Creed Fisher, The Road to Recovery Pt. 1

This episode of the Ramblin' Gypsy podcast features Creed Fisher recounting his life-altering motorcycle accident and the transformative journey that followed. From severe injuries to touring success, Fisher’s story emphasizes resilience, forgiveness, and the unwavering support of his fans. 

• Fisher discusses the start of his 2025 tour, “Between Heaven and Hell” 
• The accident leads to a near-death experience and critical injuries 
• A heartfelt conversation about the emotional fallout of trauma 
• Reflections on the incredible support from fans and community 
• Fisher explores the power of forgiveness for his accident's cause 
• Riding again forces Fisher to confront fear and change 
• Insights on the healing power of music and emotional recovery 
• A deeper understanding of resilience in the face of adversity

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Transcript

Creed Fisher

Speaker 1 0:00

I put a blessing on it to real. That's the metaphoric. We just put the I in iconic, buzzin' like I'm electronic. Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it. See me drippin' in it 24-7 on it. I'm just bein' on a star, holy water drippin', drippin' from my neck to my creps. So I'm two-steppin' on it like we're rollin', we're rollin', let's go, let's go.

Speaker 2 0:20

We're not going to do a cut clip. Snap, sure, sure. All right, here we go. Hey everybody, I'm Tiffany Foy. Welcome to the Ramblin' Gypsy podcast, and we are back in the she shed with Creed Fisher. Creed has been here with me once before and we talked about doing this show. We've got some other things we're going to talk about as well, but when we had you here previously, we talked about your 2025 tour, and that has now been kicked off. It is 2025. And you have done how many shows.

Speaker 4 0:54

A couple weekends. A couple weekends, yeah.

Speaker 2 0:56

And you had some running.

Speaker 4 0:58

A couple good weekends though.

Speaker 2 0:59

You ran into some weather, had some.

Speaker 4 1:01

Yeah, a lot of snow. It didn't snow on us, but it was everywhere. So yeah yeah, ohio, there was snow piled up everywhere so but it's been so good, some good shows. So far I've had a really good start to the tour and where are you?

Speaker 4 1:15

at so far well, we just played in troy, ohio, with my brother, my buddy brian martin, what was my first arena show. Nice, so that was cool. And then, but the weekend before that we did uh, indiana with my brother, frank Foster, which I just did a had a single. He brought me in on his single.

Speaker 4 1:34

Some of us still do yeah so we did a video for that. It's on YouTube and, uh, that was success. We sold out the the venue there in Indiana, nice. It's been a good fun start to the tour so far.

Speaker 2 1:47

Good deal. Yeah, and it continues through.

Speaker 3 1:51

I'm always on tour.

Speaker 4 1:52

It'll be through the end of the year. Yeah, and the name of the tour is Between Heaven and Hell.

Speaker 2 1:57

That's right, yeah, and if you guys didn't catch it, you need to go back and watch it. It's a really good episode. You need to go back and watch it. It's a really good episode. And you sang us a song, which was a really cool song, and I revisited that a while ago and it really paid attention to the lyrics. I mean, obviously I did hear, because they're very sincere. It is a beautiful song, a really beautiful song.

Speaker 4 2:18

That song is tied for my best love song I've ever written.

Speaker 2 2:22

It's right there, with that girl right there, it's very good 've ever written.

Speaker 4 2:25

It's right there with that girl right there. It's very good. I love it. Yeah, it came from the heart and that's what matters in music. You know, that's what I always shoot for is which. I think the drinking songs come from the heart too, but I think the love songs that just really hit you, man, when it comes from an honest place.

Speaker 2 2:43

That's a good one. I think there's going to be a lot of people that can relate to that. Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 4 2:47

I mean, I clearly thought you were singing about me, but you know, whatever it was, you, tiff, I didn't want to let the cat out of the bag.

Speaker 1 2:53

Thank you.

Speaker 2 2:55

Please don't ruin that for me. It was all about me at to do and it's called the Road to Recovery Creed Fisher's Road to Recovery. And let's start off. I know your fan base knows. For people that don't know, let's start from the beginning and tell us what happened. You were in a really, really bad accident in 2024.

Speaker 4 3:23

I was in St Cloud, Minnesota, doing a show Raleigh's and I pretty much sold out. I'd played there the year before and had a really good show there. And I went riding motorcycles before the show and, to make a long story short, I wrecked the guy in front of me, took a u-turn in front of me and he was on a motorcycle too and I hit him right between the gas tank and the seat of the seat and he flew off and I went down hard and broke my pelvis in half how many of y'all were?

Speaker 4 3:59

riding together there was three of us, three of y'all, yeah and unfamiliar roads for us?

