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Ferremit posted:Literally this was the ONLY way to get it into the room in the house- Stripped down of all its covers so it would go around a doorway! time to print out an enourmous goatse
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Rhyno, glad to hear your friend is on the mend!
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Goddamn, His sister just posted, the doctors told them he has a 25% chance of surviving the procedures he had done today. One more surgery this week and then he heals for a while before they go back in. I never posted these. FYI, this is after the gore was removed from the scene  
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May 26, 2021 16:12
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Did they determine fault yet? I hope he beats the odds.
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Advent Horizon posted:Did they determine fault yet? No official statement but the guys riding with him said they had the green and she made a left turn across.
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May 26, 2021 17:02
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about ten years ago, my neighbor got a brand new GSXR and two weeks after he got it, a van pulled out in front of him and he almost bled out laying on the road. He's all hosed up now with rods and poo poo all in him. First and last time he owned a bike, what a brutal way to get introduced to riding. I've said it before, I love motorcycles but it's just not worth it. Glad your friend is doing ok man.
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Ferremit posted:Literally this was the ONLY way to get it into the room in the house- Stripped down of all its covers so it would go around a doorway! Would it have made a mess if you had stood it up on end to go through the doorway? Done that with a number of couches, for example. Rhyno posted:Goddamn, His sister just posted, the doctors told them he has a 25% chance of surviving the procedures he had done today. One more surgery this week and then he heals for a while before they go back in. Applebees Appetizer posted:about ten years ago, my neighbor got a brand new GSXR and two weeks after he got it, a van pulled out in front of him and he almost bled out laying on the road. He's all hosed up now with rods and poo poo all in him. First and last time he owned a bike, what a brutal way to get introduced to riding. <sigh> I'm never going to get back on my bike, am I? Just too many people driving as a secondary activity.
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Rhyno posted:He's gonna be like 10%titanium but yeah, he's alive! Darchangel posted:<sigh> I'm never going to get back on my bike, am I? Just too many people driving as a secondary activity.
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May 26, 2021 18:04
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Riding on dirt is the best.  Glad your friend is going to be OK. That accident pic is horrifying.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Good to hear he made it through that surgery and is recovering. I always thought it was just me getting older and weary being most of the reason I stopped riding, but then I see old rear end dudes in shorts and flip flops with no helmets flogging their Harleys through traffic and I guess maybe I just like life and relative health more than other people.
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May 26, 2021 20:21
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My bud was geared up, helmet, jacket and gloves, probably why he retained so much of his skin.
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Rhyno posted:My bud was geared up, helmet, jacket and gloves, probably why he retained so much of his skin. No pants?  E: fwiw I wouldn't ride in flatistan either. People in shitcago get very loving ragey at some dildo on a gutless rear end drz not going fast enough. gently caress ever riding there again. People get stupid around other vehicles, from a moto to a million ton trains. Best thing you can do is predict their bullshit and remove yourself from the situation. Problem with crashes like this is that someone has to ride long enough in order to predict shitweasels like traffic device runners. There's a fat loving set of curves of lovely motorists and inexperience with dealing with them that results in this. Rack miles, always be building skill and doing drills. Ride in adverse conditions. I hope your friend pulls through. Its a loving shame that autonomous cars just aren't good enough yet. cursedshitbox fucked around with this message at 21:38 on May 26, 2021 |
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May 26, 2021 21:33
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I had a bike accident 11 years ago in town; I was leaving work and a 17 year old girl blew a stop sign into me. I was wearing full gear including helmet, gloves, shin/knee guards, boots, armored jacket etc. and al that poo poo saved me from a worse head injury (had a mild concussion) and any road rash whatsoever. I still ended up with a bad acetabular fracture, broken nose, a bunch of broken ribs and some bruising. Didn’t walk for months after my surgery, and still have a lot of hip pain. I need to have a total hip sooner rather than later but overall I avoided having my hip die on my from lack of blood supply so there’s my bright side. It took a few years for me to get back on the bike but I eventually did and now I basically just avoid towns as much as possible. I used to ride like 300 days a year but now I’m down to maybe 60? Rhyno, I hope your friend pulls through and regains as much function as possible. It’s a tough thing to deal with but hopefully his family and you and his other friends can help him stay in a good place mentally to deal with it. Imperador do Brasil fucked around with this message at 22:03 on May 26, 2021 |
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I haven't ridden since getting clipped by a car on a busy freeway in LA ... almost 11 years ago, yeah. I was very, very fortunate in that I did not get seriously injured, although I have a couple scars where my gear moved and I lost some skin, as well as a very much less useful shoulder. IdB: Was there a newspaper article about that? I have this distinct memory of something very like that happening to someone here and them (or someone) posting the article after.
