[10:21] garrett: how are you doing?
[10:22] Perry: OK My ankle is a little jacked, pull or torn some ligaments
Perry: Left foot so I can drive
the car Drugs were wimpy took an hour to do much.
I just wanted to sleep, and start a new day tomorrow.
garrett: that sucks
Perry: emotionally still a little shell shocked
garrett: so...you wreck and Stephen stays home?
Perry: The deer literally head butted me off my bike !
Perry: Yea, he tends to take after his mother in some ways.. :)
garrett: lol
Perry: Which I thought was good,
and caused less trauma for me than a regular
accident.
garrett: well I?m glad you weren't too broken up
Perry: So glade I had the roll
bar (engine guard), and was wearing my heavy armor
plated jacket, boots and helmet it tore my shield off my helmet.
Perry: The deer came from the
opposite side of the road, so I didn't see it till
it was in the lane next to me, 1/2 of second and it was in my
face. No time to even
figure out which way to go, stop, slowdown, speed up, turn whatever!
garrett: but just enough time to curse.
Perry: NOPE, It hit me and then
the bike was out from under me and I was sliding
off the road. Oddly enough I didn?t swear, that was how surrealistic
it was.
Perry: I don't remember exactly
what direction I fell, I just know that the
handle bars jerked quickly, one direction and then the other as
I swerved and dipped and
then one why and then the other I think and the bike went sideways
a bit falling towards
me
Perry: the bike landing on my
left leg and I kind of remember pulling it out and
the bike pushing down on it, and that was when I thought I might
have broken my ankle or
as it turns out pulled or torn ligaments.
Perry: After that I think I just
rolled and slid off into the soft dirt off the
road on University Ave next to coming up to the stop light at
River woods. (headed toward
Center street in Orem. Just blocks from my house.
Perry: Some things are kind of a fog....
garrett: yeah. it's crazy how our mind deletes those memories
Perry: I would think that I would
have normally been in the left lane getting ready to turn up
Center Street in Orem and I think I was doing that when I noticed
a deer
in that lane, I think I might have just started to pull back into
the right lane, to
avoid the deer when it leaped at me and smacked me in the head.
garrett: did you hit heads?
Perry: YES ! I
remember seeing the deer looking directly at me from about 3
feet away and then leaping at me, I remember looking it eye to
eyes, well my eyes, to
his/her right eye, and then BAMMMMM!
Perry: The people behind me pulled
over and were looking at me like, are you all
right?
garrett: lol
garrett: and they didn't say anything?
Perry: They may have. I sat there kind of dazed, actually Very dazed!
garrett: in shock, I'm sure
Perry: Yes emotional shock, but
not clinical shock. Yea they said are you ok? The
second car said he didn't see it happened, just say my bike go
off the road and a cloud
of dust. The other guy said it just happened REAL fast.
Perry: There were 2 cars across
the road that I guess they saw it and they called
on 911 their cell phone, but didn't cross the street.
garrett: they didn't want to see your dead body
Perry: THANKS! !!!
Perry: There was an ambulance there in minutes.
Perry: A paramedic, asking me
questions over and over, checked out my back, neck,
back etc.
Perry: I was sitting UP!
garrett: hahahahhaa
Perry: Years ago we came upon
a motorcycle wreck on state street in Orem, no
helmet, and the guy was yelling and crying out in pain, We read
in the paper the next day
that he died!
Perry: I think I bruised my hip just a little also, pants got dirty but no tares.
garrett: wow
Perry: I was wearing my High top
hiking boots like the MSF basic ridding safety
course taught this card carrying member!
Perry: My ankle could have been way worse
Perry: And the engine guard that
I installed just Thursday is bent and scrapped,
$95.00 Well spent!
Perry: The girl in the parts shop
I own her dinner or something she said all the
right things, to help me buy what was best for me.
garrett: hahaha
Perry: Helped me get what was safe, yet still sporty.
