Today, one month after my bicycle crash, I received the bill from the hospital--$1,162.75. Not bad, I’d say. And my insurance covered all but my emergency room deductible of $50.00. I’ve spent probably 3-4 times that amount on gauze, non-stick sterile pads, tape and hydrogen peroxide.

Following this I went straight to the bathroom to remove the bandage from today. Though many people have told me that the wounds will heal faster UNcovered, my experience this weekend of keeping both wounds covered and wearing long pants, so I could concentrate on taking pictures and not on swabbing oozing ointment and whatever it is that oozes from both wounds as I walked around the Mall, shows that the covered wounds heal faster. So I’ve covered the big gash in my knee and the road burn on my calf for the past five days and have seen significant healing of both. At last. Nonetheless, the non-stick bandage on my road burn still requires hydrogen peroxide to urge it off. I’m getting used to this unpleasantness and thought it a fitting photo of the day.

The focus isn’t where I intended it. I kept moving as I poured and bent over the camera to aim and shoot, so the camera ended up focusing on the bottle instead of the wound.