February 13, 2025 • 40 mins
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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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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 onit.
I'm just bein' on a star, holywater drippin', drippin' from my
neck to my creps.
So I'm two-steppin' on it likewe're rollin', we're rollin',
let's go, let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
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' Gypsypodcast, and we are back in the
she shed with Creed Fisher.
Creed has been here with meonce before and we talked about
doing this show.
We've got some other thingswe're going to talk about as
(00:41):
well, but when we had you herepreviously, we talked about your
2025 tour, and that has nowbeen kicked off.
It is 2025.
And you have done how manyshows.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
A couple weekends.
A couple weekends, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And you had some running.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
A couple good weekends though.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You ran into some weather, had some.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, a lot of snow.
It didn't snow on us, but itwas everywhere.
So yeah yeah, ohio, there wassnow piled up everywhere so but
it's been so good, some goodshows.
So far I've had a really goodstart to the tour and where are
you?
at so far well, we just playedin troy, ohio, with my brother,
my buddy brian martin, what wasmy first arena show.
(01:22):
Nice, so that was cool.
And then, but the weekendbefore 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.
Some of us still do yeah so wedid a video for that.
It's on YouTube and, uh, thatwas success.
We sold out the the venue therein Indiana, nice.
(01:44):
It's been a good fun start tothe tour so far.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Good deal.
Yeah, and it continues through.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm always on tour.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It'll be through the end of the year.
Yeah, and the name of the touris Between Heaven and Hell.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's right, yeah, and if you guys didn't catch it,
you need to go back and watchit.
It's a really good episode.
You need to go back and watchit.
It's a really good episode.
And you sang us a song, whichwas a really cool song, and I
revisited that a while ago andit really paid attention to the
lyrics.
I mean, obviously I did hear,because they're very sincere.
It is a beautiful song, areally beautiful song.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
That song is tied for my best love song I've ever
written.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's right there, with that girl right there, it's
very good 've ever written.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
It's right there with that girl right there.
It's very good.
I love it.
Yeah, it came from the heartand that's what matters in music
.
You know, that's what I alwaysshoot for is which.
I think the drinking songs comefrom the heart too, but I think
the love songs that just reallyhit you, man, when it comes
from an honest place.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's a good one.
I think there's going to be alot of people that can relate to
that.
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I mean, I clearly thought you were singing about
me, but you know, whatever itwas, you, tiff, I didn't want to
let the cat out of the bag.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Please don't ruin that for me.
It was all about me at to doand it's called the Road to
Recovery Creed Fisher's Road toRecovery.
And let's start off.
I know your fan base knows.
For people that don't know,let's start from the beginning
(03:17):
and tell us what happened.
You were in a really, reallybad accident in 2024.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I was in St Cloud, Minnesota, doing a show
Raleigh's and I pretty much soldout.
I'd played there the yearbefore and had a really good
show there.
And I went riding motorcyclesbefore the show and, to make a
long story short, I wrecked theguy in front of me, took a
(03:44):
u-turn in front of me and he wason a motorcycle too and I hit
him right between the gas tankand the seat of the seat and he
flew off and I went down hardand broke my pelvis in half how
many of y'all were?
riding together there was threeof us, three of y'all, yeah and
unfamiliar roads for us?
(04:05):
yeah, not the guy that did theu-turn, which is kind of ironic
right, where was he going?
Too fast he was going too fastyeah, he passed his turn, uh-huh
, unfortunately, and that's whyyou know.
The rest is history.
Yeah, but that guy I don't haveyou.
I've forgiven him and moved on.
I actually sent a letter to thejudge because he's in trouble.
(04:29):
He ran off.
That's the main reason he's introuble.
He ran off on foot, which isweird, because we knew where he
lived.
I don't understand it.
I'm sure he can't even explainit.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's a really touchy subject.
Is that it I mean?
Is that is?
Is it public information?
Is that?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
something that we can , I mean we can discuss, and why
.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Where was what were you?
Have you been able to ask him,bro, what were you doing?
Why?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I know, I know why I know why I had been drinking.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And no one knows how much because he ran off, right
Wow.
That's the speculation at thispoint.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But there's another law that's almost as bad as DWI,
when you hurt somebody and runoff.
I sent a letter to the judgeand asked.
I told the judge that I didn'twant him to go to jail.
Just you know, don't let himoff.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But right for a pardon.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I don't want to see the guy in jail.
I mean him.
Going to jail isn't going tomake my life any better, right,
but definitely some probation.
You're like.
You know he doesn't need to getoff scot-free for what he, for
what happened?
I don't man, I've moved.
To be honest with you, I'm in adifferent zone in my life, a
different place.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
The person behind you .
There was three of y'all riding, so it was him Turn my chair a
little.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It was the gentleman that did the U-turn, Then it was
you and then there was somebodyelse behind you.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, my buddy Kyle, it was his bike, his son's bike.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That you were riding.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, I was in Minnesota so it was a bike I was
unfamiliar with Right, and Idon't know to this day if it
totaled the Bach or not.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Really.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I've never asked him and I admire the fact he never
asked me anything about it.
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
So whatever happened to the bike, we don't know, I
don't know, but they've beensupportive and thank God for him
, man Kyle Krohn, because he wasthe only one left to call the
ambulance.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
To call anyone Right.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
The other guy ran off .
So if it had been up to theother guy, I'd have just died on
the side of the road, which Ialmost did.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So you broke your pelvis.
What were your injuries?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It was pretty gruesome.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I broke my pelvis in half, so basically my two legs
were no longer attached to eachother, and when I tried to get
up I went one way and this legwent the other way.
So I laid down and I knew I wasbroken.
I I knew something serious wasbroken.
It was painful as hell so youdid feel the pain oh, so bad, so
(07:13):
bad, and it took them 20minutes to get to me and I was
bleeding internally and so Ialmost died and it's crazy and I
laugh now.