Speaker 4 4:05

yeah, not the guy that did the u-turn, which is kind of ironic right, where was he going? Too fast he was going too fast yeah, he passed his turn, uh-huh, unfortunately, and that's why you know. The rest is history. Yeah, but that guy I don't have you. I've forgiven him and moved on. I actually sent a letter to the judge because he's in trouble. He ran off. That's the main reason he's in trouble. He ran off on foot, which is weird, because we knew where he lived. I don't understand it.

Speaker 4 4:43

I'm sure he can't even explain it.

Speaker 2 4:45

That's a really touchy subject. Is that it I mean? Is that is? Is it public information? Is that?

Speaker 3 4:50

something that we can, I mean we can discuss, and why.

Speaker 2 4:53

Where was what were you? Have you been able to ask him, bro, what were you doing? Why?

Speaker 4 4:59

I know, I know why I know why I had been drinking.

Speaker 3 5:02

Right.

Speaker 4 5:03

And no one knows how much because he ran off, right Wow. That's the speculation at this point.

Speaker 3 5:09

Right.

Speaker 4 5:10

But there's another law that's almost as bad as DWI, when you hurt somebody and run off. I sent a letter to the judge and asked. I told the judge that I didn't want him to go to jail. Just you know, don't let him off.

Speaker 3 5:32

But right for a pardon.

Speaker 4 5:34

I don't want to see the guy in jail. I mean him. Going to jail isn't going to make my life any better, right, but definitely some probation. You're like. You know he doesn't need to get off scot-free for what he, for what happened? I don't man, I've moved. To be honest with you, I'm in a different zone in my life, a different place.

Speaker 2 5:49

The person behind you. There was three of y'all riding, so it was him Turn my chair a little.

Speaker 3 5:53

Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 5:55

It was the gentleman that did the U-turn, Then it was you and then there was somebody else behind you.

Speaker 4 6:00

Yeah, my buddy Kyle, it was his bike, his son's bike.

Speaker 3 6:04

That you were riding.

Speaker 4 6:05

Yeah, I was in Minnesota so it was a bike I was unfamiliar with Right, and I don't know to this day if it totaled the Bach or not.

Speaker 2 6:17

Really.

Speaker 4 6:20

I've never asked him and I admire the fact he never asked me anything about it. You know.

Speaker 3 6:25

Yeah.

Speaker 4 6:26

So whatever happened to the bike, we don't know, I don't know, but they've been supportive and thank God for him, man Kyle Krohn, because he was the only one left to call the ambulance.

Speaker 3 6:36

To call anyone Right.

Speaker 4 6:37

The other guy ran off. So if it had been up to the other guy, I'd have just died on the side of the road, which I almost did.

Speaker 2 6:43

So you broke your pelvis. What were your injuries?

Speaker 4 6:48

It was pretty gruesome.

Speaker 3 6:49

Yeah.

Speaker 4 6:50

I broke my pelvis in half, so basically my two legs were no longer attached to each other, and when I tried to get up I went one way and this leg went the other way. So I laid down and I knew I was broken. I I knew something serious was broken. It was painful as hell so you did feel the pain oh, so bad, so bad, and it took them 20 minutes to get to me and I was bleeding internally and so I almost died and it's crazy and I laugh now.

Speaker 4 7:25

Thank god I can right because, so much, so many things are going well for me this year, in 2025, but the whole time I'm laying on the ground, dying basically, or almost dying. All I can think about is how I'm gonna take myself up and go play this show that was supposed to play in an hour right, okay, so keep in mind every finger except my pinky, because you can see the pinky's not out as far right these three fingers were going in all three different directions.

Speaker 4 7:50

This finger was going straight that way and they were all just mangled, you know. And the first thing the first thing that hit was my hand when I went down this way and you were coherent enough, your body didn't go into shock I never hit my head and I

Speaker 4 8:05

wow uh, I was awake the whole time on the side of the road cussing that guy. Maybe that's why I ran off yeah yeah, well, he thought he just killed creed fisher. He really did, and I don't. You know, listen, I I'm not his judge, I'm not his judger. So, uh, I lived and I kept my leg and everything's good, and he shouldn't have run off and that's on him.

Speaker 2 8:31

So ambulance came. Obviously Were you air.

Speaker 4 8:35

No, I was. It was kind of messed up because when the ambulance came they couldn't give me nothing for pain because my blood pressure was so low, and then when they got me to the hospital my blood pressure was 60 over 30.

Speaker 3 8:49

Wow.

Speaker 4 8:50

And so your organs start to shut down at that point and it was intense. I had a death experience, near-death experience and thank God, you know, came out with my legs still attached. Are you glad?

