I had occasion to visit the Baylor Dallas ICU this afternoon

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

(to see someone, NOT as a patient)- in the next curtained enclosure over was a sixty-ish man who kept painfully moaning the entire half hour I was there. I was told a bit later that he'd been in a bad motorcycle accident- he'd had to dump his bike under an 18 wheeler.

As someone who has enjoyed my share of two-wheeling it in the past, I felt a few sympathy pangs until I was told that all he had been wearing was a tee shirt and short pants (his head and a good portion of the rest of his skin surface was apparently one gigantic road rash). No helmet. No leathers. No gloves. No boots.

No protection.

I lost any vestige of respect I may have otherwise had for this moran when I found out what he had sewn onto the ass end of his pants- "Helmet Laws Suck".

No, they don't- They save lives. So wear 'em, bikers. Wear your helmet. Wear your leathers. Wear your boots. Wear your gloves.

Protect yourselves. That road rash can be a BITCH. Why do ya think doctors call motorcycles "donorcycles"?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Prisoner_Number_Six!

Glad you were just a visitor...:scared:

And every word you've said here is so damn true!

He was lucky he wasn't killed...

I heard a story here in CA about the ER docs being opposed to the helmet laws...

They (supposedly) complained that with the law in place, they'd lose a big part of their donor base...

"Donorcycles" indeed! :eyes:

:wtf:

:hi:

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Agreed. n/t

[Mojorabbit]

3. Even a moran

deserves compassion.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. Stupid is as stupid does.

:shrug:

[Mojorabbit]

12. Yes but in pain

afraid and in the hospital deserves compassion. I am a retired nurse. It is my nature.

[LibertyLover]

4. My husband used to work as a neurology technician

doing nerve conduction studies, mostly during back and neuralgic surgical procedures. The last one he worked on before quitting was a young guy who had been riding a motorcycle and gotten into a nasty argument with a bridge abutment. The bridge won. In Maryland we have helmet laws, and he was wearing one, but it was the most minimal allowed by law. He didn't make it. It really got to my husband, such that he decided that he couldn't continue at the hospital. The young man, 17 or 18 as I recall, didn't die immediately, but slowly over a period of 2 weeks. Every day my husband would have to go to his cubicle in the ICU and do conduction studies to follow the pattern of deficits - basically so they would know when to turn the machines off.

[mopinko]

5. DH wants to get a scooter or a small bike. i just can't get behind it.

my first ride on 2 wheels left me with a bad case of road rash, a trip to the er, and no interest whatsoever of riding a bike, or letting any loved ones do so.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. You can get a motorcycle modified.

I know a lady who has one with 3 wheels on the back axle. It's like a big tricycle and far more stable than two wheels.

[reformedrethug]

7. I ride just about everyday depending obviously on the weather

and I ALWAYS wear my brain bucket, I have a hard head (just ask my wife LOL) but I know its NOT harder than blacktop, besides most of my riding is in the country and I just do not like bugs in my face. I wear gloves because it helps me keep a good grip on the throttle, I dont wear boots but I DO wear full toed shoes.

[DS1]

8. No morphine or other pain killer?

Seems odd

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. I don't believe they can use pain drugs with a head injury

No telling how much damage was done other than surface stuff- since his head hit the ground he'd have a concussion at the very least, and other major brain trauma at the worst.

[babylonsister]

11. Rec'd. Great post! nt

[CAG]

13. They not only save lives, they save my taxpayer money and

health insurance premiums. My money doesn't go out my pocket as fast since society won't have to pay for as much of the idiots rehab!

[madeline_con]

14. Yes, FL changed the helmet laws July 1, 2000.

Since then, I see so many with no helmet, even wearing thong sandals on a bike!

I've cared for people who have to be fed and changed for the rest of their lives due to accidents.

Wear protection, people!