basically new 06 with 14k less miles and a complete history comming with it.

Of course I don't have the cash just sitting here for the 06 as her insurance hasn't paid a dime yet or even gotten their appraiser out to look at my pile of broken triumph.  They claim they will try for Tuesday but of course I won't let them on my property when I'm not here since I need to show them all my clothes and explain what parts are missing like my vario winshield and $125 transisions helmet visor.  I'm expecting to see her state minimum limit of $5k for all the stuff.

Decision, decisions, decisions...  Thoughts or recommendations?