Re: Back, sort of???

Chris, God bless you. Really good to hear that you are doing better.
Prayers are still with you and your family!!

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Bill & Debbie
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"Chris Buckley" <cnbuckley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> First off, let me say THANKS to everyone who sent gifts, called, or
> visited!!!!
> Well I got released from the fourth hospital I had been in on July 27,
> Im still in a wheel chair and have double vision, I feel really
> fucked-up still too, but am getting better???? (thats what they tell me)
> I don't remember anything before July 16 but here is what folks have
> told me: On June 15 at aprox 11pm I was riding to work on my Dual sport
> bike, my former BMW R100GS. I ras going through the intersection of 2nd
> and D streets in San Rafael, CA and was hit by a mexican guy( no license
> or insurance) who didn't want to wait for his light to turn green, he
> was comming up to a known red light and floored his car, to blow off the
> red light, and get home. I was hit on the left side of my bike. at aprox
> 45mph, according to the police report, flew 51 feet through the air,
> broke both legs, hit my head, and punctured a lung, needless to say, I
> was out when the police arrived. When they got me to the hospital, they
> called my son up in Davis, told him that I probably wouldn't make it, my
> Son then called my wife and my parents, as he was diving down here. Over
> a month later, I learned that I had been on life support equipment for 8
> days, and had been in a coma for a month!!!! I had surgery to repair the
> compound fractures in my legs, close up my lung, etc. While I was in the
> coma, they had a drain tube hooked to my head to drain excessive
> pressure from my brain, weird ***, huh????? I woke up in the Kaiser
> rehab hospital in Vallejo, CA on JULY 16, not knowing why I was there,
> what was wrong, or what had happened. When I woke up, I tried to get out
> of bed to find out why I was there, fell down on the floor, laid there
> for about an hour, till someone came in the room, saw me and screamed
> for help to get me back into bed, they then put me in a special bed,
> that didn't allow patients to leave the bed, without help. They tell me
> that I will most likely be confined to the wheel chair for another
> couple of months, but will probably be able to learn to walk again, at
> that time. Since I am still not feeling good now, I am really tired now
> and have to sign off, thanks again to every one, the cards, flowers,
> books, videos, calls, meant a lot!!!!!
> Thanks,
> Chris
> (hoping that no body ever has to go through this!!)
> When I get better, I need to send thankyou cards to the guy from Oakland
> who stopped his car, chased down the mexican, and held him for the
> police, ans also the woman from Marin who called 911 on her cell phone,
> they are the main reason I didn't die!!!!!!!!!!!


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