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XS650 Guru
hi everybody just thought i would check in as been a fair while since been on here , been a busy couple of years ,im still working on my xs650 or in reality not working on it , its been gathering dust waiting for me to finish it off , putting a r1 front end on it and now have the orig front end off and have all the parts ready to go ,have now come to the conclution my 2 wheel days are over so bought a side car to go on it plus also have the canam am spyder as well , been a strange couple of yrs first got told had a double hernia then after a long wait had a scan done before seeing the specalist who said what are u doing here as theres no hernia but u better get that prostate checked out fast ... opted for the radiation and hormone treatment to which had a bad rash reaction , after months of this rash spreading over my whole body including hosp stays for it they finally said main prob was scabies (which would have got from the hosp) but before that had a massive calcium spike from the cancer meds and near died , they finally got that leveled off (and no trouble since ) but on the way back from the main hosp to our local hosp fracture a vertibra in my back ... u wouldnt think it could get much worse but after getting home i was stuck in a elect wheel chair which a week later i crashed into a wall with my foot in between , they decided i needed a skin graft on the foot , about this time they discovered a lot of the rash was scabies so was in isolation for 2 weeks while the nurses stripped me down 3 times a day rubbing ointment on me head to toe .. scabies gone ... next a scan to check for blood flow as is was my bad leg/foot for the graft ... found a BAD BLOOD CLOT , back in isolation in case one of the little critters were still lurking , had 2 attempts of keyhole surgery with no luck so they opened the vaIn right up and cleaned it out patching it with artifical mesh , all good though it took about a month in isolation ward on massive anti biotics , hopped in hosp transit all good but time got to local hosp 2 hrs away in agony with my knee blown right up , back to main hosp and told septic arthritis . operated on the knee twice while back in isolation again for another 3 weeks on massive anti biotics .. back to my local hosp then home .. 2 weeks later sick as a dog back to main hosp as arterial surgery was infected ,seems right along had goldern staff from one of the prev ops , another major arterial surgery and another month in isolation ..... all was not lost though as bought an easy project xs650 while in hosp off one of the members here over the ph ...BUT .. was put back on the hormone treatment and continued to have very bad reactions so they have now taken me off early BUT my psa levels are great as vertually undetectable , here in australia we have a old expression that its bad luck to kick a chinaman , in a prev life must have given one a hell of a kicking ..... any way this is my excuse for being absent for a while.. one good thing is buying the xs650 or rather its a gsx1100 fully converted to take a xs650 motor (he took the motor out for another project ) and i just so happen to have a hotted up xs650 motor sitting on the bench .. trouble is i wont be able to ride it when my motor is fitted ....anyway hullo to everybody .. im back