mommotox
04-14-2008, 01:19 PM
Glad it's over!
I'll start with the good news. Rylan had a great time in her races this weekend, gainind speed, and even making some great passes. She's got a ways to go, but she looks great, and still smiles from ear to ear every time it's her turn. For a first year racer, she is looking good. It's going to be a lot of fun to watch her progress in the coming months and years. Scary too, I imagine.
And now on to Zach...Oy! After 2 great motos in the morning, where he rode smoother and faster than we have ever seen him ride, bad luck struck!
In the 2nd 65 7 – 9 moto, Zach got a killer start and then someone knocked directly into his side in the first turn. 3 kids after that ran him right over. He ended up on the bottom of the pile of kids and bikes, with me jumping over the spectator fence and running across the track (making sure no one was coming!). It was UGLY and terrifying!!!!!
When I got there the medics were there and had just gotten him up out of the pile. He was screaming in pain. We got him calmed down and then got him walking. He walked off the track and back to the motorhome where he promptly collapsed into a chair. We iced his shoulder and upper arm for 20 minutes, then put him through the paces. Basically, he couldn’t move his shoulder, upper arm, lower arm, or wrist.
We packed up and headed to Children’s Hospital, where they refused to treat him. Turns out, that Children’s location will not see a kid who was in an accident involving a motorized vehicle because they do not have a trauma surgeon on staff. So we went next door to Parker Adventist as he was considered a “trauma” case. I’m glad for it in the end, as the Docs and nurses there were AWESOME, and most had stories of their kids on bikes, too. Anyhow, by the time we got there the Motrin had kicked in and the ice had helped and he was more mobile. They still took x-rays, etc.
In the end, it seems he may have dislocated the shoulder, and then it got popped back into place in the normal course of the activities. He had no obvious broken bones, though the Dr. is a bit worried about the growth plate in his upper-right arm, as that’s where the pain he had in the hospital was localized. He is in a sling for the next few days, and if it is still as swollen (it’s huge now) and painful (the pain has returned) in a few days, we need to go see an Ortho doc.
The kid literally has tire track bruises across his right upper arm, a big gash under his arm, and bruises from the Leatt all around his left shoulder. Thank God for the Leatt – those bruises would have been more tire tracks on his body and who knows what the results of that would have been! The back fin of the Leatt was cracked in the process of it all. SCARY!!! I’m also loving the RXR – despite getting hit and all the bruises around his neck and arm, he has basically nothing on the rest of his upper body. Based on what I saw, by rights, he should have.
Thanks to RiderDown for carryiing both of these amazing products (Leatt and RXR). We'll never know how much they helped, but from what I saw, I would have been telling a very different story without them.
I'll start with the good news. Rylan had a great time in her races this weekend, gainind speed, and even making some great passes. She's got a ways to go, but she looks great, and still smiles from ear to ear every time it's her turn. For a first year racer, she is looking good. It's going to be a lot of fun to watch her progress in the coming months and years. Scary too, I imagine.
And now on to Zach...Oy! After 2 great motos in the morning, where he rode smoother and faster than we have ever seen him ride, bad luck struck!
In the 2nd 65 7 – 9 moto, Zach got a killer start and then someone knocked directly into his side in the first turn. 3 kids after that ran him right over. He ended up on the bottom of the pile of kids and bikes, with me jumping over the spectator fence and running across the track (making sure no one was coming!). It was UGLY and terrifying!!!!!
When I got there the medics were there and had just gotten him up out of the pile. He was screaming in pain. We got him calmed down and then got him walking. He walked off the track and back to the motorhome where he promptly collapsed into a chair. We iced his shoulder and upper arm for 20 minutes, then put him through the paces. Basically, he couldn’t move his shoulder, upper arm, lower arm, or wrist.
We packed up and headed to Children’s Hospital, where they refused to treat him. Turns out, that Children’s location will not see a kid who was in an accident involving a motorized vehicle because they do not have a trauma surgeon on staff. So we went next door to Parker Adventist as he was considered a “trauma” case. I’m glad for it in the end, as the Docs and nurses there were AWESOME, and most had stories of their kids on bikes, too. Anyhow, by the time we got there the Motrin had kicked in and the ice had helped and he was more mobile. They still took x-rays, etc.
In the end, it seems he may have dislocated the shoulder, and then it got popped back into place in the normal course of the activities. He had no obvious broken bones, though the Dr. is a bit worried about the growth plate in his upper-right arm, as that’s where the pain he had in the hospital was localized. He is in a sling for the next few days, and if it is still as swollen (it’s huge now) and painful (the pain has returned) in a few days, we need to go see an Ortho doc.
The kid literally has tire track bruises across his right upper arm, a big gash under his arm, and bruises from the Leatt all around his left shoulder. Thank God for the Leatt – those bruises would have been more tire tracks on his body and who knows what the results of that would have been! The back fin of the Leatt was cracked in the process of it all. SCARY!!! I’m also loving the RXR – despite getting hit and all the bruises around his neck and arm, he has basically nothing on the rest of his upper body. Based on what I saw, by rights, he should have.
Thanks to RiderDown for carryiing both of these amazing products (Leatt and RXR). We'll never know how much they helped, but from what I saw, I would have been telling a very different story without them.