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[dayne66]

Apparently; I'm a wimp...compared to some that just won't quit!

[Midnight Rider]

Or you could just ride with me and some of the ole dude's I ride with....we stop more often now than we did when we rode choppers with peanut tanks (and it ain't for gas and beer either).  har.  spyder

Man...drinking beer and riding is out of the question now, for a couple of reasons.  That's for the parking lot/motel room    If I drank two beers while riding, I'd have to stop every 15 minutes for two hours...

[smkymtnboy]

  Sounds like a proud bunch of guys still trying to pursue a passion. Congrats on having the drive to keep on trying even when it hurts. When you quit or give up is when it really hurts (mentally). Some of us old guys need to remember there are folks who are much younger and are not able to ride due injuries or disablities. Thank the good Lord for the health that we still have. lets hear it for us old guys

[lilcoot]

Damn, baby!

My respect for you folks just skyrocketed.  Here I was, thinkin I could brag about a ragin case of monkey butt I lived through.   Particullarly Miker.  Buddy, I've seen people in persistent vegetative states with less damage.  Kudos, you are my hero!  

[MKW]

49 years old and pretty healthy relatively speaking.  Six years ago I had a significant surgery on my right shoulder for a torn labrium (socket).  Couldn't use my right arm for 6 weeks then the lengthy recovery.  That no longer bothers me but since my last deployment with the Army in 2009 I have had worsening right hip pain and learned last month that I have two tears in my right hip socket.  Sitting on the bike tends to make it worse.  Received a steroid injection on Tuesday and feel pretty good for the first time in years.  This is only going to get me thru the spring and summer then I may opt for surgery.  I'm told that I will not be allowed to put weight on my leg for 6-8 weeks (scooter time) then I will begin PT.  Looking at total hip replacement by 65.  I'm not as bad off as some of you but then again I'm not 20 anymore either.  I feel age creeping in but have decided to watch my weight, eat better, visit the gym 4-5 times a week and try to hold off father time a little longer.

[JCZ]

49 years old and pretty healthy relatively speaking.  Six years ago I had a significant surgery on my right shoulder for a torn labrium (socket).  Couldn't use my right arm for 6 weeks then the lengthy recovery.  That no longer bothers me but since my last deployment with the Army in 2009 I have had worsening right hip pain and learned last month that I have two tears in my right hip socket.  Sitting on the bike tends to make it worse.  Received a steroid injection on Tuesday and feel pretty good for the first time in years.  This is only going to get me thru the spring and summer then I may opt for surgery.  I'm told that I will not be allowed to put weight on my leg for 6-8 weeks (scooter time) then I will begin PT.  Looking at total hip replacement by 65.  I'm not as bad off as some of you but then again I'm not 20 anymore either.  I feel age creeping in but have decided to watch my weight, eat better, visit the gym 4-5 times a week and try to hold off father time a little longer.

Amongst the back injury, shattered jaw, arm and leg.....I also have a complete hip replacement (all three pieces are titanium).  Gary (Fired00d) and a few others also have a hip implant (that's what they call it.....an implant).  I knew right away that the pain I'd been living with in my hip was gone.  Had the pain from the surgery and having your hip cut open but the bad pain was gone.

By the way, they got me out of bed that night, after surgery and made me stand on it.  The next day I had to take three or four steps to the end of the bed and that extended the next day to the door of my hospital room.  Went home the following day.  In just a few weeks (I think it was three weeks) they started sending a physical therapist to the house. 
She'd get up on the bed and start working my leg. The PT was painful but I knew there was progress each day so it was tolerable.  Eventually the surgery wounds healed and that particual hip pain was gone.

I have a lot of injuries and a lot of pain from time to time but I am so grateful to God that I'm able to walk again, on my own, unassisted and that I can ride again and that I can still work.  Each day that I'm able to do any and all of those......as much pain as I may be in, I am grateful!

[VANAMAL]

Were all in the same boat! After thyroid cancer and arthritic knees whats next. When i finally get a burst of energy ill roll until it runs out. The rest of the time i smoke ginsing,freebase viagra and mainline cialis

[Skillet]

Were all in the same boat! After thyroid cancer and arthritic knees whats next. When i finally get a burst of energy ill roll until it runs out. The rest of the time i smoke ginsing,freebase viagra and mainline cialis

Well it can't be all that bad then.

[JCZ]

Were all in the same boat! After thyroid cancer and arthritic knees whats next. When i finally get a burst of energy ill roll until it runs out. The rest of the time i smoke ginsing,freebase viagra and mainline cialis

And you finally kicked the rogaine.....just wasn't doin it for you.        

