Sounds like you are improving. Amazing how the doc's can repair damaged bones, and afterwards they are as good as new.
Just keep getting yourself better Perry. The bike thing will sort itself out with time. Keep up the physio, keep looking forward.
[QUOTE="Amazing how the doc's can repair damaged bones, and afterwards they are as good as new.[/QUOTE] Although Southmead is a trauma centre for a great deal of the South-West, it was the nearest hospital to my accident. The NHS gets a right slagging off in the gutter press, but when your life is in danger, they are brilliant. Nobody had to go through my pockets to check if I had medical insurance or check my bank account to see if I could afford medical treatment. I got the best care possible based on my injuries and not ability to pay. I've no idea what I cost the NHS, but it will be over 100 grand. Dunno if I'll ever be as good as new but everything is going the right way and there are some brand new bits!
Good to see your healing the right way Perry I agree about the NHS it does an amazing job when your life is in danger Keep making those baby steps
That sounds horribly familiar. SWMBO is still giving me a hard time. I was hoping that her attitude would soften over time but there’s not much sign of it. What makes it worse is that daughter has just got her first ‘big’ bike and she’s stirring things up and making SWMBO dig her heels in even harder.
My solicitor has got the Police report of my accident now. Although nobody knows the EXACT time of my accident, there is a mobile phone involved! The other driver claims to have called her boyfriend before leaving the car park. But she says that she pulled out to turn left and nobody was coming. This was the same direction that I was going. And then, a few minutes later, she heard a bang where my bike hit the car, and she stopped. My bike couldn't be found by her so I have no idea where it ended up. The report does not say if I was unconscious at the scene (although, I guess, I must of been) and I can't remember anything. The driver was tested for drink and drugs (a prison officer leaving a prison!) but all negative. More questions than answers .... It worries me a lot that this should of been an avoidable accident that I didn't avoid - unless she pulled out right in front of me. But even then, my experience would tell me to move out to the right (to the crown of the road, or to the other side, if the road was clear), in case the car driver doesn't see me
She's clearly at fault though Perry as she pulled out into your path, regardless of whether she was or wasn't on the phone at the time. Only she will know the answer to that. The bit I'd question is the 'then a few minutes later she heard the bang' a few minutes after pulling out? That implies you just rode right into her several hundred yards down the road. That's just crazy.
It is a bit odd. She always admitted liability from day one (apparently) and pleaded guilty to driving without due care (6 points). If it really was a 'few minutes later' and there was nothing coming when she looked left and right, why accept fault and plead guilty? Its's a 40 mph speed limit and from the skid marks, the police don't think that I was speeding. So, more questions than answers. My solicitor thinks that Hastings may accept liability now, finally. I'll wait and see.
Hasn't it all come back to you now? You know, where she pulled right out in front of you. It is all very clear now...
Take care of yourself Perry...........bikes can be replaced. I've often said the road can be more dangerous then the track!............Godspeed my Man.
Scanning through my Google drive to find something and I happened to find a "To Whom It May Concern" letter that I was given to me by a doctor. It says: He forgot to mention that I dislocated both of my shoulders. Sounds painful
Is it this one you are getting .... by any chance ? " She was born a daddy's girl and you know it ... .... and dad loves bikes , so it's obvious that she .... etc. " @PerryL Best wishes with your recovery .... slow and steady gives the best results .... IMO PS - I jumped into your thread .... sorry ...
Perry you are lucky to be here by that list of injuries, my god!! You get one chance settlement wise and they will try to wear you down so be prepared for a long fight. A fight you will win. As Harry has already asked, how are you getting on rehab wise? If you don’t mind me/us asking of course? Take care chap.
It's going as well as it could. My physio can't visit and do we are using Zoom. I'll never go running again as I can't face wearing out the false hip. I read about Andy Murray wearing his out and I thought F that! He might be able to pay thousands for private hip re-plating but I can't and don't want to! I wrote to my solicitor just before Christmas, as I was getting frustrated that we seemed no nearer to settling - the driver always admitted fault and got 6 points for driving without due care and attention - but Hasting were still denying any liability! Just as well that I didn't settle as my eye problem only came to light in February. My appointment at Gloucester Hospital has now been cancelled but there is no treatment possible. That will add thousands to my claim and so my solicitor was proved right to be in no hurry to settle. God knows what their fees will be but they are in no hurry to stop. Hastings don't want to either because they seem to hope that I will just give up and go away. You would think that if I have a top solicitor who does nothing but represent people against insurance companies, they would realise that they are in the sh1t and try and try to settle quickly for less. They seem to prefer to live in their fantasy world and hope that it will all go away if they just close their eyes! My solicitor reckons that this is quite normal. She is not worried and is quite used to beginning legal proceedings to make them wake up and smell the coffee! As she doesn't get paid until I do, so I am quite reassured that she is not worried. God knows what their fee will be! In the tens of thousands, I would think. The whole thing is quite surreal. I have an insurance company with their eyes shut and fingers in their ears pretending that there is nothing doing, yet they are paying/paid for my physio, my exercise bike and mods to my house. I know that I know nothing about insurance yet to my feeble mind, I would think that they would want to get the claim settled so that they know the cost and can budget. If I was a client and had the accident but just ignored their letters and put my fingers in my ears and just screamed when they called, then I would of thought that they would get quite pissy. But that is how they behave...
