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Old January 13th 20, 03:54 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
Joy Beeson
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Default AG: Road Rash

On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:38:15 -0500, Joy Beeson
wrote:


I haven't had road rash since long before


Not a wise thing to say. I strode over black ice on the bridge on my
waw to church this morning, and got a 100% genuine case of road rash
on my right elbow.

I thought it was a bruise, but when I got to the church and took off
my shirt, I found a big oval red patch where the epidermis had been
scraped off -- not quite deep enough to bleed.

There is supposed to be first-aid cream in the box beside the freezer,
but I couldn't find it -- I should have left a note for the Kiddie
Kollege teacher, come to think of it -- so I rinsed the wound with
sterile saline, then coated it with some of the A&D ointment I carry
in a lip-salve box in my right pocket at all times.

It had stopped stinging by the time I completed my abbreviated stair
climbs after the service. Abbreviated because I had noticed that
there was no hat on the coat rack, thought it might have fallen off on
the bridge, and couldn't keep my mind on my exercise. I did go up and
down enough to get a little out of breath. All on one staircase
instead of making a vertical loop hitting all six staircases.

My hat was in the closet; I'd forgotten to wear it. (I got distracted
after pinning on my wool scarf.)

The red spot was less than half as big when I very carefully took off
my shirt, but darker and angrier. Seems even smaller now (13:22), but
that could be the light in here. I poured some peroxide on a wash
cloth, rubbed it with soap, then rubbed the soapy rag on the wound to
get the A&D off -- standing by the sink so I could rinse it *real*
fast; I knew it was going to sting. Then I rinsed the tap water off
with a squirt of peroxide.

Then I hesitated between first-aid cream and Bacitraycin. The
Bacitraycin is supposed to be put generously on a dressing, and I
couldn't see a way to secure a dressing on an elbow, so I used
first-aid cream.

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Later I remembered that we have some pieces of one-on-one ribbed
stretch tubing left over from one of Dave's incidents -- he can't
remember what either -- and wore one of those the rest of the
afternoon and evening.

When it neared bedtime, I washed with just peroxide on the rag. The
red is now still smaller, but the distal edge still foams up when
peroxide hits it, and washing made it resume stinging. Then I put a
bandaid coated with Bacitraycin on it and covered the bandaid with a
clean piece of tubing.

And so to bed.

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Joy Beeson
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