Hey there fellow blog readers, i have returned to writing about another journey of my life, but this time it does not involve beautiful hot beaches, gorgeous food, top notch training at a martial arts camp or sunshine kissed happy faces in Thailand. No, this is a mental and physical journey about surviving and dealing with a serious motorcycle accident which has just happened (7 days ago) I was not going to write anything and just let people know in time but I also knew that rumours start and news travels fast in our town. So I originally used Facebook as my tool to get the news (truth) out about what has happened in the crash and how bad my injuries really were. So this next stage of the blog is about my journey through operations, mental feelings, physical healing and an insider to some hospital banter. It's going to be different to the last blog that's for sure!!!!

So this is the story so far. I was due to go and meet my bro at the Service station on Friday 15th April  at 12pm. We were going to have a bike ride down to go and see family in Devon and spend the day with them and go to the beach and all those nice Devony things. So I'm getting everything ready to go and meet the Bro when the new case for my recently upgraded iPhone 4 arrives in the post. I was not expecting the case to arrive till middle of next week but it came very early. So as I thought "hmmmm I am going for a big ride today, maybe I should put it on now.....just incase anything happens". The case is an Otterbox Defender. It's one of the most toughest, well developed cases I have ever seen.  Yea it bulks the phone up a tiny bit but in a very manly way. They do different colours for you more girly kinda people. So I quickly put the case on I thought "that will stop some small drops and scratches" as it protects 100% of the phone So then get a phone call from my mum asking If i was still thinking of going down, with almost a hint of concern in her voice it did make me wonder was it a good idea

I was riding towards Stonehouse along the Ebley bypass (Gloucestershire) the traffic was moving slowly on my side so I crawl out to ride alongside the cars whilst staying within my side of the road. Out of nowhere a car from the opposite side decides to pull out as if he is going to overtake traffic on his side or reading a txt etc, either way he swerved into me and hit me hard crushing my leg between his car and my bike. I managed to slide in between the next on coming car.I remember the impact and the way I bounced and scraped along the floor. I did see the damage to the leg and it was serious. Didn't speak to anyone but apparently no one else was hurt. There were a lot of witnesses and the police are in the process of dealing with them. I had my lights on and was on my side, how did he not see me!! The initial thoughts were that my knee was so badly damaged that i was going to loose it. Got shifted to Glos Royal Hozzy where things for me seemed to get worse, I can honestly say I thought I was dying, but this due to shock, a lot of morphine and 2 dosses of ketamine!!! I really didn't  feel to good. They explained to my family and Meggy that I was going to be ok, I was very lucky but I needed to rushed to Frenchay Hossy in Brissol. So that's all we knew at that point because we  needed to get to Bristol so they could operate and clean it up. So after that op in Bris I found out that the damage was a lot more serious then we thought. There was a 50% chance they wouldn't be able to save the leg as I have broken bones, only 1 main blood vessel left, made 2 knee ligaments disappear along with a third of my actual knee has been scraped down, torn most of my muscle off and also lost a lot of skin. So I had a rough night sleep to say the least. They told me I had all the head docs, plastic surgeons etc having a meeting about it as they want fight to keep the leg just as much as I want them to save it. I was drugged up to the max and trying to fight the thoughts in my head about loosing the leg and why he swerved into me!! I'm just so grateful I have a supportive family and an amazing girlfriend to look after me and keep my head up. The operation today went well and there is a good chance they will be saving it but they have to take muscles and skin from my back as it's a big open space so ideal to rebuild the knee with. This has filled me with some hope. All your kind comments and txt messages have been amazing and have kept me positive so thank you. I have my next big operation on Wednesday (already gone) where I will have top level surgeons working on me. I wrote so much because I want people to know the truth on what happened and to squash any rumours. So no...I wasn't speeding, I was on my side of the White line, I had my lights on and I wad riding with great caution as I know. Thank you all again for your prayers, love, support and caring spirits, it has really helped me to keep this positive,  humour driven attitude and fighting spirit going. There will be another blog up soon explaining the big op I've just had and the emotional journey that I have been on....no thanks to serious amounts of drugs :-D

Peace and love to you all, it means so much to me that your all behind me. Love Stu.