What a day today turned out to be!
Meg and I went out for our usual Saturday morning long run and Meg was hurting from the start. She was able to gut out 5 miles and I finally convinced her to go get her bike and go for a ride since it was getting light and it was beautiful morning. She wasn't happy about it but she went anyway. I continued on with my run and completed my 14 miles. The calf wasn't an issue at all today, infact I didn't even think about it until mile 7 when I realized it wasn't bothering me. Anyway, as I am coming up the street to my house I am greeted by all four of my kids screaming about mom crashing on her bike and breaking her arm....OH NO!!!! I jumped in the car and obeyed all traffic signals and speed limits as I blasted down the road in search of Meg. I didn't find her and as it turns out she was able to get a ride home with some people in a nearby house and we had passed each other somewhere in the middle. Well, when we finally hooked up I got the full story.
She was cruising along pretty good on her bike and two dogs came out to greet her from someones yard. One was nipping at her heals and the other darted in front of her bike which hit her front wheel and caused her to go over the front of her bike. She estimates she was going about 20-25 MPH at the time trying to get away from the dogs and she took the brunt of the fall with a knee, elbow and shoulder. Luckily the neighbors of the "stupid dog" house were very kind to Meg, even after she woke them up by dragging herself to their front door and ringing the door bell. They loaded up her and her bike and brought her home.
We spent the next 3 hours in the so call "quick care" among a bunch of sniffling, coughing, upchucking whinny babies. Yes a young girl upchucked in the middle of the lobby and then came and sat down right next to me......Nice!! Nobody in the quick care came out to clean up the puke and since a couple people had almost stepped in it I had to go put a chair over it to warn people. It was still there when we went in the back, HELLO?!?!?!? When we went up to check in they wouldn't check Meg in without her photo ID, ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! I was not a happy camper at this point and was lucky they didn't toss me out of the building. So I drove home to get Megs ID and finally got her all checked in. The we sat and watched all the lesser injured people go first.....no I wasn't bitter at all..... Too many details, I know. Bottom line, she didn't break anything that they could see on the xray. She has some nasty swelling in her elbow and is very sore from the elbow to the shoulder. I think there is a lot of soft tissue damage but we don't really know from just the xray. If it doesn't improve in the next couple of days we will probably be have to go in for an MRI. The icing on the cake is when we were getting ready to leave, the nurse asked if we wanted her to clean up some of Meg's road rash that was now oozing with blood. NO, NO, WE'VE BEEN HER FOR 3 HOURS, WE'LL JUST GO HOME AND TAKE CARE OF IT YOU INSENSITIVE........ARGHGHGH!!! This was quite literally the quick care from hell.
So for now we are keeping her drugged up on Tylenol 3 and Ibuprofen. It hasn't improved yet but I suppose it will be a couple of days before we will see some. I will keep you all posted as to what happens. If this injury doesn't heel up properly and turns out to be a lot worse, I wonder if we have and recourse against these dog owners? Riverton Paul attorney man, what do you think? I guess it really doesn't matter, I just hope she makes a full recovery.
We did go to dinner at the Olive Garden for a birthday celebration for Meg, Me and my oldest son Michael who will be 15 in a few days. We spent two hours in there waiting for the slowest service in the world. Then we waited in the longest pie line ever at Marie Callendars. My daughter lost her last basketball game and the number one seed in the tournament.........my wife left me, my dog ran away, there's tear in my beer and all that other country song sob story stuff....
What a day today turned out to be!
Time: 1:56:41 8:20/mile | 