Thank you for sharing these moments. I had a bike accident 2 years ago and broke a few ribs and punctured my lung, and whilst in hospital being scanned they found cancer in my kidney and had that removed last year . I can only imagine what your mind is going through as well as the pain. My pain is pretty much gone but my mind still wanders sometimes so I have to remain focused. You sir are a warrior and I wish you the best recovery possible and obviously this will s going to take some time to adjust. I am in my 60s and get worried about riding my old 883 and think it’s about time I stuck with the car. At least having other hobbies such as music and still love driving my automatic car. You have a very positive mindset and that is so rare in this day and age. Sending best wishes to you and your loved ones because they are all going through this with you. I don’t know you but your videos make me weep due to me being sensitive. Stay strong ely

Don, I wish you a speedy recovery. Your mental resilience is something else! I just fell off my bike (while it was parked) and am on crutches, but I have my limbs, so I won't complain. I'm looking forward to the gear videos. Your accident is making a lot of us question our gear choices and the rationalizations most of us have made at one time or another not to wear ATGATT. Stay strong, buddy!

Think we have to make you an honorary Aussie. In Australia us older ones would say “Strewth that’s just a scratch she’ll be right”. Love the way you are handling everything and I know that you won’t be kept down for too long.🇦🇺

Who in their right mind would think this is a gag?

Dang Don you are sure tough.I needed someone to hold my hand just to watch.

Glad they’re taking good care of you.

Ouch! I would be screaming like a little girl. Hang in there, Don.

From the video it looks like they took more than mid calf. It looks like it's just below the knee.

Your attitude is to be applauded !!! Godspeed healing and comfort.

You seem so unusually calm. Maybe this is the way it usually goes. I pray you process your feelings. After, please tell us what you have learned.

Changing the bandages was the absolute worst/painful part when I lost a finger, and I can only imagine it being a leg. You're a strong man bro! Stay strong! #motogiantstrong

You sound stronger each day; humor can help get you through the tough times, one day at a time and you' will be home soon enough. I was going to ride today and grabbed the Tec 3's instead of my shorties. I'm not too old to learn. God Bless.

Hang in there brother, every day it will heal a little more, a little less pain.

You are the very definition of “unflappable”.

Don, you're a frigging trooper, dude! Your sense of humor during a time when we all know you must be struggling with this challenge, is very admirable and speaks volumes to who you are. Ironic that you are there at Vanderbilt as that is where I was when I fell off a car carrier back in 2017 and broke my back. They had me for a couple of weeks. I was also away from home when that happened. Praying for you to recover quickly. I'm going to be directing my viewers to check out your channel and see if I can help you get traffic up so we can all be entertained by your courage when you get outfitted and back on a motorcycle. I say this because I'm convinced that is exactly what you are going to do.

Godspeed in your recovery. This could be any one of us that ride a motorcycle.

Amazing . when most of us will be crying, Don shows a lot of positive attitude.

Don’t know how i happened upon your channel, but I’m so glad I did. Been riding for over 40 years, 20 of them on a Police Electra glide going 90 mph with lights and siren. Retired now, but looking back I was only lucky to have never been down and in your current situation. Your wit, humor, resilience and overall attitude thru your journey after the crash has moved me. I’m thankful for you sharing with us all, I truly am. Praying for you sir.. stay strong 💪 we are all learning from this .

Stay strong brother. You're an inspiration for all of us.

You have such a positive attitude for all of this man. Heaven forbid, but I hope I have the same attitude if this were to ever happen to me.

God bless you my fellow rider. A tragic end to that ride. But …. You’re still with us. Amazing how your attitude is so positive. Keep it up. I just subscribed and watched all the videos of the accident and how your coming along. Stay positive. We are all with you on this journey.

Hard core 👍🏻

Speedy recovery Don and you seem to be in great hands there.Keep your chin up your good and positive and I wonder while your lay there could you give some advice to others bikers about gear, strapping down stuff or just how to prevent some accidents .As someone once said its not an accident it's a sequence of events. May you have a miraculous recovery with high spirits all the way.Love from Ireland.

Hi Don. Hang in there,a positive attitude is key to a fast recovery. Rehabilitation is next with acceptance as you are demonstrating in your videos. God Bless.. Tyler

Wow, just wow. Been watching your journey. Crazy. I had a buddy that had an ear torn off in an accident. We were able to find it and have it re-attached. Medicine is amazing at times. Keep staying strong.

Atleast you don't have to worry about diabetes taking it now. 😁 Speedy recovery don, I've been watching you for years and this has me questioning my gear

While working at a rehab hospital in NC I found the amputees had the most humor about their condition, they knew all the cliches.

Glad to see you are doing better, will keep you in my prayers.

0:01 - I never got medical humor. "I found a toe." "That's so funny."

