EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Monday evening on my way home from work I unfortunentaly was involved in a severe car accident, i consider myself lucky to be alive. A car pulled out in front of me while i wad headed west on hwy 90 just west of beaumont, i t-boned the car at 60-65mph resulting in severely bruised knee's and ribs, multiple small burns/scrapes and cuts and worst of all i fractured my pelvis in 2 places. I will be out at least 8 werks, possibly more depending on if i will require surgery.

I feel that it would be rather selfish of me to ask danielle, my other 1/2, to care for my dogs on top of me and my daughter and so, sadly after making a phone call yesterday evening it looks as though I am going to be out of this great sport for a while. I am getting rid of everything except my 2 best and 1 puppy off of my best, am i upset? absolutely but I feel like at this current time given the circumstances its the right thing for me to do. If ya'll have the time send one up for my family, this is going to be a difficult couple months for danielle so please keep us (esp. Her) in your prayers.


Lastly, treat every day life it is your last, hug your loved ones and never forget to tell them you love them, life changes in the blink of an eye.

Justin...I only know you from your writings...but all of your posts I have read over the years say a lot about you...that you are a good man...I will be sending prayers up for you and your family...you will recover and you will be a better man because of this experience...

 

That is rough. I will add your family to my prayers. I'm sorry you are having to give up something you love due to such a terrible accident. My brother hit a tree and broke his pelvis in two places. I guess they can't break just once. It took a some time but he is back 100%. Hopefully you won't require surgery and it can heal quicker.

Prayers sent brother

I will pray for u Justin... If I can do anything for u please call me and I'll be glad to help out any way I can! 

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Just glad your alright bud, could have been a lot worse. Sending prayers and if y'all need anything just holler.

Dang Justin, glad you're still with us. Hang in there... you'll be back in the woods before you know it.

Hate to hear that, glad your alive!! If you need some help in the dog dept I'm sure several of us would be willing to feed a dog or two till your back on your feet. Let us know.

Wow justin, I glad you're okay. Wish I was closer to you, I'd make some pen space and help you care for them dogs until you get better. Hang in there my friend take an easy.

Glad to hear that you made it....and it isn't even worse. Hope you have a very speedy recovery....

My family and i will keep you and your family in our prayers .my grandaddy has always said wat dont kill you makes us stronger.

Dam, I hate to hear that Justin. Get yourself fixed up and you will have no trouble getting back into doggin.
Prayers sent.

Thank you all for the well wishes and prayers, it means more than you know. Im sore sore sore but i'll live, the not bein able to walk part sucks the most lol, i am ready to get this behind me, can't happen soon enough!

Know I am a long ways from you but if you need a place for a couple dogs I dont mind keeping a couple till you get back going.  Good luck.

 Justin, im sorry to hear about all this. if you need anything, don't hesitate to ask me, and like purebred said, if you need a place to store our dogs, let me know. he aint far from me, so we could pretty much keep all the dogs together

Justin I'm sorry to hear about your trouble but you are still alive. Be strong and you'll be back before you know it. I've sent prayers.

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We appreciate all the text/calls and messages from ya'll, it means alot to me personally. Ya'll are a good group! I go to beaumont bone and joint to see a specialist at 3:00 today, hopefully we will have a better idea as far as a path forward  and recovery goes. Wish us luck.

 good luck Justin, and best of wishes to ya. I hope u get better than good news and are back on ur feet in no time.

Thanks francis! ;)

Prayers sent for you and your family and a speedy recovery.

I'm sad to read that.  I wish you a quick recovery.

Man, glad u are ok. Keep u and the family in our prayers. I hate for anyone to give up their dogs, i got a spot if you need one tended to while you recuperate. I'm n Al. But dont mind helping if i can, send a shipper,   Ship it back to ya when you are well. Anything i can do to help ya long distance, text me 205-514-0110. Mike. only issue would be dog would be fattened up when you got it back! Lol

I cant express how grateful I am to know a group of folks that are all so willing to help at a moments notice, it means the world to me. Thanks to each and every one of you who has offered a hand. I have passed on 3 of my young dogs so far. Got 3 more to place...,,

Prayers sent to you & your family. I have plenty of kennel space also if you need to place your dogs while you recover.

