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Comment on Living life again by Craig Bradley

Craig Bradley — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:22:25 +0000

Hey Aaron – from one yankee Whangarei boy to another, nice to hear you are on the mend. I have been following your progress – pretty amazing stuff. Rich Huff and my parents told me the news all those months ago and what a ride you have been on since then! God bless and I hope we can reconnect one of these days. Craig.

Comment on Living life again by Rudolf von Halem, Brno, Czech Republic

Rudolf von Halem, Brno, Czech Republic — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:26:07 +0000

Aaron, I truly enjoyed your last post. Yes, time will tell, but there is no doubt that you are on the right path.

Comment on Guestbook by Bob Holcomb

Bob Holcomb — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:00:52 +0000

Hey Aaron – I really enjoyed your last post and the notion of ‘filling the void’. That is one of your gifts. Remember when you publiched that Aprilia Cup set-up piece in Roadracing World? That was a perfect example of filling a big void. Here were all these new 250 RS 250 owners running several seconds off your pace. We were running race fuels, pipes etc. and dynoing at 56 when you ran 62. You publish your set-ups and suddenly we were all coming in about 61 running 87 test!

If you remember, it was all in the power valve adjustsment and little things to reduce driveline drag. There is a void out there you can fill. Call JU and ask him about it. He does that too, you know, but maybe different.

I wish you were here to help my scrub. He’s had a rough start to his first expert season at Loudon. He’s had good finishes, but not enough finishes if you know what I mean. We think he is getting on top of it, though. Seat time helps. -bob

Comment on Guestbook by John and Lesley Noonan

John and Lesley Noonan — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:07:15 +0000

Hi Aaron
Fantastic to hear the latest from Meegs. Caught up with her and Ned and Dad and Mary for coffee Sunday. Awesome to hear of the track and work prospects.
We had the Grandies with us so was difficult to talk in amongst fluffies and little tanties! We will keep in the link and follow latest. Work still slow here. Sherryl arriving this week so looking forward to seeing her. Talk soon.
Lots of love, keep strong, Love Johnny and Les.

Comment on Living life again by Dave Lewis

Dave Lewis — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:07:44 +0000

Aaron,
Glad to see you back in the states and doing well, I hope to see you at Miller some time, Dave.

Comment on Living life again by Ted and Candice Stimac

Ted and Candice Stimac — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:04:58 +0000

I did a double take at Miller WSBK last week. It was not you.
Im glad you made it to any track.
I would think your services would be in great damand. Good luck.
Thanks for the updates.

Ted

Comment on Living life again by Tamara

Tamara — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:29:21 +0000

Aaron,
It was really good to have you at the track at Hastings. I kept seeing you treking back and forth to the hotpit and I was amazed everytime I saw you WALK by. I was telling someone the other day that you had had so many miracles happen in your recovery. Truly amazing. So even though we didn’t get a big chance to visit at Hastings, I want you to know that we were so happy to have you there, doing your thing. Mark said he wanted to give you a big hug but wasn’t sure it was appropriate. So I will just pass it along to you in spirit. We really hope to see you at High Plains this weekend. It makes our race family feel complete.
Tammy

Comment on Living life again by Alex Kuretz

Alex Kuretz — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:43:24 +0000

It’s good to hear that you’ve got some opportunity for part time work, that’s a great way to more slowly get back into things along with all the other adjustments you’re going through being back home.

I’m sure people will benefit from your experience on the track, doing well on the track really requires preparation and focus on so many levels.

Comment on Living life again by Catherine Sabin (ex Clark)

Catherine Sabin (ex Clark) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:33:50 +0000

Hi Aaron

I’ve been following your progress since your accident and like so many other people, all I can say is “WOW”. You are one son of a gun! I truly hope your ‘second life’ brings you even more fulfilment as obviously you’ve learnt so much since your life changing race.

I hope I’m not asking too much here……….but wondered if you had a few minutes during some down time to send a message to my stepson Darryl(18yrs). Your Dad knows of his situation and sent a lovely card to us as he trained my husband Mike Sabin nearly twenty years ago on the farm he was working at that time. He obviously didn’t know of the connection either of me previously being married to Danny!

Anyhow, Darryl suffered a catastrophic/traumatic brain injury on Anzac Day (25 April) while playing rugby at Te Hapua in the Far North. He wasn’t expected to live and for the first two days we were told to prepare ourselves for the worst. However Darryl (being Darryl and sharing some similar traits to you I’d suggest) on day 3 wiggled his toes and gave the Dr’s some indication he was not ready to give up. Since then he’s made slow but steady progress to the point he was discharged from the HDU at Akl hospital last Mon 25 May and admitted to a brain injury rehab all while still being in a coma!

We took the liberty also of setting up a website similar to yours, as we’d all been following your progress……so hope you don’t mind. It’s getwelldarryl.com

We’re reading the messages out to Darryl so if you have any words of wisdom from your experience that you think may help I know Darryl would be blown away to hear from you.

Sorry for taking up so much space with this and I hope you don’t think I’m being too cheeky, this was the best way I could think of getting in contact quickly.

Best regards
Catherine

Comment on Living life again by Matt Gimple

Matt Gimple — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:32:53 +0000

Hey Aaron,

It was really nice to come over and say hi, shake your hand, and officially meet you. Sorry I interrupted your lunch though, haha! You and your determination, strength, and confidence are all something everyone can look up to and that does include me. All of us at MPH Hastings are very happy that you came and we hope to see you next year as well!!! Take care and God Speed