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If anyone still looks at this thread, Monday will be our 5 year anniversary!!! What a thing to celebrate huh!!!?? :) We are still riding. We finally, in 2013, fulfilled our goal to ride in them BP MS150, three years later than planned, but we still did it!!! We still have pain everyday and will forever I guess, but we are not dead or in a wheelchair. We still ride on Parmer and ride to work occasionally.
If you see a yellow Rans Seavo recumbent tandem, that is us!!!! Not many of those around so you can't miss us!!! Or a single on a red Baccchetta Strada, that is me. We probably would not be riding if we hadn't converted to recumbents. The neck, back, butt and arm pains have been eliminated, only get leg pain now!!! :)
You are right, the property coverage does make it higher I had left that off since our property was covered even by her minimum coverage and I wasn't thinking about that.
Thanks for the encouragement. My wife never ceases to amaze me at her progress and willingness to trod on even when she is scared to death!!!! She is amazing!!!
I think the $313 in Maryland is more than Austin/Wilco or whoever's ticket for driving on the shoulder and running over 2 people. The real injustice is TX's minium liability insurance of $50K.
We rode 6 miles last Wednesday evening!!!!! She is doing great. We actually went on 183A between New Hope and Crytal Falls, both ways. No issues but won't be doing that again with the orange barrells they have out there, but they did give us a cushion between us and the cars.
Ordered her a new Thudbuster seatpost since the old bike had a shock absorbing seat post, I think she needs one on this bike too.
If any of you still check this I thought I would give an update. It is truely amazing the progress Angi has made and she took her first step on Saturday to get back to some sense of normalcy. She said we need to take a ride!!! We only rode about a mile around the neighborhood, but she on the new tandem for the first time, with her shoes on and clipped in even, and helmet on of course. It was not without major anxiety on her part and quite a few tears, but she made it all the way and did not get off and walk home.
I did hit one bump jarring hurt her back and causing some pain, so I will have to watch for bumps better. She is actaully way ahead of my hopes of us getting back on the bike together. My hopes were for June or July, but the ned of March is truely amazing!!! What a womam!!!!
We won't be riding far for while, but even a mile is wonderful to be riding together with her!!!!!
Any savings generated by bicycle commuting can be quickly erased by your max out of pocket expenditures you pay for your medical bills!!!! :)
Maybe the 650 feet he drives crosses a very dangerous road.
I might communte again though when it warms up a bit more and the wife starts driving more. SSSHHH but don't tell her yet!!!
Maybe he is onto something. Maybe riding in a lane is safer than the shoulder!!! :)
The wife went back to work a week ago today. SHe is extatic to be back out in the real world and not having to wear her neck brace/collar any more. She is working on getting her range of motion back in her neck and her leg still has not fully healed, but she is getting there.
Still no driving either.
Thanks everyone for you thoughts and prayers!!!!
Michael,
Thanks for the encouragement. I plan to stick around now that I have found this forum. I have looked several times over the past few years for a biking forum and it is nice to have found one for our community.
I have ridden on Parmer many, many, many times over the last 11+ years without incident and even though it is a very busy rode I have never felt 'unsafe' or 'at risk' becasue if I had I would never have put my wife out there in harms way. She even felt 'safe' and was enjoying riding to work a few days a week. We had just ridden 40 miles in the Outlaw ride the week before, a new record for her, and she wasn't even tired. Oh well we will be back in shape again in a few months, hopefully she will be able to ride again in May or June.
Fine, I don't know that they saved our lives, but I will live in a bubble and think they did and it makes me feel better about the $80 I spent on them. But I will continue to wear mine even with no clincal or statistcal proof that they did. We are alive and that is all that really matters.
I am by no means for a law requiring bicyclists to wear helmets, but you can bet I will continue to wear mine when I get a new one. If motorcyclists don't have to, then bicyclists shouldn't be required to either. You can also bet if I were a motorcyclist I would were one too, but there is no motorcycle in my future, only a new tandem.
She got a ticket for driving on the shoulder. Big whooop!!!
Luckily we have good health insurance because she has state minimum liability insurance!!!! Most importantly though we didn't have to use our life insurance on one or both of us, so having my wife here still is worth paying our deductables and max out of pocket for a couple years.
We did get a property settlement though to get a new tandem and all the stuff we had with us on the bike for work.
One other note on the cause of the accident. 2005 Dodge Stratos driving on the shoulder!!!!!!! We had 2 sets of flashing lights on our backs and a working and approved head light, reflective clothing and were closer to the right edge of the shoulder than the left edge and over there minding our own business going to work!!!!
I have been looking for an Austin Bike blog and finally ran across this and low and behold here is our article!!! Here is an update staight from the victim.
It was 9 weeks ago today Angi and I woke up in the ER at Brackenridge and the progress she has made is amazing. First of all it is a miracle that either of us are alive, but especially her, she came very close to bleeding to death due to a massive cut on the back of her left leg. Then the second mriacle is that she is not paralyzed and has lost no use of any fingers, toes, arms or legs.
Her broken neck, which they had to fuse 2 vertebrae toghter, is healing perfectly and was transferred from the hard collar to a soft callor just yesterday,and she is extatic. The compression fractures in her back will just have to heal on their own and the cut on her leg is nearly healed.
I was ery lucky in receiving only broken ribs, major bruising and a split open scalp. I flew over the car with the bike, where as Angi went directly into the car's windshield and then bounced off over they guard rail
This Friday we will joyfully be celebrating our 25 wedding anniversary, I am sorry to say the report of her being 31 is incorrect. She did like the thought of being 31 and I liked the thought of having a 31 year old wife!!!! :) I am not that much of a stud. :)
Much to the dismay of many people we come in contact with, we will be back on a tandem hopefully in May or June, or soon as her neck and back will allow.
Thanks to all for any thoguhts or prayers that were said for us, I know they helped. We were spared for a reason and we are looking and watching for that reason so we can make a difference somewhere.
WEAR YOUR HELMETS, THEY SAVED US FOR SURE.
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