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drew

Here I am freshly wounded from a ride.

Drew

gg3

When you get a cut like that, you need to wash it out immediately with plenty of soap and warm water. Seriously. That's how many deadly cases of drug-resistant bacterial infection have started.

TorrKing

Here is me after a week in the wilds:

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drew

'Necrotizing Fascitis'? It's something like that. Thanks for the concern gg3. I dumped on the Hydrogen Peroxide after soap and water and then laid on the Polysporin just in case. I regularly get hacked up in the bush but usually not too bad. This one was sort of self inflicted by design unfortunately. This winter I brazed an additional hydraulic line guide onto the frame and remember thinking 'this is a bad location, I am going to get sliced'. It took about 10 rides for the 'correct' circumstances to occur.

Nice pic. from the bush, Torjus. I love doing that sort of thing but unfortunately haven't in about a decade. I used to go to Algonquin Park a fair bit. It is about a 4 hour drive from where I live and is truly wild. Pretty much after the last time I went, a married couple got killed and eaten by a bear on an island I had camped on for a weekend a month before. In all seriousness the risk isn't super dangerous since black bears are normally scared of people. There have only been 10 or so killings in the past century. Still though, the place is wild. I suspect that a lot of Norway and Canada are quite similar: ie, bears, moose, forest, etc..

Drew

Shannymara · Master Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5138 Location: Oklahoma

Here's a pic of me today, with the first shiner I ever got:

Please replace the one of me with my ex in the sidebar since we've split up... Thanks!

Edit: My ex didn't beat me! This was an accident.
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Last_Laff · Heavy Crude Joined: Sep 16, 2006 Posts: 223

Rogozhin

Who knew PeakOilers were so goodlooking?! Wink

Rogo

Shannymara · Master Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5138 Location: Oklahoma

PeakOiler

Ouch! Shannymara! Care to indulge us how you got that shiner? Hopefully it wasn't a head butt from one of your goats! And then cat bites!

Please take care of yourself.
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gg3

Drew, yes, necrotizing fascitis. Good for you having taken care of it properly. I got a nasty bike accident injury about ten years ago and dumped a bunch of rubbing alcohol on it to be safe, and then climbed into the shower and ran water over it. Let's just say it was a lifetime lesson in the Buddhist art of detachment from pain.

Heh, Rogo, right you are. I'm gay and believe me it requires serious self-discipline to avoid posting comments such as "dude, are you single?" after some cute guy posts a picture here. Of which there are many. And most of those are also smart as hell too, which is what really gets my interest (grab me by the brain and my heart and ballz will follow, in that order).

Roccland · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 16, 2007 Posts: 1375

The lugs were really hot on this day!!!
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The_Toecutter · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 18, 2005 Posts: 1731

Taken around March, me and one of my beloved(the knife has a story behind it):

Here's me today:

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Madpaddy · Expert Joined: Jun 25, 2004 Posts: 1987

Shannymara,

You need Arnica for that eye but I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that.

Hope the breakup was not too upsetting. Been there and never want to again. Keep the chin up.
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Shannymara · Master Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5138 Location: Oklahoma

Thanks Madpaddy, it's all healed up already. Things are going very well, all things considered.
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