Friday Crash

Crashed. Argh! Yet another biking mishap, in the same week! Much worse than Wednesday’s flat tire. I thought I was doing a good job of navigating an eroded part of the trail, until I suddenly found myself on the ground - one of those wtf moments. 

I managed to collect some road rash on my elbow, arm and hip, and apparently a big set of abrasion stripes up my back. Oh, and somehow my glasses got smushed, and no longer fit anywhere close to correctly. 

I did take a more pleasant photo of McLellan Reservoir on the way home from my spill.

 ---  Update: Headed to the Littleton ER to see if I broke anything… Spoiler: this experience and increasing shoulder pain feels a lot like my broken collarbone did back in 2007… except this time we couldn’t find an Urgent Care that would take an X-Ray on short notice.

 --- Update: Waiting on results of a CT scan of my shoulder, and an X-Ray of my elbow. Apparently they do more, when you’re over 65… 🤷‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️

 --- Update 7pm: According to CT and X-Ray analysis, nothing’s broken! Woo hoo! Just a little crunchy in the shoulder, is all… 🤔 Oh, and did we mention that you have nodules in your lungs? 🫨

 --- It looks like I’ll be sore for some time. She wrote me a script for some muscle relaxant, not sure if it’ll help much, but I’ll start out with it as recommended, and go from there. Maybe add an OTC pain med, if it goes any higher. And, IYKYK, planning to parallel the relaxant with MiraLax and lots of hydration…

 --- All in all, it seems like I mostly got away with it this time. 🎉 Maybe I get partial credit, for promising myself in 2007, that I would do my best to twist around and try not to land on my elbow or shoulder next time. That thought must have gotten burned into my muscle memory, as I only have a vague recollection of doing that, and then finding myself sprawled out on my back.  

--- Update Sat-3pm: It was a little rough this morning, but by this afternoon, pain is vastly reduced and mobility is much increased, whew… 😅