Thank god I can right because,so much, so many things are
going well for me this year, in2025, but the whole time I'm
laying on the ground, dyingbasically, or almost dying.
(07:35):
All I can think about is howI'm gonna take myself up and go
play this show that was supposedto play in an hour right, okay,
so keep in mind every fingerexcept my pinky, because you can
see the pinky's not out as farright these three fingers were
going in all three differentdirections.
This finger was going straightthat way and they were all just
mangled, you know.
And the first thing the firstthing that hit was my hand when
(07:58):
I went down this way and youwere coherent enough, your body
didn't go into shock I never hitmy head and I
wow uh, I was awake the wholetime on the side of the road
cussing that guy.
Maybe that's why I ran off yeahyeah, well, he thought he just
killed creed fisher.
He really did, and I don't.
(08:18):
You know, listen, I I'm not hisjudge, I'm not his judger.
So, uh, I lived and I kept myleg and everything's good, and
he shouldn't have run off andthat's on him.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So ambulance came.
Obviously Were you air.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
No, I was.
It was kind of messed upbecause when the ambulance came
they couldn't give me nothingfor pain because my blood
pressure was so low, and thenwhen they got me to the hospital
my blood pressure was 60 over30.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
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 mylegs still attached.
Are you glad?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
that you were coherent, and this is why,
because I was in a very similarsituation, but my situation was
a wee bit different than yours,which is why I'm asking are you
glad that you were coherentenough to realize what was going
on?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, absolutely.
Were coherent enough to realizewhat was going on.
Or yeah, absolutely.
I'm glad that I have thosememories and I'm glad that I
didn't hit my head, right, youknow, because I probably
wouldn't be here if I'd hit myhead yeah because I was just
going so fast road rash and Icould easily paralyze myself
from the waist down.
I literally broke a bone twoinches away from where I could
be paralyzed from the waist down.
So just the simple fact thatbroke there, you know but, I'm
(09:51):
counting my blessings at thispoint.
I'm in a good place and you knowI'm doing the biggest tour of
my career and probably healthierthan I've been in a good minute
.
Healthier than I've been in agood minute.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So when that happens in a sold out tour room, people
are waiting for Creed Fisher tocome 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 couldhave been a flower.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I know a lot of musicians and a lot of not just
any, but people that have astage presence, and when you're
waiting out what happens, whohandles that?
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 aboutme, 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 callme no show, fisher or something
yeah.
But they were just when theyannounced that, ma'am, you could
have heard a pin drop, and thisis all from what I heard.
You could have heard a pin drop.
And people were just worried,right, because at that point we
(11:11):
didn't know if I was going tomake it or not.
I mean, and there was actuallya story came out during that
early time period where theysaid I had died.
It got twisted because therewas some other guy named Creed
had wrecked that same day.
Really In some other and he haddied.
Wow, People were still unsureif 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 asold-out show.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, so you're not at home.
You're in an accident, the dudeflees the scene.
You're in an accident, the dudeflees the scene.
You're in the hospital, not athome, which I probably just said
.
But how long were you at thatfacility?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I was at that place in St Cloud for six days.
I was the Saturday when Iwrecked and I got out Friday,
the next Friday, and it wascrazy.
I mean I had people outside thehospital.
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 transportyou?
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, howwere you?
No, I went there.
They saint cloud, uh, saintcloud hospital there, and I'm
gonna go back and do somethingspecial for my nurses that were
there I'm gonna make sure thatyou 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.
(12:46):
I couldn't hear them, but peoplethat were coming to see me were
telling me Were telling youthere were people outside, yeah,
that were playing my music andhad signs and things and whatnot
, Somewhere along the line abouthalfway through the thing I'm
laying in my bed.
I think it was after thesurgery.
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 youhave?
Implants done.
I mean, was there any kind ofno?
Just they plated it backtogether, 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 backtogether.
I came back apart halfway, butthat'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 inMinnesota in the hospital and
just laying there watching TV.
And these three people walk inand 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 isgoing?
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 inthis room, they just asked the
front desk where I was, and sothen, I had to have my people
called out at that point, Likelisten 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 Iappreciated 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 avan and it was horrible.
It was pretty rough.
The van ride wasn't as bad assitting at the airport for like
two hours.
I can't imagine, just in somuch pain, airport for like two
hours, I can't imagine Just inso much pain.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So I was in a motorcycle wreck and this is why
I can relate to so many thingsthat you're saying.
Mine was a very differentscenario.
We were actually going on a runin Kerrville.
It was a bike rally, thunder inthe Hill Country run in
Kerrville and a whole group ofus and there was nine of us that
(15:45):
were riding together and we hadall loaded up and we're going
to run to Walmart and just gograb our necessities and things
that we needed.
And they wanted to stop atWhataburger and grab something
while I wasn't eating.
So I sat outside on on the bikeand was just kicking it and
talking and there was a coupleof officers there and Kerrville
(16:07):
is just a little Texas HillCountry town right around the
corner from our hometown, newBraunfels here and he was going
on and on about how the localsdon't like the bikers and that
they just Sounds like Billy'slast house.
You know, yeah, there's no onethere.
Yeah, right, just going on andon and on and I said, yeah, it's
(16:29):
really.
I mean there's a lot of oldmoney in curville and I get you
know, I mean there's there's a alot of racism or whatever you
call it.
You know I use being racist ina very broad term, but it's,
bikers are judged, there's we'reall.
We all judge things in our ownform and fashion.
(16:49):
But he was going on and on andabout how the locals just didn't
like him there and I see, andthen at the same time talking
about how much money that we allbring to the community and that
we spend and everything that wedo, and so it's a, it's a
catch-22 for a lot of theselittle towns.
Well, ironically enough, we hadleft there, loaded up, went to
Walmart and there was a Dodgetruck that kept jacking with all
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of us and would go back andforth and back and forth and was
just revving his engine andjust being a real prick, and,
sure enough, we were goingaround, there's a.