Be strong, dear Don!

Nothing I really can offer but I hope for the best.

When I saw those little cotton squares going over the knee wound, I thought 8 bucks, 8 bucks, 8 bucks.... I assume hospitals include all the labor in each item - nurse, purchasing agent, accounting, janitor, etc. Even then, the cost of a cotton swab or piece of tape seems excessive. It's cheap compared to sepsis, though. There's an urban legend about the patient who requested an itemized bill after a lengthy hospital stay and got a box and a half of computer paper. Seems about right. Turns out, if you add up enough $2.50 cotton balls and $60 bags of sugar-salt water they put in your veins, it adds up to $1.75M. You probably saved your insurer $400 by declining the blood transfusion.

Still got the nerve block in? I'm actually surprised the hospital let you film that. Hang in there big guy. This too shall pass. Get Better👋 👽

Keep strong fella, I'm adding my good thoughts to all these others for your rehab and the future. :>)

God bless you x

Sending love and big hugs from nottingham UK ❤

Good luck Dude. Now you'll fit right in with your riding buddy. 😂

When you getting out of hospital?

Hang in there man hang in there. You can beat this. Idk how I know. I just get a strong feeling from you. That you will get thru this and you will ride again if that's what your to do. Besides just think of all the jokes you can do to people having a prostatic leg. You can act like someone ran over your foot 😂or act like you broke your leg and it twisted backwards. Oh man I can tell with your humor you will mess with people hard. 😂

I would want my toe my foot my leg all of it ,wish you the best

I’ve been following you long before the accident, so I don’t feel so guilty asking how exactly did the bike fall on your foot? What caused it so much damage? I had fallen off several times when I was younger. I had a head on accident with another motorcycle and I fell off and some rocks and had my knee cut from side to side. I could pull the skin back and see the kneecap, definitely the hazardous passion!

Hard to watch. But a good reminder.

Once you get your robotic leg, you can rename the channel to "Robo Giant" Question: did the bike fall on your leg? I know you slid for a bit, just didnt catch the part about how the leg was lost.

Keep them spirits up buddy.Bet you cant wait to say adios to that hospital.No disrespect meant towards the medical staff.Peace.

True

Oh man. Gnarly.

If you are looking to scare away any potential motorcylist from riding ,this is it. I wonder how many just had their wives and girlfriends nix that idea. This is not promoting riding.This is showing what can happen when you F up and what the risks are when gear is stowed improperly. I wish you well but hope you do a vid on what not to do when packing gear one day.

Dammit man

The toe will help you the most for balance they had to open my foot up and three different places to lay out the bones and and pens when I had my bandage on they told me to take it off every day and soak it and Epson salt I think so the wounds would heal but double check I can’t remember if it epson or just plain salt water it’s been so long had a big open wound in my left foot. Just don’t get a trike if you do get it custom-made. Lol

How are you today mate?

So, this is really AI ? Hmmmmm

I saw a video yesterday of a young guy who is an aspiring social media influencer. I generally hate "influencer" videos. This young man just took delivery on his new-to-him 2023 BMW S1000RR. He was tooling around town in a short sleeve shirt, riding over to surprise his gixxer bro buddies with his new liter bike. It was your generic blurred speedometer motorcycle vlog. I gently urged him in the comments to wear a motorcycle jacket. All of the other comments were, "Congratulations, bro. You deserve this." I'm not a follower of this influencer so I don't know what he did to "deserve" a liter bike. His influencer hook or schtick was ridin' with Jesus, so his influencer money formula seemed to be the Venn diagram union of young gixxer riders and Christians. It was typical young motorcyclist content but with "God is so awesome" sprinkled into the mix. I'm not a Euroweenie worshiper of government regulations who believes every rider should be forced to start on a 50 cc scooter, and after three years and a lot of government mandated classes and exams, be allowed to advance to a 125 cc beginner bike, and by the time you're 35, if you're very good, you'll be *allowed* to have a 600 cc bike. I'm a "Murican. A 16 year old should be able to buy a turbo Hayabusa on Craig's List if he saved enough grass cutting money, and ride around with an AR-15 slung over his shoulder, but a 19 year old riding an S1000RR with none of the gear all of the time is cutting line in his haste to meet Jesus. I guess this sounds like bitter bad choice boomer criticizing the bad choices of a young pup, but at least I'm offering advice that will be ignored rather than voting for government regulation to save everyone from our bad choices.

How could you lie about this?.........the missing leg is the clue, f#@k those neih sayers and just concentrate on your recovery you have enough to be getting on with, and my it be a speedy recovery

There is a kids book called scary stories or something like that. It is a collection of short stories. One of them called the Big Toe 🤣 read it 3:01

Hope their feeding u good in there,lol.lots of free time in there to think,but don't over do it.