Life can pull a 360 in a blink of an eye. Hope you the best bro. Pm me if you need anything

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Praying for a speedy recovery!!!

its ok Justin, ur a good ole' feller, even though you are a doon coon.  ;D hey but seriously, if I can do anything for ya, let me know, ill make a tri over there to help u if I can.

Justin call me I seriously have one kennel and chain set ups 2549772621

Purebreed, i can't tell you how much your offer and all the others mean to me. After talking it over with my other 1/2 We decided it would be best to rehome them due to the possibility of me being out for quite a while depending on how this next appt. pans out. I called the man that i have gotten the majority of my dogs from over the past couple years and he was quick to help me out, his brother in law came by yesterday and grabbed 1 of my 2 remaining bmc pups out of my smoke x bonnie breeding a couple months back and my 10 mth old gyp "roo".

JoshStokley has been pretty much my shadow since the wreck helping my family move my big ass around and generally just doing anything he can to help, when he's not at work, i offered him my bonnie gyp and he accepted.

I am keeping my old ybmc dog smoke and my brindle dog camo that i purchased from the Psenciks a while back and I am keeping 1 male pup out of my last bonnie x smoke litter (they are 9 weeks now....im figuring worst case im out for 6 months so i should still be able to get him rockin and rollin)

I have 2 more to rehome, both are bulldogs, 1 is a brindle gyp close to a year (she has minor skin issues on her back but nothing bad) and the other is a reddish brindle gyp pup 8 weeks old. If anyone would like either of these text or pm me, please dont call until after we have spoken by either text or pm.

Older gyp
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I'll get my other 1/2 to get a couple pictures of the bulldog pup and post em when I can.


Thanks again for all of your offers and kind words, we truely appreciate them.

Justin, I sure hate to hear all of this.  But am glad to hear you are okay.  Sure will make you think stop and about things... Prayers to you and your family.  Take care of yourself so you will have a speedy recovery!

Hey bud I'm sorry for your problems and i hope and pray for a fast recovery for you!  I'm not a person to kick on some one when he's down!   I know we both have had are good days an bad days!   So keep your head up :)

Muddog i appreciate it, all differences aside you are good people. Thanks again.

And bignosekate, you are correct it does really make you sit back and think.....things can change in the blink of an eye.

Thanks again to all of you for the support.

Sorry to hear it wishing you a quick recovery

Wish you nothing but the best ......Hope you get well soon..........

Man Justin I sure hate to hear this happen and for you to give up your dogs. I don't know you except from what I've read on here, but I'll usually read and agree with most of your replies. Without trying to sound the least bit insensitive, do you have any pics of your rig to post after the wreck. I'm a bodyman for a living and have worked for the last two years at a Dodge dealership body shop. Best I remember you drove a jacked up Dodge truck. Not to make light of your situation, but I like to see wrecked vehicles as it gives me a better understanding how to do my job. Hoping mothing but the best for you in your recovery.

Damn Justin! Let me know if you need anything. I think we all take for granted how fragile life is sometimes.
Prayers sent BTW

Damn Justin! Let me know if you need anything. I think we all take for granted how fragile life is sometimes.
Prayers sent BTW

Justin...if you need to place some dogs just make sure to get a breeding of choice out of the best you have that will have to go...that way when you get back in the game you will not have to start from ground zero...having access to the bloodline is about 3/4's of it...

Good memory, I DID drive a lifted 1 ton dodge, it was giving us a buncha problems so i traded it in on an f250.......had i been in it i would have come out much but but I fear the kids in the other car would not have. I was actually danielles ( my other 1/2's) 12' honda civic, i have been driving it to work and back saving money. Here is a pic of the car

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I appreciate it man, thanks and i will holler if i get in a bind, and you are right.....i know i am guilty of gettin to wound up/caught up in things.....this accident has really made me want  to step back and slow down, smell the roses per say. Life is too short!

Reuben, thanks for the advice. I called the man that 95% of my dogs came from and told him what happened, he sent his brother in law over that evening to grab what he could.... He took my little red bmc gyp i raised named "roo" and one of my 2 remaining smoke x bonnie pups. JoshStokley is taking bonnie from me also.  I should be good to go when the time is right down the road to start over again. I have placed females from these dogs with people I trust and I luckily have the option to go back to the source for a couple more when the time is right, i consider this a bump in the road......a sucky but necessary bump lol. I just can't justify having danielle feed dogs i can't use for the next few months and i wouldn't feel right to even ask her, dealing with me and my little one is a full time job as it is!

