Texas Turnip Takes a Tumble official WG merged threadfest

[Beaver]

Tex went out for a morning ride to the coal mines yesterday morning, Sunday.  Just a few miles from his house, a truck "didn't see him" and pulled out in front of him.  Ken doesn't remember anything after that, so I don't know any of the details.

He broke both arms, ribs, clavicle, spinous processes on T5 thru T9 vertebra (mid-back) and some toes.  He also had a large deep gash all the way down to the knee joint.  He had surgery yesterday afternoon to clean out and stitch his knee and to fix one of his broken arms.  He will have more surgery today or tomorrow to fix the other broken arm and possibly the clavicle.  No head injuries, his helmet did it's job well!

They've got him in SICU for right now.

I haven't seen his bike yet, kinda scared to, but am going to try to get it transferred to a friend's body shop today so we won't be paying storage fees to the place that has it.

He has no computer access, and can't talk on the phone right now, but our phone numbers are 903-316-7720 and 903-780-4012.  Both of us have flip phones so we don't do internet on them.  You can text either phone, but it's too hard to text back.  No pictures or videos because the screen is too small to see them.

He would love to get some cards from anyone who would like to send one.

Address is:

Ken Hand
810 Sweetgum Ln
Lindale, TX 75771

Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers and send positive vibes his way!

The show this weekend must go on, so if you were planning on coming to the GRIT Rally, come on, don't cancel!

Who knows, if he's out of the hospital, he may be able to come to the rally for a little, and if not, then he can probably have visitors at his home!  If he's still in the hospital, he'll be in a regular room by then and will be able to receive visitors.

Get those cards in the mail and see you this weekend!

Georganne
Beaver

[Carlo DeSantis]

Ugh!

The news we hate to hear, yet hear all too often.

I'm glad he's in good hands and on the road to getting better.

Give Tex my best.

Carlo

[kirby1923]

Holy Sh*t, When Tex does something he's in for the full ride!!!

What's the other guy look like?

Very bad but survived it!!
Will send a card when I get to the States this week. Broken ribs...oooh the memories, try to not make him laugh!
Wishing him a complete and quick recovery!!!

mike

[Gliderjohn]

Man...bad news. Glad he survived however. Hoping for a full recovery. Tex is going to need to start trailering his rides at least 50 miles from home before riding. Seems close to home is too dangerous.
GliderJohn

[John A]

That's rough news, I sure hope Ken is the fast healing type and not in too much pain. Anything I can do to help, I will. I'll write later.
John

[tazio]

In my prayers, card on the way.
So sad/disturbing to get these kinds of news. Keep the faith.

[Kev m]

OUCH !!!  - Heal Well Tex!

[Gusable]

God bless him with a speedy recovery

[guzzisteve]

Not what I wanted to hear this morning. Prayers coming for Kens recovery. Bad out there riding these days, used to be safer years gone by.

[oldbike54]

 Must have been big truck .

 Will contact you later Beav . Keep us updated .

 Dusty

[Nic in Western NYS]

crud! quick full recovery Tex

[Sheepdog]

So sorry, Ken. Hope you heal up quick, buddy...

[davedel44]

Card on Way.

Dave
Galveston

[KJ Knowles]

Oh, no! Damn, I hate to hear that. 

Tex, you heal up quickly like the tough Texan you are. Georganne, you know I'm relatively local. Let me know if I can do anything to help.

KJK

[cj750]

Dang. Hate this. It all sounds eerily similar to what happened to me exactly five years ago. My thoughts and prayers will be with Ken, and for his doctors and caregivers. Wishing him a full and speedy recovery.

Jay

[Moto]

Sorry to hear this. Please send him my best wishes for a full recovery.

Moto

[Beaver]

Must have been big truck .

 Will contact you later Beav . Keep us updated .

 Dusty

I will as much as possible Dusty, but neither of us has a phone that can do internet, so I can only us my home computer unless I find public computers at the hospital.    

Beave

[radguzzi]

Oh Man, this is tough to hear about.   

So sorry to have this happen to Ken.

Good thoughts and a card going out...hipimg you heal up well.

Thank you for letting us know Brave.

Best,
Rob & Sue

[Zoom Zoom]

That stinks. If you see him, please let him know we are thinking about him.


John Henry

[Rhodan]

Holy hard helmets, that was definitely a tumble!

Tell him to listen to the nurses!  And mostly listen to the doctors. ;)   Hopefully he can get out of there soon; hospital staff are outstanding but there truly is no place like home.  Wishing him well and a speedy recovery. 

[Shorty]

So sorry Tex and Beav. Heal good and quick, Ken!

[John Ulrich]

All the best Ken.  Get well soon!!!!!     

[TOMB]

Tex .sorry to hear about your accident I wish you well my thoughts are with you and please get well as fast as you can as well as you can.

TOMB
Tom Bailey (a Guzzi friend Connecticut (Iron Mikes friend )

[Bonaventure]

New around here and don't know anyone but please accept my Get Well Soon wishes and concern.  I myself am only recently recovered from a bad bike accident this past February. Make sure they do an MRI on the spinous process fractures and not just rely on CT scans.  This is because ligaments show on MRI but not on CT and they need to check out the spinal ligaments as well.  MRI needs to be done before they put most of the metal plates rods or pins that may be required for the other broken bones.  I learned that bit about the MRI needs referencing ligaments, from a retired ER trauma MD whom I know when discussing my own injuries a while back.

[azguzzirep]

That big goober is damn sure nuf a friend of mine!!  I'll be sending a card from  Germany tomorrow! Damn! Sh*t!!

Hang in there, Ken!!!

Tom

[PJPR01]

Beaver...are you sure you guys want to go thru the effort of putting on a rally here while Tex is laid up.  Send him my best wishes for a speedy recovery as well.

If it's too much to deal with considering you probably want to be with him instead of herding a bunch of Guzzisti cats running around!

Either way, I"m sure we'd understand!

[ITSec]

Make sure he takes the time to heal properly!

[delrod]

Hate to hear things like this.Let Ken know he is in our thoughts. Doug and Terry

[mojoe]

Tex we haven't met yet,  BUT:           
Get well soon from us Guzzi lovers across the Pond 

[cloudbase]

Heal quickly, Ken.  That's a hell of a way to try to get out of baking for the GRIT rally.