There are big accidents, like an earthquake, or potentially having Sarah Palin as Vice President. And there are little accidents, like not wearing shoes and seeing the results later. Let us focus on the latter. So yesterday we were participating in a friendly game of hide and go seek tag. I being not too skilled at finding people, had been “it” for two rounds now. It a desperate effort to tag someone, Alex, I throw my shoes at him giving me just a window of opportunity while startled to tag him. I get alex and now seek others. I see Taylor yet se is sitting on the ridge of a fence and i do not know which way to run. I go up the side on some grass littered with dirt. She runs down the other side so I take off as fast as I can. I tag her and slow down. that was when I noticed that my heel hurt. I lifted it up and it was of course bleeding. I had torn loose a large flap of skin almost half a square inch. Matt, the big one, not me, put on a layer of second skin, and some tape and the matter was discussed as to take me to the hospital or not. It was later decreed that i would be going to the hospital in Futalefu. The town is about an hour away from where we are staying. Andy, Calli and I took the Tahoe into town as it too had an accident, a blown hose or something I’m not too sure. At the doctor’s office I was given a liberal amount of local anesthetic to my heel and they contemplated on what to do. I narrowly avoided stitches as the wound was just shallow enough and I think it would be relatively hard to stitch the heel. The doctor applied a large wad of bandage stuff, threw some tape on there, gave me a pack of Ibuprofen and told me to do nothing for a week. We then had a nice meal of steak and fries and spent the night in town. Now the Tahoe is getting fixed and I am on a road to recovery. We are here for 8 more days so I am hoping to paddle.
I’ll try to see you on the water!
P.S. Wear shoes.

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