In a bad wreck over the weekend

[Swoop]

Great news!
Good to hear that your doctor is also a biker. Hopefully he will look after a fellow rider with greater interest and dedication.

[klingon]

Wow, what a story!

I'm so glad you could come on here and tell us about it yourself. And to tell it with such humour and patience and calm is really quite incredible.

Women love scars by the way!

I have to agree with karla - women dig scars on condition there's an interesting story to go along with them. I think you might just qualify there!

Do keep eating as much as you can. It's no wonder you're feeling weak and tired with the trauma your body is going through. You really need to eat as much as you can, as often as you can to keep your strength up.

Good to hear you're enjoying your baths. Maybe when you're a bit better you can visit someone who has a decent size bath and really relax! Also I suspect the moist, steamy air might be doing you some good - try putting some essential oil in your bath so you're breathing in some soothing vapours at the same time as relaxing. Tea Tree oil is brilliant for that. Send your Mum on a mission to a herbalist to find something good.

Sending hugs and nurturing thoughts your way. If you were a bit closer I might even offer to scrub your back

[gijoe1313]

Matey mate, sounds like the biker gods have biffered you and garlanded you with cricket bats and bouquets! Glad to hear it wasn't an ear infection and you got to spend a little time with a good bloke who knows what its like to be riding two wheels of freedom.

Keep on with that attitude, I can't believe how active you are for the ordeal you've been through! Taking photos, replying to posts, giving us updates etc.

On ya bro, keep it all together ow!

How come you didn't ask the nice lady nurses for a sponge bath?

[Lissa]

Recover well matey!! Hugs your way, and look after YOURSELF!!!!

[klingon]

Main course: Whipped potato and Onion Gravy

Peel & boil a potato. Put it in your blender with some salt, some of the water you cooked the potato in, and some non-dairy oil. Whip it up nice and creamy, thinning it down as much as you need to.

Chop up half an onion and a clove of garlic very finely in your blender then sautee the onion paste in a little oil (olive oil is good). Make gravy in the usual way (stock, instant gravy mix, however you normally do it) using the fried onion/garlic. Again, thin it down as needed.

Put the potato on a plate, pour gravy over. Mmmmm yummy!

Dessert: Crustless Pumpkin pie

Boil & whip pumpkin. Add brown sugar & nutmeg to taste. Serve with non-dairy icecream.

I believe you can buy tinned pureed pumpkin for use in pumpkin pie. You can use that on condition it doesn't have milk or cream in it.

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Notes:
1) Avoid any dairy in your diet as it can cause your body to produce phlegm.
2) Try to be involved in the preparation process, or at least be in the kitchen when the food is being prepared. The smell of food being cooked may help stimulate your appetite and prepare your body for eating. (I know the smell of frying onions always works for me!)

[klingon]

Eggs benedict

Make a Hollandaise sauce using your favourite recipe, but use oil instead of butter or cream.

For example:
1/2 cup oil
3 large egg yolks
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon salt
dash cayenne pepper or hot pepper sauce
2 tablespoons hot water
finely chopped fresh parsley (optional)

Heat oil in a saucepan until hot but not smoking. In a small bowl, whisk or beat egg yolks with lemon juice, salt, and cayenne pepper or hot sauce. Gradually beat in oil, then water. Return mixture to saucepan and beat over very low heat until mixture is slightly thickened. Serve immediately or let stand over warm water for up to 30 minutes. If desired, sprinkle with chopped fresh parsley before serving.
Makes about 2/3 cup of hollandaise sauce.

Poach or fry an egg so the yolk is still runny. Serve the egg on a piece of toast & pour sauce over. Eat the yolk of the egg and as much sauce as you want. The egg white and toast is just to make it look like a real meal!

[TOTO]

Nice to read about the doctor buddy. Glad it was kinda a falce alarm that going to the hospital.

About your calorie intake, try to blend some chocolate, or better still you know that chokolate spread nutella or whatever its called. If you heat that up in the oven it rurns really runny and you can suck it trough a straw. 500 - 600 calories is nowhere near enough for a groun up for a day , let alone for 6 days. I taught it nhis kind of situations when its dificult to eat the doctors hooked a tube to your vein and pumped glucose in your body or something to make you strong. maybe you can get them to pump up some whiskey in it, that will help for the pain and has heaps of calories too

I normally dont drink hard spirits but yesterday I had a small whiskey for your health. With all those good taughts from everyone you may be back on the bike in a week and looking like a movie star after all those surgeries who knows you may become a real movie star thanks to all this stuff. You got plenty of time in front of the keyboard - start writing a book, i'll be your first customer

[klingon]

Trifle!

Oooh I do like a nice trifle! Prepare some mini trifles and keep them in the fridge so there's always something to eat when you fee like it.

Take some soft sponge or Madeira cake, spread a thin layer of jelly or seed-free jam on top, cube it and put it in the bottom of a dessert bowl.

Pour a teaspoon of sherry over the cake (optional). Pour fruit juice onto the cake until it can't absorb any more, then pour on a little bit extra! Leave the cake to soak while you make dairy-free custard (use soy milk or rice milk). Pour the custard over the cake, put in the fridge until everything is thoroughly soaked and you're ready to eat it.

