Hello everyone, my name is Josh. On September 1, 2023 I suffered a head-on dirtbike accident and my life forever changed. Paramedics got there tried to give me CPR and my lung was gargling blood so they pierced the side of my chest with a rod to drain it and then read administered CPR and got me breathing before I was life flighted to Sutter hospital. I suffered many injuries, including a traumatic brain injury, axonal diffuse injury which is a form of severe brain damage that still plagues me today. As you can see I broke my carbon mips helmet in half. I broke my neck, my back my orbital eye socket, my jaw, I shattered my temporal bone shattered my left wing bone broke my collarbone and shoulder my right arm, broke eight ribs, and four of them in two places, giving me flailed chest and remained in Sacramento area hospital for nine days while in coma, and then was transferred to Vallejo in which I stayed there over a month.
Is what is very strange is when I was in coma my girlfriends mother, who teaches respiratory therapy at one of the schools nearby explained that I could hear them , and my girlfriend talking to me and kissing my face, as well as her friend, making jokes of how I should never race dirt bikes anymore, making jokes and making me laugh, and was wondering why nobody else was laughing with me.. keep in mind all while I was in coma. I’m still mind blown. I could hear everything and thought I was a part of conversations during that time. I have now been six months and a week and a half since my injury, and still struggle heavily with the traumatic brain injury, vision and balance. I met a great dude that has given me suggestions Robbie Peterson whom is a world champion, dirtbike hill climber, and has given me a lot of good recommendations during my journey.
I have tried cranial sacral therapy, red light laser therapy, hyperbaric, oxygen chambers, and was told by a doctor that swimming will help, and I am also starting yoga classes at Lifetime fitness which my balance has improved a little bit. Im so thankful that my parents were able to come down from Idaho for a couple months to take care of me my sister, who flew in as the executive of my medical for my will and my girlfriend who literally slept on a Amazon bed that she bought in my hospital room while also taking care of my dog. I feel so terrible for what I put everybody through, including my son and that is probably the hardest part. If anybody has any recommendations on what has helped them I would love to hear it because I feel like with these changes in life it’s not just a couple broken bones that take a couple months to heal and this has been a life changer and super difficult to get through. It’s crazy to think that the first time I knew what a TBI was several years ago when a kid I had bought a dirt bike from Josh Morros that rode for Team Monster Energy Kawasaki in which he broke I believe, broke his elbow, and then I broke my elbow on the same dirtbike at his father sent me Monte via to help with the injury. Several years later after Josh had been winning, overall races on a 250 F, which was unheard of succumbed to a traumatic brain injury, and later passed after training to get better from what I understand. I wish and hope these injuries are talked about more, and there is more help with those that suffer these injuries since I had been released from the hospital and told I could walk without a walker, there’s been no follow up or anything to see how I am doing.
I’m not as concerned for myself, but they’re definitely needs to be more follow up done for future victims of these injuries because it is not easy. Thank you for taking the time to read this. God bless.
