March 13, 2008

Never Say Never (Part 1)

Never say never…..Part I :The accident

In today’s day and age many people think that nothing will ever happen to them, maybe it’s how we were raised or genetics, but we all seem to have some level of immortality built-in. As I learned on July 15^th 2001 anything can happen to anyone at anytime…never say never. Here’s what happened…..

I called my riding buddy Doug about going for a ride, but he was out picking up a 1979 Firebird and wouldn’t be home until 10pm. So I decided that I would ride around a little by myself on my R6 until he returned. In my wisdom I decide to scope out a new demo ride route for the upcoming Mosport Round of the Parts Canada National Road Race weekend as I wasn’t overly pleased with the previous year’s route and wanted to find something a little more interesting than straight stretches.

During my route testing & timing I figured that it must be getting close to 10pm so I pulled off on the shoulder to check my watch. It was time to start making my way to Doug’s house. As I was approaching the outskirts of Bowmanville, Ontario, a Car backed out of it’s driveway 50 feet in front of me. I panicked, slammed down a gear, and jammed both brakes as hard as I could to get the bike into a slide as I saw that middle post of a 4 door sedan right in my line of travel if I didn’t take action.

After the mandatory curse word, I don’t actually remember hitting the ground or much else for that matter isn’t shock a wonderful mechanism. I apparently, was still awake and was talking. I do briefly remember seeing red cabinetry (inside the ambulance) and talking to the doctor for phone numbers of family (I’m really surprised that I got them right because I don’t remember even saying numbers) and talking to the officer from the scene.

I must say that time flies by incredibly; my family was there in record time in my head anyways. After a slew of x-rays and more x-rays and poking and probing I noticed that I was not allowed to look at my left leg, I was being restrained. I knew something was wrong??.

The next morning I awoke in a drug induced state and the first thing I went looking for was my leg……still there, just the knee bandaged up. The doctor came by to see me and updated me on the damage done. Broken big toe, severely sprained ankle (the doctor couldn’t believe that I didn’t break it !) broken knee cap with a deep laceration on my leg, heavily bruised ribs, broken xiphoid process, sprained wrist, two compression fractures in my spine, slight internal bleeding and a toonie size spot of road rash on my stomach.

Wow, pretty good list, thankful that I was obeying the speed limit or it could have been a lot worse. The next thought that went through my mind was my soon arriving fiancée, and her impending reaction to this……to be continued..

Bryan Fil

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2 Responses to “Never Say Never (Part 1)”

1. motorcycles says:
   

   unlucky my friend hope you get well soon

   April 7th, 2008 at 4:53 am
2. alan reesor says:
   

   Hope you recovered from that! Everyone has had close calls out there. I am glad you shared your story with us, to help keep all of us on our toes.

   Alan …Thanks for your kind words, I’ll touch on my recovery in part two…Stay tuned !!!!

   Bryan……..”

   April 9th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

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