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Friday May 11, 2012 #
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Question perhaps someone has an answer for....
On Sunday at West Point I took more than my usual number of falls, many of them quite jarring, but only one did any damage, and on that one I cut my right hand, a gash in the meaty art of the palm, done by a rock I would assume even though I'm not sure.
Except it was not like my usual, where I go down, catch myself with my hands, get one of them on a rock, and sheer off my palm a layer of skin and a little flesh about the size of a penny. Done that many times. Seems to take a couple of weeks to heal, oozing a bunch, nothing awful but quite annoying.
This time there was a lot of bleeding, blood was soon dripping from the end of my fingers, had to wipe it off the map case a few times. When I came in I washed it off with some water, and discovered the cut this time was closer to perpendicular to the skin, maybe 60 degrees. Quite deep, looked about half an inch deep, hard to really see, maybe 3/4 of an inch to an inch long. Rather ugly and serious looking.
Went to First Aid, they washed it out with some antibacterial stuff and put on a little ointment, and then were just going to cover it with a bandage. But I said to put some tape right on it, and to pull it really tight, as I imagined that doing what putting stitches in might do.
For the five days since then my routine has been the same -- wash it off well with soap and water, then put some tape on as tight as I can, pulling in the direction that would seal the wound.
The first couple of days there was some redness, but now that has mostly gone away, and there never has been any swelling. It looks remarkably good. Also no pain the last couple of days.
My recollection is that had I put stitches in, they would come out after 5 days. Which I assume means that in 5 days the wound knits together well enough that it's not going to open up again. Since I have had the same kind of pressure on the two surfaces, pushing them together, can I assume the same thing has happened here, that things have mostly healed?
As I said, it looks really good. If there was an infection, I would expect there to be redness, or soreness, or swelling, but there are none of those. Can I possibly be good to go?
I guess I'm wondering because the initial cut was really nasty, imagine a knife cutting in rather deeply. Can it really be doing so well?
On Sunday at West Point I took more than my usual number of falls, many of them quite jarring, but only one did any damage, and on that one I cut my right hand, a gash in the meaty art of the palm, done by a rock I would assume even though I'm not sure.
Except it was not like my usual, where I go down, catch myself with my hands, get one of them on a rock, and sheer off my palm a layer of skin and a little flesh about the size of a penny. Done that many times. Seems to take a couple of weeks to heal, oozing a bunch, nothing awful but quite annoying.
This time there was a lot of bleeding, blood was soon dripping from the end of my fingers, had to wipe it off the map case a few times. When I came in I washed it off with some water, and discovered the cut this time was closer to perpendicular to the skin, maybe 60 degrees. Quite deep, looked about half an inch deep, hard to really see, maybe 3/4 of an inch to an inch long. Rather ugly and serious looking.
Went to First Aid, they washed it out with some antibacterial stuff and put on a little ointment, and then were just going to cover it with a bandage. But I said to put some tape right on it, and to pull it really tight, as I imagined that doing what putting stitches in might do.
For the five days since then my routine has been the same -- wash it off well with soap and water, then put some tape on as tight as I can, pulling in the direction that would seal the wound.
The first couple of days there was some redness, but now that has mostly gone away, and there never has been any swelling. It looks remarkably good. Also no pain the last couple of days.
My recollection is that had I put stitches in, they would come out after 5 days. Which I assume means that in 5 days the wound knits together well enough that it's not going to open up again. Since I have had the same kind of pressure on the two surfaces, pushing them together, can I assume the same thing has happened here, that things have mostly healed?
As I said, it looks really good. If there was an infection, I would expect there to be redness, or soreness, or swelling, but there are none of those. Can I possibly be good to go?
I guess I'm wondering because the initial cut was really nasty, imagine a knife cutting in rather deeply. Can it really be doing so well?
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87-11-1-11
2 PM
orienteering 26:02 1.7 mi (15:19 / mi) +318ft 13:00 / mi
ahr:148 max:162 weight:137.5lbs shoes: pegasus #2
Back to Earl's Trails to check on some suggestions from Ali. Figured I might as well run one of my courses, so did that first. Went pretty well.
orienteering 26:36 0.82 mi (32:26 / mi) +171ft 27:06 / mi
ahr:103 max:121 shoes: pegasus #2
And then back out for a short walk, more corrections, the highlight of which was an AOWN moment. Keep in mind that in all the time mapping and course setting I had seen no deer, no large birds, mainly just squirrels and mountain bikers.
So I head a few noises, much more like squirrels than mountain bikers, paid no attention, and then heard a significantly louder noise. Looked in the direction the sound was coming from and about 40 or 50 meters away a couple of creatures were climbing a tree.
My first thought was porcupines, although they were a little quick for porcupines. And then another noise, and mama bear sticks her head around the tree to peer at me. And then she starts climbing too. Goes up 5 feet, sticks her head out to look at me, up another 5 feet, and stop to look. Meanwhile the two cubs were up about 20-25 feet.
Was I supposed to be scared? If so, I wasn't. After all, I had just treed three bears without even trying. But no point in being stupid, so I slowly circled away, feeling quite lucky for the encounter.
It was near a Blue course control by the way.... :-)
So I head a few noises, much more like squirrels than mountain bikers, paid no attention, and then heard a significantly louder noise. Looked in the direction the sound was coming from and about 40 or 50 meters away a couple of creatures were climbing a tree.
My first thought was porcupines, although they were a little quick for porcupines. And then another noise, and mama bear sticks her head around the tree to peer at me. And then she starts climbing too. Goes up 5 feet, sticks her head out to look at me, up another 5 feet, and stop to look. Meanwhile the two cubs were up about 20-25 feet.
Was I supposed to be scared? If so, I wasn't. After all, I had just treed three bears without even trying. But no point in being stupid, so I slowly circled away, feeling quite lucky for the encounter.
It was near a Blue course control by the way.... :-)
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