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posted November 15, 2011 01:25 AM
 Edited By: entropy on 15 Nov 2011 09:26
note from Bill Warner!
[quote author=WildBro link=topic=156168.msg1502992#msg1502992 date=1321326014]
Everyone,
It is Monday, November 14th, twenty four days since my event at the Texas Mile. First of all, I want to thank everyone for their faithful prayers and wishes – they truly worked. There has been such an outpouring of kindness and consideration for me and my situation. I’m am overwhelmed with the time and energy and love that everyone has put toward my recovery. I can’t count the number of emails, gifts, texts, phone calls, and personal visits that have been delivered to me. There have also been many things that required my attention during the last several weeks, and I was unable to attend to them. Once again, my friends and the racing community has graciously stepped up and picked the slack. I will always be grateful to each and every one of you.
Now, I also want to acknowledge everyone’s consideration in allowing me to focus on the healing process and not asking me to answer all the questions that you have about the crash on October 21st. So, now I’d like to just offer up a little bit of my perspective on what occurred:
The run started out just as planned. However, in 6th Gear, at approximately 270 MPH and at about the ¾ Mile marker, the bike did a dramatic wheelie. At that time I shut the bike down to bring it into control, passing through the speed traps at 238 MPH. Shut down was normal and felt under control. I was aggressively braking and scrubbing off speed as thought appropriate and approaching the newly paved/coated “last 1000 feet of paved shutdown” I had reduced my speed to approximately 100 MPH. At this point all appeared good and I was headed for a completed run. However, when transitioning from the concrete paved track to the newly coated/paved section of the shut down area, with lots of braking still being applied, the bike abruptly washed out, slamming me and the bike to the pavement on the left side. I was briefly knocked unconscious and unaware of what transpired during the next several seconds as the bike and I slid to a final stopping point. As I began to return to consciousness I found myself surrounded by the Texas Mile Emergency Team. After a few minutes of careful assessment my condition by the Emergency Staff, I was loaded into the emergency helicopter and transported to the Spohn Memorial Hospital Trauma Center. Here’s a quick summary of my injuries: road rash on left shoulder, broken scapula, four broken ribs, punctured left lung, contusion on the liver, broken bones on left hand (forefinger and thumb), severe abrasions with significant tissue damage and loss to the left/inside knee area, severe tissue damage and tissue loss to the top of the left foot, to include the severing and loss of the big toe tendon. As any of who have experienced a significant crash, the injuries are only part one, then comes the break fix/treatment work. Nineteen days of significant pain medicine therapy made it a bit difficult to offer very much coherent communications to friends and supporters. But that is now over, and I look forward to seeing and communicating with all of you. The chest tube has been removed from my right lung, the skin graft taken from the top of my left thigh and placed on the damaged left knee and foot, the big toe tendon has been fused, the broken bones have been pinned in my left hand are mending the fractures, and I now focused on the next phase of my recovery.
Once again, my heartfelt thanks go out to each and every one of you who have been there for me in my time of need. For that I will be eternally grateful.
Yours truly,
Bill
Here are some pics, the video will follow in a day to two:
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shiphteey
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posted November 15, 2011 12:32 PM
Get Well Bill.
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Paul2281
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posted November 15, 2011 01:02 PM
Alot of physical damage for 100mph crash....Not that 100 mph isn`t fast by any means....It seams like less physical/body damage happens at higher speeds doesn`t it....Get well....
I got body slammed coming to a stop at a red light,uuum probably 20mph and slammed my helmet on the road and shoulder too....I was knocked silly for a few hours,barely remembered the fall but still rode it home.....The slow get offs hurt too....
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oldkawboy
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posted November 15, 2011 02:15 PM
Edited By: oldkawboy on 15 Nov 2011 22:16
Thanks Karl for posting Bill's letter.
Like many who may know Bill but not to the extent of his close friends, I have been waiting to hear from him and this made my day.
Here's wishing him a full & quick recovery.
Dan
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VincentHill
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posted November 15, 2011 03:10 PM
Edited By: VincentHill on 15 Nov 2011 23:12
I agree with Paul and from reading what I read it is not True that to be completely relaxed is better like being a Baby! I have several falls at over 100 and I was able to avoid Sliding too long on any 1 part of my body to avoid the road rash and to avoid rolling so I did not break to many things! The Bike actually looks to be in Good Shape which is what I was always worried about!
Of everything I read the #1 thing that bothered me was the loss of his big toe because that is needed for good balance and walking well! As always it can be worse and I really hate that this took the Joy out of his ride. Here he dealt with the Real problem and what was not supposed to be a problem seriously cost him!
The more dangerous laps of a Road Race were the Warm Up and Cool off laps because your mind is either not up to speed or not down to speed which is what I think was part of the problem here. "He Felt that he was going fairly slow for the conditions"! Bill is still one of my hero's and he will be back!! Get well soon and out of pain and suffereing!
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zx12mark
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posted November 15, 2011 11:10 PM
so ship how does 200 on the fucking street sound Mr. Human Cheese Grater .this is your wake up call.heed it before its too late.
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Paul2281
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posted November 16, 2011 05:51 AM
I think he still has his toe but severed the tendon.I might be reading it wrong though....
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VincentHill
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posted November 17, 2011 07:34 AM
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I think he still has his toe but severed the tendon.I might be reading it wrong though....
RIght!
I was reading this in an excited state and saw severed Big toe and could not seperate that from the tendon. From everything I read it looks like he will come out of this with a Racers Walk and for that I am very thankful at the speeds he travels!
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Michaels12
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posted November 18, 2011 03:33 AM
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Thanks Karl for posting Bill's letter.
Like many who may know Bill but not to the extent of his close friends, I have been waiting to hear from him and this made my day.
Here's wishing him a full & quick recovery.
Dan
Its great to get the update...Thank Karl!
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