[REED]

Anyone lese have this problem SPINAL STENOSIS as you get older the spinal cord and siatic nerve can become pinched by the discs in you lower back, my size and weight don't help, I can sit and ride and use the upper part of the body just fine but sometimes when I stop cannot lift my right leg off the peg or when stopped cannot walk or stand for any period of time. Back surgery in April I sure hope that it helps, they tell me 6 months without work I can use the time off to go to Sturgis this year if I can walk enough to enjoy the venues. Tom

[AFNurse]

Well, good luck with surgery.....Not sure if there is time, but you may want to figure out how to maybe loose a few pounds before surgery....as for the first little bit, you may be inclined NOT to exercise. Hope you do tho, that is the key to recovery. If everything works out, maybe you will see me at the Sturgis thing!!! Course, from what I have heard, even if you KNOW there will be a specific person there, you won't see them....unless you both have GPS!!! I am planning a trip, hope the military doesn't interfere with it...never can tell..... but would be about 6K miles in about 10 days or so....should be fun!

[Sleepy]

Oh man, I'm not liking the idea of not being able to take the right leg off the peg at times. Got a screwed up knee and a banged up body from years of factory work. Last year on a trip the knee was particularly rough and I wouund up not being able to hold the bike up with my fiance on the back in a parking lot and as gently as I could I let the bike down on the crash guard [Electra Glide] once I could get off the bike and put my a$$ in the seat and stand the bike I felt better...that was from a weak knee and a loss of balance. Not being able to move the foot would not be good in that case. good luck with the surgery

[REED]

AF NURSE thanks for the good words I hav been 260 lbs most of my life and never habd problems, been diabetic type 2 for twenty years and on insulin now for 2 yrs, put on 50 lbs soon after goin on insulin and try to get it off all the time. Got probs with both knees worn out and now back and siatic so can hardly walk or get out of chair or into my KW. Been tryin to get to swimming pool as often as poss but doesnt work out too often. Was supposed to make sturgis last summer bit didnt work out could not walk anyhow. Should get a group together on forum goin to sturgis perhaps all meet somewhere. tom

[2fastnaz]

Originally Posted by REED

Gettin Old is a Bitch.

Yes it is. I don't recomend it too anyone.

[FLHTbiker]

We will be heading to Sturgis this year also. I've lost about 10 pounds from last year and hoping to loose more.
We will be staying in spearfish if anyone wants to meet up were willing.
Sleepy, are you going to Sturgis this year?

Good luck with surgery, it sucks. I just went through some on a ruptured hernia. All better now but hate being down.

By the way Sleepy, really loving the new Screaming Eagle Ultra

Marc
Lead Road Captain
Rose City HOG

[Pixs]

Originally Posted by 2fastnaz

Yes it is. I don't recomend it too anyone.

It beats the alternative by a long shot

I've been rear-ended 3 times in a car, last time was the worst, fractured L4, L5, & L6. Arthritas has been growing in cracks since 1979 or before. I've been to about 15 Drs. over the years, I don't like the odds under the knife. I can barely drive a car a couple of miles without pain. A bike, no problem, did 1,045 miles in one day last November 1st. I had a little trouble seizing up in cold damp weather but I still manage to keep the chrome up.
for life!

The wife has been bugging me to buy a car just for a back up, I bought her a new leather jacket.

Good luck with the pain; 2 hrs. sleep last night.

[SK]

I've been doing clinicals in Emergency this past month and I've seen some things I don't necessarily want to see again pertaining to motorcycle accidents. Almost makes me want to give up riding in this wild ass city of Las Vegas. I've never rode more careful and defensive in my life. I'll never quit riding til I just can't sling a leg over, but the streets around here are looking more dangerous all the time. All I can say is..wear them damn helmets!!!

[FLHTbiker]

SK, I hope when you graduate that you move someplace where its great motorcycle riding and a nice place to live. Oregon may be wet but sure beats the heck out of Vegas, been there done that before.

