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Now that I have reached Indiana I finally have found a computer to keep you up to date. I had a bike accident in the Smokey Mountains. I had to walk my bike up to the top of the mountain because it was to steep for me to ride. At the top I asked a park ranger there if I could camp there that night and was told that I couldn't. So it was 15 miles to the bottom on the other side and I walked my bike down. It was to steep for my brakes to hold do to all the weight that I had on my bike. It was almost 8:30 pm and I still had about six miles left to go. I wanted to get down before it got dark and decided to chance riding it. A big mistake on my part. Soon I was going to fast and tried using my brakes and they went out on me. Then I decided to get on the grass as I hoped that would slow me down enough to stop. Next thing I know I am hitting the ground. Scraped up my left arm real bad and was bleeding from my head. I did not have a bike helmet. I had some toilet paper that I used to try and stop the bleeding. It worked long enough to let me get my bike back in order. I started to walk it again and felt blood coming from my head again. I stopped and put my trap on the ground and then used my sleeping bag as a pillow. Once again I put toilet paper against my head. I layed there on the side of the road for 3 hours before the park rangers found me. I was then taken by ambulance to the local hospital. They ran a bunch of tests on me before they decided that nothing else was wrong with me and then put staples in my head. In the morning I called the Rangers Station and they brought my stuff to me. I was then off on my bike to Walmart to buy a new front basket for my bike as the one I had was really bent up and I got a bike helmet as well. I got lucky that nothing else was wrong with me. |
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 6/22/2008 8:23 am |
good thing you didn't have any serious injury (or, how bad was that cut your refer to?). I will check your next message to see if you give more details. I am really happy to hear news about you 
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6/23/2008 5:28 pm |
The staples were in for six days until I came across another hospital emergency room where I had them removed.
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7/23/2008 10:03 pm |
b careful phil I wander where u r u last said u had a computer to use and you'd be online but you haven't been...hmmmmmmm oh phil, how I wander how you are SO come back and tell us of your journey me, hope that your head has healed and things are good for and with you! peace,lisa Make luv & war will be extinct! Stop the hate!
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