Silly Me... I thought it would be good to get a bit of exercise with Goldie. I've done it twice before and typically take her on the longer leash and I ride the bicycle. We ride to and from the school and that gives me 2 miles and a nice run for Goldie. She's 65 pounds and has more energy than I know what to do with most of the time. It was such a short ride I did not take my phone with me. I mean it's all in our neighborhood - so what can go wrong?
Well - Goldie was spooked from the get go - that should have been a warning to me - but I wasn't paying attention. She wouldn't run on the right side, but I didn't think about it so I took her leash in my left hand and off we went.
We were zipping down the street - it's straight - level road and made it about a half a mile down the road with my clicking her along - no biggie. But right at a half a mile from home - she spooked so much that she jumped in front of me... - she was clipped by the bicycle and she jumped to the right side of the bicycle and jumped so that she looked like a giant sword fish trying to get off hook in deep sea fishing trip. - Can you picture that ? So in that split second I yell and try to stop the bike. But of course all of this is in a split second - so I squeeze the brake with my hand gripping the bike.... the right hand......... holding onto Goldie's leash with the left hand... think about this.... The right hand brake is the FRONT WHEEL ...... so in my excitement and trying to hold the dog, stop the bike I went flying over the handlebars thinking at that moment - a helmet on my head is not going to protect my face..... so my hands out in front of me to try to stop me from smashing my face into the pavement. Pretty much all of me landed on the palms of my hands and my right knee...........
I rolled over and looked around - Goldie was just sitting beside me quietly looking around as if to say, " It sure is pretty out here - let's walk Mom"
I sat there for a while on the pavement thinking how am I going to get home from here - there is no way to I can walk home... no phone - and it hurts really bad.... I'm thinking it's broke.. I was afraid to even look at my knee. Sure wish I'd brought my phone.... that won't happen again..
I picked up the bike, climbed on carefully and rolled my way home, that way I didn't have to walk.
The doctor said he thinks it's not broken the x-ray will show us if there is damage - we are hoping we don't have to have surgery. We lost our health insurance in December so... we are praying there is no need for surgery. So if you think about it please say a prayer.....I don't want to even think about surgery with no insurance.
Crutches, ice 3 or 4 x day, knee brace and keep it elevated for two weeks and it should recover although the way I feel today I don't feel it. I'm sore from my shoulders to my elbows, a black eye is progressively getting bigger - it wasn't there yesterday and my chin is really sore too - and I'm sitting propped up with an ice pack .
I'll keep you posted........... Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.......
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