Monday, August 13, 2007

Weeeee!! Oops!! OUCH!!!

Okay, so here I was trying to get a few miles on my old bicycle to try and keep ahead of my cousin Jason who is racking up the miles. Susan, the girls and I were taking a little ride. The girls had stopped to climb on up rock pile. I was riding around and I reached back to turn on my wheel-powered light. Just then I hit a patch of small, loose gravel. The gravel and my narrow wheels didn't mix real well!!

Here's what I wound up with:

My left arm wasn't to bad (It did bleed some) but my right arm had this hunk a meat just torn out!! (It didn't bleed at all) I should have went in and had stitches, but my insurance dosen't cover our local hospital, so I went to a nurse that goes to church with us. She bandaged it up and gave me supplies to take care of it. (This picture is after it has healed for a day. It looks pretty good compared to what it was!!)

7 comments:

Jason said...

Ouch!!! Gravel and bikes don't mix very well! I hope you had on a helmet! That just looks really painful! Its not funny, so I'm not sure why I'm laughing a little... haha... You are a nut!!

Well keep it clean and stop trying to catch me!! Its not gonna happen, I got 110 miles in this weekend :)

Tim and Connie's blog said...

Those kind of marks dont go away for a while ..Long sleeves help..Man that looks bad..

Tim and Connie's blog said...

Looks like a 20 miles per hour slide ...thats nuts

Jeanne said...

So sorry, Mark..
This brings back memories of watching your Dad come down the road while he tried to stand on the seat of his motorcycle...
He looked just like this...

Anonymous said...

Come on man,you used to ride your bicycle to school everyday,you must have lost the touch a little bit.hehe Thats painful just looking at it:(

Mark Hoch said...

I almost healed already. I'm not going to try that again!! I wasn't going but 6-7 mph, but I ran thru that thick soft gravel and it grabbed my front wheel and twisted it sideways and just threw me straight down!!
It actually hasn't even hardly hurt!!

Anonymous said...

You better stick with the "mud" trails you guys came home with one day. Remember? What a mess! You pulled into our yard and I had to guess which one was which. lol ch