Crashed and rebuilding with twin pipes

[Steverino_imp]

Thank you everyone for the encouragement. I need it. My physical therapist told me yesterday to plan on a year before riding. I don't know what to think of that.
I was going about 30mph. I drive/ride this rural road a couple times a day and apparently this dog had been pacing/stalking me behind a couple hundred feet of security fence. On the day of the attack and crash the property owner had removed his gate for repair. He had put the dog in the house and as I was coming up the road one of his kids let the dog out. I guess the dog had a lot of built up animosity at not being able to get at me in the past because his attack was well planned. This was like no other dog encounter I've had before. It wasnt like he just wanted to run along beside me. Have you ever had a big dog size you up and challenge you? He charged into the road in front of me and took a challenging stance. I hit the brakes hard and swerved to go around him, you know, always have an escape route, but when he saw I might get by he corrected and got in front of me again, like a good defensive lineman. All this time I am still on the brakes and down to about 15 or 20. When he was in striking distance he circled around the front of the bike and leaped at me, not the bike, at me. I caught his hind quarters with the front wheel which jerked it hard left and I went down hard. Shoulder into the pavement.