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These pictures below are of May 7th 2003

This is 8 hours after accident, going to my first surgery on 5-07-03.

After my first surgery, but before my first dressing change by the nurses.  I look dead here.

This is during my first dressing change, less than 24 hours after accident.  Later, that dark stuff will be cut off, it is dead skin and highway burn.

The four above pictures are of the day before I got out of the hospital.  Notice the checker board looking skin.  That is the skin grafts from my right thigh.  A few dissolvable stitches and staples held the skin in place for about 5 days.  Here the skin can almost be pealed off or flakes off a little by itself.  Click on the Picture for a larger view.

This is the day I was released, 5-31-03, (25 days after wreck) with the shoe on that I was wearing at the time of the accident.  Adidas saved my feet.  I sent the shoe back to Adidas with this picture and the story of the shoe's helping my feet, THEY SENT ME TWO NEW PAIR!!!!  Great Company!!!!  The scab looking stuff is the skin grafts trying to heal.  You will see below that the scabs are now gone, but some grafts remain. 

6-16-03
Right leg. Remember the picture above, with my shoe on?  Two weeks later is this picture.  The red area on my thigh is not grafted.

8-19-03
Still trying to heal, and still hurts a little on the hands and knees and shoulders.  Feels like a bad sunburn that will not go away.  redness should go away, and I hope the puffiness will go, even wearing burn garments and knee pads.

6-16-03
Left leg, Thigh is where they took the skin from.

6-16-03
This is the arm with the broken collar bone, the worst arm and shoulder.  EMT guys on the scene that night, told me that they could see my tendons moving around when I tried to move my shoulder on the interstate. Notice the hand as well, it is the same hand that was twice that size in the bed the day after the wreck.

8-19-03
Same arm and shoulder as above, but different angle, making it appear the be my left arm, like below, but it is my right, like above.

6-16-03
This arm and shoulder is healing very well.

8-19-03
Still red, but not as bad.  Like the other picture, this mirror image is just reversed, and it is my left arm and shoulder like the above picture, not the right arm.  Sorry about the dirty mirror.

Pictures 10 months later 3-11-04


Compare these to the few pictures above

6-16-03
My back and stomach did not need any skin grafts, just three time a day changing and cleaning from the nurses.  My shoulder blade is chipped as well, I believe. It pokes out in one area and doesn't on the other shoulder.

8-19-03
Dirty mirror again, but my back looks very good, remember no skin grafts were done on my back.  Picture is also reversed.

06-21-03   

This really saved my life, Thanks SHOEI

 Latest Pictures 10-06-04

Bottom two pictures are the same time, but with a flash.  Most people do not notice my scars if I'm in the sun or have been.  Of course, after your Doctor tells you it's ok!