Curly,

how often are you supposed to see your pdoc?

how are you doing now?



~ waves ~

Waves,

Right now I'm seeing the pdoc once a month. Hopefully I'll cut back to every 3 months for the lithium bloodwork.

I feel like I am doing very well mood-wise. I'm sleeping good too.

I have some problems with memory and some issues with fuzzyness (can't figure out how to describe that one). Some of the fuzzyness may be sinus issues. 10 years ago I totalled a motorcycle and it cracked my skull almost all the way around my head, and went through both sinuses.

Well, I've totalled 4 bikes so maybe that's most of my issues, memory too

curly dog, and you still ride one????
I think I would be staying far away from any bikes...after your experiences with them.
yikes!

sorry about all of the trauma to your head....ouch that sounds painful!
bizi

Yeah, Maybe I should sell the harley huh When I totalled the last one and got the insurance money I showed my wife a picture of the new one I was gonna get. She said, "Don't you think God is trying to tell you something", and I said, "Yes, this is not how I'm gonna die". Of course I was still on some serious pain meds and she wasn't I still wear the leather jacket that the paramedics cut off of me (I stitched it back together) and I figure it can save me again

But on a serious note Bizi, as dangerous as it can be, I love to ride...sometimes it is my sanity.

"But on a serious note Bizi, as dangerous as it can be, I love to ride...sometimes it is my sanity."

I get it, curlydawg, I really do. Coming from me, though, I'm not sure what that tells you .

I'll pick ya up in a few hours

Only with your wife's permish.

Dear Curly,

I'm sorry you had so many accidents... that all-around skull fracture sounded terrible... the memory issues and fuzziness could in fact be linked to that - did they dx a TBI?

Nonetheless, riding sounds like a real passion for you. Have you always been a Harley man or were you at some point into the high-revving, rip through the speed of light Japanese bikes (Ninja etc)?

ROFLOL!
I love how you stitched that jacket back together. sounds like it's a second skin to you, not just in terms of protection... but perhaps in a way it's like a part of you?

I've only ridden as a passenger before but i've loved every ride i must say. Anyway, just be careful.... you know... vaya con Dios.

~ waves ~

Yeah, that one was bad, I was soaked in blood from the waist up...and it was all from my ears. They said that was good though, cause my brain didn't swell. I ended up with a few stitches on my elbo and a few behind my ear. No broken bones...well, except for my headbone So, it could have been much worse.

Honestly I'm not really sure what they dx'd. I've had some TBI symptoms over the years...what can they do now, 10 years later?

A year earlier I totaled another bike which was less tramatic on me and then 6months before the bad wreck I had 4 disks fused together in my neck. So when I woke up in the emergency room my neurosurgeon was standing over me looking worried. But she said all of her work held together well

My wife is my medical note keeper, she's really good at that cause she's interested. So I let her have it.

Yes, I really do love to ride. When we go on vacations, or just wherever we go as a family I'm on the harley and they are in my wife's car. I've been riding since I was 14 (1969) but my first harley was in the early 90's. My 13 year old daughter used to want to ride all the time when she was little, but now that she's gotten old enough she's decided it's not cool. Either her mama has talked some sense into her or she don't want to mess her hair up

Even though I remind them that none of the wrecks were my fault...well they don't seem to care

Yeah, that thing was so cut up I thought pieces were missing. But during the recovery of the wreck I started stitching what I could back together and found it was complete. Then I got some similar leather to patch over a few nasty looking spots. The insurance company actually bought me a brand new one but I ended up getting rid of it and keeping this one. Yes, in a way it truly is a part of me.

Thank you