It's almost like you're goingaround a plaza down there, but
it wasn't, it was just like ahalf turn and it's got the
guardrails with the drainageditch and this truck ended up
(17:37):
clipping our back tire.
And I was on a 1973 Sportster,souped up and just gnarly.
And yeah, I just so happened tohave a titanium knee brace on
my leg and at the time I had mycell phone clipped on it.
But um, I'm the world's worstand then still to this day about
wearing a helmet.
I'm very claustrophobic and Ihad 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 wasunder the bike, so the bike skid
around.
We hit the guardrail.
Then it scooped me back up andI flew up in the air and went
down into the ravine, into theditch, which is why I was asking
(18:22):
if you were coherent enough andyou could feel everything Me.
I remember thinking, oh shit,we're going down.
And we did, and I grabbed myhead and I just remember rolling
and rolling and rolling, andthen I just kept thinking, man,
am I going to ever stop rolling?
(18:43):
And then when I finally did, Ihad zero pain, I didn't feel
anything, I was just reallytired.
I was just really tired, I wasjust super tired and I thought
I'm just going to lay here andI'm just going to go to sleep
now and I laid there, but Ididn't feel anything.
I didn't feel any painwhatsoever and I could hear the
(19:05):
helicopters trying to find me.
And so, yeah, they found me andI was in the hospital in
Kerrville.
I had broken my back, shatteredmy 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 ridingtogether and, yeah, everybody
behind us.
You know, they saw I think wewere the second or third bike
and then the rest of them wereall behind us and for whatever
reason, he.
But it's.
It's kind of crazy how yourbody goes into shock and because
I, I didn't feel anything, theonly thing I never felt my
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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 canyeah, you jump up right and you
don't, I mean, you're just inshock basically yeah, yeah your
body's protecting you from that,you know yes I'm glad you're
all right.
(20:10):
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.
It makes me angry at that guywell, and you, you know my
parents always I've been writingsince I was little and, of
course, at that point in time II was going through a stage in
my life where I thought I wasinvincible and was doing things
that it was the wild side ofthings I should have done when I
(20:32):
was younger.
And I didn't do, and and um,when it happened, I thought you
know, you know, we don't reallyhave 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 thathappened, I thought you know
(20:52):
what?
I need to slow my ass down.
I need to pay attention toexactly 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 liveforever.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Right.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
And we're still alive .
Yes, For a reason but now wehave our purpose and we Exactly
you know.
Think like riding, for instance, for me.
People ask me are you stillgoing 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 peoplecome up to your fans that were
able to get into your room.
Well, I had my dad God blesshim he's not with us here
anymore but he called me whenthey obviously had heard about
it and said if you do make itand you do get out of that
(22:01):
hospital, I did have to telleverybody at the door, you know,
because I was not in myhometown, to not let anyone into
my room and talk about nursesand the amazing things.
You know I wasn't able to batheor whatever.
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I had a night nurse that wouldcome 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 wantyeah, 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 theworst, and I've talked about it
a little bit on my lives andstuff.
It's just these nurses, man, Ilove the nurses.
That's why I want to go backand do something nice for them,
you know, because you know.
(23:02):
I mean I had internal bleedingin 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'sgoing 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 Ihad a catheter.
So you can only imagine whatthat does to your nether regions
.
You know, what I'm saying.
I mean, a proud man was notproud, I'll just put it that way
.
And these nurses, they have tocome clean it like every six
hours.
It's just like one of thosethings are don't make eye
(23:35):
contact, you know, and shedoesn'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 pieduring 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 haveis one, maybe two, maybe three.
At that point you feel likeevery human that has ever worked
in a hospital has seen yourvagina.
So, at that point you justreally 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 wasin the hospital and talk about
(24:13):
how grateful you were for yournurses I had, um, my night nurse
was the sweetest old lady thatshe would always come in, she
would sit and talk to me and ofcourse I was a high as a fucking
kite.
I I realized I realized at thatpoint how easy it is to become a
drug addict, because I wouldliterally watch the clock until
(24:39):
I could hit the button myself.
You and me both, because I washurt and then yeah, and then
when it was time for them togive you your interim meds, yeah
, I mean I was like boop, get inhere, and I mean they would hit
you with that.
And I was like boop, get inhere, and I mean they would hit
you with that.
And I was like, oh man, it wasjust 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 thatthey're very sensitive about it,
but they have just gone too farin my opinion, because what you
were giving me was killing thepain, right.
And then I come to San Antonioand the laws are completely
(25:21):
different.
I was getting ivory preferencein San Antonio.
I'm like I was on Dilaudid overhere 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, minewas shit 25 years ago, if not
longer.
So I mean I was walking aroundwith 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 movedafter.
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 thehospital until I'm dying Right
At the end of my life, untilhospice comes.
Yeah, I don't want to go back,because what happened with me is
when I got home, my hardwarecame 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 otherthings, and the doctor comes
back and he's like well, you gotother problems right now.
Your hardware came out and mythe screw that was holding the
top part of my hip together hadcome 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 otherpodcast.
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 shortestpossible, 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 thatbooger 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 thex-ray and I look at that screw,
I don't know how they thoughtthat 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 boyyou 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 thesurgery twice so finally, you
know, when I went the secondtime, they put a screw all the
way across my hips.
Even though the top screw didcome out a little, it didn't
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come out enough to do anythingwhere I had to have any further
procedures.
Wow, now I have the screw.
I can still feel it.
The last time I went they saidI could possibly maybe have to
have it removed.
I'm good now, man.
My pelvis is fused backtogether at this point.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
So did you have actual implants put in there as
well?
No, like any joint implants orwhatever 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 toofar off well, I tell you what I
just had mine, and it's the bestdecision 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 youwrecked?
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 wasit.
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 rollExactly.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I grabbed my head and I just rolled right down that
mountain when I was just kept ongoing.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
We will sacrifice anything to save our place.
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 meanthat's exactly my.
I'll never have the guts to dothat again.
