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Mountain Biker Turns Himself into a Quadriplegic
http://www.canada.com/Mountain+biker...550/story.html
Mountain biker injured in Kamloops mishap By Walter Cordery, Daily News May 7, 2011 Nanaimo's Peter Isherwood is laying [sic] in a Vancouver hospital bed fighting to keep the use of his arms and legs, following a recent mountain-biking accident week in Kamloops. It was not the celebration he had planned for his 34th birthday. Isherwood has been riding downhill for years and is considered "very good," said his friend Brett Bickerton. "He's been biking his whole life and this was just a freak accident that happened after he was airborne, like he has been hundreds of times before," said Bickerton. "Unfortunately, when he landed the steer-tube broke." Steer-tubes are forks that hold the front wheel in place on the bicycle. They collapsed and Isherwood went over his handlebars. "Pete held on because he didn't anticipate a crash due to the fact that he had landed the bike correctly," said Bickerton. "He went forward and hit the ground with his head and flipped. He couldn't move or feel anything at first." Isherwood was rushed to hospital in Kamloops and then sent to Vancouver General Hospital. He could feel tingling in his arms and some pressure on his toes, said Bickerton. "He not only broke his neck and suffered spinal cord damage, but there were other complications," Isherwood's common-law wife, Tamara Jayne Bickerton, said in an e-mail to the Daily News. "He had an uncommon allergic reaction to the CT scan dye and his throat closed up. They had to perform an emergency tracheostomy. There was a scare of hypoxic brain damage because he was without adequate oxygen for five to 10 minutes." Surgeons fused two vertebrae, C5 and C6, in his neck with a piece of his hip bone and a metal plate. "It worked beautifully and his neck is stable enough without a brace or halo; however, that is only from the bone perspective, there has still been damage to the spinal cord itself," said Tamara Jayne. "At this point he may be a quadriplegic or perhaps he will walk again. Only time will tell and we will simply work with what we have each day." "He does seem to be improving somewhat," said Brett Bickerton. "It seems to me that he has regained some muscle control over his limbs. "I'm very happy because he has the exact type of personality that somebody needs to remain positive." |
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Mountain Biker Turns Himself into a Quadriplegic
On May 8, 12:25*pm, Mike Vandeman wrote:
http://www.canada.com/Mountain+biker...ishap/4743550/... Mountain biker injured in Kamloops mishap By Walter Cordery, Daily News May 7, 2011 Nanaimo's Peter Isherwood is laying [sic] in a Vancouver hospital bed fighting to keep the use of his arms and legs, following a recent mountain-biking accident week in Kamloops. It was not the celebration he had planned for his 34th birthday. Isherwood has been riding downhill for years and is considered "very good," said his friend Brett Bickerton. "He's been biking his whole life and this was just a freak accident that happened after he was airborne, like he has been hundreds of times before," said Bickerton. "Unfortunately, when he landed the steer-tube broke." Steer-tubes are forks that hold the front wheel in place on the bicycle. They collapsed and Isherwood went over his handlebars. "Pete held on because he didn't anticipate a crash due to the fact that he had landed the bike correctly," said Bickerton. "He went forward and hit the ground with his head and flipped. He couldn't move or feel anything at first." Isherwood was rushed to hospital in Kamloops and then sent to Vancouver General Hospital. He could feel tingling in his arms and some pressure on his toes, said Bickerton. "He not only broke his neck and suffered spinal cord damage, but there were other complications," Isherwood's common-law wife, Tamara Jayne Bickerton, said in an e-mail to the Daily News. "He had an uncommon allergic reaction to the CT scan dye and his throat closed up. They had to perform an emergency tracheostomy. There was a scare of hypoxic brain damage because he was without adequate oxygen for five to 10 minutes." Surgeons fused two vertebrae, C5 and C6, in his neck with a piece of his hip bone and a metal plate. "It worked beautifully and his neck is stable enough without a brace or halo; however, that is only from the bone perspective, there has still been damage to the spinal cord itself," said Tamara Jayne. "At this point he may be a quadriplegic or perhaps he will walk again. Only time will tell and we will simply work with what we have each day." "He does seem to be improving somewhat," said Brett Bickerton. "It seems to me that he has regained some muscle control over his limbs. "I'm very happy because he has the exact type of personality that somebody needs to remain positive." I thought Mikey was supposed to stay away from RBS until he completed his sentence? |
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Mountain Biker Turns Himself into a Quadriplegic
On 05/09/2011 11:38 AM, Opus wrote:
