dave + mountain board + pavement = ?
Yeah, so about that previous post. That is indeed a picture of my chin, taken with my cell phone a few hours ago. Let me explain.
I was on my roommate’s mountain board, mobbin’ down this crazy hill and took this 12′ kicker and tried to do a rodeo stalefish, but when I got inverted, …
Okay, so it’s a bit more awesome embarrassing than that.
I’m not going to go into the details, but it happened in my backyard on a newly-built ghetto ramp courtesy of Beau. Long story short, I hit the pavement face-first.
Arlen was kind enough to leave his WOW game to drive me to the hospital to have it checked out by someone with a license to practice medicine. After a minimal wait, and a few bad jokes with the assisting nurse, the tech came in to my corner-gurney to give me a tetanus shot and apply the local anesthetic. Several pokes with a needle (some going straight into the meat of the wound – did I mention pain?) later, the real doc’ came in and stitched me up. There are 4 stitches on the inner layer of skin which will dissolve away with time, and 8 stitches on the surface of my face which I’ll have to get removed in about a week.
So, what you’ve all been waiting for, the carnage :) If you have a weak stomach, I’d watch out…
Getting ready to take off the band-aid for the first time
My face after the fact
A close-up of the stitches (for my geek dad)
You know, it’s funny. I’ve done some pretty crazy, pretty dumb stuff over the years, but I’ve never broken a bone or had stitches before (save the time I was 4 and broke a china cup…). I almost consider myself lucky.
Anyway, my chin hurts, and I think I have a leftover vicodin somewhere. That sounds really good about now…
*** EDIT
Just uploaded these little gems from my cell phone:
Inside the hospital, taken by Arlen (thanks for everything, btw. I owe you!))
There’s a bunch of these all over my back patio now, as well as in Arlen’s bathroom (okay, I really owe you!)
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