Last weekend was productive, I spent Sunday afternoon with Dan changing the brakes on my bike to Aid BB7s, putting new grips on the bike and installing the front rack.
On Tuesday night I rode my bicycle to work, using the front rack and clipped a barrier with the front pannier in the car park. I fell onto my right hand with my arm straight. my arm was a little bit sore but I thought it would be ok. At about 8pm (the crash was at 6.30pm) it was getting much worse. I could hardly move my arm, hold a pen, use the computer, much less try and do pressure area care on my 77kg patient. I let my team leader know what happened and she gave me some paracetamol and ibuprofen and sent me to ED.
A few painful x-rays and a couple of hours later it was diagnosed as a fractured radial head. I was given a sling, some more pain relief and sent on my way. It was a very anti-climatic last shift. The ED doctor thinks I will be able to cycle in three weeks time. I will go to fracture clinic next week and get it checked up on. In the meantime Heidi is taking great care of me, reliving the weeks she spent looking after me when I broke my collar bone in Canada. I am fumbling my way around trying to do everything left handed and regretting purchasing bottles of paracetamol and ibuprofen with child proof lids.
