Spaw - He lost an argument with a brick wall on the side of an ice cream shop. Put a nice big hole in it and darn near made his way through to the other side. Why did he hit the brick wall? That's a bit of a mystery. The bike may have malfunctioned...or he may have accelerated momentarily when he meant to brake...as can happen on bikes fairly easily (the same thing caused me to have an accident on one once when I was inexperienced, and David had only been out about 4 times on the motorcycle since getting his license.) He can't remember a thing about it, he can only remember from about 20 minutes before it happened. He was very happy that day, so it certainly wasn't a deliberate attempt at self-destruction.

David is continuing to improve markedly. He sends thanks for all the thoughts and prayers. He's quite worried about his left knee and leg which are not working well at all, so he asks for prayers in regards to that. It was mainly his left side that took the impact. It broke his left arm, collar bone, all the ribs on the left side, punctured lung, and he had to get his spleen removed. The fact that he survived at all is pretty amazing.

I figure he's got stuff to do here yet, and that's why he's still with us.