Perry: She was HOT, Erik commented
that she was HOT, young,
smart, sexy. (nice buuutt as he put it)
Perry: Both of us noticed that
she has a weird thing going on with one eye brow.
Either an old scar or a tweezing mishap!
garrett: t bag? hahahahahaha
Perry: Anyway Erin is HOT! In
a sultry tom boyish, way. She helped me pick out
my T-bag, instead of saddle bags, and t he rounded engine guard
rather than square,
Perry: Yea that is the Company
name, it has a sleeve that goes over the back rest
and it is back pack size and sits on your luggage rack
Perry: Brenda a married HOT, funny
sales girl helped me pick out a jacket, I had
a good leather jacket at home, but it is a dress jacket, this
one had vents, it was the
most expensive piece of clothing in the store, but I am SO glade
I bought it!
Perry: I had my camera in the
bag, totally save, as I had just gotten back from
squaw peak and was driving home from back dropping off Dena in
Provo.
garrett: is Dena your girl friend
Perry: No a friend from the dance
the night before, she (practically)
begged me to take her for a ride, Sunday afternoon. Which went
fine it was the more
animalistic deer that was a problem.
Perry: The odd thing was that
I know only 4 (oh yes YOU) 5 people that own
motorcycles, 2 in my ward, a good friend in Orem, that I have
worked at two jobs and was
going to go ridding with Me Saturday to Huntsville, but I had
Mary and Kevin
Perry: So about 30 seconds after
the dust settled, Kevin and his wife Gaylyn (sp)
walk up. They were just coming down the canyon from a ride, saw
cars stopped and he
spotted a bike off the road and he came to see what he could do.
Perry: Wow, So many bikers, and
few that would ever stop when the accident was
the other direction and it happens to be Lori's bother! What are
the odds?
Perry: 10 seconds latter and the
accident happens behind him and he never knows.
Kevin was GREAT!
Perry: He took his wife home and
came back, while I took ibuprophen and elevated
my foot onto my bike
Perry: He followed me to our house
and dropped off his bike and then we went back
and got my bike and he rode it to my house, checked it out first
etc.
garrett: that was nice of him
Perry: Yes it was!!! I called
my friend Sarah about some medical thing about a
week ago, she was back east, and she never returned my call, she
left her charger back
east, it turns out.
Perry: Accident happened at about
9:15 we made it over to the hospital, where my
mom died and where my dad had his last heart attack
Perry: My friend Sara happened
to be on duty in the emergency room and she acted
as my Dr. found that I had no break, which I was a bit worried
about.
garrett: WOW.
Perry: I have rolled my ankle
dozens of time playing basket ball, but at one
point when the adrenalin I felt a sharp pain alone the side of
my ankle and a bit higher,
so I thought I might have a hairline break.
Perry: Earlier I was talking to
Sue and she was worried about me and at one point
I made a joke and she laughed and she said, Good I know now that
you are OK, so I told
the same joke to Sarah.
Perry: She has my shoe and sock
off, touching my feet, checking if I am numb etc.
I joke around tying to get her to tickle my feet more. The isn't
rolling with the
punches much, Sahara reassure them that this is normal behavior
for me and she tells him
stories of when I was first adjusting to taking ambian years ago.
Perry: So she said no break, so
an ace bandage and stop pain killers and your
good to go.
Perry: And I said, no wimpy drugs,
I want something that will put me to sleep
tonight, further more I'm not leaving with out any Viagra either!