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I'm back. Wound up being a pretty nice place (I've never seen a detox place with a TV in the bedrooms!). Turns out it's $1k/day if you pay cash, insurance got it down to $140/day. I start IOP Friday, which is going to be $1200 out of pocket for me (which would be something like $6000 cash). They wanted me to do at least 30 days of residential, but that would have been $8k+ out of pocket.  So IOP it is, and a lot of it is going to be virtual. Work has me on medical leave with short term disability for a month; I'm hoping to get back to work next week though. (a) STD only pays 2/3 of my normal pay and (b) I'm going to be bored as gently caress sitting at home all day. Though I fully intend to drag the bike out and hit some trails ASAP, soon as I'm off the gabapentin (makes me kinda dizzy, should only be on it a few more days).
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May 26, 2021 23:50
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STR posted:I'm back. I'm glad it was a good place. You can do this!
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You have no idea how strong the cravings are. I was hoping they'd put me on naltrexone, or hell, even antabuse. I have a GF that would kick my rear end to the curb in a hurry though, and part of the agreement with work is they can drug test me or breathalyze me at any time for the next year. Gonna try to focus on biking and getting in shape. Also need to talk to my dr. My oral diabetes meds weren't doing the trick, even on a nearly zero carb diet (though I was snacking a lot - body is looking for all the calories I'm missing from all the beer - my appetite is only now starting to chill out a bit). I wound up getting insulin before most meals. At least they let me use my own glucose meter - the "official" one is the same $12 piece of poo poo that landed me in the ER close to DKA. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 00:07 on May 27, 2021 |
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I'm glad you're doing okay, friend. It's a shame cost even has to be considered in medically necessary events. I hope you get well and use it as a stepping stone towards better health and better days. Somebody sent me $25,000 worth of drugs today.  Can't wait to inject a new car into my belly.
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in 11 years of having my endorsement and somewhere between 200-300k-mi ridden I've been hit twice. Once was on fire roads, tboned by a dirtbike. Another was rearended by another bike. Expanding that to encompass 17 years of having a license and who-knows-how-many miles, I've had two crashes. one being a bait and hook insurance scam in rural rear end Georgia, the other wrote off the green range rover in Pasadena circa 2013. I'm not gonna hang up driving if I get hospitalized from some fucko running into my 31 year old truck, nor will I quit if the same happens on the bike. In all likelyhood the truck will get pranged before the bike, its slower, heavier, less maneuverable, and has fewer outs in heavy traffic. Now, drivers have gotten abysmal since the pandemic. I'm not as keen with driving much less riding in suburbia. People are generally fairly attentive yet aggressive in the city. Get into the burbs, the vehicles are larger, driven more aggressively, at the same time people are updating their OnlyFans page while buttchugging monster or someshit. I recommend front and rear cameras, insure the gently caress out of your stuff unless you're fine writing it off. Definitely do under/uninsured/medical. STR posted:I'm back. Yay welcome back! Glad to see you're doing alright too
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Powershift: I hope it didn't actually cost YOU that much, but if I recall correctly, you're in the great white north, and therefore only have to get riled up about the cost of parking at hospitals when it comes to healthcare costs?STR posted:You have no idea how strong the cravings are. I was hoping they'd put me on naltrexone, or hell, even antabuse. If you ever have questions about the beetus, you know my PMs are open. I have a bit of first hand experience ... Powershift's post got me thinking, and assuming $350/bottle and some rough (I'd guess on the low side) usage numbers, I've injected a very, very nice car - to the tune of ~$320k - into my body.  Other supplies on top of that? Dang, I could've bought a house by now - in LA, even - if I had just pulled my pancreas up by it's bootstraps.csb: I don't know that I officially gave it up, but I haven't done it since. The kid probably had more to do with giving it up, if giving bikes up permanently does indeed come to pass. Krakkles fucked around with this message at 00:18 on May 27, 2021 |
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Powershift posted:I'm glad you're doing okay, friend. Thats a cool injector, what is it?