Speaker 2 9:05

that you were coherent, and this is why, because I was in a very similar situation, but my situation was a wee bit different than yours, which is why I'm asking are you glad that you were coherent enough to realize what was going on?

Speaker 4 9:28

Yeah, absolutely. Were coherent enough to realize what was going on. Or yeah, absolutely. I'm glad that I have those memories and I'm glad that I didn't hit my head, right, you know, because I probably wouldn't be here if I'd hit my head yeah because I was just going so fast road rash and I could easily paralyze myself from the waist down. I literally broke a bone two inches away from where I could be paralyzed from the waist down. So just the simple fact that broke there, you know but, I'm counting my blessings at this point.

Speaker 4 9:53

I'm in a good place and you know I'm doing the biggest tour of my career and probably healthier than I've been in a good minute. Healthier than I've been in a good minute.

Speaker 2 10:02

So when that happens in a sold out tour room, people are waiting for Creed Fisher to come walking out on the stage within an hour. What happens at that point? What do you?

Speaker 4 10:15

I was kind of wondering that myself. Yeah, I mean, I wish I could have been a flower.

Speaker 2 10:19

I know a lot of musicians and a lot of not just any, but people that have a stage presence, and when you're waiting out what happens, who handles that?

Fan Support After Accident

Speaker 4 10:31

You know it was for everyone involved, it was not a good day.

Speaker 3 10:37

Right.

Speaker 4 10:37

But I really have to give a lot of credit to my fans for how they handled it. People were just worried about me, and that was something that made me feel really good.

Speaker 2 10:46

Yes.

Speaker 4 10:46

Because I was worried about the crowd and how they were going to. You know they're going to call me no show, fisher or something yeah.

Speaker 4 10:55

But they were just when they announced that, ma'am, you could have heard a pin drop, and this is all from what I heard. You could have heard a pin drop. And people were just worried, right, because at that point we didn't know if I was going to make it or not. I mean, and there was actually a story came out during that early time period where they said I had died. It got twisted because there was some other guy named Creed had wrecked that same day.

Speaker 4 11:23

Really In some other and he had died. Wow, People were still unsure if I was okay.

Speaker 3 11:29

If it was actually you.

Speaker 4 11:30

Or what was going on Right. So the fans acted really, really awesome, so I was very thankful for that, and it was a sold-out show.

Speaker 2 11:41

Yeah, so you're not at home. You're in an accident, the dude flees the scene. You're in an accident, the dude flees the scene. You're in the hospital, not at home, which I probably just said. But how long were you at that facility?

Speaker 4 11:56

I was at that place in St Cloud for six days. I was the Saturday when I wrecked and I got out Friday, the next Friday, and it was crazy. I mean I had people outside the hospital.

Speaker 3 12:12

Really yeah.

Speaker 4 12:13

Gathering and with signs and things, playing music and blaring my music. They didn't have to transport you?

Speaker 2 12:21

I mean, how were you no?

Speaker 4 12:22

I went there, st Cloud Hospital there have to transport you and I mean, how were you? No, I went there. They saint cloud, uh, saint cloud hospital there, and I'm gonna go back and do something special for my nurses that were there I'm gonna make sure that you know they're. They're there when I go right, uh, and try to go do something special for them. But no, it was. It was fans outside.

Speaker 4 12:46

I couldn't hear them, but people that were coming to see me were telling me Were telling you there were people outside, yeah, that were playing my music and had signs and things and whatnot, Somewhere along the line about halfway through the thing I'm laying in my bed. I think it was after the surgery. I'm pretty sure it was.

Speaker 2 13:04

So you had surgery at that hospital, at that hospital, the first surgery. And what surgery was that?

Speaker 4 13:10

It was to put my hips back together.

Speaker 2 13:12

And that's not just a couple of stitches, no, there's a funny story there, did you have? Implants done. I mean, was there any kind of no? Just they plated it back together, they hot glued it.

Speaker 4 13:26

Yeah, titanium, a little epoxy. I'm Iron man, iron man.

Speaker 2 13:30

Boy, I got a lot of titanium in my body.

Speaker 4 13:32

I set off alarms at the airport and stuff.

Speaker 2 13:35

I do too, Yep.

Speaker 4 13:38

No, they put a screw you know screws and plates and all that stuff and put me back together. I came back apart halfway, but that's another story.

Speaker 2 13:48

So you said you just mentioned a while ago that there was a funny story behind that.

Speaker 4 13:51

When I said Well, I'm laying there. Yeah, go ahead, tell me. I was laying in bed in Minnesota in the hospital and just laying there watching TV. And these three people walk in and they look like they just came from a Creed Fisher concert.

