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Aloha!
I had an accident Monday on my motorcycle.
I had gone into Harrisburg to sign my insurance and W2 forms for School of the Nativity.
I was on the on ramp coming off of 2nd street that goes onto highway 83 that crosses the Susquehanna. The on ramp is one lane, and about 30 or 40 feet off the ground. I was going up and slowed down for the curve when a silver 2004 Mazda (mpv, I think, ironically) pulls up behind me and tailgates me. About the middle of the turn, the Mazda pulls into the emergency lane on my right (the direction I’m leaning into turn to) and passes me, going about 80 or 90. I swerve and struggle to regain control of the bike. I connect with the concrete guardrail on the left, and the bike begins jumping, the momentum trying to take it over the edge. My camera bag goes flying, soaring to the ground below in a flutter or papers. I struggle to keep the bike down, and shards from the blinker go flying everywhere. After skidding about 20 feet, I come to a stop. The bike is off, because the other connection point aside from the blinker was the shifting lever, which is bent back in a U. The gas tank is untouched, but only because me knee was in the way. I looked down, and there is a huge hole in the right side of my knee on my left leg. It’s about an inch deep.
I parked the bike and went down to pick up everything, and then rode back to Messiah. I parked the bike at the library and hobbled up to the Engle center where I passed out. They took me to the emergency room at Holy Spirit hospital. I spent the afternoon there; they did x-rays and other kinds of test, gave me some antibiotics and sent me home. I made it back just in time to make my senior crit.
They didn’t find anything abnormal in the x-rays (apparently I’m made of rubber) and so now I’m hobbling around on crutches. I go to Engle twice a day and get washed up. I won’t loose my leg as long as it doesn’t get infected.
Anyways, that’s the news on my side. I’m not sure how much this will cost; but they said my motorcycle insurance might cover it. I don’t know.