The End....Then The Start

The End

So, to infill the finish of the last segment it ended abruptly with a fall in a mossy creek perfected by me (nothing to do with the moto) and the result was subscapularis tendon and long head biceps tendon damage to my right shoulder. 

Such was the damage to me the last 10 km ride back to our camp was to be the end of our trip which quickly turned into part 1 with every corrugation torturing me with severe pain while riding skippy back to camp, given we were just off the Gibb river road the corrugations were so deep the kangeroos used them as shade from the sun which extremely hard work.

On return to camp I knew this was the end of this session.

A quick-ish trip in a landcruiser with some very nice people to Derby it was established that the help I needed was far beyond a satellite hospital, the scans showing two tendons torn off their mounts or what they call full thickness tears.

The look of hapiness 😂

The logistics for getting Skippy out of the Gibb river and shipped to Darwin took a LOT of work and money and helping hands from people involved from the PWS who were outstanding, the trucking company who took her up but most of all Niko in Darwin who has taken delivery and looked after her which is monumental. 

3 days after my stack we were back home to freezing NZ and the shit started because Alliance lied to us, because we had been outa Kiwiland for more than 6 months there was no ACC either.

I did get fixed up pretty quickly which was cool with our medical cover from Southern Cross NZ kicking in, Alliance are lying wankers having advised us to go back to NZ only to say when we got home .....no our policy is only valid in AU. 

My surgery went well, my subscapularis put/pulled back into place and held with the appropriate metalwork, screws and some Ali Express string, my long head biceps torn in half mean the top part was cut off and thrown to the dogs and the bottom half remaining and screwed back to the bone so I now have a popeye syndrome appearance, I think my days on the catwalk are numbered 😂.

Long story short it was a BIG repair job, slightly bigger than the surgeons had anticipated but took it in their stride and although it was done in August 24 and now it is May 25 I still have a big lack of strength but once back on Skippy it will have to be ok 💪.

It has been an interesting few months and not quite what we had planned but we made the most of what had happened and re-adjusted our lives to suck it up and carry on, but I do apologize for the radio silence as I got sucked in a dark hole for a while.  

The restart.

Back to Brisbane for a night to catch up with friends then carry on to Darwin to get the bike, reassemble etc and continue on our merry way.

Plan is to stay out of hospital and jail this time.