Manky Monkey Motors

Just got back from Aberystwyth hospital!! had a phone call @7pm from A+E informing us that our son had a bike crash, apparently a car pulled out on him, he's broke his rht ankle,rht wrist, and left elbow, they are operating on both wrist and elbow as these are quite complicated breaks, still he's alive :) and concious we'll be ringing in the morning then going back up there in time for when he comes out of the operations.

Sorry to hear that. Bit of walk to aber from your place.

hope he gets well soon  :) :)

Sorry to hear that VB hope he gets well soon. He's very lucky that it wasn't worse. What are the police doing about the driver. Hopefully it will include an eye test.

Only just found this thread VB, so you're probably at the hospital now. Give him our best wishes for a speedy recovery please. Myopic car drivers are a fact of life I'm afraid. They just don't bother looking. Hope all goes well.

Sorry to hear about your boy VB, hope he recovers well.

Hi Gareth, Sorry to hear of Dan's misfortune. Best wishes to him and hope for a speedy and complete recovery.

hey, it coulda been worse..it could have been a lorry (or 2) that hit him, you know what i mean!

take care
Pete & Chrissie

Sorry to hear VB, hope op goes ok. Wish him the best.

Wot every one else said.

If there's anything I can do shout.

You are in our thoughts hon, our love to you & Fran x

Keep us updated!

Janie & Dave

Our thoughts are with you Fred and Joyce

fingers crossed he recovers quickly mate and the car driver gets his/her just desert

Hope all the ops went well and all will heal again. As for driver, an eye test is not what I'd recommend :-X

Thanks for all your kind words :), they operated tuesday morning pin and plated the lft elbow then tension wire bound it, same again then for the rht wrist,both toped off atm with custom plaster ware.
These initialOperations were a success although both wrist and elbow will need further work 6-8 wks on.
Dan's not one for lying down and today was up and hobbling on his cast/walking foot, he musta done summut right as they may let him home tommorrow!! as he his he cant do anything really for himself so although it feels early after seeing the amount of damage he had done.
His main concern was that they try to shape the plaster cast of his arms so that he could still use a ps3/xbox remotes !!
Tuesday late afternoon consultants are thinking on re-doing the wrist...Dans well fed up atm.

Wednesday.today.. they have agreed to allow Dan to have the wrist done in Neville hall"closer to us" so its been re-plastered, we will bring him home Thursday, they have already arranged with Neville hall for Dan to be admitted monday/tuesday. he's not completely out of the woods but on the right track :) here's a pic of him"high as a kite" just before going to op.
(http://www.ratrods.co.uk/PICS/DAN3.jpg)

here's one of the bike.
(http://www.ratrods.co.uk/PICS/BIKE1.jpg)

Glad everything has gone well so far.  :)

Ouch!! :o

Ditto.

get well soon
ouch
and whats the bike

yamaha YBR 125

a write off i'd say  :)

Glad to hear he's progressing - from the look of that bike he had luck on his side, even with all those breaks.

got a sr 125 frame sat here any good

hey vb, its about time you mentioned the word....."trike" to dan?

hope he is getting along ok, best wishes for speedy recovery :)

Thanks for the comments Ladies and Gents :) we got Dan home today at around 6pm, last night we moved his bed downstairs into the living room, easier for us to handle him and if his m8s come round they have somewhere to sit, so best alround atm.
Dans in some pain but not to bad concidering, we go to Neville Hall tomorrow to book in and xrays,we'll now more tomorrow :)

Dave: no thanks m8 the engines naffed as well,plus this is going through insurance, he'll be a year before he's riding i reckon anything before that will be a bonus.

How's Dan doing VB?

I had the first op on my leg in Nevill Hall cos that's where I ended up after my accident at my sister's home between Monmouth and Abergavenny - my surgeon in Poole said they'd done an excellent job on my leg - it didn't heal and all had to be undone again but that was just one of those things.