...Fun Few Days

So I'm spending my 29th birthday sat at home struggling to hobble my way around. 

It has not been a fun few days!

Ouch!

I got back from my holiday on Saturday and was looking forward to starting work again on Monday. I still cycle to work, so I got up early dug my bike out of the shed and set off in the light rain. I was going nicely along the canal just about to go past the Lockkeeper, when the next thing I knew I was on the floor my bike twisted under my legs.

I must have landed on my left knee and left handlebar. My knee was leaking a lot of blood and the break handle on the left of my bike had snapped off with a big dint in the end of the handle bar. I hurt a lot. I don’t know how it happened, could be a lot of things I suppose.

New Entrance

I hobbled around in pain getting my thoughts together. I used my water bottle to wash the blood away (it was starting to pool in my sock and boot) it looked like a nice scrape. A quick check found no other obvious injury's. The was nothing else to be done so I gingerly continued on my way to work.

It was not a fun ride. The was a fallen tree over the path at one point, I had to lift my bike over then shimmy under. I took the journey slow checking down at my knee often. The blood had stooped and it was a bit numb. This has been a hall mark of this injury not much in the way of pain.

Coming Through

I managed to get to work in time and cleaned myself up. I had a drink stretched off and felt ok. Until about half an hour into working. They have a good team at work and sorted my injury out and decided I should go to hospital.

Hospital is always fun, it was my first visit in over ten years and it was smooth process (apart from the 6 attempts to took to take a blood sample). Two clean ups with a bit of poking one x-ray and a CT scan. It took a while for them to be happy nothing in my knee joint was damaged so all I needed was a deep clean and stitches. Which would have to wait until the next day.

Recovering

That night was fun. Sleeping on the sofa in a daze created by Co-Codamol. They had put a huge bandage on and movement was difficult but I managed. I was awoken the next morning by a call asking me to git in for day surgery. Most of which was spent sat about waiting.

I have no memory of the surgery and I haven't even seen my wound yet. The bandages need to be changed on Friday so I should get a good look then. It hurts a bit but nothing ordinary painkillers couldn't handle. It is just going to be an awkward few weeks until I'm back up to shape.

Relaxing?

So yeah I'm just catching up on some videos and books for the next few days. I'm hoping to have a bit more movement after the bandage gets changed. Oh and here is a very dumb thing to round things off. I haven been given crutched because the was nobody qualified to tech me how to use them.

It has been a fun birthday on the phone to work to keep them up to date but I now need to make my way over to give in my sick note. Two more weeks of fun.