Latest Ouchy or injury 🤕

A knee sprain that was quite painful. The way it happened is weird, too. On my home from grocery shopping, my foot landed perfectly into a small pothole almost exactly the width of my shoe, and my foot was stuck. I was carrying heavy bags and walking fast, so I lost my balance and my knee bent too much sideways as I almost fell. Thankfully I didn't, it could have been much worse. I instinctively leaned to the other side to regain my balance, and my foot was freed and took a chunk of asphalt out with it. When my injured leg landed back on the ground the pain was excruciating. I took a taxi right there and to the hospital. My knee was really swollen, my ankle was a little swollen, but no damage to the bone anywhere, and no dislocation. It's funny, I was sitting in the waiting area of the hospital surrounded by grocery bags.

I'm laughing to myself as I read the injury posts. NOT because any of the injuries posted are funny, but rather that this thread helped me recall the long list of bumps and bruises I've sustained over the years.

Trail running and cycling have been the primary culprits. Whether tripping over roots or forgetting to unclip at a stop sign, I've donated blood more times than I can count. One memorable dismount came at the very end of a Miami to Key West bike ride. After a day and a half in the saddle, I pulled into downtown Key West and rode along carefully and slowly while looking for my hotel amid heavy traffic. When I saw my hotel across the street, I got off my bike and pushed the crosswalk button to stop traffic while I crossed the street. Once traffic stopped, I hopped on the bike and slowly rode across the street, pulling into the hotel parking lot which was down a small hill. As I made a lazy circling left hand turn to pull my bike under the hotel and into a parking space, I didn't see the shaded pavement was littered with small acorn sized dates that had fallen from the palm trees. My front wheel didn't hit the dates, but the back wheel hit one squarely, sweeping my tire out from under me in a flash. BOOM. I was down on the pavement so fast, the hotel chambermaids on the second floor who saw me yelled "Call 911!" They must have thought I was dead, lol. I took quite an elbow, forearm and shin bruise - almost as big as the bruise to my ego. I kept thinking: "150 miles without incident and then you crash in the parking lot....idiot."