Richie on his Six Cylinder Henderson at Wauseon Ohio 2011...
Frankie and Richie Oley 2012
Richie summer 2013...left leg...
Right leg...
Reattached thumb...
My friend Richie from Jersey was enjoying a nice ride down at his place in St. Augustine Florida this summer when he got "Left Turned" by a teenage girl. By chance, a paramedic heading home from work was three cars back and saved his life using tourniquets and other emergency medical procedures making sure he didn't bleed out in the street! The doctors then spent 31 hours working on him just to keep him alive. He spent a week or so in an induced coma and underwent numerous surgeries. Shattered legs, ribs broken, punctured lungs, a chunk outta his head...they had to reattach his thumb and other stuff too numerous to mention. Apparently he died twice during the whole ordeal.
I spoke to him a few times, most recently the other day, just a couple hours after part of his foot was amputated...I'm telling you the guy is amazing, joking and laughing. At the end of our call he says "Hey Jeff...what's 6 inches?" I said, "I don't know Richie...what?", He says, "Half a foot." He laughed, groaned in pain and hung up...
He seems to be in great spirits as far as I can tell but in a lot of pain. He's determined to walk and ride again!
Hey, I know this kinda thing is part of the deal and can happen to any of us at any time...but man... be careful out there! It's worse than ever...My buddies Mike and Steve had the same thing happen to them within the past year.
If you know Richie and want to get in touch with him, let me know...shoot me an email.
Richie...Get well brother...
Shitty man, I hope he mends well. Seems like the left turn has been taking out riders a lot lately...and seems it is usually by a female driver. Just saying. Sending positive thoughts his way.
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