I hope you get to feeling better soon. That sucks when somebody wrecks into you. At least you get to keep your main dogs..

Hey. Buddy, wat'd they decide about your pelvic fractures? You gonna be good to heal up without surgery?

Went to the doc today, good news and bad news.......good news is no surgery is required to heal, the bad news is that my pelvis is not fractured, it is broken and my recovery time is a bit longer than i wanted to hear. Im looking at 8-12 weeks to return to work and 3-4 months to recover completely........

Hey im alive and I will heal, can't complain too much, could be much worse!

Glad you missed the surgery! I've worked with a orthopedic trauma surgeon in the past and did ALLOTTA fractured pelvis' ,, from car wrecks usually. It's a BIG operation, i'd imagine a long recovery time too. Really glad you dodged that bullet. We'll keep praying for a sppedy recovery.

You and me both, i did not want to deal with the surgery but would if i had to, glad i got around it. Appreciate the positive words amokabs!

Man,,,,that's a crazy setback!! U sound prepared for the battle, so stay strong when the going gets tougher than what it already is, God is definitely in control!!! Stay positive bud.

 Justin, its good to hear you don't have to go under the knife, but it sucks you will be out so long. best wishes to ya man, I hope you recover faster than expected. it sucks this happened to you. GOD's speed for a fast recovery man.

I sure appreciate it...... Nothing we can't handle, just gotta make a change or two in the mean time! Im to dang stubborn to let it beat me hahaha........wasn't exactly what I had in mind when I said i needed a vacation lol but when u get lemons make lemonade right?!?!?

 And Charles i appreciate the continued support man, i dont care what every other member on this site says about you francis, you are good people! Haha, j/k bud, if you or anyone else gets down around beaumont and wants to shoot the bull and talk dogs please shoot me a pm or a text.......im gonna have plenty of time for both!

I ain't been on here in a few days. Man I prayed as soon as I started reading. Man I sure wish the best for you and your family. I guess God was looking out for the other people and you. But you even said you would have been better in the truck but not them, It shows a lot to care about someone that caused all this to you. It don't sound like you need prayers. It sounds like I want to to be more like you. But I will be praying for y'all any ways.

I sure appreciate it dub, i just cant make myself mad at her for doing something that i know i have been guilty of in the past, honeslty how many people on here do you think have never ever rolled through a stop sign at one point or another? Just a no good deal all the way around.

Similar thing happened to me yesterday, well minus an accident. I actually stopped completely at the stop sign, checked my right and then left, left direction tck was turning, I checked my right again, started pulling out, and wam, there was an suv coming fast, but i was already in the lane for the left direction cars, so I went ahead n floored it. I had plenty of room, just didn't want to get caught in the middle of both lanes. all this thanks to a tree that is forward and right of the stop sign, where p/u tcks cant see good, but cars are fine bc they sit lower than the branches.

Yup I ain't talking about being mad just the forgiveness when you are in pain and put in a bad place. We all do stuff every day. But I see people every day getting mad about the dumbest things and I think that they need to re-think what is important. But we all also get mad at people too. With reason or not we get mad. You helped to realize that I need to be quicker to forgive even when I do have good reason to be mad.

Hope your feeling well, & getting stronger day by day. Adding you to our family prayers.

Thank you mam, i appreciate it. I am feeling much better except the whole broke hip deal lol, its a pain but bearable.......sittin in a wheel chair all day is gettin old fast!!! My other 1/2 put 100lbs of corn in the back yard and will be taking the role of retriever in a few days when i get mad at the squirrels lol so i have that to look forward to hahaha

Now may be a good time to get into archery :) all upper body and the squirrels would make a great target, the only problem is retrieving the arrows. It sounds like you have a great attitude about the whole ordeal. Still praying for a good recovery for you and comfort for your family in this trying time.

