A Thanksgiving Request

Post by **AlisoBob** » November 26th, 2009, 11:46 am

Eric and I have a friend named Kevin.... and he has a really nice wife named Cathy....

Cathy took a little spill out at Ocitillo today.... tore off her pinky (

) and broke 5 ribs from what I understand....

Do two things for me...

1. Wish Cathy a quick recovery in this thread.... she's in the hosipital for a least 3 weeks

2. Think about all the close calls you've had, and give thanks today that most of us have avoided things like this for the most part.

Get Well Soon Cathy!!! From all your friends at Banned!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/500bigbore · November 26th, 2009, 12:08 pm

thats gotta be a tough ride back to the truck!
Heal Up Quick!

sabreguy · Post by **sabreguy** » November 26th, 2009, 12:17 pm

Hope you heal very quickly Cathy

britincali · Post by **britincali** » November 26th, 2009, 12:18 pm

Get well soon!

dannygraves · Post by **dannygraves** » November 26th, 2009, 12:52 pm

britincali wrote:Get well soon!

X2, OUCH!

HrcRacing · Post by **HrcRacing** » November 26th, 2009, 1:03 pm

Best wishes Cathy for a speedy and full recovery. We're thinking about you.

gregrobo · Post by **gregrobo** » November 26th, 2009, 6:21 pm

best wishes cathy get well and back on the bike

Post by **MojoScojo** » November 26th, 2009, 6:48 pm

Oww! Ow ow ow ow ow!!! Damn!

Hope you heal up quickly Cathy.

arleybeer40 · Post by **arleybeer40** » November 26th, 2009, 7:42 pm

that sucks for the holidays. hope she gets well soon and best wishes

Bean · Post by **Bean** » November 27th, 2009, 12:35 am

damn tha had to hurt
get well soon and hop back on that bike

CR500R7 · Post by **CR500R7** » November 27th, 2009, 1:47 am

dannygraves wrote:
britincali wrote:Get well soon!
X2, OUCH!

X3, MEGA OUCH!!

I hope they look after you really well in hospital and give you the best care possible.

A speedy recovery and return to your bike Cathy

gregrobo · Post by **gregrobo** » November 27th, 2009, 4:01 am

hope it wasnt the booger pinky

Post by **AlisoBob** » November 27th, 2009, 6:46 am

gregrobo wrote:hope it wasnt the booger pinky

It appears the thread drift has begun.....

NightBiker07 · Post by **NightBiker07** » November 27th, 2009, 9:45 am

AlisoBob wrote:
gregrobo wrote:hope it wasnt the booger pinky
It appears the thread drift has begun.....

back on track!

Wishing you a speedy recovery, and dont let it keep you off a bike in the future!

"SOLID Bro!!" · Post by **"SOLID Bro!!"** » November 27th, 2009, 10:00 am

Thanks guys I'll Pass on the link.

I got the call Wednesday evening That this happened. Cathy was already at the the hospital in Brawley or some other God forsaken place like that.

But they needed to to transport her to a trauma center so they were trying to get her into Palm Springs but it was to full.

So Loma Linda is the place that they transported her to. I would say a 40 minute drive on your back, five broken ribs on a fucked up freeway to boot.

They had her all doped up on Dilaudid my favorite drug of choice. If I could buy this stuff I would be hanging out at the drug store right now picking some up. Anyway back to the point.

She was transported that night and had to go through all those painful X-rays and ct scans and all that crap. Kevin said she was a champ through the whole thing.

I drove out to Ocotillo Wells Thanksgiving morning leaving my house at 5:00am arriving at 7:30 am Joe had everything loaded and ready to go so I hooked up and started to talk with the people that were there and next thing you know Debbie (Joe's girlfriend) comes out of the motor home with a breakfast burrito. Thanks for that it was just what I needed.
I got home and back to my family right at 2:00 pm right at the time I was told I needed to be there. I just took the long way.