Speaker 3 14:07

Really.

Speaker 4 14:08

And they're my fans and I don't know them and they have beer.

Speaker 2 14:15

Those are the real fans. And marijuana, hell yeah.

Speaker 4 14:20

And I was freaking out for a minute. I'm like nurse yeah, what is going? Nurse yeah?

Speaker 2 14:26

What is going on here?

Speaker 4 14:28

How did they?

Speaker 2 14:28

I mean I guess, and they just asked. They just said, like I'm in this room, they just asked the front desk where I was, and so then, I had to have my people called out at that point, Like listen you have a famous person in your hospital.

Speaker 3 14:38

Right.

Speaker 4 14:38

Yeah, don't be giving out, don't be letting people come up to the room but I appreciated it at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 14:43

It was kind of weird, it was kind of awkward.

Speaker 4 14:45

This guy's trying to give me a beer. I'm on morphine.

Speaker 2 14:47

On all the things.

Speaker 4 14:49

Yeah, and Dilaudid.

Speaker 2 14:50

Uh-huh.

Speaker 4 14:51

But six days there and then I got to come home One of the worst days of my life, that Friday. Coming home Made it home.

Speaker 2 15:01

How were you transported home?

Speaker 4 15:03

Well, we were two hours from the airport approximately. You flew I had to drive, yeah, back to Texas. I had to drive two hours in a van and it was horrible. It was pretty rough. The van ride wasn't as bad as sitting at the airport for like two hours. I can't imagine, just in so much pain, airport for like two hours, I can't imagine Just in so much pain.

Speaker 2 15:24

So I was in a motorcycle wreck and this is why I can relate to so many things that you're saying. Mine was a very different scenario. We were actually going on a run in Kerrville. It was a bike rally, thunder in the Hill Country run in Kerrville and a whole group of us and there was nine of us that were riding together and we had all loaded up and we're going to run to Walmart and just go grab our necessities and things that we needed. And they wanted to stop at Whataburger and grab something while I wasn't eating. So I sat outside on on the bike and was just kicking it and talking and there was a couple of officers there and Kerrville is just a little Texas Hill Country town right around the corner from our hometown, new Braunfels here and he was going on and on about how the locals don't like the bikers and that they just Sounds like Billy's last house.

Speaker 2 16:24

You know, yeah, there's no one there. Yeah, right, just going on and on and on and I said, yeah, it's really. I mean there's a lot of old money in curville and I get you know, I mean there's there's a a lot of racism or whatever you call it. You know I use being racist in a very broad term, but it's, bikers are judged, there's we're all. We all judge things in our own form and fashion. But he was going on and on and about how the locals just didn't like him there and I see, and then at the same time talking about how much money that we all bring to the community and that we spend and everything that we do, and so it's a, it's a catch-22 for a lot of these little towns.

Speaker 2 17:06

Well, ironically enough, we had left there, loaded up, went to Walmart and there was a Dodge truck that kept jacking with all of us and would go back and forth and back and forth and was just revving his engine and just being a real prick, and, sure enough, we were going around, there's a. It's almost like you're going around a plaza down there, but it wasn't, it was just like a half turn and it's got the guardrails with the drainage ditch and this truck ended up clipping our back tire. And I was on a 1973 Sportster, souped up and just gnarly. And yeah, I just so happened to have a titanium knee brace on my leg and at the time I had my cell phone clipped on it. But um, I'm the world's worst and then still to this day about wearing a helmet. I'm very claustrophobic and I had on a tank top.

Speaker 4 17:59

I hate wearing helmets I do too.

Speaker 2 18:01

I had jeans on and I had my harley boots and, um, the bike laid down kicked me was under the bike, so the bike skid around. We hit the guardrail. Then it scooped me back up and I flew up in the air and went down into the ravine, into the ditch, which is why I was asking if you were coherent enough and you could feel everything Me. I remember thinking, oh shit, we're going down. And we did, and I grabbed my head and I just remember rolling and rolling and rolling, and then I just kept thinking, man, am I going to ever stop rolling? And then when I finally did, I had zero pain, I didn't feel anything, I was just really tired. I was just really tired, I was just super tired and I thought I'm just going to lay here and I'm just going to go to sleep now and I laid there, but I didn't feel anything.

Speaker 2 19:01

I didn't feel any pain whatsoever and I could hear the helicopters trying to find me. And so, yeah, they found me and I was in the hospital in Kerrville. I had broken my back, shattered my hand. I hope you broke my ankle.

Speaker 3 19:20

They never found the guy.

