Can you say OUCH!??!

Ok, so I thought of a lot of other things to say too when this happened. That's my knee. Yep, scraped, scarred, and infected.

I am such a goober.

We were hiking with some friends on our date on Saturday night. It is a local spot that is really popular. The end of the hike had a spot that, apparently, lots of (I am assuming) kids actually slide down or some ding-dongs ride their bikes down. You can see the spot from where you start.



Not a great picture since it was obviously taken in winter and the trees are GORGEOUS and lush now but, you can distinctly see the "slide" to which I am referring.

Back to the story that I am taking W-A-Y too long to tell. I carried a small bag with me on the entire hike. Determined to use it to slide down the hill as my reward. Kids go down on their bums....uh, no thanks....not without something between me and a certain gargantuan hole in the seat of my pants.

The bag idea didn't work.

Genius me decided to 'surf' down.

That didn't work either.

Once I started I toppled over and this is the beautiful result. To top matters off, I could feel the skin being stripped from my knee during my fall so I rotated myself to get my knee out from under me. Picture me now headed down upside down on my back. Inverted, sliding down a hill in front of my husband and two friends.

Pure grace.

My girlfriend was concerned with my welfare. So was my husband, sort of. I finally got myself to stop and to be honest, even I was giggling a little bit. My friends husband was definitely giggling. No, pretty sure he was laughing.
I had a pound of dirt down my skivvies now and I hadn't even looked at my knee yet. When I finally did, I didn't think it looked too bad. It was completely white. No blood had even appeared yet. That's what happens when you shred the skin off. There was a small rock embedded in it. Cool huh?





Genius me didn't wash it properly that night. (Did I mention I am a nurse...yeah, I know....genius!!)

It got infected. It HURTS!! In vast disproportion to what it looks like. I was certain yesterday that nothing had ever in my life hurt so bad. Mini melt down. Again, in vast disproportion to what the wound looks like. I finally did a proper cleaning of it since it was now yellow and getting a red ring around it. (hmm, did I mention I should have know MUCH better??) Another friend heard my whining and helped out. It feels better now.

Still hurts.

Genius huh?