I Hauled their trailer back to the house and dropped it off. Kevin was just getting up to go back to the hospital. It appears that this was just a freak accident. She was on a sandy road with some whoops, something happened and she went over the high side and here we are.

We have all crashed harder around the campfire without injury and crap like this just happens.

I'm sure she will recover quick and be back out riding / camping with us in no time.

Get well soon and everybody is thinking of you and wishing you and Kevin the best. Even as this thread drift happens the really are good people.

xtremeslide · Post by **xtremeslide** » November 28th, 2009, 12:54 am

Get well soon Cathy!!

:urock:

Best whishes

JBaze · Post by **JBaze** » November 28th, 2009, 9:03 am

Get well soon Cathy

roost251 · Post by **roost251** » November 28th, 2009, 11:56 pm

Get well soon. You got ur "big" crash out of the way so you should be good to go for 10 more years.

lewisclan · Post by **lewisclan** » November 29th, 2009, 9:29 am

Sorry to hear about the crash glad to hear that it wasent any worse, broken ribs suck been there done that . I havent ripped any fingers or toes off yet so you are one up on me

I bet you are thankfull for friends ! I know that I have a list of things that my family and I are thankfull for .

When we are thanking God today we will pray for a quick painless healing for you .

kevkat · Post by **kevkat** » December 11th, 2009, 3:07 pm

Thanks for all your well wishes. After 10 days in the hospital, I'm glad to be at home!!! The support of my friends and family, and all of you that don't even know me, has been overwhelming. Even though this accident has left me scarred, it hasn't dampened my riding enthusiasm.
Thanks again for your support and a special Thanks to Bob and Eric for creating this blog on my behalf.
Kathy

iggys-amsoil · Post by **iggys-amsoil** » December 11th, 2009, 3:39 pm

Wow Sorry to hear!

Get Well Soon Cathy!!! From all your friends at Banned!!!!![/quote]

I didn't say anything then. I guy I race with Ron Lingo #111 had a bad get off at Comp Edge the weekend before TG. Somehow slamed the face of the finish line jump, maybe the wind got him I dunno for sure. The damage report; 9 broken ribs on the back side, 5 more on the front, a calapsed lung, jacked up right hand and had to amp the pinky finger. Life Flighted out to Loma Linda. That one really sucked to hear. Had I'd a raced that one, there is a very good chance I would of been behind him and seen most of it. But still.

Sorry to hear of yours.

sabreguy · Post by **sabreguy** » December 11th, 2009, 4:17 pm

kevkat wrote:Thanks for all your well wishes. After 10 days in the hospital, I'm glad to be at home!!! The support of my friends and family, and all of you that don't even know me, has been overwhelming. Even though this accident has left me scarred, it hasn't dampened my riding enthusiasm.
Thanks again for your support and a special Thanks to Bob and Eric for creating this blog on my behalf.
Kathy

Glad to hear you are out of the hospital!!

CR500R7 · Post by **CR500R7** » December 11th, 2009, 5:18 pm

sabreguy wrote:
kevkat wrote:Thanks for all your well wishes. After 10 days in the hospital, I'm glad to be at home!!! The support of my friends and family, and all of you that don't even know me, has been overwhelming. Even though this accident has left me scarred, it hasn't dampened my riding enthusiasm.
Thanks again for your support and a special Thanks to Bob and Eric for creating this blog on my behalf.
Kathy
Glad to hear you are out of the hospital!!

X 2!

Most of all you are still wanting to ride, A BIG THUMBS UP!

xtremeslide · Post by **xtremeslide** » December 13th, 2009, 4:51 am

kevkat wrote:Thanks for all your well wishes. After 10 days in the hospital, I'm glad to be at home!!! The support of my friends and family, and all of you that don't even know me, has been overwhelming. Even though this accident has left me scarred, it hasn't dampened my riding enthusiasm.
Thanks again for your support and a special Thanks to Bob and Eric for creating this blog on my behalf.
Kathy

I'm glad to read that

BannedCR500Riders.com

A Thanksgiving Request

A Thanksgiving Request