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that being said he is still a badass for being a top ten outdoors guy in his rookie season without a thumb!!
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Anyways, we had our race WRAPPED UP by about a lap 'til our Chi-Com inner-tube gave out! DOH!
The Thumb-Thing wasn't known to me 'til, I think, someone pointed it out at LL's the following yr.
He's on my '13 Favorites List!
The guy is a badass, for sure.
But,
Exact thing happened to me.
Back in 2005 @ a LL's qualifier in Attica, IN I was landed on and I got my right thumb completely torn, shredded and crushed into bone flecks and shards. I was wearing Thor winter core gloves that literally saved my hand. Everything was severed, crushed, and broken; except for the main artery. I had two re-constructive surgeries, to make a total of three right thumbs in all. Since I was wearing those gloves,it actually kept the mess inside of them. I still have the gloves, pics to follow.
I've broken four wrist's, two collarbones, fingers, and ribs, and had a hip reconstruction. But absolutely nothing has compared to the hand experience. I literally don't remember what happened, all i remember is the ambulance ride for a few minutes and the doctors telling me they would use MY BIG TOE if they could not save my thumb. The initial surgery was somewhat successful with using the remaining clean bone from my hand. They put the clean bone together and they literally mash what they call the clean parts into "bone paste". They used the bone paste, twelve titanium screws, two Ti rods, and two Ti door hinge like pieces that make up my joints in my thumb.
The first surgery didn't take because of bad blood flow. Three months after said original surgery, I went to the orthopedist and had re-constructive surgery. This time they cut a nice big chunk of bone from my right hip to use for my thumb. Fresh bone graft with good blood flow=success. I was in an elbow length cast for over a year, but is well worth it to be able to tie my own shoes or pick a quarter that i drop on the ground back up. Also, i'm right handed so it was quite the experience my first year of college. Learned to write a little with my left but they eventually gave me a scribe. To this day, no one can tell that it's a "fake" thumb unless i tell them and show it to them. Which is truly awesome as far as medicine goes!
BOTTOM LINE-
Ever since i heard of Jessy's deal, I've wanted to meet and ask him what alternatives they gave him. I still ride and i always will Lord willing, but i have to wrap my thumb with gauze, sock material, and generally i can't hang on for all that long. A moto is REALLY pushing it. I actually end up placing the thumb on top of the throttle and only using my four fingers on my throttle hand to hold on. I went to hi-point, steel city, and reddddd budddd this year but I didn't feel the need to buy a pit pass for an extra what, $20 DC?!?!?! But i guess I really want to ask him whether he has some sort of prosthetic he uses on the thumb or just the four fingers?
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