My mentality level was, oh fuck, I'm, we're going down, and it
(29:39):
did.
And.
And the last thing I rememberwas what saved my knee probably
which was ironic because I'vehad three knee surgeries and um
was I had a titanium.
You've seen that.
You've seen them, the big, longones that robots wear, and
that's what I had, which is, andwhen 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 yeahamen to that crazy enough, yeah,
I was worrying about losing myleg.
I'm just.
That was the last thing I wastalking about when I finally
fell asleep, because when theyfinally were able to give me
some pain meds, I started askingquestions.
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 minewas once I got in there and was
realizing what was happening andcoming out of the shock mode a
bit, and then they, like yousaid, could not give me any pain
medication and they had toscrape your road rash, and that
by far.
I have delivered ginormouschildren.
(30:55):
I have had a hip replacement,I've had three surgeries knee
surgeries Out of everything thatI have ever had done them
taking the scouring pads andremoving your skin layer after
layer after layer and not givingyou anything.
It's literally like taking ansos pad to your raw meat.
(31:16):
I can't even imagine that andit was.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
That's a whole other level, man excruciating like I
had rug rash on my arms bad, butnot 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 inthe 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 victimor anyone with a skin injury, I
just, I just want to hug him andthink you know, and I, I didn't
burn you know, I mean I hadroad 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 abike again.
You said yes and yes, I have,but I have not ridden on the
back of a motorcycle with anyoneuntil 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 onmy little Vespa all over the
place and I ride it constantly.
Unfortunately, I don all overthe 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 completelyoblivious, same.
I see things now that I didn'tsee before and it stresses me
out a little Like, for instance,just a simple fact of you're
passing an SUV or an 18-wheeleror whatever.
It is two foot from them andare they on their phone?
(33:13):
Yes, you know, cause I don'thave 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, itdoesn't.
I don't have as much fun whenI'm riding anymore, cause I'm
stressed out.
Because you're stressed out andI wish that wasn't the case,
but I have to be honest, it is.
I think, Not only that, thetimes I've ridden, or two of the
(33:40):
times I've ridden, I had a girlon the back and that is super,
that's oh, that's a wholedifferent thing, man, because I
take my life in my own hands,and that's between me and god.
But when I have someone in theback, I can never let that
happen, man, I couldn't forgivemyself honestly, I can't believe
that you had that you would putsomebody on the back well not
(34:06):
saying that I took it veryserious 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 Isaid, this was 25 someone years
ago I take everything I canscan all the way around me.
But regardless of how consciousyou are of everything that's
going on around you, it is notin your control.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
The only reason why I did that was because it was
down River Road and that is themost comfortable road that I
feel, riding Right Like.
I've ridden down that road somany times and I would never
have put her on there and wentdown 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'sthe dangerous road I drive down
a lot Right.
I never get on the interstateon my bike.
Now I have in the past.
I rode to Austin one time andit 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 abike for the first time in a
very long time and this guy'sbeen one of my best friends
forever and ever and ever.
And I could have probablythrown 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 haveprobably 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 getto 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, therewas when I decided you need to
either breathe you're gonna passthe fuck out on the back of
this thing one I don't weighenough you didn't even realize
that I'm freaking back hereanymore or I'm gonna stroke the
fuck out.
And I finally decided, and bythe time I got there I was like
my legs were shaking.
He's like what the fuck out?
And I finally decided, and bythe time I got there I was like
(36:09):
my legs were shaking.
He's like what the fuck iswrong 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 Iknow that have been in accidents
and things that have happenedto, where they jump up and think
(36:29):
, well, that didn't kill me,Nothing's going to fucking kill
me, so I'm just going to keep onkeeping on.
I'm like wow.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I don't think they went through what we went
through, because I've beenthrough some wrecks.
I've went down four times andone time I had to go to the
hospital.
Actually, one time that I hadto go to the hospital I went
down on my face so I had severe.
I had to do a CAT scan, thewhole brain thing and all that
it knocked me out, actually, andso even after that, I was never
(36:57):
really scared, or like itdidn't change me to the extent
this last one did, because Ialmost died, you know.
And that's like, how importantis riding that motorcycle to you
?
Well, it's important to me, itreally is, but it's not the most
important, and I think it's allabout balance, and I used to
(37:19):
ride my bike all the time, andnow I don't.
You know, I ride it for fun,when I can, here and there.
Uh, Other than that, I take thecar.
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 Ilove.
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 rideeverywhere I went and rain and
you know.
Uh, I'm just trying to besmarter.
I still love doing it and I'mnot going to quit doing
something I love doing becauseof fear because I have to face
that fear right, and so, uh forme, I'll never be like I was
(38:04):
before, riding all over theplace.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
If somebody could come up to you and and ask you,
facing that fear, what was, whatis the hardest part?
I mean, how for you to get onthat bike again, facing that
fear, did you have one-on-oneconversations with yourself?
(38:28):
Did you have to self-motivateyourself?
I talk to myself all the time,me and my head woo.
We have some conversations.
Did you have to really dig downdeep?
Speaker 4 (38:40):
inside the soul of Creed Fisher and go hey, I
operate a little different.
I might have the conversationin my head and then.
I'll put it away.
Right, I'll file it away Right.
You know I'll file it and Idon'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 pulledthe file like all right and it
was a little scary, it reallywas.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Right.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
And it was crazy, little scary.
It really was Right.
And it was crazy because it'sjust the first time I've been
back on a motorcycle.
All I was doing was riding mybike from the Harley dealership
to my house, which is two miles,and my girlfriend was falling
behind me, but I was stillnervous.
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 sincethen I've been on two rides
since then and it'll never bethe same for me, to be honest
with you.
Yeah, because I and anotherthing is like letting my family
down, you know, either I die orsomething bad happens to me, and
(39:47):
then I can't be what I need tobe 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 ourroad to recovery.
With my tears rolling down myface, 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 justkeep crying, one me.