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gently caress another shut down thanks to the hosed up Federal Australian government and South Australian government's poo poo hotel quarantine Yet I still can't get a vaccine ffs
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BIG DRYWALL MAN posted:Thats a cool injector, what is it? Stelara, i guess the needle auto-retracts once it's done it's thing. I'd have been dead years ago if i had to pay for this all this poo poo, even co-pays. I'm very lucky to be born in Canada, but that's not a lottery someone should have to win just to stay alive.
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You Am I posted:gently caress another shut down thanks to the hosed up Federal Australian government and South Australian government's poo poo hotel quarantine Ah gently caress sez I just catching up with the news and facepalmming.
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Welcome back, STR!  Powershift posted:Stelara, i guess the needle auto-retracts once it's done it's thing. I just looked up the list price for that and Capitalism delenda est.
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Powershift posted:Stelara, i guess the needle auto-retracts once it's done it's thing. Jesus, good thing CBD works for me like a charm, way cheaper than that poo poo. My doc wanted to put me on humira and insisted that CBD was basically snake oil, but I decided to try it anyway and I'm glad I did.
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Powershift posted:Stelara, i guess the needle auto-retracts once it's done it's thing. Holy loving poo poo that's what that is. Yeah I'd be dead. Lol talk about dying on a moto? gently caress that I'm gonna die from this stupid loving system I'm trapped in. Krakkles posted:csb: I don't know that I officially gave it up, but I haven't done it since. The kid probably had more to do with giving it up, if giving bikes up permanently does indeed come to pass. Yeah I get that, kids/spouses change everything. I've closer interactions on a bicycle and yeugh. One can play frogger for so long.. Just a few days ago, someone passed within a mirrors width of me, here in the great state of California, where all the drivers play by the 3' rules. /eyeroll
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Wife had her refills denied because new insurance company had to confirm with the doctor that she needed it. As if writing the prescription is enough. We all know the real reason was to try and make the doctor prescribe a generic similar drug that didn’t work in the past instead of the still under patent one. gently caress em.
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May 27, 2021 00:56
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Good luck STR. Gabapentin has some pretty nasty withdrawal effects, so be careful and aware of that when you stop taking it.
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There used to be a sobriety thread in AI. Would that be helpful if we brought that back?
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Oh right, I've been forgetting to ask this for like 3 months. Is there a handy (cheap or free) program for laying out 12v wiring diagrams? I want to try laying out a diagram for future wiring fuckery.
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Elmnt80 posted:Oh right, I've been forgetting to ask this for like 3 months. Is there a handy (cheap or free) program for laying out 12v wiring diagrams? I want to try laying out a diagram for future wiring fuckery. I'm wondering too, I usually just draw on paper but it's hard when I'm just figuring things out and making mistakes.
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You Am I posted:gently caress another shut down thanks to the hosed up Federal Australian government and South Australian government's poo poo hotel quarantine I could not have timed my trip back to NZ better. I really feel for the people I know who had travel plans and now won't be able to make it back here. 
