Spare a thought for Blackbird

[Chooky]

Hey just thought I'd let you know that Geoff {Blackbird} from Coromandel who tipped his Honda over at low speed a couple of weeks ago and badly bruised his leg,told me the doc sent him to Thames hospital for an xray because its taking so long to heal.
Anyway,if you've got some miracle cure or grubby jokes,he'd probably like to hear them on here.
Chooky :cool:

[naphazoline]

get well soon blackbird.

it would be nice to have a full complement of KB'ers on the road this summer,that includes YOU! :)

[normajeane]

Sorry to hear of your off, damaging at any speed. Get back on as soon as you can. Plenty of rest - leg up on chair plus protein and vit c are good healers. Deep bruising takes ages to come out and by the time you see it, it isn't sore anymore.
Enjoy your time chatting to others on the site and each day gets better (healing!):grouphug::doctor:

[scracha]

Get Well Soon Geoff. Them born again bikers........


Hey just thought I'd let you know that Geoff {Blackbird} from Coromandel who tipped his Honda over at low speed a couple of weeks ago and badly bruised his leg,told me the doc sent him to Thames hospital for an xray because its taking so long to heal.
Anyway,if you've got some miracle cure or grubby jokes,he'd probably like to hear them on here.
Chooky :cool:

[vifferman]

Hey, that sucks! :doh:
I was amazed at how 'colourful' it was: when my VFR750 was written off by a car u-turning into me, my left leg was squashed between the bike and car, and it wasn't as 'pretty' as that. However, it did take months to come right, and years later I'm still feeling it (pain in my left heel, poorer circulation, very swollen leg after long plane flights).

I hope you heal quickly, Geoff!

[vifferman]

Them born again bikers........
I don't think that that's really a true monicker in Geoff's case.

[Blackbird]

Thanks guys, Chooky warned me that he was going to write something so I immediately thought it must be horrible. He must have been taking "nice" pills and I'm touched, haha!

No need for sympathies though thanks, I'd sooner forget the whole thing! After taking advanced riding courses and working hard on good roadcraft, having my boot slide on loose metal whilst turning round in the road and ending up with the lot on top of me is almost too much to bear:(:(:(:(.

The rainbow hues on my leg shown in the photo on the original post about the accident have almost disappeared after 10 days - apart from my toes still being black, that is! However, my leg is still really swollen and that's what prompted me to get it re-checked at the doctors yesterday.

I almost wish I hadn’t gone! He immediately sent me (with Jennie driving) down to Thames hospital for an x-ray and some tests in case there was the risk of any clots breaking loose. Left Coromandel at 1500 and didn’t get home until 2045, much of which was spent waiting in hospital corridors – a truly unpleasant experience although no complaints about the hospital staff, quite the reverse. In short, no bones broken but I now have to get daily injections (in my stomach – arrrgh…..) to thin my blood ready for an ultrasound later in the week to look for clots (no smart remarks necessary, we all know who and where the Big Clot is located:rolleyes:). If the ultrasound finds anything, then I apparently have to take good ‘ol rat poison (Warfarin) for 6 months to break them up. The doctor at the hospital was a young Irish guy that looked like he was on work experience afternoon release from the local high school! Soooo…. really hoping for an early recovery to the extent that I can start riding after Xmas but at this stage, I simply have my fingers crossed.

In less than an hour, the District Nurse (who probably looks like a Russian shot putter) is due to give me another painful injection. Jennie and our daughter will of course treat the occasion as a huge joke!

I think the real message is that no-one is exempt from a bit of grief through momentary inattention and even an "off" at walking pace can have consequences.

Take good care out there guys and gals:clap:

[vifferman]

Couldn't you ask to have them in your butt instead?
Might not be any better, but it'd be more entertaining for us onlookers.

[Blackbird]

Couldn't you ask to have them in your butt instead?
Might not be any better, but it'd be more entertaining for us onlookers.

Arse is out Ian. Medical manuals say you get them where it hurts most, not where it's most degrading:whistle:

[MadDuck]

After taking advanced riding courses and working hard on good roadcraft, having my boot slide on loose metal whilst turning round in the road and ending up with the lot on top of me is almost too much to

Damn what a bummer. Sounds like something I would do though.

