(Possibly) Sad News

[Plum]

I have just realised that i have posted 2 utterly pants replys tonight and have forgotten to give you some news that is going to screw your weekend up. I have recieved mail in regards to seeing a surgeon for my shoulder. For those of you who met me at the weekender (possibly when i was very drunk), i will have no doubt shown you, why you do not want to be operated on in Jersey. Well, the specialist is flying in a professor of shoulders in to have a look at mine (coz it dont look rosey) and they have told me that i will now need yet another operation to 'get it right'.

'So what's the sad news, you tosser' i hear you ask. Well i cannot ride a bike for at least 6 months, and it will be a light bike at that.

'AND!' i hear you reply. Well, it could mean i will miss the 2006 Weekender!

JUST PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

However, the missus has once again come up with suggestion of driving 4 wheels instead of 2. Or there is always the train. Message to Mrs Boozy Bob, i will join you if you go next year, and i '****ish Rail' it.

Needless to say, i am gutted, and dont know whether or not to ask to hold off until next year, after the weekender, but it leaves me only a year before i go to IOM TT in '07. There is no promise of you being back to normal within a year, so complications could bugger up the IOM for me.

Just on a note, the that surgeon 'did' me (over) last time, (nasty op and staple pictures available on request) said that 'allegedly' having your bunions removed is the most painfull er.....pain(?) to have - according to patients. The shoulder op is the second most painful. Bunion victims - you have my sympathy! Women.....dont talk to me about child birth!

So am i still welcome if i came by ...c.....c.....ca...............CAR!! (Well 4WD actually)?

[Didge]

Personally, I think that if any 4WD is in the carpark at Arrow Mill during the Monster Weekend, it should be rolled into the river, and the owner thrashed to within an inch of his / her life with a Ducati cam-belt studded with valve shims, dipped in salt and wet fart droplets.
And what's yer wingeing about being unable to ride a bike for ages. I've had 2 months of summer being unable to ride, and there is no end in sight.
If I'm lucky, I might be able to ride a bloody twist & go by the end of the year, seeing as I've still not got enough strength in my 'clutch hand' to open a crisp packet.

PS:- A 4WD......in Jersey? Are you taking the pi ss Plum?

[Scotty]

at the weekender you could tow a trailer just to make us look so unreliable we need a recovery vehicel following. Sounds to me like you should get it over and done with rather than pospone it. With a 6 month window of doom your bound to miss/upset some event

[Mand]

Get it over and done with, there will be other weekenders, and your health is important (ooo doesn't that make me sound old! :D )

PS when my boy decided to come into contact with a Mondeo a couple of years ago, he had a serious shoulder operation and he healed quicker than expected. In fact a good couple of months quicker. :)

[claicerrig]

Plum

Get the Opp done sooner rather than later

When i had my extra Bum exits added (Dont get Jelous on me Didge :p )

I had the Opp in late Nov, was driving by Mid Jan and on my bike by March :D
Then i decided i could not ride a GSXR any more and ended up buying the Duke :cool: :D

The best way is to pace your self, listen to the Doctors and Phisio and remember that they are giving you in most cases the worst possable senario on healing times

I even trailerd my bike :o to Donny with a mate rather than miss out, something i thought i would never ever do

[Nonnie]

I bet you Plum that someone will bring you pillion if need be. Not promising it will be me as I'm a bit crap at riding but I might have improved by then!

Good luck with the op and recovery. Better sooner rather than later. Fate has a way of working things out eventually. xx

[Plum]

PS:- A 4WD......in Jersey? Are you taking the pi ss Plum?

Er yeah....... You should see the size of some of the sleeping policemen. Their more like sleeping pavarottis!

[scrumpster]

Anyone got a side car? But get it done Plum, the chances of success are good and do as you are told and hopefully that shoulder will be right as rain in no time ;)

[Paranoid Dave]

you have to go, who else am i going to share a room with?

Like they all say, get it done, listed to the docs, do the physio and get back on the road asap. :D

[MrsJel]

Anyone got a side car?
There's a bloke with a sidecar near us - trouble is his passengers can only lie down very very still and they have to be lifted in.

My advice - get the op done as soon as poss and use the time off to fill up the calendar for when you're back on the road (pref on the monster not a fourking wheel drive).