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Doing their job well.
They used the silver impregnated gel gauze on mine so it could stay on longer between changes - was a bit rank by the time it needed changing though.
Modern dressings are incredible
Wench ... You sure you're female?
Absolutely 🙂 the clue is in the name
In my defense i had just done the Sandstone way so was probably a little too much in mtb mode when really I was riding my croix de fer with road tyres . . . It all went horribly wrong on a gravelly corner.
My last coming off was at walking speed turning off a minor road onto a cycle path, both wheels went out from under me, slamming my left knee into the Tarmac, along with shoulder and cheek, fortunately I had my lid on, which took the brunt of my head impact.
My knee, however, has never been right, and I'm waiting on the diagnosis from an X-Ray, which is likely to show osteoarthritis setting in, so I'd say you're lucky.
I've had a few offs over the years and I always try to carry on regardless. My logic behind that is - if I take time off riding when I'm injured I seem to suffer longer (but I've not done a proper study of this, it may just seem longer as I will be itching to get back on my bike)
Just before the Bearbones 200 last year I got knocked off by some muppet at a roundabout. I had to go to hospital as I couldn't lift my right leg, they scanned my pelvis and spine and couldn't see and fractures and advised me to rest.
I managed to do the bb200 that weekend with the help of some decent painkillers and a deliberately steady pace . . . And I seemed to recover quite well in the long run. 'Mobilise as pain allows' can actually get you a really long way it seems 🙂
I'm a convert to the Church of Tegaderm, awesome stuff. Expensive but I bought a massive box of em off ebay and now I could laminate my house with it. I love how epically disgusting it all looks 😆
(though, I had one come loose on my elbow one time and puke a load of runny brown awful all down my sleeve at work, that wasn't so good)
Yes they do make a gloopy mess but it works keeping it moist. As we are going for grim photos I will share the picture of my 'gash' about 3 weeks after I'd done it . . . .
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I will shall the picture of my 'gash' about 3 weeks after I'd done it
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Sorry - probably stepping over all lines of taste decency and innuendo . . . It is the appropriate name for such a wound though
Ouch, I didn't get any photos quite that good from my trips to the hospital last summer. Surprised that didn't get stitches, looks like a pretty big hole 😯
I think it was decided not to stich it because they were holes rather than cuts. They tried their best to clean it but a scan has confirmed there is a lump of gravel in there still.
I think it healed quite well given the mess I'd made of it 🙂
Marry me Wench 😆
My elbow was happy last time it got scraped and bruised:
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Never feed your dog scabs (I was very drunk at the time) as he'll now sit next to me, staring very attentively at any new scabs waiting for his next "treat".
We are a weird group on here. Love the fact that people take selfies of their injuries (woundies?) while at A&E, or even before going!
That elbow is brilliant!
That elbow is brilliant!
+1
It's like a happy drunk who's been in a bar fight.
Last biggy I did - I needed to take a pic.
My nose was so far over the only way I could see the damage was to take a pic and look at it with the other eye 
You need to share the pic Hammy . . . We won't laugh (too much) promise
Minor injuries seems a bit extreme, my road rash treatment is as follows: soak in warm salty water, and scrub out any grit with a (fresh) kitchen scouring pad. Rinse, apply Savlon and gauze dressing, redress each day until the worst of the weeping has stopped (2-3 days normally). After that try and give it some air so a scab can form. Try to resist picking off scabs.
Wasn't done riding Wench!
soak in warm salty water, and scrub out any grit with a (fresh) kitchen scouring pad. Rinse, apply Savlon
Who else is having a good wince just thinking about that?
I'd pop along to MIU to get it scrubbed by a professional sadist. Reduces the chance of an infection which will keep you off the bike for longer.
I still have fond memories of the weird scrubbing brush they used on mine. 🙂
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I was impressed by how much quicker the dressed cut and grazes healed compared to those not covered by the dressing. I had always been a fan of let the air get to it, not any more! Sudocrem is great, and I always keep some iodine gauze (inodene?) to put under dressings.
Last time I had some serious gravel rash, I had some topical lignocaine type stuff whilst they scrubbed it with surgical scrub and a brush. Even then, they couldn't get all the melted polypropylene from my shorts out.
After that, it was moist wound healing all the way. It looks vile, but is way better than a great crusty scab that keeps cracking.
My biggest problem with any of these dressings is that my skin reacts to all the adhesives that are available - just end up with an itchy rash around the wound under where the tape is. The self adhesive ones are worse but even just using standard tape or plasters to hold the dressing on becomes an issue after 2-3 days.
Maybe if anyone has a gash they need cleaning up they should call these guys:
(not sure if that will work, it's facebook content
That's my mid week ride ruined then
Awww diddums. Is da boo boo sting sting?
da boo boo sting sting?
That's all I want to say to you....
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For a slight boo boo owie I give you Fellow B.P.R rider Jon yazzie who tried to rip his foot off very successfully last week, his knee if forward in the pic!
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Well I wasn't expecting to see my lunch again so soon.
I'm having steak
Minor injuries seems a bit extreme,
It's perfect for minor injuries. Treatment at home is feasible but sometimes people do silly things like letting air at the wound to dry out.
Nothing beats bone poking out for max points!!!
I managed to put a big hole in elbow after landing on brakelever with and scored a minor op and 3 days hospital..
I tend to wear the comfy light troy lee knee/arm things nowadays cos I hate abrasion wounds....
Wwaswas, have you tried hypafix dressing tape? less irritant than many other tapes and usually stays put.
Air, water and everything else around you are full of bugs. Def always get things cleaned professionally and covered unless quite minor. All this leaving it to scab over is just asking for trouble. Some of the time, you'll get away with it; then eventually you won't and the results will be very messy.
cheers highlandman - will give that a go next time...
Good picture Tazzy, I like the way this thread has turned into a 'show us your best injuries thread'!
That Tazzy photo is disgusting. Have you seen the state of his toenail?
hey not my toe nail, dont blame me. 😀
Heading for a dressing change today.
Spent yesterday afternoon wondering what I stepped in and dogs seem to want to roll on my leg.
Bit smelly, but not rotten smell just off smell.
Hold your breath when they take the dressing off. 😀