Thanks for the good wishes, you guys. In the words of the Greek playwright Aristophanes,
"If it ain't one damned thing, it's another".
As Steve reported, I was cutting my firewood and spitting it with the wood splitter, trying to get ten logger cords of birch put away for the next year and perhaps two depending on how hard a winter. Got to about one cord left and trying to beat the weather shift from snowpack melting to too hot and would have made it if the little accident had not occurred I had a sharpened chain with rakers filed down a bit so the the old Jonsered was cutting well when the chain grabbed a chunk of firewood and shot it into my shin. OUCH... a goosegg appeared and it bled some, but being a typical male I kept cutting and cleaned it up later when the wound was a mess of sawdust and dried blood. Me tough as bear and smart like.minnow. Within a few days it hurt to put weight (which I have in good supply) on my leg, and went to the clinic in town. Lower leg was swollen and getting red splotches so the doc figured I had an infection and put me on a couple of antibiotics. After a few more days the leg was worse so they admitted me into the hospital and changed the antibiotic to one fed through a drip. Supposed to be a killer antibiotic. After a couple more days the antibiotic didn't seem to be having much any affect so another doc decided that maybe it wasn't infected but was more a matter of trauma from the hit against the bone. Nothing broken, so I've had the leg elevated and that seems to be having some benefit. Less swollen and less redness.
So I just got home this evening and am back on an oral antibiotic just in case and am to stay off my leg. Since the injury summer has arrived with enough hot weather to waken hords of mosquitoes, the worst anyone in this area can remember ever. Truly awful. So I'll stay off my leg and finish up the firewood when I can. Have done no bike work and haven't even gone for a bike ride yet this year, so it's kind of a bummer. Beats a heart attack by a long shot, though and I'll heal. Should be good to go by the time motorbicycle summer camp for boys who never grew up gets going in early July, so will make the best of what summer remains. Want to get the Hiawatha tri-car on the road! Woohoo!
Thanks again for your good wishes and kind thoughts.
SB