I don't know how much blood shehad 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, Ilove you, mama.
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 onit.
I'm just bein' on a star, holywater drippin', drippin' from my
neck to my creps.
So I'm two-steppin' on it likewe're rollin', we're rollin',
let's go, let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
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' Gypsypodcast, and we are back in the
she shed with Creed Fisher.
Creed has been here with meonce before and we talked about
doing this show.
We've got some other thingswe're going to talk about as
(00:41):
well, but when we had you herepreviously, we talked about your
2025 tour, and that has nowbeen kicked off.
It is 2025.
And you have done how manyshows.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
A couple weekends.
A couple weekends, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And you had some running.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
A couple good weekends though.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You ran into some weather, had some.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, a lot of snow.
It didn't snow on us, but itwas everywhere.
So yeah yeah, ohio, there wassnow piled up everywhere so but
it's been so good, some goodshows.
So far I've had a really goodstart to the tour and where are
you?
at so far well, we just playedin troy, ohio, with my brother,
my buddy brian martin, what wasmy first arena show.
(01:22):
Nice, so that was cool.
And then, but the weekendbefore 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.
Some of us still do yeah so wedid a video for that.
It's on YouTube and, uh, thatwas success.
We sold out the the venue therein Indiana, nice.
(01:44):
It's been a good fun start tothe tour so far.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Good deal.
Yeah, and it continues through.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm always on tour.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It'll be through the end of the year.
Yeah, and the name of the touris Between Heaven and Hell.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's right, yeah, and if you guys didn't catch it,
you need to go back and watchit.
It's a really good episode.
You need to go back and watchit.
It's a really good episode.
And you sang us a song, whichwas a really cool song, and I
revisited that a while ago andit really paid attention to the
lyrics.
I mean, obviously I did hear,because they're very sincere.
It is a beautiful song, areally beautiful song.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
That song is tied for my best love song I've ever
written.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's right there, with that girl right there, it's
very good 've ever written.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
It's right there with that girl right there.
It's very good.
I love it.
Yeah, it came from the heartand that's what matters in music
.
You know, that's what I alwaysshoot for is which.
I think the drinking songs comefrom the heart too, but I think
the love songs that just reallyhit you, man, when it comes
from an honest place.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's a good one.
I think there's going to be alot of people that can relate to
that.
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I mean, I clearly thought you were singing about
me, but you know, whatever itwas, you, tiff, I didn't want to
let the cat out of the bag.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Please don't ruin that for me.
It was all about me at to doand it's called the Road to
Recovery Creed Fisher's Road toRecovery.
And let's start off.
I know your fan base knows.
For people that don't know,let's start from the beginning
(03:17):
and tell us what happened.
You were in a really, reallybad accident in 2024.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I was in St Cloud, Minnesota, doing a show
Raleigh's and I pretty much soldout.
I'd played there the yearbefore and had a really good
show there.
And I went riding motorcyclesbefore the show and, to make a
long story short, I wrecked theguy in front of me, took a
(03:44):
u-turn in front of me and he wason a motorcycle too and I hit
him right between the gas tankand the seat of the seat and he
flew off and I went down hardand broke my pelvis in half how
many of y'all were?
riding together there was threeof us, three of y'all, yeah and
unfamiliar roads for us?
(04:05):
yeah, not the guy that did theu-turn, which is kind of ironic
right, where was he going?
Too fast he was going too fastyeah, he passed his turn, uh-huh
, unfortunately, and that's whyyou know.
The rest is history.
Yeah, but that guy I don't haveyou.
I've forgiven him and moved on.
I actually sent a letter to thejudge because he's in trouble.
(04:29):
He ran off.
That's the main reason he's introuble.
He ran off on foot, which isweird, because we knew where he
lived.
I don't understand it.
I'm sure he can't even explainit.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's a really touchy subject.
Is that it I mean?
Is that is?
Is it public information?
Is that?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
something that we can , I mean we can discuss, and why
.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Where was what were you?
Have you been able to ask him,bro, what were you doing?
Why?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I know, I know why I know why I had been drinking.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And no one knows how much because he ran off, right
Wow.
That's the speculation at thispoint.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But there's another law that's almost as bad as DWI,
when you hurt somebody and runoff.
I sent a letter to the judgeand asked.
I told the judge that I didn'twant him to go to jail.
Just you know, don't let himoff.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But right for a pardon.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I don't want to see the guy in jail.
I mean him.
Going to jail isn't going tomake my life any better, right,
but definitely some probation.
You're like.
You know he doesn't need to getoff scot-free for what he, for
what happened?
I don't man, I've moved.
To be honest with you, I'm in adifferent zone in my life, a
different place.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
The person behind you .
There was three of y'all riding, so it was him Turn my chair a
little.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It was the gentleman that did the U-turn, Then it was
you and then there was somebodyelse behind you.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, my buddy Kyle, it was his bike, his son's bike.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That you were riding.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, I was in Minnesota so it was a bike I was
unfamiliar with Right, and Idon't know to this day if it
totaled the Bach or not.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Really.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I've never asked him and I admire the fact he never
asked me anything about it.
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
So whatever happened to the bike, we don't know, I
don't know, but they've beensupportive and thank God for him
, man Kyle Krohn, because he wasthe only one left to call the
ambulance.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
To call anyone Right.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
The other guy ran off .
So if it had been up to theother guy, I'd have just died on
the side of the road, which Ialmost did.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So you broke your pelvis.
What were your injuries?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It was pretty gruesome.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I broke my pelvis in half, so basically my two legs
were no longer attached to eachother, and when I tried to get
up I went one way and this legwent the other way.
So I laid down and I knew I wasbroken.
I I knew something serious wasbroken.
It was painful as hell so youdid feel the pain oh, so bad, so
(07:13):
bad, and it took them 20minutes to get to me and I was
bleeding internally and so Ialmost died and it's crazy and I
laugh now.