[GtreetSlide]

WOW, I have good company. Before I was 20 yrs old I had a motorcycle accident, then three broken wrists, a broken arm, and a direct hit of 440 volts. Did good for awhile then blew out 3 discs in my back. Second bike wreck was just a skin peal. Next bike accident I was hit head-on by a car, breaking my back at T8 and trashing my shoulder. Also crushed my leg and foot between the bike and car then snatched it loose as I flew over the car. The last wreck broke an arm, both wrists, my back again, and several head injuries. Right side of skull busted loose and mashed in, dislocated my jaw, broke my nose, took off most of my lower face skin, and damaged brain circuits in the forehead, right side and back of brain as it bounced around inside my skull... Now my tendon in my foot is torn... I'm 64 and I have no complaints because I wake up every morning and find I am still breathing, so all the rest I can live with. Life is good.. 

jb

[Skillet]

WOW, I have good company. Before I was 20 yrs old I had a motorcycle accident, then three broken wrists, a broken arm, and a direct hit of 440 volts. Did good for awhile then blew out 3 discs in my back. Second bike wreck was just a skin peal. Next bike accident I was hit head-on by a car, breaking my back at T8 and trashing my shoulder. Also crushed my leg and foot between the bike and car then snatched it loose as I flew over the car. The last wreck broke an arm, both wrists, my back again, and several head injuries. Right side of skull busted loose and mashed in, dislocated my jaw, broke my nose, took off most of my lower face skin, and damaged brain circuits in the forehead, right side and back of brain as it bounced around inside my skull... Now my tendon in my foot is torn... I'm 64 and I have no complaints because I wake up every morning and find I am still breathing, so all the rest I can live with. Life is good.. 

jb

I just don't feel right about my aches and pains now after reading this.

[GtreetSlide]

I just don't feel right about my aches and pains now after reading this.

LOL, the joke with my oldest friends is that I have the 9 lives of a cat. When I add them all up it seems I am working on my second cat now... Believe it or not, all the injuries, pain, healing, and pain that returns as I age are not the worst. The first few years trying to live with missing brain circuits was by far the worst part. Thought about ways to end it all many times. Then I learned to laugh at myself. Now I wake up and every day is Disney land, LOL..

jb

[Sklywag]

Hey Buddy

I know your pain, I have ridden with you & watched you ride with it & throught it.  I have 2 herneiated (?) Disks, L4/L5, L5/S1.  There are days when I am just cleaning the bike that I can't get up off the floor.   I just recently went through 3 weeks of the worst pain I have had in the last 5 years.   I will tell you, the AZ dry heat is great, most of the time.  With the dry heat both Trudy & I feel so much better.   I, just don't think about it, I just do my work, try not to change my lifestyle and go ride through it.  I am not yet willing to think about it.  There are days out there when I'm not sure what would happen if .........

Trudy on the other hand as some really bad days, between her work injury & her MC Accident, broken Pelvis, she has days that she barely get s through, but again, she says she won't live anywhere but AZ now because the dry heat makes it so much more tolerable.

Anyway, I am sure you have been reading the posts on our other forum from Papa Ken about loosing his wife, he has been through a lot personally & now losing his wife of 50+ years.  Ken is 82? I think.  Talk to him, ask him how he and the Old Farts keep doing it with all their pain.  He is a great person.  I have ridden with him a couple times, he is no slouch at his age on that Wing.

You didn't hear me say this but maybe a Trike is the future to ease the body work load.  I don't know, not going there.

Kevin (SemperFi81) may chime in, I won't say anything about what he deals with except he is a True Marine in what he deals with & everything he does with his life!

Just remember, we are here for each other, you know what you mean to us!

[VANAMAL]

Rogain  very funny. I know one thing thats not hurtin jc thats his throttle hand! Or maybe its stuck in wide open position all the time. i geuss when your goin 120 mph the aches and pains are forgotten

[JCZ]

Hey Buddy

I know your pain, I have ridden with you & watched you ride with it & throught it.  I have 2 herneiated (?) Disks, L4/L5, L5/S1.  There are days when I am just cleaning the bike that I can't get up off the floor.   I just recently went through 3 weeks of the worst pain I have had in the last 5 years.   I will tell you, the AZ dry heat is great, most of the time.  With the dry heat both Trudy & I feel so much better.   I, just don't think about it, I just do my work, try not to change my lifestyle and go ride through it.  I am not yet willing to think about it.  There are days out there when I'm not sure what would happen if .........

Trudy on the other hand as some really bad days, between her work injury & her MC Accident, broken Pelvis, she has days that she barely get s through, but again, she says she won't live anywhere but AZ now because the dry heat makes it so much more tolerable.

Anyway, I am sure you have been reading the posts on our other forum from Papa Ken about loosing his wife, he has been through a lot personally & now losing his wife of 50+ years.  Ken is 82? I think.  Talk to him, ask him how he and the Old Farts keep doing it with all their pain.  He is a great person.  I have ridden with him a couple times, he is no slouch at his age on that Wing.

You didn't hear me say this but maybe a Trike is the future to ease the body work load.  I don't know, not going there.

Kevin (SemperFi81) may chime in, I won't say anything about what he deals with except he is a True Marine in what he deals with & everything he does with his life!

Just remember, we are here for each other, you know what you mean to us!

Thanks Bill.

By the way, I sent Papa Ken a PM awhile back.  Told him I'd like to ride with him sometime.......they only ride on weekdays....I'd have to quit.  He said don't quit, just retire.   That guy can tell some stories or write some stories.  I told him he should write a book of short stories for the solo motorcycle rider to journey with.

Ya know Bill, speakin of Marines......there are times when I'm ridin and the pain is so great....and having all those talks with myself (trying to practice mind over matter, etc.) and I can hear S/Sgt. Biliglowy (Marine
Corps boot camp) yellin "when the goin gets tough.....the tough get goin....." and I just press on.

This thread is interesting.  One thing is for sure (and I was pretty sure of it, is why I started it).....we're certainly not going through it alone.