Ken Brown

Congratulations on the granddaughter and your son escaping more serious injury. Scary that it happened at all.

Were both son and daughter at the same hospital?

DnvrFox

It is hard for me to respond as this brings back terrible memories, having a son, who, on his 21st birthday, was permanently paralyzed from the shoulders down in a sporting accident, except to say I am SO happy it did not happen one more time.

Congrats on the grandchild, and I wish you, your son and family well.

Beautiful picture. Take care.

RonH

Wow. Glad all ended well.

Congrats. Lovely daughter and granddaughter.

Masperius

What a horror story!
I'm glad that your son wasn't more seriously injured.
All my best to him for a speedy recovery and congratulations on your brand new granddaughter.

wnl256

I saw a near catastrophe this morning. Fortunately it didn't happen.

I was in a group ride that included a mid-40s man and his teenaged son. For the last part of the ride the son was in front of me by a good distance and the dad was behind me. I noticed that the teen would ride in the middle or to the left of his lane even when there was no one to his right. One pickup passed the group all in a hurry (I guess we slowed the driver down by 30 seconds) and almost didn't see the teen rider. Came within about a foot and swerved away at the last second. When the ride was done I went up to the two and, in my best conversational voice, said to the teen "I really want you to see your next birthday, so I would suggest you ride on the right side of the lane." I wasn't alone either. There were one or two other folks on the ride that said basically the same thing, as well as the dad. Hopefully he got the message.

FL_MarkD

Well this is a just a guess, but I am guessing that is a day you won't ever forget. Glad all involved made it through the day.

Congrats on the grandchild.

Mark

AzTallRider

Wow. I mean, really WOW! What a day. So glad your son is okay, and can imagine what it was like seeing that. And I can't believe your daughter looks that great having just gone through labor!

Congratulations!

kjc9640

Thank God everything seems to be OK with your son and that sure is a beautiful baby girl. That had to be a horrifying experience.

Dan Burkhart 

Man! I can't imagine what it must have been like for you for those few seconds while that transpired. Glad he's going to be OK.
Congratulations on the grandbaby. Grandkids are our reward for all the grief our kids put us through.

The Weak Link

That'll preach, bro.

Thank you for all the kind words, and condolences for all those who experience acid-flashbacks. As my clinical sang-froid wears off, the scarier the incident gets. It was a close call.

The creepiest part of all of this was that after the ambulance left, a camera truck from one of the TV stations arrived. They didn't stay as there wasn't enough gore to make a good report, but had Tom's arm had been severed and lying in the middle of the road, it would have aired on the 6 o'clock news.

On the A&S side of things, I'm in the camp of "we have a right to the road like any other vehicle, but we should remember that we're invisible and for all intents and purposes assume all drivers are psychotics". I've preached this to Tom and he just forgot. It's a lesson that will stay with him now.

Tom is one of the finest individuals to ever walk the planet. In the immediate aftermath he was concerned for the driver and deeply apologized for the inconvenience the incident was causing. As a result, perhaps, everyone who was there was super nice. The police even appreciated that I produced my drivers license to them which made their report all the easier.

We're getting ready to head over to the hand surgeon's house and have him take another look, so more later, especially baby pictures maybe.

cyclinfool

WL - sincerely glad things are working out, very happy for you on both fronts - no snark, just fact.

Metric Man

Incredible story TWL, I'm sure glad it turned out like it did. Is this your first grandchild? Congratulations.

roccobike

That's a great outcome for something that could have been terrible.


Just a thought. You might want to thank the Man Upstairs cause you certainly have a lot to be thankful for.

maddmaxx 

Best of luck to Tom........I hope this doesn't inconvenience his start at school. Your simply going to have to go and hump all the stuff up into the dorm room for him.

Red Rider

Holy cow!

This takes 1st prize in the "Bad News/Good News" dept.

So glad your son's OK, and congrats on the new grandbaby.

Life's never boring, is it?

bobthib

Link, all I can say is "Thank God." What a day all around.

The Weak Link

Sooooo, Tom leaves for college tomorrow. In another twist of fate, I had been intended to take the week-end off to drive him to Chicago, but there was a dorm fire requiring them to arrive late, and as I'm on call beginning Monday, I can't go.

Sadly, it was not a good day to try to repair the bicycle so it will be staying behind.

My daughter delivered at the rival hospital of where my son was. The little one is fine. I've been running a day care center for my other grandchildren today and am enjoying the quiet now that one has gone home and the other is upstairs asleep.

My wife is closest to melt-down now because of the stress that all the children are causing. Bicycling is definitely not a good topic of conversion just yet.

A couple of more things. I've been calling tom T-bone and he thinks it's a cool name. He thinks that, as long as he wasn't killed or dismembered, he rates right up there with the boys of Nitro Circus. He's also dedicating his life to Christian ministry, so he appreciates the advice to "thank the Man upstairs".

BengeBoy 

wow.

Congrats on the grandchild, happy your son was not hurt worse. Must have been a terrible thing to witness.