Update on my recovery.

[arielmoon]

You're doing good! How is the legal side of things going?

Nothing new there. My attorney wants me to reach MMI before we file.

[ASammy1]

So glad to hear you are healing so quickly

[OakLeaf]

Glad to hear it's going well... and that you're so enthusiastic about getting back on the bike!

[arielmoon]

Anyone have any thoughts on overcoming any dog phobia I may have??

[kermit]

I would tell you that Murphy's law has struck hard but I know where you ride and everybody has dogs. My mom lives off of SR 40 and we ride around the Double Diamond farm area, lots of dogs. Can you find something in the forest a little more open and less residential/horse farm? Nothing wrong with the trainer for a while. Glad you are better.

[arielmoon]

I would tell you that Murphy's law has struck hard but I know where you ride and everybody has dogs. My mom lives off of SR 40 and we ride around the Double Diamond farm area, lots of dogs. Can you find something in the forest a little more open and less residential/horse farm? Nothing wrong with the trainer for a while. Glad you are better.

And the sad thing is that riding through the horse farm area is one of the appeals here. I think I mentioned to you before that I ride that area around DD/ Live Oak Stud quite regularly. It is so beautiful!!

And you are so right though because there was an older guy that had the same thing happen to him 3 weeks before me (at a different location). 2 dogs ran out and he fell, shattered his pelvis, was knocked unconscious and still has another month in a wheel chair.

[redrhodie]

I wonder if a bike clinic could teach dog avoidance techniques? I did a search for FL, and found this list:

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/6213/fl.htm

I don't know if this is at all helpful, if any of these places are even near you, but I hope it is

I was hit by a car door when I was a teenager, so I know how hard it is to get back on the bike. At least in my case, avoiding a car door was easy to learn. They take up so much room, and you don't ride in that zone. But with a dog, I don't know....is there anything you could have done to avoid it? Would some kind of repellant have helped, or where you were on the road, or speed?

If there was nothing you could do, then can you ride where there are no loose dogs? Do you have a safe route until you get your mojo back?

I'm really glad to hear you're so much better! You rock!

[TxDoc]

And you are so right though because there was an older guy that had the same thing happen to him 3 weeks before me (at a different location). 2 dogs ran out and he fell, shattered his pelvis, was knocked unconscious and still has another month in a wheel chair.

And still the police does not take those dogs away??? What about a mandatory leash law? It's unbelievable that those dogs cause accidents and no one seizes them or fines the owners.