Hope it heals in time for the festive season .... if not the festive season will help you heal

[Gremlin]

just make sure you wrap yourself in cotton wool now... any accidents with blood thinners involved will make for an interesting experience... especially if they thin it too much

[Trumpess]

I had no idea you had hurt yourself Blackbird!
I hope you have a speedy recovery and the docs find out whats going on.
I take it they didnt agree that alcohol was good enough to thin your blood, buggar those needles!
Im so not laughing at ya! I feel the anguish!

[Blackbird]

Thanks again everyone:love: District nurse has just left and she wasn't a Russian Shot Putter at all - just a nice, middle-aged Coro woman with distinct hippy tendencies. It hurt, but she was so nice that it took some of the pain away:shifty:

Tomorrow is going to be a whole new ball-game. Nurse Hippy isn't rostered on and it will be Nurse Jane, who lives just across the road from us. I'm now bitterly regretting winding her up from time to time and pulling her husband's leg about his BMW and sidecar! Methinks the syringe is gonna get chucked from halfway across the room:laugh::laugh:

Oh yes.... and moderate alcohol consumption is permitted.... yay!!!!

[MIXONE]

I wouldn't throw myself under my bike to save it from getting scratched but it does take all types.
Seriously I hope you recover quickly and jack daniels is a great blood thinner!

[vifferman]

Methinks the syringe is gonna get chucked from halfway across the room.
At least that gives you a sporting chance!

[kevfromcoro]

SORRY to here about your little bin mate..
hope you are ok.........went to Thames hospital a couple of weeks ago...
this male nurse stuck a big needle in my arm..
i pulled it out .and ran for the door..
they were still chashing me in the carpark.......
take it easy
KEV

[MadDuck]

.went to Thames hospital a couple of weeks ago...
this male nurse stuck a big needle in my arm..
i pulled it out .and ran for the door..
they were still chashing me in the carpark.......


Hope you werent wearing one of them hospital gowns at the time :no:

[kevfromcoro]

Hope you werent wearing one of them hospital gowns at the time :no:

YEAH i was mayebe thats what were after....

[Swoop]

Dr Swoop prescribes an immediate course of "fishing".
Administer daily, with alcohol.

Repeat until finished.

[kevfromcoro]

shit those gowns are cold when you out side dont know how shelies where mini skirts....
bit of topic here..
blackbird ...hope you are ok.
this is KB... mayebe meake you laugh a little
Regards
KEV

[martybabe]

Hope you weren't wearing one of them hospital gowns at the time :no:

Shit,I just had a horrible flash back.. Dressed in flappy gown and plastic bags On my feet and having been left alone in my cubicle for ages, I did a runner to the hospital toilet, through reception, arse hanging out etc.

Got to the urinal trough, lifted up my rent a tent, so I'm naked from the nipples down and slipped on the pissy floor, because of the bags on my feet, falling head long into the urinal, smacking my head real hard in the process.:shit:

I'm now faced with a walk back through reception soaked in piss and water, arse hanging out and blood pouring from my forehead.

I left the bloody Hospital worse than when I went in, happy days. :laugh:

Heal Quick Geoff me old mate, coulda happened to anybody Mate:niceone:

[jtzzr]

Wishing you a speedy recovery Geoff.

How`s Grace?

Dr Swoop is a leader in his field I believe.

Take care mate.

[riffer]

As someone who has to inject himself at least 5 times a day in the stomach, I'll offer you some advice. Start on the left hand side, and work your way to the right. If you inject twice in the same place before it heals it hurts soooooo bad.

Hope you get better soon Geoff.

[SARGE]

i know im gonna get in trouble for this ..



Spare a thought for Blackbird...



pocket full of Rye .....




damn ..

[Quailboy]

In short, no bones broken but I now have to get daily injections (in my stomach – arrrgh…..) to thin my blood...


Damn, if only I could give you my haemophilia for a bit. I have to take injections straight into veins to thicken my blood :(

Take care out there.

