still broken...

but i have good news. no surgery on the c-bone! yea!!! as long as mandi dosen't tackle me and cause it to move. my right wrist is feeling great and should be about 100% in a week or two. my left wrist is also healing very quickly and should be good to go in less than 12 weeks. 12 is way less than 20, woohoo!!! i am so ready to ride. it has been 10 days now since i last pedaled. thats the longest i have went without riding in probally 10 years. i am going to get on the trainer today and spin. i can't shift gears yet or support my weight on my arms but i can still get my legs a movin. i just want to sweat, i miss it. thanks to everyone who has sent cards, called and emailed. i can feel all the positve energy streaming my way, keep it comin!! special thanks to mandi. she is a great caretaker and has boundless energy. she is taking very good care of me. i can't wait to wash dishes again.

peace. joey.

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all better...

not really, but i have definantly improved over the last 8 days. most of the swelling and soreness has disipated and i am feeling alot more limber now. gotta go back to the doc tommorrow for more c-bone x-rays. please no surgery. big congrats to morgan miller for winning the cheat mt 100. way to go morgan. benji finished second and i believe lb was third. the high temp on top of cheat saturday was 47 degrees, brrrr. the weather this week coming looks to be spectacular. everybody better be out enjoying it. i am going to get my walking legs in order this week and take to the rail trail.

peace. joey.

may joe bless you!

still bored...

so being injured really sucks. i can not stand just sitting around. i am about ready to loose my mind. did you know that there no more saturday morning cartoons. what the hell, just a bunch of goofy ass info-mercials. what do kids watch these days, reallity tv. do not even get me started on reallity tv. i haven't watched more than a couple hours of tv in several months and now i remember why, its worthless. amc is the only thing keeping me from putting my foot through the screen. they (amc) show a halfway decsent classic movie every once in a while. i signed up for netflix yesterday so should be recieving a movie in the mail today. i do not no much about the current selection of flicks available these days i ended up choosing several movies that i have already had the pleasure of viewing and deemed them to be rewatchable. the cheat mt 100 is going on as i write this. i wish i was there. mandi wishes she was there also but decided work was more important right now. the fellas and gals taking part in the cheat mt 100 are in for a treat. cheat mt has some of best riding in wv, if like super tech trails with lots of vertical drop, i do. i hope everyone taking part is having a good time and shredding some nar.

peace. joey.

address...

joey riddle

101 johnson ave

elkins wv 26241

#636-0219

call anytime.

by the way my bike is perfectly fine except my bell got ripped off. i have a nice bell shaped bruse on my chest. damn i am bored and its only the third day.

peace. joey

good news sort of!

so i just back from the doctor. no surgery, yet. sounds as though as long as i behave myself i may not need to have surgery on my left wrist or my clavical. the clavical is a bigger maybe though. my right wrist will be good to go in 4 weeks or so. i have partial use of it right now but for only limited amounts of time. the clavical 5 weeks or so. the left wrist 20 weeks!!!!!!!! i thought the dr miss spoke but i heard him right. 20 weeks. i broke it in three very hard to heal and painful places. i am going to do everything in my power to hurry along the healing process. i have been taking in lots of good wholesome foods, vitamins and minerals. now i just need to sleep. i have only had 4 hours in the last two nights. it could be lots worse and i keep reminding my self of that like every other minute . i would like to send out huge thank you and hug to all the wellwishers who have contacted me and mandi. i have got a lot of good friends. i have been moved to tears on more than one occassion over the last couple because of peoples gracious generosity. special thanks to jr petsko and all who are involed with the race for the riddles. i am just speechless. thank you all so much.

peace and love. joey.

I love Joey :)

I want to update everyone who I haven't already talked to about Joey. He is now at home recovering. We spent most of the day at Cabell Huntington Hospital waiting to hear the news. Our friend John Weber saved us thousands with a trip to the ER. Thanks John! You are wonderful. :)

Joey had some x-rays and they found.....

2 broken wrists

1 broken collarbone

1 separated shoulder

concussion

and LOTS of Road/dirt rash.

He is pretty much helpless, with no use of his hands/arms. I can now say i've brushed someones teeth and fed them dinner. We are just hanging out enjoying each others company. May head up to the cheat mountain 100 after work on saturday to just hang out. We'll see. We are off the the doc tomorrow to get some casts and lets hope he doesn't need surgury!

Thanks to everyone for the calls, emails, and encouraging words. Please send some positive energy Joeys way!! And if anyone want to contribute money to help pay joeys medical bills please contact us for an address. We are struggling with one income and no medical insurance. here is a few pics of the patient......

SM100

So here is my short write up about a long race. Nothing exciting happened, just steady tempo for the whole day. My goal was to finish within a half hour of my finishing time last year. (11:02). This year racing a single speed i thought for sure i'd be slower. nope, i beat my time by exactly 10 min. (10:53) I think i raced with the perfect gear. 32x20. A little easy for some folks but great for me. I was able to ride alot of the hills without to much walking. Spin, spin , spin, coast, spin ,spin, spin. That was about the pattern. Finishing up 12th overall in the womens class and 1st womens single speeder. I also finished 30th of 60 ss men. I was very happy. Joey on the other hand was not so happy in fact pretty depressed for the whole next day. He started having a mechanical at about mile 15 and had to call it a day at mile 45 or so. His bearing in his free hub broke allowing his chain to fall off about every 3 pedal strokes. He had some fun hanging out at cp3 repairing lots of bikes. Next year he will be back with a mission. Maybe he can use some of the energy from the sm100 for the final WVMBA race this weekend. Good luck Joey!

here are some pics from the week and weekend.

Cheat Mountain

I love Vicious Cycles!

Nick Waite helping at SM100

Joey's great camera skills

"Pauly"all packed up!

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