Speaker 2 19:22

Never found the guy. Never found the guy. And there was nine of us riding together and, yeah, everybody behind us. You know, they saw I think we were the second or third bike and then the rest of them were all behind us and for whatever reason, he. But it's. It's kind of crazy how your body goes into shock and because I, I didn't feel anything, the only thing I never felt my pelvis break.

Speaker 3 19:46

Yeah, that's why I jumped up. Right.

Speaker 4 19:50

Because I've been down a few times and it's the first thing you do, if you can yeah, you jump up right and you don't, I mean, you're just in shock basically yeah, yeah your body's protecting you from that, you know yes I'm glad you're all right. Man, that's crazy me too.

Speaker 2 20:11

It was a, it was um, but I wasn't able to move necessary thing.

Speaker 2 20:15

It makes me angry at that guy well, and you, you know my parents always I've been writing since I was little and, of course, at that point in time I I was going through a stage in my life where I thought I was invincible and was doing things that it was the wild side of things I should have done when I was younger. And I didn't do, and and um, when it happened, I thought you know, you know, we don't really have nine fucking lives, that's a big, that's a big I mean, yeah, I did at that point in time too, and at that point when that happened, I thought you know what?

Speaker 2 20:53

I need to slow my ass down. I need to pay attention to exactly what. I'm doing yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 21:01

Yeah.

Speaker 2 21:01

Yeah, and it, you know, like your deal.

Speaker 4 21:04

There's two cool people like us.

Speaker 3 21:07

It wasn't your fault. We don't see our mortality. This wasn't no Like. We think we're going to live forever.

Speaker 2 21:09

Right.

Speaker 4 21:10

And we're still alive. Yes, For a reason but now we have our purpose and we Exactly you know. Think like riding, for instance, for me. People ask me are you still going to ride? And I'm like yes.

Speaker 2 21:25

I got that a lot too.

Speaker 4 21:26

Am I going to ride as much as I used to no Right? Probably not.

Speaker 3 21:30

A different respect. I'm going to get a 69 Nova. Uh-huh.

Speaker 4 21:33

I'm going to go sometimes in my car Right, but I can't just quit riding.

Speaker 2 21:38

I thought it was kind of ironic that you mentioned how you had some random people come up to your fans that were able to get into your room. Well, I had my dad God bless him he's not with us here anymore but he called me when they obviously had heard about it and said if you do make it and you do get out of that hospital, I did have to tell everybody at the door, you know, because I was not in my hometown, to not let anyone into my room and talk about nurses and the amazing things. You know I wasn't able to bathe or whatever. I had a night nurse that would come and, you know, powder my back and my itches.

Speaker 4 22:30

That's a whole other funny story, that one.

Speaker 2 22:32

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 22:33

I don't know if it's appropriate for the podcast.

Speaker 2 22:35

I got the little E on there. You can say whatever you want yeah, we'll give it up. Yeah.

Speaker 4 22:41

That was the worst. The first time you were here, that was the worst. That was the funniest and the worst, and I've talked about it a little bit on my lives and stuff. It's just these nurses, man, I love the nurses. That's why I want to go back and do something nice for them, you know, because you know. I mean I had internal bleeding in my body and I broke my pelvis, so I'm bleeding inside my body. Well, it's the pelvis. Where do you think the blood's going to go?

Speaker 3 23:09

Into my balls.

Speaker 4 23:15

So my balls swelled up like four times their normal size, and then on top of that I had a catheter. So you can only imagine what that does to your nether regions. You know, what I'm saying. I mean, a proud man was not proud, I'll just put it that way. And these nurses, they have to come clean it like every six hours. It's just like one of those things are don't make eye contact, you know, and she doesn't want to make eye contact either. How's the weather?

Speaker 3 23:40

right, right, today I mean look away, look away.

Speaker 4 23:46

That was very. I ate a lot of humble pie during that time, but well it's always nice to make jokes.

Speaker 2 23:52

Now you know how women feel after they have babies, because after you have is one, maybe two, maybe three. At that point you feel like every human that has ever worked in a hospital has seen your vagina.

Speaker 2 24:04

So, at that point you just really don't give a shit. You're like of shit. You're like, if you've seen one, you've seen them all. Yeah so, but I had a when I was in the hospital and talk about how grateful you were for your nurses I had, um, my night nurse was the sweetest old lady that she would always come in, she would sit and talk to me and of course I was a high as a fucking kite.

Speaker 2 24:26

I I realized I realized at that point how easy it is to become a drug addict, because I would literally watch the clock until I could hit the button myself.

Speaker 2 24:40

You and me both, because I was hurt and then yeah, and then when it was time for them to give you your interim meds, yeah, I mean I was like boop, get in here, and I mean they would hit you with that. And I was like boop, get in here, and I mean they would hit you with that. And I was like, oh man, it was just finally, like you were almost pain free. Yeah.

