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Fnemecek
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Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 3:04 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

First off, I’m sorry for cluttering the Forum with a largely personal issue. I'm afraid, however, that this is one of those moments when it's more or less necessary.

I was in a rather bad auto accident recently. I don't remember anything from the accident itself. However, from what I've been told I was rear-ended by a driver who was traveling at more than 100 m.p.h.

My car is totaled. I have a few lingering injuries (lost of muscle aches, a bruise pattern that looks a bit like a seat belt and a persistent ringing in my right ear). Eventually, I will heal.

In the meantime, I'm afraid that my memory has been compromised by a cerebral concussion. I tried sending an email to everyone in my address book, but have since discovered that my email server dislikes sending the same email to 400+ people because it thinks I'm spamming my friends with Viagra offers or something.

Some folks got it, but not everyone and I'm not sure who didn't.

As such I wanted to post a general note for the everyone in metro Detroit and let folks know that a) if there's anything important you and I might have discussed the past few days or b) if there's anything that you're expecting from me in the near future, I'm afraid there's a decent chance that I won't remember it.

I'm still able to do almost anything that I could have done before the collision; it's just memory of the past few days that's fuzzy.

Therefore, I wanted to let everyone let you know that if you are expecting anything from me or if there's anything important that we've talked about in the past couple of weeks, please send me a reminder about it. Otherwise, there is a very good chance that I will not remember it.

As always, you can contact me by clicking the blue link to the left with my screen name on it.

Thanks so much!

P.S. For those who are interested in the random thoughts that run through ones heads while lying in a hospital bed, you're welcome to check out my blog posting on the subject.

http://nemecek.blogspot.com/20 06/12/tale-of-two-parties.html
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Supersport
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Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 3:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


quote:

b) if there's anything that you're expecting from me in the near future, I'm afraid there's a decent chance that I won't remember it.




I feel obligated to remind you of our planned trip to the Hustler Club when if finally opens up. You said you would spare no expense, all drinks and dances would be paid for by you. Thank you, that is all. :-)

ps...in all seriousness, hope you have a speedy recovery.
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Manrooter
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Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 3:35 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Does anyone know if a concussion invalidates a signed release form?

BTW, I wouldn't check out the centerfold in next month's "Inches" if I were you...
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Zephyrprocess
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Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 4:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Don't forget to get better!
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Pam
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Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 8:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


quote:

However, from what I've been told I was rear-ended by a driver who was traveling at more than 100 m.p.h.




Yikes!! Do you mind saying where this happened?
Get well soon.
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Gannon
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Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 8:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Frank!

All the best.

Anything you need...


Sincerely,
John
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Gistok
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Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 11:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Gee Frank, we all hope you're on the mend!

100 miles an hour! Geeze! Do you know if she survived?

I guess you are lucky to be alive! Going down a freeway and then blacking out after impact. You could have hit anything after blacking out while you were slowing down (in some manner?).

A speedy total recovery!! And "call Sam..."
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Jjaba
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Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 1:45 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Speedy recovery Frank.

jjaba on the Westside.
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Fnemecek
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Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 9:39 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks for all of the well-wishes everyone.

My seat-belt bruise is starting to heal and I'm no where near as achy as I was a couple of days ago. I still, however, a persistent ringing in my right ear. I really hope that goes away soon.

Now to answer the various questions.

quote:

I feel obligated to remind you of our planned trip to the Hustler Club when if finally opens up. You said you would spare no expense, all drinks and dances would be paid for by you.



Sport, I could never forget about such a plan.

However, my concussion wasn't so bad that I forgot about the other half of our plan. In return, you agreed to cover our expenses at the Hustler Club in NY so we could compare the two venues.

quote:

Does anyone know if a concussion invalidates a signed release form?

BTW, I wouldn't check out the centerfold in next month's "Inches" if I were you...



You mean that photographer wasn't sent over by the insurance company?

Well, I suppose that explains the weird colored lights and all of those feathers. LOL!

quote:

Yikes!! Do you mind saying where this happened?
Get well soon.



According to the police report, I was on I-96 approximately 300 ft. west of Greenfield.
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Kathleen
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Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 10:39 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Frank: Sorry to hear of your accident. Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery!!

Kathleen and Dave
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Goat
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Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 11:56 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Fnemecek, that happened to a co-worker of mine on I-96 in the mid 90s. It was incredible that the bitch re-started her car and actually drove away!
Your short term memory will in fact come back (maybe not the memory of the accident {IE: trauma} but everything else will).

My prayers to you for a quick recovery.
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Hutt
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Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 9:32 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Get well soon.
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Jams
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Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 9:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Fnemecek,
Hope you're healthy soon, there's a group I enjoy you pissing off.

ps I was with SSport that night, I'm looking forward to the study in NY at his expense.
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Leoqueen
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Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 10:38 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Omigod! get rest, get well!
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Gannon
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Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 12:24 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thank goodness your sense of humor seems intact.

Thank GOD your memory of the trauma will be shaded in whatever fabulous mechanism guards us from bad memories.

I was rear-ended with a 70 mph differential in speed on Telegraph Road south of Michigan Avenue in September, 1982. Walked away from my newly-modified 4-month-old first new car, a Rabbit Black Tie Special Edition...after everything behind the back seat was pushed into it from a full-sized Chevy Caprice that dashed in a hit-n-run!

ONLY memory I have of the impact was my left arm stretching to infinity (as the seatback bent) then finding myself flying across the median into oncoming traffic...where I had 'just' enough awareness and control to steer into a tree!

Funny how that vague memory is making my heart race even NOW, 24 years later.


