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gahult · Post by **gahult** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:05 am

Check out the attached pictures.I was taking my son down to his girl friends house (yup he surprised us for Xmas) Saturday morning so they could fly back to Atlanta Sunday.
I stopped at a 4 way going south and let a truck from the west that was stopped go across in front of me, looked east and checked that the other three behind him were stopped. I started across the intersection and out of the fog from the east came a gal in a Kia Sorento at 50 mph. She t-boned me. Alan was able to get out of the passenger side but they broke their jaws of life trying to get me out, I was just able to get out by lifting my legs over the center counsel, they pulled me out the passenger.
They took me from the ER in Read City to the Trauma Center in Grand Rapids. I ended up with a broken collar bone, 8 broken ribs, 2 partially deflated lungs and a concussion. Alan got shook up good and overall soreness.

Gary

gahult · Post by **gahult** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:07 am

M Fowler · Post by **M Fowler** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:18 am

Speedy recovery Gary too bad you and your son had to endure an accident like that. Take care of yourself.

Mark

Deric · Post by **Deric** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:59 am

Doh!

Best wishes to you and your family for a speedy recovery!!!

gahult · Post by **gahult** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:05 am

Thanks Mark.
They were thinking about taking out a couple of ribs lower left side but had second thoughts, so I didn't go under the knife. The said about 6/8 weeks before any normalcy can be expected. Tiss a *itch to cough, but I need to, to keep the fluids out of the lungs. pneumonia.

I'll be here, in and out.

Later

skyboltone · Post by **skyboltone** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:38 am

Hey Gary. Bad stuff that. Was she drunk, or just stupid?

Post by **Allynmey** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:17 am

Holy shit!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you get better soon buddy!

gahult · Post by **gahult** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:55 am

Thanks guys.
Just playing plain stupid in thick fog. There are flashing Stop Ahead signs both sides of the road 100-200 ft. before the intersection. Sometimes it just doesn't seem to matter how careful you are. Guess it wasn't my time yet.
Gary

mlp-mx6 · Post by **mlp-mx6** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:55 pm

Here's wishing you a speedy recovery.

I know about the "not my time yet" thing. I had a major heart attack in July '07 out of nowhere. While jogging!

drhulsey · Post by **drhulsey** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:59 pm

That's what I call getting into YOUR space

I'm sure you're hurting in more places than just your chest and shoulder. I'm glad you came out as well as you did. I've sure seen it be much worse

VERY IMPORTANT Don't forget to get up and walk every couple of hours to prevent getting blood clots in your legs. This can occur after major trauma just due to your being less active.
I wish I could share some of that pain for you

PS: Maybe that young lady was just dazzled by your good looks

CaseyJones · Post by **CaseyJones** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:15 pm

By the look of the car the front suspension took about half of the hit. If you'd been three feet further through the intersection it would have been a direct hit to the door and we wouldn't be having this converstaion.

It drives me nuts... the dumb-asses who are out there. I used to see stuff on the Connecticut Turnpike every day. Back when they still had toll plazas, people would drive into the toll plaza and get all confused... "Gee... I drive through here every day. I've never seen a toll booth here before!"

Your SUV girl might be like that. "Gee, I drive through here every day. I've never seen a stop sign there before!" Or worse, maybe she drives through there every day and runs the stop sign every time.

I'm not a lawsuit kind of guy and it ain't gonna make yer ribs and yer collarbone feel any better... but a Rottweiler of a lawyer might be handy right about now. I've taken a few lumps and I figured I'd just heal when I was young and naive, now I wake up with headaches two or three days a week.

Feel better, bro! Best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery.

Structo · Post by **Structo** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:55 pm

You were very lucky to survive that crash!

Like Casey said, a few inches to the rear and you wouldn't have survived most likely.

Side impacts are the worst!

Did they cite the girl who hit you ?

Hope they gave you some pain pills, ribs can be very painful.

Post by **HeeBGB** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:02 pm

Gary,

Glad you're OK! Can you solder with one arm? LOL! I hope you have a speedy and full recovery bro. Be carefull out there.

Greg

fishy · Post by **fishy** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:23 pm

Gary,
I'm pleased you live to tell the tale and I wish you a speedy recovery.

Hope the earlier part of you Chrimbo went well.

gahult · Post by **gahult** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:25 pm

Hey,
yah, I could solder with one arm but, drilling chassis holes and mounting transformers is a problem for me with 2 hands.

I may be able to get some more done on the 2 watt sub miniature Express got the trannies today and jacks and some resistors.

They ticketed the gal from the other vehicle while she was on the stretcher at the scene.

I hope my insurance company is quicker on this then when my daughter totaled out my Prism on 9/28/08, they have yet to make a payment.
Thanks for your thoughts for me and the boy.

Gary

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