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I bothers me so much I've been reading up on all involved with Brian Moreau. I'm 59 and have been racing/riding since I was 10 years old. I've followed the sport closely for 49 years but for the life of me I don't remember hearing that Marvin's older brother Mika was paralyzed from the neck down in a 2015 German SX race when he crashed going thru the whoops.
If I were Marvin I think I might just hang the boots up. He's got too much to live for to spend the rest of his life in a chair or as a vegetable. It's just not worth it. He can still make a living in the sport but not risk his quality of life.
Have we got to the point where the tracks are the enemy, sx has shifted the focus of the sport maybe things need to be refocused
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Another update from his agent Gérard Vallat on motoverte.com (translated with googletranslate):
https://moto-station.com/moto-verte/mx-sx/des-nouvelles-de-brian-moreau…
Recall of facts. After three laps in the first free practice session, Brian Moreau fell heavily on the head. The medical staff evacuated our French pilot "by not respecting any protocol", underlines Gérard Vallat. This aspect of the incident will be explored in more detail in the coming days, but for the moment, it is about the health of Brian. “Brian was then hospitalized in an emergency and operated on the C7 vertebra in order to secure it. When he arrived in the operating room, he was moving his upper body, but had no feeling in his legs. The spinal cord is compressed, but not severed. (edit to make sure it is english: not sectioned). Now wait until the hematoma subsides to release the pressure on the cord. This can take around ten days. We must now wait to know and know the possible developments. His mom left to join him and will be by his side today, explains Gérard. " We hope that the next few days will bring positive signs for Brian and his family!
It is bad but i hope it is a relatively positive news (i hope, i am not a doctor). Sending good vibes, i hope he makes a full recovery !
Lord, Your word tells us that we can ask for what we need and You hear us. Lord, we pray for healing and because we ask, we know that You are working on it. Bless this family and the doctors with compassion and wisdom as they determine ways to proceed. Lord, sometimes we receive divine healing and sometimes through medical professionals. We pray for you to move in a super natural way, Lord. We thank You for hearing our prayers. We praise You and we thank You. In Jesus's name, amen.
For me as someone who has suffered an SCI (T10 complete) I have seen people dedicate themselves and their lives to rehab to gaining what they can for years and years and it stops them achieving further in life and accepting and saying ‘onwards and upwards’. Personally mental health, a strong support network which Brian seems to have will be a really strong asset. For me I had a girlfriend who kept telling I would walk down the aisle, I was given a book to read about a paralyzed guy praising Jesus for giving him his ability to walk back and there was so much focus on getting back as much as possible and focussing on that. To me that’s just not the right mindset or not the mindset I took, mine was ‘I crashed doing something I love, take stock of where I am, and set new goals and tackle new challenges’.
I’ve seen the injury send people in all different directions and with social media now, there’s a real groundswell of support and ‘real’ content being made by different people, especially in the motocross scene that wasn’t around in 2007 and hopefully this be a big positive during his recovery.
Best of luck much love from Australia. It’s tragic but it’s not the end regardless of the final outcome After recovery. And big prop to Mathilde, the team and I hope the racing community gets behind him.
The Management at Troy Lee is first class and everything will get to Brian.
Of the 100's of comments on MotoXAddicts' Facebook page in our posts, I've only had one jackass I had to ban for saying something insensitive, but for the most part, everything I've seen luckily has been super supportive as it should be at a time like this.
By far my favorite part of the moto community is how they tend to band together for a fallen brother and it's one time where they usually don't care what part of the world you're from.
I personally just cannot get what this kid went through, out of my mind. And it's a horror show. The kid works his whole life to realize his dreams. Gets signed by factory KTM (every European kids dream factory signing) to race Monster Energy Supercross. Just 2 laps into his first practice and he finds himself on the ground looking up at an empty stadium while getting dragged off the track with no feeling in his legs. I cannot imagine what Brian experienced that day and hope I and others can band together to let him know we understand what he went through and we have his back.
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Says that initially he lost feeling because of how he was "bent up" but once he was straightened out, feeling came back in the ambulance.
As for the social media criticism/BS of Brian, pretty sure it was on a lot of the French social media outlets' page... they get pretty heated on those things, just as people do on American ones. It can really bring out the worst in people unfortunately
Nice to see this type of post in an online world of anger/hatred.
Early in the hospital I was so convinced I could will my recovery with crazy goals and what I thought was 'positive thinking', like in 1 month I'll have this back and in 2 months I'll have this back and every time I would 'fail' I would get down..
Then my physio just said to me "look this may be all you get back focus on living like this and anything else is a bonus"
I wanted to kill him but he was exactly right..
I get by on thinking positively (it's different to positive thinking shut up is so haha), I take whatever the day brings and try to find the positive
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