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How are you doing Ken ?Good to see you finally on the recovery trail, John. I've been hoping you would be able to ride again. Wouldn't be the same on the Norton club rides without you to chase.
Ken
How are you doing Ken ?Good to see you finally on the recovery trail, John. I've been hoping you would be able to ride again. Wouldn't be the same on the Norton club rides without you to chase.
Ken
How are you doing Ken ?
Sounds like you are lucky to be alive. I hope you continue to improve. Did you get the bike back? Was there any clue as to what happened from the wreckage? Sounds like there should be witnesses but I'm guessing no one bothered to get involved.Thank you all for your kind comments. It Will take time before I can ride again as my left arm is quite compromised in my right arm while functional has lost muscle strength both arms seem to improve with physical therapy and occupational therapy and I am optimistic about being fully functional soon. At this point I am ambulatory and I can get around without a walker although I am more safe and confident if I use the walker. This is a matter of muscle strength and loss of my sense of balance after being on my back in bed for five months
I lost weight, dropping from 275 pounds to 188 pounds between October 15 and March 13 the last day I was in the hospital.
as for the details of the accident, I cannot say because I have no recollection of what happened. I first became conscious about five weeks after the date of the accident when I came out of the drug induced coma that I have been placed in. The highway patrol officer who wrote up the incident was not a witness and his statements were cursory and indeterminate. All I know is that I was going slow in the slow lane because I was on a dirtbike with short gearing and white handlebars so my suspicion is it someone came flying through thinking there was a wide open spot to the rightAnd I just got run over. No one knows for sure
Thank you Eddie. Perhaps this should be in a personal message but I’ll say it here anyway - It’s always a pleasure to read your well composed contributions on here. I have to admit, there are one or two who I have learned are not worth the effort to read. Yours, by contrast, always get my close attention.Glad to hear you back on top of things John and sincerely hope you get back in the saddle soon.
Stories like yours certainly out out NHS into perspective !
great to hear you are continuing to progress. I must admit to being shocked at the cost of your medical bills, something that us in the UK don't have to contend with ( yet anyway) all the best for the future John.Yes, bike recovered and repaired at no great expense. Gifted it to a friend who helped me greatly by selling off my old cars and old bikes while I was still in hospital.
My insurance covered 90 days of care on the ventilator and after that 90 days it expired and I had to pay $10,000/month but could get Medicare/MediCal to pay for it BUT I didn’t qualify for it because I owned too many vehicles! So six or seven cars and five or six MCs had to be sold.
Anyway, now there’s more room in the garage and lots more space in my big yard and my physical therapy progress continues and I hope to be riding again in 2022.
Sam, I should clarify. I was released before that 90 day deadline ran out. So, the sale of my old bikes and cars turned out to have been unnecessary.
I did not have to pay that $10000/month because I got well before the 90 days ran out.
All I paid was the $4000 annual deductible but I had to pay it twice, once for 2020 and again for 2021 because my hospitalization happen occurred within each of those years.
John,Sam, I should clarify. I was released before that 90 day deadline ran out. So, the sale of my old bikes and cars turned out to have been unnecessary.
I did not have to pay that $10000/month because I got well before the 90 days ran out.
All I paid was the $4000 annual deductible but I had to pay it twice, once for 2020 and again for 2021 because my hospitalization happened occurred within each of those years.
So YOU’RE the one that reads my ramblings !?Thank you Eddie. Perhaps this should be in a personal message but I’ll say it here anyway - It’s always a pleasure to read your well composed contributions on here. I have to admit, there are one or two who I have learned are not worth the effort to read. Yours, by contrast, always get my close attention.
With reference to NIH - My health insurance of many years has been and remains with Kaiser. They automatically provided me with a detailed statement of all services and charges that they provided for me from October 2020 to my release in March 2021 - $1.4 M. All related to the accident. They are still paying for my outpatient physical therapy and now are scheduled to pay for/provide me with two new cataract lenses for my eyes.
My wife was taken by cancer in 2019. Kaiser similarly paid for her care. That struggle went on for years. Kaiser went all out for her. Heroes.
My deductibles are limited to $4000 per year. For 2020 and 2021 I paid $8000 in deductibles.
For many years and Until I reached 65 years of age, I paid about $2000/month for me and a bit less for my wife. She passed before reaching 65 so I paid full rate for her all the way, Since reaching 65, Kaiser gets paid by/out of Social Security.
Now, if I hear someone denigrate Kaiser, I go out of my way to correct them.