Speaker 3 24:56

For the most part.

Speaker 4 24:57

But I was cuckoo With injuries like we had that are very severe, like that. I just I don't get. I mean, I understand that they're very sensitive about it, but they have just gone too far in my opinion, because what you were giving me was killing the pain, right. And then I come to San Antonio and the laws are completely different. I was getting ivory preference in San Antonio. I'm like I was on Dilaudid over here buddy.

Speaker 3 25:28

Well, crazy enough, we don't give that out here.

Speaker 2 25:30

This was right, a lot has changed since my accident and your accident. I mean we're talking 20, mine was shit 25 years ago, if not longer. So I mean I was walking around with a script of Percocet when I walked out of there.

Speaker 1 25:56

Of course it was a lot for me to walk out of there, but I wasn't able to be moved after.

Speaker 2 25:59

I had to stay up there and I was there for two plus weeks. My surgeries and yeah, wow, yeah, and mine wasn't near what yours was. I mean, mine was all over.

Speaker 4 26:07

It makes an impression on you. I don't want to go back to the hospital until I'm dying Right At the end of my life, until hospice comes. Yeah, I don't want to go back, because what happened with me is when I got home, my hardware came loose. I hate when that happens.

Speaker 2 26:29

Mine happens to my brain like that all the time.

Speaker 4 26:31

Yeah, I went to a doctor's appointment thinking I was, you know, fixing other things, and the doctor comes back and he's like well, you got other problems right now. Your hardware came out and my the screw that was holding the top part of my hip together had come all the way out.

Speaker 2 26:47

How does that happen, were you not?

Speaker 4 26:50

listening. Well, that's a whole other podcast.

Speaker 2 26:53

We've got several to come to follow this.

Speaker 4 26:55

I'm going to blame it yeah. Well, to make it the shortest possible, you don't put a Minnesota screw into a Texas boy.

Speaker 2 27:06

Okay.

Speaker 4 27:07

Us Texas boys are harder evidently than Minnesota screws, because I spit that booger right out, you know yeah.

Speaker 3 27:17

Like a 50 cal.

Speaker 4 27:19

I was a journeyman electrician for a long time, yeah, and when I look at the x-ray and I look at that screw, I don't know how they thought that was ever going to stay in a Texas boy. No, number one.

Speaker 2 27:29

It's fine threads, right, it's flat on the end you put a flat head into a texas boy you did and that was never gonna stay.

Speaker 4 27:37

But that was part of like my struggle through the whole thing is I had to have the surgery twice so finally, you know, when I went the second time, they put a screw all the way across my hips.

Speaker 4 27:55

Even though the top screw did come out a little, it didn't come out enough to do anything where I had to have any further procedures. Wow, now I have the screw. I can still feel it. The last time I went they said I could possibly maybe have to have it removed. I'm good now, man. My pelvis is fused back together at this point.

Speaker 2 28:20

So did you have actual implants put in there as well? No, like any joint implants or whatever you had.

Speaker 4 28:26

No.

Speaker 3 28:27

Gotcha.

Speaker 4 28:27

They just screwed me back together. I'm only 50, so we'll see where.

Speaker 2 28:34

We'll see how long I can last with my hips yeah a hip replacement's probably not too far off well, I tell you what I just had mine, and it's the best decision I ever made my hip replacement, literally yeah, glad you're feeling better and it is um.

Speaker 4 28:48

That's what I was asking what was your actual injuries during your when you wrecked? What I mean? What did it?

Speaker 2 28:52

I had a shattered ankle um, broke my l4 l5, crushed my hand um and that was it.

Speaker 4 29:04

That was see that beautiful face was still intact.

Speaker 2 29:07

That's like, just like mine these tex Texas girls know how to tuck and roll Exactly.

Speaker 3 29:11

I grabbed my head and I just rolled right down that mountain when I was just kept on going.

Speaker 4 29:15

We will sacrifice anything to save our place.

Overcoming Fear of Motorcycle Riding

Speaker 2 29:18

I mean, who would have thought it's kind of? It's kind of when they say, when the bug hits the windshield and it thinks, oh shit, I mean that's exactly my. I'll never have the guts to do that again. My mentality level was, oh fuck, I'm, we're going down, and it did. And. And the last thing I remember was what saved my knee probably which was ironic because I've had three knee surgeries and um was I had a titanium. You've seen that.

Speaker 2 29:47

You've seen them, the big, long ones that robots wear, and that's what I had, which is, and when I went down, that's the leg that I was on.

