Bloody Knee

So it's been quite a while since I've had a skinned up knee, but tonight did a good one. Did a late mtn bike ride which was fun, but was coming down the Mill Creek trail after dark w/o a light - getting close to the bottom. It had rained so things were wet and rutted. Hit a log wrong mostly cuz I didn't see it and went down skinning my knee.

I quickly, kind-of instinctively brushed it off, all the dirt. Which was good b/c shortly after that I started riding and could feel a fair bit of blood running down my leg to my sock. It was dark, so I couldn't see anything.

Felt like I skinned it, but didn't hurt too badly. I could feel the blood continue to run down my leg though, to the point that I could feel my sock getting soaked. Hmmm, haven't had *that* feeling before.

Got back to the car, all is well, packed stuff up. It's still dark, so still couldn't see things very well. Got sort-of an evaluation inside the car, but not too good. Could tell blood ran all down my leg.

In the car, it was still dripping - I think the seat in the Mazda now has blood marks.

Got home, took care of critters. My sock and shoe were notably red, as was my whole lower leg. Oops.

Finally got to the bathroom and did clean-up. Took a while just to soak it with warm water since a lot had already dried. My sock looked like a lost cause. One of my favorite biking socks. But, biking socks must be made with this in mind cuz the blood came out amazingly well. I was really surprised how *much* blood was in it though. It was rather impressive. You'd think I did something bad. :)

Finished up with peroxide which stung, and then took advantage of the nice bandages I got a while back - mostly for potential critter injuries.

All is well.

I'm starting to think I should keep a first aid kit in my car cuz this is the 2nd blood incident this week. Sat I was getting ready to ride up to Estes Park. Flipped my road bike upside down to put in the front tire (I'm in a habit of doing it this way now from my mtn bike). Anyway, for whatever reason I decided to spin the tire. Not thinking, I started fastening the wheel to the fork and stuck my finger into the spinning (and bladed) spokes, taking off a nice chunk of skin off my finger. Once again blood everywhere, with no bandages, and the yucky part is that the skin was still stuck to the spoke. Eew.

OK, enough disgusting stories!

Have a good one :)