Thank god I can right because,so much, so many things are
going well for me this year, in2025, but the whole time I'm
laying on the ground, dyingbasically, or almost dying.
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All I can think about is howI'm gonna take myself up and go
play this show that was supposedto play in an hour right, okay,
so keep in mind every fingerexcept my pinky, because you can
see the pinky's not out as farright these three fingers were
going in all three differentdirections.
This finger was going straightthat way and they were all just
mangled, you know.
And the first thing the firstthing that hit was my hand when
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I went down this way and youwere coherent enough, your body
didn't go into shock I never hitmy head and I
wow uh, I was awake the wholetime on the side of the road
cussing that guy.
Maybe that's why I ran off yeahyeah, well, he thought he just
killed creed fisher.
He really did, and I don't.
(08:18):
You know, listen, I I'm not hisjudge, I'm not his judger.
So, uh, I lived and I kept myleg and everything's good, and
he shouldn't have run off andthat's on him.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So ambulance came.
Obviously Were you air.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
No, I was.
It was kind of messed upbecause when the ambulance came
they couldn't give me nothingfor pain because my blood
pressure was so low, and thenwhen they got me to the hospital
my blood pressure was 60 over30.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
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 mylegs still attached.
Are you glad?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
that you were coherent, and this is why,
because I was in a very similarsituation, but my situation was
a wee bit different than yours,which is why I'm asking are you
glad that you were coherentenough to realize what was going
on?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, absolutely.
Were coherent enough to realizewhat was going on.
Or yeah, absolutely.
I'm glad that I have thosememories and I'm glad that I
didn't hit my head, right, youknow, because I probably
wouldn't be here if I'd hit myhead yeah because I was just
going so fast road rash and Icould easily paralyze myself
from the waist down.
I literally broke a bone twoinches away from where I could
be paralyzed from the waist down.
So just the simple fact thatbroke there, you know but, I'm
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counting my blessings at thispoint.
I'm in a good place and you knowI'm doing the biggest tour of
my career and probably healthierthan I've been in a good minute
.
Healthier than I've been in agood minute.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So when that happens in a sold out tour room, people
are waiting for Creed Fisher tocome 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 couldhave been a flower.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I know a lot of musicians and a lot of not just
any, but people that have astage presence, and when you're
waiting out what happens, whohandles that?
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 aboutme, 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 callme no show, fisher or something
yeah.
But they were just when theyannounced that, ma'am, you could
have heard a pin drop, and thisis all from what I heard.
You could have heard a pin drop.
And people were just worried,right, because at that point we
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didn't know if I was going tomake it or not.
I mean, and there was actuallya story came out during that
early time period where theysaid I had died.
It got twisted because therewas some other guy named Creed
had wrecked that same day.
Really In some other and he haddied.
Wow, People were still unsureif 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 asold-out show.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, so you're not at home.
You're in an accident, the dudeflees the scene.
You're in an accident, the dudeflees the scene.
You're in the hospital, not athome, which I probably just said
.
But how long were you at thatfacility?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I was at that place in St Cloud for six days.
I was the Saturday when Iwrecked and I got out Friday,
the next Friday, and it wascrazy.
I mean I had people outside thehospital.
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 transportyou?
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, howwere you?
No, I went there.
They saint cloud, uh, saintcloud hospital there, and I'm
gonna go back and do somethingspecial for my nurses that were
there I'm gonna make sure thatyou 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.
(12:46):
I couldn't hear them, but peoplethat were coming to see me were
telling me Were telling youthere were people outside, yeah,
that were playing my music andhad signs and things and whatnot
, Somewhere along the line abouthalfway through the thing I'm
laying in my bed.
I think it was after thesurgery.
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 youhave?
Implants done.
I mean, was there any kind ofno?
Just they plated it backtogether, 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 backtogether.
I came back apart halfway, butthat'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 inMinnesota in the hospital and
just laying there watching TV.
And these three people walk inand 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 isgoing?
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 inthis room, they just asked the
front desk where I was, and sothen, I had to have my people
called out at that point, Likelisten 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 Iappreciated 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 avan and it was horrible.
It was pretty rough.
The van ride wasn't as bad assitting at the airport for like
two hours.
I can't imagine, just in somuch pain, airport for like two
hours, I can't imagine Just inso much pain.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So I was in a motorcycle wreck and this is why
I can relate to so many thingsthat you're saying.
Mine was a very differentscenario.
We were actually going on a runin Kerrville.
It was a bike rally, thunder inthe Hill Country run in
Kerrville and a whole group ofus and there was nine of us that
(15:45):
were riding together and we hadall loaded up and we're going
to run to Walmart and just gograb our necessities and things
that we needed.
And they wanted to stop atWhataburger and grab something
while I wasn't eating.
So I sat outside on on the bikeand was just kicking it and
talking and there was a coupleof officers there and Kerrville
(16:07):
is just a little Texas HillCountry town right around the
corner from our hometown, newBraunfels here and he was going
on and on about how the localsdon't like the bikers and that
they just Sounds like Billy'slast house.
You know, yeah, there's no onethere.
Yeah, right, just going on andon and on and I said, yeah, it's
(16:29):
really.
I mean there's a lot of oldmoney in curville and I get you
know, I mean there's there's a alot of racism or whatever you
call it.
You know I use being racist ina very broad term, but it's,
bikers are judged, there's we'reall.
We all judge things in our ownform and fashion.
(16:49):
But he was going on and on andabout how the locals just didn't
like him there and I see, andthen at the same time talking
about how much money that we allbring to the community and that
we spend and everything that wedo, and so it's a, it's a
catch-22 for a lot of theselittle towns.
Well, ironically enough, we hadleft there, loaded up, went to
Walmart and there was a Dodgetruck that kept jacking with all
(17:14):
of us and would go back andforth and back and forth and was
just revving his engine andjust being a real prick, and,
sure enough, we were goingaround, there's a.
