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Marc finally has his car and his bike back. The car was only an airbag deployment from being totalled, but alas could be worked back to optimal condition. It took a couple of visits back to the shop to get it all worked out, but now seems at least as good as before the accident. Thankfully, nothing in the engine bay was in the least bit impacted.
Sunday, July 21, 2002.
On the way back from the Gorgegames (in Hood River, Oregon that week-end) I had a seizure. According to Marc, the car's owner and front passenger through the scary moments:
As I began to seize, the road turned slightly to the left. I continued to seize even as we crossed the warning vibration marks that line I5, through a ditch, which snapped both front suspension mounts dropping the front of the car to the ground. The car, already slowing, passed through a few fence posts and came to a stop about 300 yards from where we exited the highway. The seizure lasted less than a minute, but was considered Grand Mal because "everything shook". Marina cradled my head while an ambulance was called, and I was moved to Culosa hospital.
You may rightly wonder what the hell I was doing behind the wheel when a seizure could happen. Sadly this was the only other symptom of the tumor to manifest itself- I wish I had known that~60% of brain cancer patients experience seizures, or provided a prescription to prevent seizures before it happened.
Subsequently, and rigtly, my driving priveledges are on hold for 6 months (3 months of which I will be on anti-seizure medication- dilatin). While this is certainly crushing to my sense of independance, public safety is much more the issue, and though I have been told several times that the incident was not my fault, it does still play a bit in my mind.
As a side note, it's probably worth noting that the car that carried us through this trauma was a 2001 Subaru Outback- and any good press Subaru gets out of this is well deserved in both my and the car owners minds.
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