Bike rides in Capitola

Apparently bike rides in Capitola can be a little more dangerous than I expected. I was so proud of myself because I had my most successful ride yet. I went further, rode faster, and even started to figure out the gears on my "new" old school bike. Then...as I was riding down a little bike path that cuts over a creek toward the homestretch, I took a turn a little too fast and maybe too confident. I was edging toward the wood railing and stretched out my hand to keep from hitting it (even though I don't think I would have). I was successful in adverting a crash, but in the process cut my hand. I didn't think it was that bad...until I looked at my hand at home. It was pretty deep and dark in there.
Luckily, I had a doctor's appointment already scheduled with our new doctor to just get a check up. Unfortunately what started as a check up turned into probing my hand for "foreign objects", a tetanus shot, an hour wait for an x-ray and a day full of changing band-aids, using my left hand and being doped up on vicodin. It's all pretty funny, but kind of sad at the same time. Maybe soon I'll have my first uneventful bike ride.