One good thing? You'll keep a KEEN eye in the rear view from now on...surviving that incident with my newfound habit of scanning a half mile BACK while doing the same as far forward as I can see has allowed me to be in the midst of at least three other multi-car accidents with nothing but a minor scratch on my car.

That one was on the Southfield E-way on glare ice, if it weren't for two blind-drunk women from Taylor in an old LTD wagon careening into the five or so cars stopped behind ME...I wouldn't even have had THAT.


I can remember that entire accident like it were yesterday...noticed a spanking-new white 1984 Firebird entering from Oakwood...on that gentle curve that exits Rotunda...hit the ice and spin a bunch of times right into the opposite wall. Car was clearly totalled in a flash.

Got my Rabbit GTI stopped well behind the car with enough distance to warn everyone coming around the curve...but even with that, a few of 'em bumped into each other very slightly until that wagon flew around the bend and just slammed them all together.



It should've been so much worse...funny in retrospect...driver was an Oakwood nurse JUST married to some doctor and the car was her wedding gift...she was so busy running around IT in hysterics, never realizing she was in the middle of a freeway...just after a large patch of glare ice that everyone else northbound was soon going to hit.

I guess physics isn't taught to medical people...she certainly didn't know momentum or friction or velocity or any of those other fun things that would've told her that she was in the WORST possible spot on the earth at that instant...well on her way to becoming a statistic!



After a few cars stopped safely behind me...I gathered her up and actually simply held her in a gentle bear hug while walking her way past the front of her car...while we watched more cars come to a relatively safe stop...and we could send ONE for help...


...and then in Hollywood slow-motion saw the horrid chain reaction from those bozo-ettes, whose car ended up on its side. They were pretty hurt, too, the ONLY ones in the accident injured greatly.


The Dearborn cops were hilarious...took one look at the little dent in my bumper and told me to hit the highway NOW...they didn't want any more paperwork.

I guess I did a reasonable job calming the nurse down, though. She went hysterical every time I walked from the ambulance...so they MADE me stay until the heavy sedative they gave her struck.



SO very glad you're still here to take some shit from us, Frank. I'll be glad when we can finally meet, share a beer and laugh about this. I won't go to the strip club, though, I don't understand them.


Cheers!
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Barnesfoto
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Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 12:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

reading a thread like this always shines a spotlight on any little gripes that I have, and shows them to be meaningless.
Once long ago, at the corner of Fenkell and Lahser, I got broadsided by a drunk...
Being young and stupid, I actually complained that the guy had ruined the vintage T-Bird that I was restoring!!
How we take so many things for granted...
Glad that you are alive, Frank, and get well soon!
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Kathinozarks
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Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 2:15 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Frank, your sense of humor will serve you well.
Sorry you had to go through that.
There is a grand plan for you, I bet!
Hope you feel perfectly fine soon.
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Oldredfordette
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Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 2:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Wow, feel better soon, we need you here!
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Nanska
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Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 3:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Wishing you a full recovery, and a better New Year
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Fnemecek
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Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 10:42 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Gannon:
You aren't kidding about paying more attention to the rear view mirror. My brother generously loaned me his car so I could run a couple of errands. I found myself checking the mirror every other minute or so.

Also, living near Detroit's border with Dearborn, I've had to interact with Dearborn PD on a couple of occasions. I can totally imagine one of those officers telling you to leave the scene so he didn't have to do more paperwork.

quote:

Fnemecek,
Hope you're healthy soon, there's a group I enjoy you pissing off.



Thanks!

quote:

ps I was with SSport that night, I'm looking forward to the study in NY at his expense.



I'm glad you're not backing out, Jams.

Although, if I recall correctly, didn't you agree to cover our expenses at the one in Baltimore. I mean, between us, we have to "research" all of the other cities to ensure that Detroit's is up to par.

LOL!

Thanks, everyone.
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Patrick
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Posted on Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 12:01 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

get well and good luck!
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Crash_nyc
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Posted on Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 6:43 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

As a survivor of two spectacular car wrecks, both of which should have killed me: best of luck to you Fnemecek!

I have a permanent, deep, inch-long scar on my forehead, after my head went through the windshield. A drunk-driver whipped-out in front of me on Jefferson in Rivertown one night. Like a dumbass, I wasn't wearing my seatbelt.

The worst wasn't the wreck though, it was waiting on a gurney in triage at Receiving Hospital for hours. I was a foot away from this dude who was strapped to his gurney, while undergoing a horrible drug withdrawal living-nightmare. Never found out what this guy was coming down from, but he was screaming as if someone had just hit his scrotum with a hammer. He struggled constantly & screamed at the top of his lungs for about an hour, until he managed to wrestle out of his restraints & flipped his gurney over -- at which time he hit the floor and broke his arm. They strapped him right back up in the same gurney next to me, and I had to listen to him scream (even louder, if that was at all possible) for at least another 30 minutes before the nurse finally took me into x-ray.
One of the Top 10 worst nights of my life -- but at least my night wasn't nearly as bad as the other guy's...often wonder about him.

The other wreck on I-94 during a blizzard/ice storm familiarized me with the "diagonal seatbelt bruise" (not to mention a busted knee, clavicle, & a bunch of bruised ribs), after I hit the divider-wall head-on at 40+ mph.
Word to the wise: don't ever attempt to drive a souped-up Mustang GT in an ice storm: the torque alone could kill you.

Again, good luck on your recovery.
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Frank_c
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Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 12:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Speedy recovery, hope you are restored. Perfect example of how much control we really have over our lives.
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East_detroit
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Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 1:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Frank, speedy recovery....

Was she a Republican?
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Ordinary
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Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 5:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Glad you survived.
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Schoolcraft
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Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - 8:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

McCain was sworn in. Probably the only news you missed. God Speed.

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