On May 8, 12:25 pm, Mike wrote: http://www.canada.com/Mountain+biker...ishap/4743550/... Mountain biker injured in Kamloops mishap By Walter Cordery, Daily News May 7, 2011 Nanaimo's Peter Isherwood is laying [sic] in a Vancouver hospital bed fighting to keep the use of his arms and legs, following a recent mountain-biking accident week in Kamloops. It was not the celebration he had planned for his 34th birthday. Isherwood has been riding downhill for years and is considered "very good," said his friend Brett Bickerton. "He's been biking his whole life and this was just a freak accident that happened after he was airborne, like he has been hundreds of times before," said Bickerton. "Unfortunately, when he landed the steer-tube broke." Steer-tubes are forks that hold the front wheel in place on the bicycle. They collapsed and Isherwood went over his handlebars. "Pete held on because he didn't anticipate a crash due to the fact that he had landed the bike correctly," said Bickerton. "He went forward and hit the ground with his head and flipped. He couldn't move or feel anything at first." Isherwood was rushed to hospital in Kamloops and then sent to Vancouver General Hospital. He could feel tingling in his arms and some pressure on his toes, said Bickerton. "He not only broke his neck and suffered spinal cord damage, but there were other complications," Isherwood's common-law wife, Tamara Jayne Bickerton, said in an e-mail to the Daily News. "He had an uncommon allergic reaction to the CT scan dye and his throat closed up. They had to perform an emergency tracheostomy. There was a scare of hypoxic brain damage because he was without adequate oxygen for five to 10 minutes." Surgeons fused two vertebrae, C5 and C6, in his neck with a piece of his hip bone and a metal plate. "It worked beautifully and his neck is stable enough without a brace or halo; however, that is only from the bone perspective, there has still been damage to the spinal cord itself," said Tamara Jayne. "At this point he may be a quadriplegic or perhaps he will walk again. Only time will tell and we will simply work with what we have each day." "He does seem to be improving somewhat," said Brett Bickerton. "It seems to me that he has regained some muscle control over his limbs. "I'm very happy because he has the exact type of personality that somebody needs to remain positive." I thought Mikey was supposed to stay away from RBS until he completed his sentence? AFAIK the only netloon who had a court order against him posting on usenet was Scott Abraham on rec.skiing.alpine. and that was more than 10 years ago. It did no good then and it does no good now. There are no usenet police for unmoderated newsgroups. Over at rsa we have mostly all killfiled our loon. The best that can be done is to killfile Mikey and probably Ed Dolan too and completely ignore them. It will work, but it has yet to be fully realized over at rsa. It's interesting to have this loon in your killfile, have your reader say there are 35 posts on the ng and have only two show up. You can't keep a loon from posting but you don't have to read him. The trouble at rsa is that there are people who like to poke trolls with a sharp stick and hear them howl. You all here have a similar choice. |
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Mountain Biker Turns Himself into a Quadriplegic
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Mike Vandeman says... http://www.canada.com/Mountain+biker...550/story.html Mountain biker injured in Kamloops mishap By Walter Cordery, Daily News May 7, 2011 Nanaimo's Peter Isherwood is laying [sic] in a Vancouver hospital bed fighting to keep the use of his arms and legs, following a recent mountain-biking accident week in Kamloops. SNIP I couldn't help noticing that Mike the Ripper's first two posts on returning from jail to these newsgroups were about incidents that occurred outside the US. |
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Mountain Biker Turns Himself into a Quadriplegic
"Bob Berger" wrote in message
... In article , Mike Vandeman says... http://www.canada.com/Mountain+biker...550/story.html Mountain biker injured in Kamloops mishap By Walter Cordery, Daily News May 7, 2011 Nanaimo's Peter Isherwood is laying [sic] in a Vancouver hospital bed fighting to keep the use of his arms and legs, following a recent mountain-biking accident week in Kamloops. SNIP I couldn't help noticing that Mike the Ripper's first two posts on returning from jail to these newsgroups were about incidents that occurred outside the US. Mountain biking is the same the world over. Please check your brain into some kind of hospital before you post again. -- Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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Mountain Biker Turns Himself into a Quadriplegic
On May 9, 10:21*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"Bob Berger" wrote in message ... In article , Mike Vandeman says... http://www.canada.com/Mountain+biker...ishap/4743550/.... Mountain biker injured in Kamloops mishap By Walter Cordery, Daily News May 7, 2011 Nanaimo's Peter Isherwood is laying [sic] in a Vancouver hospital bed fighting to keep the use of his arms and legs, following a recent mountain-biking accident week in Kamloops. SNIP I couldn't help noticing that Mike the Ripper's first two posts on returning from jail to these newsgroups were about incidents that occurred outside the US. Mountain biking is the same the world over. Please check your brain into some kind of hospital before you post again. -- Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Nice. I see that you haven't lost your touch. And still over the heads of nearly everyone in these benighted newsgroups.... |
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Mountain Biker Turns Himself into a Quadriplegic
On 5/8/2011 12:25 PM, Convicted Criminal Mike "Handsaw" Vandeman wrote:
http://www.canada.com/Mountain+biker...550/story.html Mountain biker injured in Kamloops mishap By Walter Cordery, Daily News May 7, 2011 [...] Steer-tubes are forks that hold the front wheel in place on the bicycle. They collapsed and Isherwood went over his handlebars. [...] Walter Cordery of the Daily News needs to educate himself on the difference between a steer tube and fork blades. Inexcusable when less than a minute using Google would provide the correct terminology. -- Tēm ShermĒn - 42.435731,-83.985007 I am a vehicular cyclist. |
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