If you were in New Zealand you could make your trifle with gingernuts in the bottom instead of cake, but you would have to leave it to soak overnight to make sure the gingernuts were soft enough to eat. Perhaps you could try some other kind of cookie instead of cake?

[TygerTung]

I ALMOST know how you feel brother, I once crashed my pushbike in not an awsome way. Did a jump off a curb and the front forks snapped off. I landed on my face. Obviously not nearly as bad as what you are going through, but my front two teeth got pushed back, and my lips swelled up to about 3 times the normal size. All I could drink for a week was chocolate milk through a straw. Was real stink because at the time there was all this nice food at my house that I couldn't eat!!!!!

The most hurty bit was when I went to the dentist afterwards to get my teeth straightened. Basically what he did was drug up my mouth, get his fingers and push as hard as he could on my teeth to get them back into position!!!! then he wired them up with some wire and glue stuff. It was alright when I was under anasthetic, but when it wore off MAN DID IT HURT!!!! I took about 6 paracetamol in one go!!!

Get well soon and on ya bike! Good to see you're keen to get back on ya horse.

Track riding is much safer than road riding as there isn't so much stuff to hit if ya arn't so keen to road ride anymore. Maybe all your bad luck has been used up so you'll be sweet as from now on?

[buellbabe]

Can only add my comiserations and ditto other peeps well wishes.

PM sent.

[FruitLooPs]

Jeeebus man you've been to hell and back by the sound of it.

Keep positive, sounds like your schnoz is going to be in good shape

I'd just like to mention the Shoei visor popping off. The stupid system is flawed on Shoeis I reckon.

1. the visor plastic screws back themselves out and need periodic tightening. Rubber/plastic cement apparently stops them backing out.

2. Take a read of this, from another kiwibiker thread

"Anyhow, it didn't have a visor lock but when I had a crash early last year, as I hit the road I hit with the visor first and the visor just ripped off from the visor mounting. (on one side the visor came off the quick release mounting and on the other side the quick release mounting actually ripped off the helmet.)" Shark helmet not a Shoei however.

Sounds like they need to revise these systems, I want my visor to stay the hell on if I bin it.

Heres a bit about Shoei and the one side of the visor lock system detaching from the helmet, without a crash!

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ht=shoei+visor

If you take a read you'll notice it happens fairly often. I always check and re-tighten my plastic screws but i'm beginning to doubt this helmet visor come crash time. Have a case to go to court potentially I'd say, since the visor coming off was the cause of most of your facial injuries.

Overall the construction of the helmet itself apart from that seems good, sounds like it saved your life either way and they seem to be quite quiet. But a bit of work on the visor system wouldn't go a miss!

[motodrummer]

Hang in there mate, sounds like you're lucky to be still breathing! I spent some time recovering from a bad crash in '97. My life took on a whole new meaning, and glad to say it's all good now! Anyway, take care and keep your head up, stay positive! See you...

[avgas]

Well fuck me......
sorry mate im dumb struck....
how about a nice slow bike next?????? ER6 mabey? GS500?

[90s]

1. I can lay in bed staring at the wall bleeding and drooling and being in pain.
2. I can type stuff while bleeding and drooling and being in pain and read your responses.

I can't believe how quick you were up after surgery writing up your crash - even with perfect punctuation.

Even the Terminator stays down longer than you.

Take it easy and speedy recovery

[Edbear]

Done.

Your attitude is amazing, and an inspiration to all. Heal fast dude.

+1!

Oh and I have another product review. This time its a review of pain meds. Remmember how I said morphine didnt work as well as I needed it to while I was in the hospital. Well now Im on something thats great. Dont know if its actually better then morphine...(in fact it could even be a derivative)...but I DO know thats it making me FEEL better then the morphine hehehehe.

Its called "Hydrocodone" and shit does this stuff work. I felt like total ass a little while ago. Pain was unbearable. Took the prescribed dosage and for awhile I felt almost good. The biggest news though. I was able to fall asleep for a little while. Maybe 45 minutes. Damn that was good.

The reason Im awake now is because Im in severe pain again......cant sleep. But guess what?? In a little over an hour I get to take some more Hydrocodone and the pain goes away for a bit. Who knows.....maybe it will go away long enough for me to fall asleep.....and maybe I will sleep a few hours in a row. That would be nice.

Another good update: Alot of the swelling in the upper part of my head (above my eyes) has gone down. Still look like I've been beat up by Mike Tyson below my eyes but above it I dont look like an alien anymore. Now Im just waiting for the bottom half of my face to play catch up with the upper part hehehehe. Also Im begining to think the huge battle axe scar I've got that runs from my forehead down between my eyes and ends at my upper lip just to the right of my nose actually looks cool. Heheheh.....nah Im sure I'll be pissed off about it again tommorrow........LOL. Jesus. Its pretty epic though.

Still drooling like a champ. I hope I dont drool like this for the rest of my life. That would get old hehehehe.

Ok now I gotta go. Sitting here typing I can literally feel the pain increasing. Cant do this anymore for now.

Godonyermate! I don't know for sure whether it is similar, but I was on DHC, or Dihydracodeine and while it is very effective, has long term consequences. It's very addictive and as the body builds a tolerance to it, it becomes less effective requiring more and more. Watch for tolerance and addiction and check with the Doc whether you may need to review it.