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So I've had ONE voicemail from insurance, I called them back and let them know I would be unavailable for a week due to personal issues, but to please let me know the best time to reach them. Crickets. Called them today, got voicemail again. Let them know I'm available all day tomorrow, and have the car back home, so I can email pictures if needed (this company normally does everything online). Depending what they offer, I may try to fix Brokeback myself and just drive it into the ground again. It's not in nearly as bad of shape as Saturd was. I need to get the fender off and see if the frame horn is bent. Everything under the hood seems to line up fine, and the driver's side headlight points up a little now (the headlight is broken off of the upper mount though, and part of it is just gone). I know from a quick glance that it needs: Left headlight (broken mount, side of the light is broken - still functional though) Left foglight (might be able to fix it, it's just bent to poo poo) Front left fender Left mirror (got clipped; still functional, but it lost some plastic - it was already kinda beat up when I got the car, so no biggie there) Radiator (stupid $50 radiator.... should have gotten a better one) Bumper cover Crash bar behind bumper? (it's caved in on the driver's side, but I don't think it's been pushed in any) I THINK the radiator support is okay - the hood still lines up fine on the passenger side, gap is even all the way down. Nothing lines up with the driver's side fender and hood, but the fender is caved in, and you can see marks where it moved under the screws. Just depends what insurance will give me, what the buyback is, and if I can find another BH Outback. I might consider a BP Outback. Brokeback still drives fine, doesn't pull or anything (surprising since the wheel got hit too), it's an $1800 shitbox that has lived way longer than I expected. Handful of pics: https://imgur.com/a/5uvH6sm mariooncrack posted:There used to be a sobriety thread in AI. Would that be helpful if we brought that back? Seems like that's something that would belong more in YLLS, or  TCC. But it does seem like a lot of us are in recovery, so maybe we could get one going? If the mods approve.I did pick up an old habit there though - I just bought my first pack of cigarettes in awhile, but hopefully also my last pack (holy poo poo when did they get so loving expensive?! Camels were $3 a pack when I quit, Camel Crush is a bit over $7!). They yanked me off of my Klonopin cold turkey. Supposedly Librium helps with a very rapid benzo taper, and it really does seem to have helped - I haven't felt jittery or anxious until tonight (yesterday was my last dose of Librium, I believe it was 2 x 25mg). They actually called my GF and told her to throw my klonopin away entirely. Uh, I've been prescribed that a long time. I feel like I can probably take it every other day at this point, but I'm prone to long-lasting panic attacks - which is why I'm on a long-acting benzo. (funny enough it didn't show up on the drug test when I arrived... one of the nurses told me later "oh, that's the one that doesn't show up on our test") I got super stressed about the paperwork I have to fill out for HR, ComPsych (the company that mostly handles the self-admit "I have a problem bad enough that it's interfering with work, I need help"), FMLA, and the remaining paperwork for my IOP (which is affiliated with the detox center, they have an excellent reputation for both IOP and residential). Luckily corporate HR filed the bulk of FMLA and short term disability for me and got it approved, I had an email when I got home saying I'm approved for disability for a month, but I need to get the IOP to sign off on it too. The IOP program is 8 weeks (thought it was 4 originally). Found an AA group that has 8am meetings, both online and in-person (they're close enough that I can walk from home [1.2 miles from my front door], or bike from work until my insurance gets me a drat rental, still waiting on that). My IOP, for now, is 3 days a week, online, 9a-12p, so the online AA would line up perfectly (if this group works for me). If I wake up early enough, I'm going to try and hit their 8am online meeting. We did a few AA meetings via zoom at the detox place (muted w/camera off bc HIPAA). Ether Frenzy posted:Good luck STR. Gabapentin has some pretty nasty withdrawal effects, so be careful and aware of that when you stop taking it. Prescribed 300mg 3x/day until I run out (have 27 pills). I kinda figured with how it makes me feel that it would have some withdrawal - it kinda feels like a strong benzo, but with even less balance. I wasn't sure if it had withdrawal or not, I've been too foggy most of the day to look it up. I'm gonna go ahead and start tapering off of it tomorrow. I don't know how easy it'll be to taper with this elephant dose, might have to open the caps and dump some out? randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:06 on May 27, 2021 |
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So you're getting really sober for good right? Because I feel that is the only way that doesn't end badly.
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cakesmith handyman posted:So you're getting really sober for good right? Because I feel that is the only way that doesn't end badly. Yeah, one drink can end it all. I’ve seen it happen too many times, too close to me. It’s loving scary. STR, watch yourself. Anybody else have an ‘I feel like a beer but don’t want alcohol’ drink? Kombucha is a fairly good substitute for me and also makes my digestion better. Pick up a coping habit if needed. I know a guy who figured out his booze expenses and spent that on Lego for about two years. He has a huge collection now; assembling the kits took the time he previously lost to alcohol. Just throwing stuff at the wall here. Hopefully you can find a (good) replacement that sticks.
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