[Killer-B]

Yup, some age better than others… I think I’m somewhere in between.

[FlynDutchman]

Originally Posted by SK

I've been doing clinicals in Emergency this past month and I've seen some things I don't necessarily want to see again pertaining to motorcycle accidents. Almost makes me want to give up riding in this wild ass city of Las Vegas. I've never rode more careful and defensive in my life. I'll never quit riding til I just can't sling a leg over, but the streets around here are looking more dangerous all the time. All I can say is..wear them damn helmets!!!

Look at it like this...If you can get along riding with a bunch of a-holes & survive you are gonna be better off in the long run. I've had to ride downtown (Chicago) plenty of times & gets me fired up thinking about it, but at least you have the experience of dealing with every type of driver & can handle it.

[SK]

Originally Posted by FlynDutchman

Look at it like this...If you can get along riding with a bunch of a-holes & survive you are gonna be better off in the long run. I've had to ride downtown (Chicago) plenty of times & gets me fired up thinking about it, but at least you have the experience of dealing with every type of driver & can handle it.

FD, I hear ya..but....it feels like a crap shoot (Vegas terms) or sometimes like Russian Roulette each time I ride the streets. I used to think the freeway was the safest place as everyone's going the same direction, then I took care of a guy in Trauma ICU a couple of weeks ago who happened to be riding behind a big-rig that decided to dump a load of trusses that weren't tied down good enough..multiple fractures both legs, left arm, lacerated small bowel and colon..SOB! Thank God he can wiggle all toes and fingers and he had a helmet on. Tons of rehab for months, maybe years..but he's not a quadraplegic. Of course, that can happen anywhere..but it's an eye-opener like I've never seen before. It's made me the most defensive rider I could ever imagine.

Marc..I still have plans to eventually end up in Newport, OR. Think I'll start looking for a house this year at least to vacation and get away from it all. I still think of that place I found 4 years ago when I was first laid off from HP..2br 2ba on a grassy bluff over the beach about 7 miles north of town for $199k..should've bought it!

[2fastnaz]

I'm a firm beliver in

"it aint the age it's the millage that kills ya"

You guys are killing me. I'd give anything to live in Cave Junction (West of Grant's Pass). Spent a year in Eugene, my son was born there. Got there just as So Damn Insane invaded Kuwait and the owl huggers shut down the forrest. Spent a year pumping gas and then came home to AZ. I don't miss the rain but I sure miss the fishing and hunting.

[AFNurse]

Hey SK...How you liking the ER rotation??!! How does it compare to NICU?? I determined after one year that NICU was just not my style....liked it, but not my bag....so I am now one of the senior ranking nurses back on Adult Post Op...... Loving it right now. Good luck!
Nurse

[cowboy]

well I keep a knee brace in one of the saddle bags for many years now , put a back rest on the E glide last year , makes trips a lot easyer , the knee has been trouble since 68 car got me at the old age of 16, back just tightens up from haveing the lower pulled two many times from heavy lifting been on a back baord more then once for pulling them But all in all still having fun riding at 55 yr's young

[Texas Road Glide]

Originally Posted by 2fastnaz

I'm a firm beliver in

"it aint the age it's the millage that kills ya"

You guys are killing me. I'd give anything to live in Cave Junction (West of Grant's Pass). Spent a year in Eugene, my son was born there. Got there just as So Damn Insane invaded Kuwait and the owl huggers shut down the forrest. Spent a year pumping gas and then came home to AZ. I don't miss the rain but I sure miss the fishing and hunting.

i just cant seem to get the mileage thing out of my head..........so true.....very very true............wondering what the odds would be, if you compared car and motorcycle acidents, by how many miles the driver had driven in a lifetime????
i have logged a lotta miles with both, had less accidents with the
motorcycle, but they also hurt the most......

