Injured Again

I tell you!  Somedays ....

Saturday was one of the most awesome days of my life.  A class I had wanted to take for sometime but no real reason to.  It was fun and I got to learn quite a bit.  And a too little time to visit with a friend.  Just an awesome day, perhaps one day I can tell  you about in detail.

However, going home did not go so well for me.  The car suffered brake failure and so I was forced to walk to and from the local transit center.   Since I am at best unstable on my damaged leg, I used the kneeling scooter for the one mile commute.  Going to the transit center was not to bad, 23 minutes.  But, returning home almost killed me.

I had almost made it home, only three blocks more to go!  I was using the bike lane to scooter in and as I approached the bottom of a hill, I heard the roar of an engine - a weird sound like something was wrong with the car, the crunch of gravel and then I was face down in the mud and dog poop fifteen feet from the roadway.

I already knew I was hurt.  The car had hit my scooter from the right side, I was on the right side of the road, so they had veered off the roadway to get me.  My cast/brace was damaged, the ankle inside damaged, I had landed on my right knee - which was torn up and right wrist and shoulder.  My scooter was tossed about twenty feet further down the roadway. 

I crawled using my left left to propel me back to my scooter.  Pants were already soaked in blood, no ability to stand or walk.  Of course the driver kept going.  I hopped on my left leg as I could no longer kneel on the scooter for 25 minutes the remaining distance.  I guarantee flat tires if i ever see that car again around here ...

So, on muscle relaxants and codeine.  Which means that I can not use Sunday to write up this week's posts.

Perhaps I will be in better shape Monday, but right now, oh dear Lord, I hurt everywhere...