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 π
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 π.
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 πͺ.
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.
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