I take oxy all the time, try adding a can or 2 of V8 juice to your diet, it helps avoid constipation without drugs. You don't want to become dependent on drugs to take a dump.
Wow! We must be brothers cause I cant take those pain pills either. Agree...don't make decisions when your in pain and healing. Just buy one of those whistles and install it on the front fairing... to scare the deer away
Opioids make me want to puke also. Got some anti-nausea that helped, when oxy was the only think that knocked down the pain for the first week or two. Did my clavicle in three pieces, 5 ribs (one bad in pieces), right radius complete diagonal break at wrist at end of Sept. Finally back on track in May.
4 pages in and no one asked who claimed the venision? This place has gotten softer! OP, glad that you're able to post!
Where i grew up in Ohio...if the animal damaged your property and you called the state patrol. They would immediately release the deer to you and if you declined they would throw it in their vehicle for their family Who is stupid enough to give free venison away? In Texas, it has to lie dead for vultures and coyotes no matter how much damage it has done to you or your vehicle. I can only say 1 thing. Ohio got the rule right.
I was working in Somerset (south side of San Antonio) last year building an outdoor pavilion and kitchen. I had to drive past a rotting German Shephard that got hit along the highway. It looked like a wall kept and beautiful dog at first, but the job took a month and I had to watch that dog decay to a pile of fur and bones, it actually sucked seeing that dog rot along the highway.
There was a bad crash in Baraboo the other day involving a deer. A car hit the deer and sent it flying through the windshield of a car coming from the other way. Killed the 29yr old woman driving the car. Seen the results of a similar crash first hand when I built conversion vehicles. A van came back to be rebuilt. It hit a deer on the pass front bumper and launched it through the pass side of the windshield. Luckily the only occupant of the van was the driver. Deer bent the pass front seat backwards and then it exploded in the back. Felt sorry for our service guy who had to strip the whole interior out so he could power wash the inside from poop,blood and guts. Vans body damage ironicaly wasnt bad. New bumper, grill, hood, fender and windshield.
In Oregon, the police take the deer to a local processer and then it gets donated to a food bank/ old folks home/etc The law was recently changed to allow people to take road kill home. I would have to guess he was in no shape to do so
I almost hit one of these oversized rats today, and it got me wondering what the best course of action is/was. I was going about 75 when a little fawn decided that now was the best time for it to run across the road. I scrubbed off a fuckton of speed and did a rolling stoppie while it crossed in front of me, but what is the right move? Obviously using my rear brake would've been better (I didn't do that, which I need to work on), but should I have tried to veer left and go behind the deer (it was crossing from left to right)? I assume the answer is going to be "maintain trajectory and get on the brakes as hard as you can". That being said, what if there was no chance to avoid it? Try to make yourself narrow and turn sideways and lead with a shoulder to prepare for the impact?
Wow..dejavu !! When I was akid,this same thing happened around Oconee National forest in Ga. We were deer hunting,going out for groceries,and the road was blocked. A huge buck had been hit,and thrown into on coming traffic.It decapitated this poor young girl.I won't ever forget that,such a horrible freak accident
Sounds like you avoided a similar mess to what I'm in. Glad you were able to avoid it. It may sound strange but I always wondered what I would do if a deer ran out in front of me. And this guy showed up so fast that I had zero time to touch the brakes or anything. All I could do was lock onto the handlebars and squeeze the tank with my knees and hope that I stayed upright when I came out the other side. I remember the impact but unfortunately I don't remember how I dismounted from the bike. And then I do remember slamming into the ground so there's that couple of seconds that I really don't have any recollection of. I don't think I lost consciousness. I had a bystander take pictures with my phone while I was laying there in the middle of the road waiting for an ambulance. In one picture where you can see where I'm laying further back up the road there's scrape marks from where the bike slid. It almost looks like maybe the bike was ghost riding without me for a while before it tipped over. Unfortunately I'll never know for sure. But I honestly think I got ejected off of the bike on the impact.
A taller bike probably helps here. On my former feet forward motorcycle my center of mass is probably the same as the deers.
Glad you are doing better. I’ve found when starting to laugh, cough or sneeze, if I can put pressure into my body, with my arm/elbow area or both arms/hands or a pillow pressed against my bad side, it makes the pain much more tolerable. I’ve done the collar bone a few times, but ribs are the worst for me.
