Recovery and Summer plans
As most of ya’ll know, I saw Dr Waguespack about a month ago. She did an x-ray and said that my bones are not fully healed yet! That sucks! After 5 months you would think they would be healed. She decided to put me in bone growth simulators to help in forming the needed bone. I have have it for a couple of weeks and it is a real pain in the tail. I have to wear it 3 hours on one wrist and then 3 hours on the other. I can move around and do things, but it is a bit bulky and uncomfortable. The worst part of it is that she doesn’t want me on my bike yet. At first she said I could, then after thinking about it she said no. She didn’t think that riding my bike with the braces on would be safe and with the bones not healed yet, if I went down I would re-break my wrist. She says that if I re-break them, then I will never go back to my job. So, I have done my best to stay off the bike, but this week I just could not stand it any more! I have been out a couple of times, with my braces on and everything seems to be OK. I have not ventured off to far, only about 30 miles from the house, and I am doing good with it all. I am in hopes that when I go see her at the end of May that she will OK my riding, course, it really wont matter by then because I am going to ride anyway. I am working the bike show with the PGR at the Gulf Port Blowout and I have a couple of trips planned this summer on my bike.
First I am going to ride to Phoenix, then Hollywood, CA and on to Lompoc, CA to meet my brother. Then we are going to ride to Texas and see my niece, then to Arkansas to my mom’s and then home. I will be gone about 3 weeks, home for about 2 weeks and off again. I am going to ride to Ogden, UT for the PGR’s “Gathering of the Guard” and plan on riding through Yellowstone on my way there. I will be in Ogden for 2 days and then ride to Sturgis and meet up with the rest of the Road Dogs on Hogs. I will leave there the following Saturday. If my wrists are still holding up, then I am going to ride up to Oregon and ride Hells Canyon. On my way home from there I plan of hitting the north side of Colorado and riding across hwy14 between Steamboat Springs and Ft Collins. I have a trucker/biker friend that lives in that area and he says it is a GREAT ride. Then I will come home. I am thinking that is going to take me about 4 to 5 weeks.
So as ya’ll see, I need to get healed up enough to do all the riding. If anyone is going to be at any of these events or in my path, give me a holler and maybe we can meet!