[Edbear]

I feel kinda out of place in this thread... I'm getting better and I only have a jab, (in my butt), every three weeks and take 3 little white pills every day... :yes:

Get well Geoff, sorry to hear about the complications. I guess as we get older we don't bounce quite as well as we used to... Nowadays, I'm more likely to go "splat" than "boing"... :bye:

[gijoe1313]

Crikey :no: :sick: :pinch: Sorry to hear about all of this malarkey! Hope ya get better right soon! No fun being crook and off your bike and all :weep:

Get well soon and back in the saddle y'hear!

[Pussy]

Dr Swoop prescribes an immediate course of "fishing".
Administer daily, with alcohol.

Repeat until finished.

You're heading for a reputation as a highly regarded physician, Dr Swoop


Heal quick, Blackbird! :)

[Okey Dokey]

Gosh, Blackbird, hope that you survive your treatment- almost sounds worse than the original injury!!

[ynot slow]

If the doc is really young don't call him Dougie(Howser)they tend to get upset.

Remember having a colonoscopy,then after aneasthetic had worn off going to the crapper(doc said you may get wind)started to piss,then an almighty ripper of a fart was let go,apparently the surgical outpatients ward at NP base hospital nearly collapsed with the sonic boom emmitting from the gents.

Can sympathise with the stomach jabs,met a few in oncology getting the chemo via stomach infusion,didn't look comfy,mind you having a local jab in the neck aint much fun either,rather tender place as well.

[scumdog]

Thanks guys, Chooky warned me that he was going to write something so I immediately
In less than an hour, the District Nurse (who probably looks like a Russian shot putter) is due to give me another painful injection.

Easy!!
Mrs scumdog a.k.a. CB a.k.a. normajeane is a District Nurse and does NOT look like a Russian shot-putter....well not in my eyes she doesn't!!!
Of course she is still quite capable of giving painful injections...

But get well anyway eh!

[Swoop]

You're heading for a reputation as a highly regarded physician, Dr Swoop
I just wish I knew what to do with these rectal thermometers:scratch:

[merv]

Get well mate, I know every time I've bruised a leg the deep bruises next to the bone do take forever to go down but I always hope there is no lasting effect.

[zeocen]

Damn Geoff!
I didn't know anything about this! That'll learn me not to browse the forums.. hope you're up and ready ASAP mate, if not.. feel free to send the 'bird down to Whangamata this weekend and I'll clear the pipes up ;)

[yod]

Sorry to hear about the off Geoff

hope you and the bird are all sorted asap

[MyGSXF]

All the best for a speedy recovery hun :doctor:

[Blackbird]

Thanks so much everyone, it's really appreciated. Went for my ultrasound this morning and apart from the Big Clot which is me, I'm in the clear as far as other clots go. Just massive bruising and some tissue damage causing all the swelling. Probably won't be back on the bike for a few weeks but that's no big deal over the Xmas period.

Ride safe and best wishes for a stunning Festive Season.

Geoff

[pritch]

Ride safe and best wishes for a stunning Festive Season.

Geoff

Pleased to read things are on the up and up. Best to wear shoes not jandals when out and about for a while. I don't take blood thinners but know some who do, they don't like broken glass...

I will second SDs nomination of his lady as not being the Russian shotputter type of District Nurse:shifty:

[Chooky]

Hey Geoff....thats good the gear change leg is coming right..you wont have to drive around in 1st now.
I hope you enjoyed your 2 chauffeured trips to Thames.It truely is a beautiful drive down the coast with all the pohutakawa's in flower at this time of year.
Chooky:)

[Mrs Busa Pete]

Thanks so much everyone, it's really appreciated. Went for my ultrasound this morning and apart from the Big Clot which is me, I'm in the clear as far as other clots go. Just massive bruising and some tissue damage causing all the swelling. Probably won't be back on the bike for a few weeks but that's no big deal over the Xmas period.

Ride safe and best wishes for a stunning Festive Season.

Geoff

That great news Geoff and as far as not being able to ride for a few weeks probley not that bad as it is the stilly season. But hope you are back on the bike sooner rather than later.