Speaker 4 29:56

So that brace is literally probably what saved my entire leg that's good yeah amen to that crazy enough, yeah, I was worrying about losing my leg. I'm just. That was the last thing I was talking about when I finally fell asleep, because when they finally were able to give me some pain meds, I started asking questions.

Speaker 3 30:18

Yeah.

Speaker 4 30:20

Am I going to die Right? Please don't let me lose my leg. Doctor, take my head first, please before you take my leg.

Speaker 2 30:32

Take my head first, please, before you take my leg. I think the worst part of mine was once I got in there and was realizing what was happening and coming out of the shock mode a bit, and then they, like you said, could not give me any pain medication and they had to scrape your road rash, and that by far. I have delivered ginormous children. I have had a hip replacement, I've had three surgeries knee surgeries Out of everything that I have ever had done them taking the scouring pads and removing your skin layer after layer after layer and not giving you anything.

Speaker 2 31:12

It's literally like taking an sos pad to your raw meat. I can't even imagine that and it was.

Speaker 4 31:18

That's a whole other level, man excruciating like I had rug rash on my arms bad, but not enough where they had to do anything like that.

Speaker 3 31:27

Yeah thank god.

Speaker 4 31:27

Thank God, it was horrible Because I've heard those horror stories like that. My uncle was in a wreck back in the day and they used to have to do that to him. My dad told me about it. I'm like man. That has to be the worst.

Speaker 2 31:42

It's one of those things that you just don't forget, yeah.

Speaker 4 31:45

It's like me having the punctured lung.

Speaker 2 32:00

When they were all working on me. I'm like I told the nurse no, honey, you might just die if I don't do this. I don't care. Every time I see a burn victim or anyone with a skin injury, I just, I just want to hug him and think you know, and I, I didn't burn you know, I mean I had road rash burns.

Speaker 4 32:13

Have you been on a bike since?

Speaker 2 32:15

That was when you said you had somebody ask you if you would ever get back on a bike again. You said yes and yes, I have, but I have not ridden on the back of a motorcycle with anyone until last year. I can understand that.

Speaker 4 32:37

At least I have control over the handlebars.

Speaker 2 32:40

Right, and I've only ridden twice. Yeah, I mean, I zip around on my little Vespa all over the place and I ride it constantly. Unfortunately, I don all over the place and I write it constantly.

Speaker 4 32:52

Unfortunately, I don't feel the same way I used to. I used to be completely oblivious, same. I see things now that I didn't see before and it stresses me out a little Like, for instance, just a simple fact of you're passing an SUV or an 18-wheeler or whatever. It is two foot from them and are they on their phone? Yes, you know, cause I don't have another fall left in me.

Speaker 2 33:18

I agree, it definitely changes your.

Speaker 4 33:20

I'm seeing things I've never really, and it makes me a little. To be honest with you, it doesn't. I don't have as much fun when I'm riding anymore, cause I'm stressed out. Because you're stressed out and I wish that wasn't the case, but I have to be honest, it is. I think, Not only that, the times I've ridden, or two of the times I've ridden, I had a girl on the back and that is super, that's oh, that's a whole different thing, man, because I take my life in my own hands, and that's between me and god.

Speaker 4 33:52

But when I have someone in the back, I can never let that happen, man, I couldn't forgive myself honestly, I can't believe that you had that you would put somebody on the back well not saying that I took it very serious well of course we're not saying that's a bad thing.

Speaker 2 34:10

I'm just saying I know that, even even driving a vehicle I since then and, like I said, this was 25 someone years ago I take everything I can scan all the way around me. But regardless of how conscious you are of everything that's going on around you, it is not in your control.

Speaker 4 34:33

The only reason why I did that was because it was down River Road and that is the most comfortable road that I feel, riding Right Like. I've ridden down that road so many times and I would never have put her on there and went down 306.

Speaker 2 34:49

35 or something to that. Yeah, oh, definitely not 35.

Speaker 4 34:53

Not even 306. Right 306, like for me that's the dangerous road I drive down a lot Right. I never get on the interstate on my bike. Now I have in the past. I rode to Austin one time and it scared the hell out of me.

Speaker 2 35:07

Right.

Speaker 4 35:07

And I never did it since.

Speaker 2 35:09

Well, I just. It was to get weed. I'm not going to lie. I was just on the back of a bike for the first time in a very long time and this guy's been one of my best friends forever and ever and ever. And I could have probably thrown up 15. And I'm not a puker.

Speaker 1 35:28

And I could have probably thrown up 15, and I'm not a puker and I could have probably thrown up 15 times.

