Motorcyle Accident - Sue in Canada

[Bob_Roller]

Anyone sending a card to Sue from the US, the postage rate to Canada is more than the standard rate in the US, it was 71 cents from Phoenix.

Just so you don't put a 42 cent stamp on it, and then get it back again in a few days.

Or have it delivered with postage due. [smiley=embarassed.gif]

[Melena]

Will we be notified somehow when Sue is finally back home?  I was going to hang on until I know she is back before mailing off a get well card.

Sounds like Derek is getting it together to get her home as soon as they let her out of the  hospital.  So I'll bet she's  home Monday or Tuesday.  If you send a card now I'll bet it won't show up until she's home anyway.  I'm sending mine today.  Well, one of them.  I found 2.    So I'll send one next week too.  

[tagordon]

It's in the mail!

[Chris_in_BC]

Hi,
 Last writeup before I head off for the Nez Perce off-road rally in Idaho tomorrow (actually in Oregon's Wallowas this year).    Lots of gravel..yee ha!


Anyway , just talked with Sue. She says she is still kind of groggy, but is sleeping a lot, which is good. The bones are still sore, but that is too be expected. She likes Tylenol 3's  

Her partner is expected to arrive Sunday/ Monday as he is having to drive the 1700kms alone. So she expects to be home, probably Thursday/ Friday. Might have to take it easy on the drive home as sitting in a vehicle with broken bones all day will get tiring fast, I would think.

But she is very upbeat, just wishes she could remember what happened.
If anyone is sending a card, postal time US/ Canada is generally a week to 10 days.

[Melena]

Thanks Chris!  So glad to hear that's she's doing well and will get home okay.   She'll be so glad to get into her own bed in familiar surroundings.  But then, she won't have the nice nurses to take care of her every need.   :-/

Have fun in the Wallowas!  Beautiful country there!

[NC Steve]

So what's up with Susie Q, any new news? Is she home yet?

Chris, Melena, Aida, anyone...?  :-?

[msbuck]

I haven't heard anything new...the flag has been sent with the group's wishes for a swift recovery!

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

I know she will probably cry when she sees the flag!

No doubt she will get a posting to us, one way or the other, when she does!

[Melena]

If I remember, I'm going to try to call her in the morning.  Let's see, 3 hours difference?   :-?  I can't remember.  But it won't be too early.  I don't want to wake her up.

[Melena]

I called her.  No answer.  Just the answer machine with probably Derek's voice.  

It was 8:30 am here, so probably 11:30 am there.   They may be staying somewhere else until she can take care of herself.    :question

[Danie]

Sorry to hear about the accident.

Hopefully  she will be back on the road soon.

[Bob_Roller]

I saw Sue was online here this morning, about 8:30 am local time here.

So it looks like she may be at home finally !!!

[suecanada]

I'm here!!!!! Home i hope it is 'cause it looks like home so it can't be heaven.  All i need and want to do right now is to weep at all the good wishes and concern for my being alive from all my forum buds!!! It is more than i can say how much the cards and many hopeful words have meant to me in this blurrrrr of a world i call home in my mind. I'm getting worried cause my brain is still wooly and i get dizzy when i change planes from upright to lying down to just trying to move too fast. it's been 2 wks. and a night now...when do things get ok again.

I was sure right about how great you guys are...gentlemen all!!! And women of course too.  Just for sure wanted you all to know that there isn't one oh @$#! moment that i can bring to mind and i have been trying to remember. Derek says i remember what i was thinking about things enroute right up to the last moment and i do so wonder how do i account for instantly falling asleep on the bike or when i came upon gravel not saying $#@% then turning around as there were options in what way to go. I have a bent con rod that somehow got through the engine casings in a hole rather than any bolts busting open. Does this figure? All metal on the bike looks like it melted as it looks like it flowed! Lost 3/4 of all the things I caiired on the bike which were of course all favourite things to travel with. The right saddlebag survived (is busted but not melted to nothing) as did the things in it which were in a liner bag. Must have come off first like me!

Gotta go now..took 2 more tylenol as arm is a pain and is right side so typing with 1 finger on  left. Should be ambidexterous soon! Just needed despertaely to touch base with all of you! You are very important to me!

One-wing, thank god it wasn't LRB! Sue

I will read all my PM's very soon in next session!

[montmil]

Glad to have you back, Sue! Rest up, heal up, ride again... later.   Monte

[Bob_Roller]

Good to hear from you Sue !!!

Looks like you've got some recovering still to do, things will get better, just going to take some time.


The blanking out of your memory of the incident, reminds me of the first I went down on my first bike a Yamaha XS 400, I was braking quite hard to make a missed turnoff, and hit a patch of fine material like sand, the next thing I can remember, is just sliding to a stop on my right side, still on the bike, no memory of the 5-6 seconds of losing control, and hitting the pavement !!!

On your bent connecting rod, I wonder if somehow the throttle was opened by the impact(s), and the engine self destructed from high rpm's, and possibly no oil pressure.

Great to have you back here again !!