Perry: Just like Sue, the both laughed their head off....
garrett: hahahahah
Perry: I tend to use levity in
stressful situation, Steve said that the witness
to the accident said that I was saying kind of goofy things, to
the Paramedic, and Steve
just rolls his eyes and says, that?s just my dad.
garrett: it's true I?m the same way
Perry: When we got home I was
gingerly going up the stairs to my room and said
some corny joke about my deer foot and the goes, "Good one
Uncle J." my bother is the
king of lame corny jokes..... I knew it was dumb and said it to
Steve knowing I was
going to get just the reaction that I did. And he goes, Do you
know what I heard? (my
auto response was) ?Sheep?! To which I asked him, do you know
what I saw, and his auto
reply "wood". He had caught my goofy sister about 40
times over the years, he will be
talking around and get excited and say, OH do you know what I
heard and she goes What? He
Perry: My kids wised up the first time and never fall for it.
But they do fall
once in a while for the dropped dollar bill trick, always good
for a laugh!
garrett: where
is that (sheep) from?
Perry: The sheep are from Wyoming,
where my family grew up, some uncles raising
prize winning sheep worth thousand of dollars each (circa), Yea,
Wyoming where the men are tough
and the sheep are skittish!
Perry: Speaking of growing up.
I stop at my friend Terri Clawson?s on the way home and
we chant, I show her my bike and she said, you know I was raised
on bikes, and you know
what they say, when you get in an accident on a motorcycle, wearing
a helmet or not is
the difference between an open or closed casket. THANKS TERRI
!!!!!
Perry: I have more flash backs
of the deer looking me right in the face, from a
foot away as his head got closer and close to mine, and YES, the
deer did head butt me,
right off my bike, I have to keep saying it, otherwise it seems
like some weird dream,
but when I look at my new bike, I realize it was no dream, but
more of an nightmare.
garrett: that's amazing it didn't die
Perry: Me too, I was just rubbing
my forehead and I realized that I have a small
burse on my for head. I hope the deer has a HUGE goose egg on
his head! I also noticed
a very slight soreness on my right hip. (that is when the throbbing
of my foot quiets
down from time to time.) Other times my foot has a burning and
stinging effect much like
so many basketball turned ankles. And at other times it feels
a little bit numb or cool
like it is in cool water. Time to check if my bandage is too tight
!
Perry: It did stagger around a
bit after, limping and kind of walking in circles
for a minute before walking up into the foot hills.
Perry: Anyway that was my weekend end adventure.
Perry: Hummm my every two weeks
something Huge. Went skydiving then two weeks
later, went camping with 350+ people in the desert with huge bonfires.
and then two weeks
later bought a Harley, I jokingly asked people for the next week
after that, how I could
top that in two weeks later......
Perry: OUCH, my ankle hurts now
and again, but I would have to say head butting a
deer at 50 MPH, rates right up there with High adventure!!!
garrett: yes, yes it does, and that is quite hard to do.
Perry: it is a freaky story!
garrett: yes it is
Perry: Hell I haven?t even made
a payment yet! I have not even got the paper
work yet. Often people new to motorcycles have an accident in
the first 3 months. I am
not new, but new to such a big bike. I am very careful, but how
could I have avoided this?
garrett: it just happened. you didn?t do anything to cause it.
Perry: Yes I did.
garrett: no you did not
Perry: Yes I did.
Perry: I figured out what really
went wrong, when I worked at Stanford for 3
months back in the 90?s , they thought us early when walking to
NEVER make eye contact
with someone ridding a cycle or you end up doing the "Dance
of Death" where you go right
and at the same time they go right, and then they go left, and
you go left because you
were both going right, next then you know your both on your keester!
When I first saw the
deer, I thought, is that really a deer in the middle of the road
?. Looking at me, and
then it happened, I made eye contact!!!! Next thing you know all
I see is the head of the
deer coming closer and closer, lightning fast, till BAM!
Perry: Avoiding eye contact is
really not that easy with a deer after all, I
think it was a doe and you know they have such really big brown
eyes. It was my fault
for making eye contact, and her fault for having such deep brown
eyes, and long eyelashes!
Two weeks from
now I'm staying in bed the entire weekend, by MYSELF so there
is no
possibility of high adventure to surpass the previous weeks!
--
/perry
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.