Find someone else in a chair and have races. That is what I did in the hospital and drove the nurses crazy. When we got crutches we raced with those and learned some tricks too. But I was younger then and around a bunch of other crazy guys with no wife or family to worry about me or me to worry about. Just get yourself a good pellet gun and drop some squirrels then have your other half go get them and cook them ;D Arrows would be fun too just use judo points so you lose fewer arrows. rolleyes

Lol yea guys you would think that archery would be good to go but as of today i still can't even draw my 55lb bowtech assassin back without discomfort in my hip, it may have to do with the wheelchair.......believe me ive tried, im a big time bowhunter, (in all honesty i am pretty bummed about about the timing, i put alotta work into my lease this year and now all i can do is hope my target bucks live til next season)  i prefer bow hunting to just about any other type of hunting, its addicting! Hell guys it sucks....its no secret lol BUT its hard to be mad knowing what could have happened and how relatively unharmed i was....a hip can be replaced a life cant. I appreciate the continued well wishes..... Aside from not being able to work or even leave the house for that matter it hasnt been bad, ive gotten to spend a lotta time with my little girl and her momma and the weather has been great for back porch sittin.....its nice to be able to slow down for a bit.

My cousin had a similar accident happen but it was due to fog and the lady was disoriented. It happened about 5 years ago and he still can't work. He had severe brain damage and forgot pretty much everybody and everything. He had lost all use of his right side but has gained most of it back over time. You are right it could have been much worse. He is doing better and can remember stuff now but he will never work and never be the same man he was before. Keep up the positive attitude.  Sorry to hear about not being able to use the bow.

See now you need a good pellet to keep the squirrels in check. You might need help cocking it but it is not 55lbs to break one and load it. It is amazing how all things are connected and it hurts to do most anything.

It's good to see your still joking around! Hell don't be bummed, it'll give them bucks some time to grow.

Dub im a step shead of you lol
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/11/12/8ytazate.jpg) i broke out my ol trusty pump .22 for em, it is good to about 30-35yds with these mini caps and crazy quiet, only problem is my acting retriever (danielle lol) is not feelin good right now so my hunting is temporarily on hold haha

Dodgegirl, thats what everyone keeps tellin me about the deer lol, i keep tellin em that the babies are way more tender though lol. J/k haha im hopin to get after em by mid december!

Hoax, i hate to hear that about your cousin, my uncle was in a similar accident in the 80's and was paralyzed from the neck down..... Life can change in the blink of an eye....

I ll be swinging out your way this evening for a visit bud

I'll be here!

Danielle is awake and feelin better and the squirrels are movin lol.

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My little girls jack russel "yeti" is enjoyin her first hunt
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I love shooting those CB shorts!

Now you are talking. I love those pump 22's

I got an old pump 22 but the stock is super loose on it. Idk how to tighten it up. It's a good shooting gun too

Post a couple pics of it, i bet we can figure it out, they are usually pretty easy to assemble/ disassemble.

what bout shimming it up and or drilling the mount holes out and pouring in a fiberglass expoy filler, then drilling a hole out in it for the mount screw. like Justin said, post pics of it and more than likely somebody will be able to get it figured out.

Alright I'll post a few up

How ya healing up mr. Corbell? Hope all is well

Not too terribly bad as far as the hip goes. Matter of fact i went to the doctor today and got good news and bad news (see below for the bad lol)  still got a long way to go BUT the doc says everything is looking good so far. I hurt for a bit in the mornin  but it aint terrible.

I banged a couple of my ribs during the wreck and they were pretty sore for a while, docs didnt seem worried about em much at the time....anyhow fast forward to last saturday, i was at the house and went to grab my babies sippy cup off the coffee table and out of nowhere i hear a loud "pop"....when i say loud, it was so loud that danielle heard it from across the room....... Long story short somehow i managed to re-break my freakin rib by reaching for a dang sippy cup...... Lol now hows that for luck??? Man i tell ya sometimes you can't do anything but laugh at the situation.

When i initially went to the er after the accident they checked my ribs and said they were badly bruised and possibly fractured.....well my doc says they were wrong and the rib was broke and is now re-broke lol........ Looks like bow season is over for the year lol.

Thanks for checkin in on me dodgegirl, appreciate it! Happy thanksgiving and merry christmas!

Have a happy thanksgiving ! Hope your gettin stronger by the day!

Remember Philippians 4:13 - "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Trust in him and everything will work out the way it should sir!