Kawasaki Superbike rider Roger Lee Hayden has been moved to a new hospital and underwent surgery on his injured hand to clean the wound.

"There was still grass in the wound," Hayden said.

"I feel so much better just being here. I was in some pain yesterday and I couldn't sleep before surgery and they gave me some pills and I went right out. Slept through the surgery and they cleaned the heck out of my wound. Today it feels much better."

"Man if you ever have a hand injury this is the place to come, they are amazing," Hayden said of the medical staff at Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare. "They are just so awesome. It's not just that they're competent; like, one of my doctors, he races GNCC, so any time we're together we're talking racing or bikes. It's cool."

Hayden will undergo another surgery tomorrow and that operation may seal the fate of his injured small finger on his left hand.

"Tomorrow morning. They don't seem to have a lot of hope but they are going to do what they can. There's no bone, no ligament and no joint so they say it might be tough to save it but they are not giving up," Hayden said from his hospital bed this morning.

"I've seen a back specialist too and it's helped; this place is awesome," Hayden reiterated.

Told that we've been inundated with e-mail wanting information on how he is doing and wishing him a speedy recovery, Hayden said, "Tell them thanks. It means a lot to me that people care."