Journey from the past

[rdprdp01]

@suhawk, Mike, it was a nasty accident.
Long story short...
I had to replace the piston in my friend's bike, which was parked 50 km away.
I had a 50cc moped at the time and my friend came with his 350cc single cylinder 4 stroke bike and offered to go faster and I agreed.
He then pushed us between two tracktor trailers going in opposite directions.
My friend left the hospital after 4-6 weeks with a broken tibia in one leg... and I had a double fractured left femur, a smashed knee, torn muscles and internal infection with bleeding... ready for amputation at the age of 17.
My futher was the person who saved my leg saying: as long as his leg is attached to his body, you (doctors) have to save it, unless if fells off on its own.
And he did!

@django
@ferret
@Cormanus
.....when we were teenagers, we had a lot of crazy plans, as many of us do

What a story! The outcome does not surprise me. In this case, you fixed yourself like all the other things you have wrenched on throughout your life.