the wackness.

August 18, 2008 at 12:38 pm Posted in megalomaniac |

Look what happened when I got on a death machine last week just so we could get breakfast at the Tin Shed:

I was riding a fixed gear for the first time, wearing flimsy ballet flats with absolutely no traction.  The bike’s pedals were pretty smooth, too, so when I stood up at one point to try to adjust myself, my left foot slid off the pedal and shot forward in between the front fork and the wheel.  The fork did some painful damage to the top of my foot and the spokes ripped off a chunk of the skin underneath, which you see here.  It was surprisingly non-bloody, and a nice gentleman saw it happen and offered me a ride home.  Jbin cleaned it and wrapped it and I went to the doctor the next day for a tetanus shot and a more thorough cleaning. At this point the skin has completely bonded and fused back together (the human body is a marvelous thing), though underneath the healing there is still a lot of blood and bruising and there’s still some slight pain, swelling and tenderness on the metatarsals.  Hoping to be back to 100% by next week.