Harley
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Antelope Valley CA Chapter
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Monday, 16 August 2010, 10:30 PM
Schoolmarm arranged for us to escort Tracy and Greg
to our August RAG HOG meeting! What fun!
(This picture at Tracy and Greg's home...courtesy of Kim and Randy.
Stan's Official Picture taken at the Carriage Inn includes everyone!)
to our August RAG HOG meeting! What fun!
(This picture at Tracy and Greg's home...courtesy of Kim and Randy.
Stan's Official Picture taken at the Carriage Inn includes everyone!)
Click on the picture above for a higher resolution version!
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Your "Back Arrow" will return you to this RAG home page!
Everyone,
Greg and Tracy Wilson will be returning to the land down under at the end of the year. They have been wonderful members and friends that I have enjoyed getting to know.
Their bikes are being shipped back to Australia soon and they have requested a picture of them and as many of the members as possible. They are going to ride their bikes to the August meeting, probably the last meeting that they will be able to ride their bikes to. They have asked if it would be possible to take a picture after the August meeting with as many of the chapter members a we can get.
I would like to ask that as many of you that can please join us for the August meeting so that we can get a really good picture for Greg and Tracy to take back home so they can remember us and we can remember them.
Tracy
Greg and Tracy Wilson will be returning to the land down under at the end of the year. They have been wonderful members and friends that I have enjoyed getting to know.
Their bikes are being shipped back to Australia soon and they have requested a picture of them and as many of the members as possible. They are going to ride their bikes to the August meeting, probably the last meeting that they will be able to ride their bikes to. They have asked if it would be possible to take a picture after the August meeting with as many of the chapter members a we can get.
I would like to ask that as many of you that can please join us for the August meeting so that we can get a really good picture for Greg and Tracy to take back home so they can remember us and we can remember them.
Tracy
Posted: Sunday, 29 August 2010, 5 PM
NEW 25 August 2010, 8:30 PM ;-)
Family and Friends,
I know, it's been almost a week since Anita and I went to our doctor's visit in Redlands. So here's what's happening around here:
On Aug. 19 I had the external fixator removed from my leg. I still have my leg and I thank God for that everyday. I want to thank Brent Hansen for taking us down there and back and getting there early so they could take me early too. The fixator, otherwise known as the metal contraption in my leg, was removed and replaced by a movable brace with foam pads and velcro straps holding on the brace. I asked the doc if I could have a local anesthesia and watch them take it out, but they said it would take a lot longer to get the anesthesia for that than it would to get me in and out of surgery altogether. So the surgery went quickly and I came out and my leg was all wrapped up in gauze and ace bandages.
The doc had said he wanted to see if I could get 45 degrees of flexion in my leg so the nurse set the allowable motion to 50 degrees as it goes in 10 degree increments. The day after I got home, I was in my hospital bed in our living room for a few hours, still fairly well sedated on pain meds. I was trying to hold my leg up with my hands to adjust the pillows (my leg was still way too weak) when it slipped out of my hand holding the calf and it fell to the pillow! I am surprised the local cops didn't show up after the scream I let out. The pain was fairly significant to say the least. I had Anita (and my son, Shane, came over too) figure out how to adjust the flexion back to 20 degrees and figured out how to lock the brace too.
The docs office called the next day to see how I was doing now. They wanted me to adjust it to 30, and then 40 degrees fairly quickly. Which I did when I was more comfortable and had strength in my leg, and it is at 50 degress again now. I can't quite get it to the 50 degree mark, but I am getting close. The swelling is still signigicant and is part of the problem of getting more motion out of my knee. So I am using the ice method to try and help. Using the frozen corn makes a good ice pack. I do like the joke of having a corn knee knee.
OK, more important news; God has been so very good to us, Anita is back at work seeing a couple clients a day. She has even started driving this week and rarely takes a pain pill anymore,mostly after I have made her slave around helping me I think. She's been working for two weeks now and seems to be able to get work done over the phone at home too. She is impressive in her work talent and her ethics too. Not sure where I would be without her.
We did hire some motorcycle lawyers, Schapiro and Leventhal, and will likely get the max from the other party's insurance, minus the 15% for the lawyers of course. Most of what I am looking for is for the health insurance to not take anything from the car insurance until we got our share, which will be more than the policy has in the first place, so my health insurance needs to write it all off as far as collecting on the accident claim.l Steve Schapiro came up the other day and we had a good visit. We told him we didn't want to sue the young lady unless we had to.
Hope all is well, God Bless, Rex
Family and Friends,
I know, it's been almost a week since Anita and I went to our doctor's visit in Redlands. So here's what's happening around here:
On Aug. 19 I had the external fixator removed from my leg. I still have my leg and I thank God for that everyday. I want to thank Brent Hansen for taking us down there and back and getting there early so they could take me early too. The fixator, otherwise known as the metal contraption in my leg, was removed and replaced by a movable brace with foam pads and velcro straps holding on the brace. I asked the doc if I could have a local anesthesia and watch them take it out, but they said it would take a lot longer to get the anesthesia for that than it would to get me in and out of surgery altogether. So the surgery went quickly and I came out and my leg was all wrapped up in gauze and ace bandages.
The doc had said he wanted to see if I could get 45 degrees of flexion in my leg so the nurse set the allowable motion to 50 degrees as it goes in 10 degree increments. The day after I got home, I was in my hospital bed in our living room for a few hours, still fairly well sedated on pain meds. I was trying to hold my leg up with my hands to adjust the pillows (my leg was still way too weak) when it slipped out of my hand holding the calf and it fell to the pillow! I am surprised the local cops didn't show up after the scream I let out. The pain was fairly significant to say the least. I had Anita (and my son, Shane, came over too) figure out how to adjust the flexion back to 20 degrees and figured out how to lock the brace too.
The docs office called the next day to see how I was doing now. They wanted me to adjust it to 30, and then 40 degrees fairly quickly. Which I did when I was more comfortable and had strength in my leg, and it is at 50 degress again now. I can't quite get it to the 50 degree mark, but I am getting close. The swelling is still signigicant and is part of the problem of getting more motion out of my knee. So I am using the ice method to try and help. Using the frozen corn makes a good ice pack. I do like the joke of having a corn knee knee.
OK, more important news; God has been so very good to us, Anita is back at work seeing a couple clients a day. She has even started driving this week and rarely takes a pain pill anymore,mostly after I have made her slave around helping me I think. She's been working for two weeks now and seems to be able to get work done over the phone at home too. She is impressive in her work talent and her ethics too. Not sure where I would be without her.
We did hire some motorcycle lawyers, Schapiro and Leventhal, and will likely get the max from the other party's insurance, minus the 15% for the lawyers of course. Most of what I am looking for is for the health insurance to not take anything from the car insurance until we got our share, which will be more than the policy has in the first place, so my health insurance needs to write it all off as far as collecting on the accident claim.l Steve Schapiro came up the other day and we had a good visit. We told him we didn't want to sue the young lady unless we had to.
Hope all is well, God Bless, Rex
Update Topics -- Monday, 30 August 2010, 8:30 PM
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