Today's Injuries

[Welsh Harrier]

My dog would eat the mallet before i chance to wield it, she's already ate half the kitchen and most of the bathroom and is eyeing up the garden shed and decking for her next course:w00t:

Would your dog eat an iron mallet? The lump on my shin has gone down after repeated icing and my wife has decided that she knows that the real name for this piece of apparatus is a 'lump' hammer!

[stevefoster]

Would your dog eat an iron mallet? The lump on my shin has gone down after repeated icing and my wife has decided that she knows that the real name for this piece of apparatus is a 'lump' hammer!

I'm sure she would, happy healing WH:wink:

[jtinnion]

On my mahoosive blister (step daughter's description not mine):

I just burst mine and get some surgical spirit on them, hurts like hell but hardens the skin up quickly, works for me.

No surgical spirit in the house - will have to get some tomorrow. I take it cheap Scotch (as opposed to proper Malt - some of our Contractors still remember us at Christmas) will work just as well?? I may drink some before I go for the bursting operation...

Thanks for the responses, people. A font of wisdom as ever...

JIm

[Rob Furness]

Surgical spirit is mainly meths if that helps (but with some added oils to stop skin drying out too much and cracking). Scotch isn't nearly as strong but will still help against infection I would have thought. The benefit of surgical spirit is the fact it hardens up the affected area quite a lot which allows you to continue training with minimal problems.

[IainR]

The wife just 'de-gloved' her heal running in the snow. Literally torn the skin ankle bone to ankle bone and degloved the heal, exposing muscle/tendon etc...just been picked up by the NHS range rover due to heavy snow meaning roads impassable..quite a good injury to be fair..though I didn't believe her and carried on running..to be fair she was being a bit melodramatic...turns out justifably so..after 4 miles she seemed OK and was going at a reasonable pace, it wasn't until we got home that we realised she wasn't just being soft...I don't think I'll live this one down for a while...

[Rob Furness]

Ouch! that sounds nasty, how on earth did she manage that?

[IainR]

Ouch! that sounds nasty, how on earth did she manage that?

Jumping down some slate steps in Padarn Park, the step above had an overlap, as her heal lifted it caught on the overlap, she fell forwards, her heal stayed...

Now all stitched up, 10 cm wound.

[simgreen78]

A cracked thumb :thunbdown:.

Slipped on the ice whilst running across the top of Padley Gorge and hit the ground very hard. Ouch. Still, carried on as far as Grindleford before turning around and heading for home. Slipped again on the ice running back across the Houndkirk bridleway and landed on the same hand - I think that was the killer blow as it went black and completely numb almost immediately. Home. Casualty. Bugger.

Winter running is usually my favourite but I'm a bit peed off now. This post has taken flipping ages to type...

...A de-gloved heel sounds a lot nastier though.

[Rob Furness]

Jumping down some slate steps in Padarn Park, the step above had an overlap, as her heal lifted it caught on the overlap, she fell forwards, her heal stayed...

Now all stitched up, 10 cm wound.

:boohoo: sounds nasty

[IainR]

:boohoo: sounds nasty

Photos...

http://sarzmountainrun.blogspot.com/...nt-happen.html