the picture that caused me so much woe!

the dogs were extra rowdy so i thought i'd take them out on the tricycle bike. but then i got this great idea to take a picture of them while we were riding! not a great idea.

they tipped me over while i was trying to take the picture, holding onto the handlebars with only one hand. i fell and skinned both my palms, one knee, and my forehead. and scratched up my camera. and my bike was a little wonky, the fender was rubbing, but was able to be bent back to shape. i managed to get back up, looked at my palms, tried not to freak out, put my poor abused camera in my pocket, turned the bike around, and the dogs pulled me back to the house completely under their own super power.

one palm and my knee were very badly skinned. the other palm is only lightly skinned, and my forehead is scraped, but doesnt look like the skin is broken. its just red, not bleeding. it was very very painful to clean the palms. i used up all the big bandages i have. the roommate drove me to the store to get more extra big sized bandages. this took a long time to heal. and i managed to sprain my knee pretty badly. its the same knee i screwed up years ago in a different fall.

this is the stupid picture i took of the dogs running while hooked up to harnesses and a bungee leash to my bike. seconds after this picture the handlebars turned, the bike tipped, and i fell.


results of falling off the bike. right hand


there was just no good way to bandage this hand. every time i bent or moved my hand, the bandages pulled away and unstuck themselves from my hand.


a length of gauze helped keep the stupid bandage on.


i experimented different ways to tie the gauze with each bandage change.


left hand, a week into healing. it was more of a long narrow cut than skinned palm. this cut pulled open every time i opened my hand/spread my fingers too much.


this is the configuration of bandages that worked best to stay on and keep it covered. took lots of trial and error to get this simple thing figured out.


the extra big bandages, i went thru two boxes of these things.


this one weeped and weeped and weeped, it ended up being much deeper than it appeared and took the longest to heal.


two weeks into healing, the scraped skin around it is all scabbed over, but the deep gouge in the middle was much slower to heal. at this point the gouge is about an inch across, and the whole scrape is over two inches across.


the gouge took 6 weeks to heal up completely. by which time my palms' new pink skin was finally toughening up and losing its super sensitivity. the sprained knee is still sprained, but coming along nicely. took 2 months before i could kneel on it and then only very carefully. squatting is still troublesome. i also have trouble if i try to bring that heel up on top of my other knee like to put a sock on. twisting is bad. but last time i screwed this knee up it took over 6 months before it started feeling better, so i'm fine with babying it a little longer to make sure it gets as healed as it can.