It's almost like you're goingaround a plaza down there, but
it wasn't, it was just like ahalf turn and it's got the
guardrails with the drainageditch and this truck ended up
(17:37):
clipping our back tire.
And I was on a 1973 Sportster,souped up and just gnarly.
And yeah, I just so happened tohave a titanium knee brace on
my leg and at the time I had mycell phone clipped on it.
But um, I'm the world's worstand then still to this day about
wearing a helmet.
I'm very claustrophobic and Ihad 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 wasunder the bike, so the bike skid
around.
We hit the guardrail.
Then it scooped me back up andI flew up in the air and went
down into the ravine, into theditch, which is why I was asking
(18:22):
if you were coherent enough andyou could feel everything Me.
I remember thinking, oh shit,we're going down.
And we did, and I grabbed myhead and I just remember rolling
and rolling and rolling, andthen I just kept thinking, man,
am I going to ever stop rolling?
(18:43):
And then when I finally did, Ihad zero pain, I didn't feel
anything, I was just reallytired.
I was just really tired, I wasjust super tired and I thought
I'm just going to lay here andI'm just going to go to sleep
now and I laid there, but Ididn't feel anything.
I didn't feel any painwhatsoever and I could hear the
(19:05):
helicopters trying to find me.
And so, yeah, they found me andI was in the hospital in
Kerrville.
I had broken my back, shatteredmy 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 ridingtogether and, yeah, everybody
behind us.
You know, they saw I think wewere the second or third bike
and then the rest of them wereall behind us and for whatever
reason, he.
But it's.
It's kind of crazy how yourbody goes into shock and because
I, I didn't feel anything, theonly thing I never felt my
(19:44):
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 canyeah, you jump up right and you
don't, I mean, you're just inshock basically yeah, yeah your
body's protecting you from that,you know yes I'm glad you're
all right.
(20:10):
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.
It makes me angry at that guywell, and you, you know my
parents always I've been writingsince I was little and, of
course, at that point in time II was going through a stage in
my life where I thought I wasinvincible and was doing things
that it was the wild side ofthings I should have done when I
(20:32):
was younger.
And I didn't do, and and um,when it happened, I thought you
know, you know, we don't reallyhave 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 thathappened, I thought you know
(20:52):
what?
I need to slow my ass down.
I need to pay attention toexactly 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 liveforever.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Right.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
And we're still alive .
Yes, For a reason but now wehave our purpose and we Exactly
you know.
Think like riding, for instance, for me.
People ask me are you stillgoing 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 peoplecome up to your fans that were
able to get into your room.
Well, I had my dad God blesshim he's not with us here
anymore but he called me whenthey obviously had heard about
it and said if you do make itand you do get out of that
(22:01):
hospital, I did have to telleverybody at the door, you know,
because I was not in myhometown, to not let anyone into
my room and talk about nursesand the amazing things.
You know I wasn't able to batheor whatever.
(22:23):
I had a night nurse that wouldcome 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 wantyeah, 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 theworst, and I've talked about it
a little bit on my lives andstuff.
It's just these nurses, man, Ilove the nurses.
That's why I want to go backand do something nice for them,
you know, because you know.
(23:02):
I mean I had internal bleedingin 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'sgoing 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 Ihad a catheter.
So you can only imagine whatthat does to your nether regions
.
You know, what I'm saying.
I mean, a proud man was notproud, I'll just put it that way
.
And these nurses, they have tocome clean it like every six
hours.
It's just like one of thosethings are don't make eye
(23:35):
contact, you know, and shedoesn'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 pieduring 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 haveis one, maybe two, maybe three.
At that point you feel likeevery human that has ever worked
in a hospital has seen yourvagina.
So, at that point you justreally 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 wasin the hospital and talk about
(24:13):
how grateful you were for yournurses I had, um, my night nurse
was the sweetest old lady thatshe would always come in, she
would sit and talk to me and ofcourse I was a high as a fucking
kite.
I I realized I realized at thatpoint how easy it is to become a
drug addict, because I wouldliterally watch the clock until
(24:39):
I could hit the button myself.
You and me both, because I washurt and then yeah, and then
when it was time for them togive you your interim meds, yeah
, I mean I was like boop, get inhere, and I mean they would hit
you with that.
And I was like boop, get inhere, and I mean they would hit
you with that.
And I was like, oh man, it wasjust 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 thatthey're very sensitive about it,
but they have just gone too farin my opinion, because what you
were giving me was killing thepain, right.
And then I come to San Antonioand the laws are completely
(25:21):
different.
I was getting ivory preferencein San Antonio.
I'm like I was on Dilaudid overhere 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, minewas shit 25 years ago, if not
longer.
So I mean I was walking aroundwith 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 movedafter.
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 thehospital until I'm dying Right
At the end of my life, untilhospice comes.
Yeah, I don't want to go back,because what happened with me is
when I got home, my hardwarecame 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 otherthings, and the doctor comes
back and he's like well, you gotother problems right now.
Your hardware came out and mythe screw that was holding the
top part of my hip together hadcome 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 otherpodcast.
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 shortestpossible, 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 thatbooger 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 thex-ray and I look at that screw,
I don't know how they thoughtthat 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 boyyou 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 thesurgery twice so finally, you
know, when I went the secondtime, they put a screw all the
way across my hips.
Even though the top screw didcome out a little, it didn't
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come out enough to do anythingwhere I had to have any further
procedures.
Wow, now I have the screw.
I can still feel it.
The last time I went they saidI could possibly maybe have to
have it removed.
I'm good now, man.
My pelvis is fused backtogether at this point.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
So did you have actual implants put in there as
well?
No, like any joint implants orwhatever 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 toofar off well, I tell you what I
just had mine, and it's the bestdecision 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 youwrecked?
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 wasit.
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 rollExactly.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I grabbed my head and I just rolled right down that
mountain when I was just kept ongoing.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
We will sacrifice anything to save our place.
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 meanthat's exactly my.
I'll never have the guts to dothat again.