Speaker 2 35:31

We were on our way to Coda and I finally, about halfway there. What's the exit to take to get to your place, Nick? It starts with a C, doesn't it? Creedmoor? Huh, ironic, Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 4 35:46

Creedmoor.

Speaker 2 35:48

Creedmoor Creed creed fisher, you know. But right when we exited, there was when I decided you need to either breathe you're gonna pass the fuck out on the back of this thing one I don't weigh enough you didn't even realize that I'm freaking back here anymore or I'm gonna stroke the fuck out. And I finally decided, and by the time I got there I was like my legs were shaking. He's like what the fuck out? And I finally decided, and by the time I got there I was like my legs were shaking. He's like what the fuck is wrong with you. And I said, man, I just it's. No matter how long it had been, that was still a struggle for me. But then there's people that I know that have been in accidents and things that have happened to, where they jump up and think, well, that didn't kill me, Nothing's going to fucking kill me, so I'm just going to keep on keeping on. I'm like wow.

Speaker 4 36:35

I don't think they went through what we went through, because I've been through some wrecks. I've went down four times and one time I had to go to the hospital. Actually, one time that I had to go to the hospital I went down on my face so I had severe.

Speaker 4 36:49

I had to do a CAT scan, the whole brain thing and all that it knocked me out, actually, and so even after that, I was never really scared, or like it didn't change me to the extent this last one did, because I almost died, you know. And that's like, how important is riding that motorcycle to you? Well, it's important to me, it really is, but it's not the most important, and I think it's all about balance, and I used to ride my bike all the time, and now I don't. You know, I ride it for fun, when I can, here and there. Uh, Other than that, I take the car.

Speaker 2 37:29

Why is it important for you to still ride?

Speaker 4 37:32

Because I love doing it and I don't want fear to stop me from doing something that I love.

Speaker 2 37:38

That's the answer to my question as well.

Speaker 4 37:40

I don't want to be scared to do things I love. I just want to be smarter. Maybe it wasn't smart to ride everywhere I went and rain and you know. Uh, I'm just trying to be smarter. I still love doing it and I'm not going to quit doing something I love doing because of fear because I have to face that fear right, and so, uh for me, I'll never be like I was before, riding all over the place.

Speaker 2 38:07

If somebody could come up to you and and ask you, facing that fear, what was, what is the hardest part? I mean, how for you to get on that bike again, facing that fear, did you have one-on-one conversations with yourself? Did you have to self-motivate yourself? I talk to myself all the time, me and my head woo. We have some conversations. Did you have to really dig down deep?

Speaker 4 38:40

inside the soul of Creed Fisher and go hey, I operate a little different. I might have the conversation in my head and then. I'll put it away. Right, I'll file it away Right. You know I'll file it and I don't go back there, Cause I know it's something I have to do.

Speaker 3 38:54

Yeah.

Speaker 4 38:55

And I and then the minute I showed up at that at the Harley to get it, I pulled the file like all right and it was a little scary, it really was.

Speaker 3 39:07

Right.

Emotional Healing and Family Support

Speaker 4 39:07

And it was crazy, little scary. It really was Right. And it was crazy because it's just the first time I've been back on a motorcycle. All I was doing was riding my bike from the Harley dealership to my house, which is two miles, and my girlfriend was falling behind me, but I was still nervous.

Speaker 2 39:22

Were you a nervous wreck.

Speaker 4 39:23

I wouldn't say I was a nervous wreck, but I was nervous for sure, and ever since then I've been on two rides since then and it'll never be the same for me, to be honest with you. Yeah, because I and another thing is like letting my family down, you know, either I die or something bad happens to me, and then I can't be what I need to be for them. So that's where I'm at with it.

Speaker 2 39:52

I get that.

Speaker 4 39:52

And.

Speaker 3 39:53

I see it means a lot to you too?

Speaker 2 39:54

Yeah, it does yeah it was my kids, yep.

Speaker 4 39:59

But hey, we lived, we did, but did you die?

Speaker 2 40:03

Good, I'm glad you made me laugh.

Speaker 3 40:05

Can't have my eyes leaking on the show.

Speaker 4 40:06

No, we didn't die, we lived, we lived.

Speaker 2 40:09

Yeah, we have a lot to talk about. That is the first part of our road to recovery. With my tears rolling down my face, it's all right, let it out.

Speaker 4 40:19

Yeah, that's good, trust me, I've done it.

Speaker 2 40:21

I'm so glad you're here.

Speaker 4 40:23

I had to get and I'm pretty sure whoever I got it from is a crier, because I just keep crying, one me. I don't know how much blood she had to get.

Speaker 2 40:32

Yeah, no, I don't either. I can't donate. Give me a hug. I can't donate, I love you, I love you, mama.