i love to ride, and who needs a theripist, when the bikes running good. smirking that is my theropy.
i think as i have gotton older, my riding style has changed, i am now alot smoother, and the out of no where surprises no longer bother me, for the bike and i have become old freinds, looking out for each other.
not to say i dont do an ocasional burn out, 2 nnd gear wheelie on a full dresser..... ok ok i have mellowed out a little bit,(looking down at the ground shaking head sideways) ok ok i am 46 and i am still waiting to grow up, the thruth will set you free. and do i ever have cool toy collection, hanging head in shame again............waiting on my new PSE "tree bark" compound bow.

you'll ride safe

TRG

[SK]

Originally Posted by AFNurse

Hey SK...How you liking the ER rotation??!! How does it compare to NICU?? I determined after one year that NICU was just not my style....liked it, but not my bag....so I am now one of the senior ranking nurses back on Adult Post Op...... Loving it right now. Good luck!
Nurse

ER's a whole 'nother ball game. Fast paced and exciting..never know what's coming in next. First morning I show up there a month ago and I get there early. Some young gal who graduated a year ago sees I'm a student and says "come check this out". Walk into this room and a guy's laid out on the table face all messed up and asked the girl "this guy's not intubated?". She says "no..he's dead..grab some gloves", and we proceed to poke and prod. Figure since I just ate breakfast and didn't lose it..I might be able to handle ER. Seems the guy was jaywalking across Flamingo Blvd about 3:40am that morning when a motorcycle smacked into him at close to 50mph..killed the guy practically instantly, but the motorcyclist was discharged 2 hours later with minor injuries. Guess you need to wear a helmet when jaywalking.

I enjoy the heck out of the NICU working on the premies, but it seems to be a deadend job. You do it for too long and you forget alot about nursing as you just don't see the normal disease process and chronic problems that happen as you get older. So I'll probably do Medsurg telemetry for a year to be able to handle a standard patient load and get the basics down, ICU for a year to get the critical part down, then ER. You need to know too much to walk into ER as a fresh grad and I don't want to be setup for failure from the getgo. I've taken care of several stroke victims, done CPR on a couple of heart-attack geriatrics that didn't make it, drug ODs..you name it. Even had my first VIP, a well known actor who brought their sister in..though ethics say I can't mention names. The teamwork of the nurses in ER is phenominal..I'm impressed.

[FlynDutchman]

[quote=SK;17895]FD, I hear ya..but....it feels like a crap shoot (Vegas terms) or sometimes like Russian Roulette each time I ride the streets. I used to think the freeway was the safest place as everyone's going the same direction, then I took care of a guy in Trauma ICU a couple of weeks ago who happened to be riding behind a big-rig that decided to dump a load of trusses that weren't tied down good enough..multiple fractures both legs, left arm, lacerated small bowel and colon..SOB! Thank God he can wiggle all toes and fingers and he had a helmet on. Tons of rehab for months, maybe years..but he's not a quadraplegic. Of course, that can happen anywhere..but it's an eye-opener like I've never seen before. It's made me the most defensive rider I could ever imagine.QUOTE]


You're right, It could happen anywhere & usually happens when its least expected. Thats why I believe if you are paying attention & drive defensively it doesnt matter what you are riding, you'll stand a better chance. If you don't go out because you feel its too dangerous, then you are giving up what you love maybe for no reason. I scoop people up off the pavement all the time. Its not a fun thing & the consequences of bad driving are death or serious bodily harm, but if you don't go out for fear of being hurt, well ya might as well stay in bed. I never know what I'm getting into when I go to work, my last shift we had a haz-mat incident with a spill & a guy who got chemical burns. Its just as dangerous (& possibly stupis) for me to go in there to clean up the mess, but I've had the training, & I've got the protective equipment so its a calculated risk. Just like waking up.

[FLHTbiker]

Boy Kev, that sure is a whole lot different than writing programs for the computer guys. Wow, what a change and challenge it must be for you. Always thought that it took special people to do that kind of work, my hats off to you.

[Sleepy]

Marc, I'm planning on getting to Sturgis but it's going to depend on contract talks and other stuff...glad you like the new bike