My mentality level was, oh fuck, I'm, we're going down, and it
(29:39):
did.
And.
And the last thing I rememberwas what saved my knee probably
which was ironic because I'vehad three knee surgeries and um
was I had a titanium.
You've seen that.
You've seen them, the big, longones that robots wear, and
that's what I had, which is, andwhen 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 yeahamen to that crazy enough, yeah,
I was worrying about losing myleg.
I'm just.
That was the last thing I wastalking about when I finally
fell asleep, because when theyfinally were able to give me
some pain meds, I started askingquestions.
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 minewas once I got in there and was
realizing what was happening andcoming out of the shock mode a
bit, and then they, like yousaid, could not give me any pain
medication and they had toscrape your road rash, and that
by far.
I have delivered ginormouschildren.
(30:55):
I have had a hip replacement,I've had three surgeries knee
surgeries Out of everything thatI have ever had done them
taking the scouring pads andremoving your skin layer after
layer after layer and not givingyou anything.
It's literally like taking ansos pad to your raw meat.
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I can't even imagine that andit was.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
That's a whole other level, man excruciating like I
had rug rash on my arms bad, butnot 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 inthe 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 victimor anyone with a skin injury, I
just, I just want to hug him andthink you know, and I, I didn't
burn you know, I mean I hadroad 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 abike again.
You said yes and yes, I have,but I have not ridden on the
back of a motorcycle with anyoneuntil 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 onmy little Vespa all over the
place and I ride it constantly.
Unfortunately, I don all overthe 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 completelyoblivious, same.
I see things now that I didn'tsee before and it stresses me
out a little Like, for instance,just a simple fact of you're
passing an SUV or an 18-wheeleror whatever.
It is two foot from them andare they on their phone?
(33:13):
Yes, you know, cause I don'thave 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, itdoesn't.
I don't have as much fun whenI'm riding anymore, cause I'm
stressed out.
Because you're stressed out andI wish that wasn't the case,
but I have to be honest, it is.
I think, Not only that, thetimes I've ridden, or two of the
(33:40):
times I've ridden, I had a girlon the back and that is super,
that's oh, that's a wholedifferent thing, man, because I
take my life in my own hands,and that's between me and god.
But when I have someone in theback, I can never let that
happen, man, I couldn't forgivemyself honestly, I can't believe
that you had that you would putsomebody on the back well not
(34:06):
saying that I took it veryserious 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 Isaid, this was 25 someone years
ago I take everything I canscan all the way around me.
But regardless of how consciousyou are of everything that's
going on around you, it is notin your control.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
The only reason why I did that was because it was
down River Road and that is themost comfortable road that I
feel, riding Right Like.
I've ridden down that road somany times and I would never
have put her on there and wentdown 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'sthe dangerous road I drive down
a lot Right.
I never get on the interstateon my bike.
Now I have in the past.
I rode to Austin one time andit 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 abike for the first time in a
very long time and this guy'sbeen one of my best friends
forever and ever and ever.
And I could have probablythrown 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 haveprobably 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 getto 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, therewas when I decided you need to
either breathe you're gonna passthe fuck out on the back of
this thing one I don't weighenough you didn't even realize
that I'm freaking back hereanymore or I'm gonna stroke the
fuck out.
And I finally decided, and bythe time I got there I was like
my legs were shaking.
He's like what the fuck out?
And I finally decided, and bythe time I got there I was like
(36:09):
my legs were shaking.
He's like what the fuck iswrong 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 Iknow that have been in accidents
and things that have happenedto, where they jump up and think
(36:29):
, well, that didn't kill me,Nothing's going to fucking kill
me, so I'm just going to keep onkeeping on.
I'm like wow.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I don't think they went through what we went
through, because I've beenthrough some wrecks.
I've went down four times andone time I had to go to the
hospital.
Actually, one time that I hadto go to the hospital I went
down on my face so I had severe.
I had to do a CAT scan, thewhole brain thing and all that
it knocked me out, actually, andso even after that, I was never
(36:57):
really scared, or like itdidn't change me to the extent
this last one did, because Ialmost died, you know.
And that's like, how importantis riding that motorcycle to you
?
Well, it's important to me, itreally is, but it's not the most
important, and I think it's allabout balance, and I used to
(37:19):
ride my bike all the time, andnow I don't.
You know, I ride it for fun,when I can, here and there.
Uh, Other than that, I take thecar.
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 Ilove.
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 rideeverywhere I went and rain and
you know.
Uh, I'm just trying to besmarter.
I still love doing it and I'mnot going to quit doing
something I love doing becauseof fear because I have to face
that fear right, and so, uh forme, I'll never be like I was
(38:04):
before, riding all over theplace.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
If somebody could come up to you and and ask you,
facing that fear, what was, whatis the hardest part?
I mean, how for you to get onthat bike again, facing that
fear, did you have one-on-oneconversations with yourself?
(38:28):
Did you have to self-motivateyourself?
I talk to myself all the time,me and my head woo.
We have some conversations.
Did you have to really dig downdeep?
Speaker 4 (38:40):
inside the soul of Creed Fisher and go hey, I
operate a little different.
I might have the conversationin my head and then.
I'll put it away.
Right, I'll file it away Right.
You know I'll file it and Idon'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 pulledthe file like all right and it
was a little scary, it reallywas.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Right.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
And it was crazy, little scary.
It really was Right.
And it was crazy because it'sjust the first time I've been
back on a motorcycle.
All I was doing was riding mybike from the Harley dealership
to my house, which is two miles,and my girlfriend was falling
behind me, but I was stillnervous.
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 sincethen I've been on two rides
since then and it'll never bethe same for me, to be honest
with you.
Yeah, because I and anotherthing is like letting my family
down, you know, either I die orsomething bad happens to me, and
(39:47):
then I can't be what I need tobe 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 ourroad to recovery.
With my tears rolling down myface, 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 justkeep crying, one me.
I don't know how much blood shehad 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, Ilove you, mama.
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