We had a nice little jaunt yesterday around rivington, just like hundreds of other people it would appear! As we were in the carpark preparing to go, we bumped into a forum regular who graced us with his presence and local knowledge. We had a cracking ride: the rain held off until after we'd finished and the ground conditions were pretty good. Not perfect sadly, as the aforementioned regular lost it on a greasy road and used his arm as a brake.
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It looked pretty horrible, even after it had been cleaned up, and we all reckoned he should visit A+E to get it looked at, although he was less bothered about it - apparently he considered it a mere flesh wound, but said he'd get it checked out and let us know how it went.
I quote from his mail this morning;
Well thanks for all the concern and help today. If I'd have been by myself I'd have just ridden off with a shrug and rinsed it off in the shower later. Thanks to Ian too. If you can pass that on it would be great, ta.It's been a pretty poor day for me, you see despite meeting you lot and having a great ride, when I fell off(I think), my GPS fell out of my camelbak
That's 120 quid down the drain. Or it could have been the first time I stopped to take pictures or maybe when we stopped to clean up my elbow. Ho hum. Hopefully it'll lie there for a while till I get chance to go back and have a look.Anyway. I got home, had a shower, went down the hospital. Over two hours later I got seen by a nurse for treatment. The triage nurse had already declared me low priority so I;d sat in the waiting room watching everyone roll past me for at least an hour.
Then a very pretty nurse spent over twenty minutes scrubbing gravel out of my arm with a nice stiff brush. Obviously I declined any pain relief and therefore obviously it hurt immensely. It didn;t matter though, I just spent my time looking into the nurses beautiful grey eyes.End result though, no stitches because the tissue wasn't torn, only the skin. She used those rubber strips to keep the flaps of skin together and suggested I change the dressing on Wednesday.
Any guesses as to who it might be? Will post pics of the cleaned wound later:)
