Thanks, everyone
OK. It's Saturday now, and the effects of the various medicines I took are starting to fade slightly. My leg is still hurting, and random foods still make me queasy, but I am much better than anytime before 11:00 last Sunday morning.
Thanks so much to everyone who came out and had some fun at the Ride Day or stopped to talk about it here. Sorry that I had to kill a small chunk of tracktime with my helicopter ride; I was given no choice at the time. And sorry also to those that were dissuaded from riding because of my crash. It wasn't the track's fault; it was just my usual habit of trying something that I was 95 percent sure that I could do and finding out that those remaining 5 percent can still totally rock my head.
Thank you also to everyone who visited or called me in the hospital: my wife Trisha and daughters Ava and Elise, my mom, dad and sister, Layne and Cheryl, Richie, Josh and Will, Mike, Lyle, Shane and Krista, Ron Harvey, Nate Tiearney, Wayne, my friends Joe, Nicole, Nick and Eric (Eric even got to watch my surgery, which he said was awesome in a horrifying sort of way,) and the half-dozen or so others that I'm forgetting because I was just too wasted. And thanks to Mike Torres of www.tagnmx.com who did a fine job with all the photos.
And thanks for the pledge of help on the helmet, Richie. I don't know exactly when I'll be able to ride again, but my old helmet will surely be of no use then, except as a sober reminder of why I should be more than 95 percent sure of anything I try from here on out.
Thanks again, all,
Robert
