Ow! That smarts! or Faceplant: The Hurtening
I went out on a bike ride with some friends to Issaquah Thursday. We went to a restaurant and had some food and what-not. Afterwards about half of us went to a park and the other half split off to ride directly back to Seattle. We hung about for a little bit and chit-chatted on the beach and admired the moonlight over the lake on the shortest night of the year.
After an hour or so we decided to also head back and got back on our bikes. As we were riding (not fast) down the paved trail back to the road, I completely lost control of my bike. I'm guessing I hit a nice round branch or bottle or something [0]. I went down with no warning and did a face plant.
I landed on my chin quite nicely. My friends pulled out a first aid kit and taped some gauze over my injuries and gave me some Advils. Given we were about 20 miles from my home, they called a cab, tried to keep me warm and cheered up.
I got home, dropped off all my things and told my SO I was headed to the ER. After that was the longest night at the ER I've ever spent. Stitches internally in my chin, another layer of stitches on top of that, stitches inside my bottom lip [1]. No concussion, no fractured jaw bones, etc.
My only real kvetch with the hospital is that they prescribed me hydrocodone. My brother and I are the unlucky 3% of the population that a lot of opiates don't do jack for (I don't even get a tiny buzz or anything). They are pretty much exactly like taking 2 tylenol... because they use tylenol as part of the mix.
I mentioned it to the physician but was too tired to argue with her. I know she thought I was trying to argue for a 'stronger' drug or something. No you silly bint! I was trying to argue for a different drug family.
Bah.
I do have some dental damage. Two teeth are chipped on the edges and I expect (hope) she can just build them back up. The middle one... not so good. I had a Saturdady appointment with the dentist, in which she really helped me out. She's temporarily capped them and laid out what we'll do to fix me up Tuesday morning. It looks a little better and eating is easier.
I my dentist.
Especially since she does Saturday appointments.
[0] We had lights, but there were a lot of us, and I was chit chatting with the people I was talking to. I'm going to say the main cause of the wreck was inattention on my part. :-(
[1] The Maxilo-facial doctor at First hill Swedish was awesome. The regular ER guy at Cherry Hill Swedish was okay, but they were slow as dirt.
After an hour or so we decided to also head back and got back on our bikes. As we were riding (not fast) down the paved trail back to the road, I completely lost control of my bike. I'm guessing I hit a nice round branch or bottle or something [0]. I went down with no warning and did a face plant.
I landed on my chin quite nicely. My friends pulled out a first aid kit and taped some gauze over my injuries and gave me some Advils. Given we were about 20 miles from my home, they called a cab, tried to keep me warm and cheered up.
I got home, dropped off all my things and told my SO I was headed to the ER. After that was the longest night at the ER I've ever spent. Stitches internally in my chin, another layer of stitches on top of that, stitches inside my bottom lip [1]. No concussion, no fractured jaw bones, etc.
My only real kvetch with the hospital is that they prescribed me hydrocodone. My brother and I are the unlucky 3% of the population that a lot of opiates don't do jack for (I don't even get a tiny buzz or anything). They are pretty much exactly like taking 2 tylenol... because they use tylenol as part of the mix.
I mentioned it to the physician but was too tired to argue with her. I know she thought I was trying to argue for a 'stronger' drug or something. No you silly bint! I was trying to argue for a different drug family.
Bah.
I do have some dental damage. Two teeth are chipped on the edges and I expect (hope) she can just build them back up. The middle one... not so good. I had a Saturdady appointment with the dentist, in which she really helped me out. She's temporarily capped them and laid out what we'll do to fix me up Tuesday morning. It looks a little better and eating is easier.
I my dentist.
Especially since she does Saturday appointments.
[0] We had lights, but there were a lot of us, and I was chit chatting with the people I was talking to. I'm going to say the main cause of the wreck was inattention on my part. :-(
[1] The Maxilo-facial doctor at First hill Swedish was awesome. The regular ER guy at Cherry Hill Swedish was okay, but they were slow as dirt.