My Motorcycle Injuries

  It’s weird how some of the seemingly trivial things in life can often evolve into something bigger. When I first started healing from the accident my leg was an absolute mess. I have metal placed in it from top to bottom and some of it continues to be a painful hindrance to this day. The lower part of my leg has an unexplained scar on the shin area that resembles a scrape or a burn, but I’ve never known the actual cause and it took several months to heal. Underneath the skin lies a strip of metal that is screwed into my tibia roughly half way down the shin. There are longer screws placed horizontally across my knee that help to keep it together after having it shattered by the accident. Most of my leg was swollen when I came home from the hospital, but my knee was particularly large and looked more like a continuation of my thigh. There is still a degree of swelling to this day on my knee and shin, but it gets noticeably worse as a day grows longer. My knee and shin swollen to ab...

The first few months after my accident were a strange period of time for me as my mind cleared from the disorientation of the past events and I began to deal with the aftereffects of the damage done to my body. I had never been one to deal with doctors, medicine, or any real concern over being sick or injured. My very first broken bone(s) occurred in this accident. Suddenly I was forced to go to one medical office after another while people treated me as though I was “broken”. The fact that I couldn’t communicate very well left some people speaking to me as though I was a child.  All of this caused me at times to feel a bit frail and afflicted. I experienced an eye-opener from all of that one day while at physical therapy. I went twice weekly as an outpatient and most of the other patients that I saw working in therapy were older than I was. I think that many of them were there because of accidents around the home or the need to get their bodies moving again after a surgical proced...