Concussion FTL (5/365)

So today I flipped over my bike handle bars (first time I have even had trouble on my bike since getting to university, so I guess I'm due). My chain came off while I was changing gears. I wasn't wearing a helmet (LESSON LEARNED0 so I was lucky to get away from it with a concussion. Really the only reason I didn't crack my skull open was I got my arm up in front of it in time and used the other one to counterbalance the bike so that it skidded kind of sideways, meaning my head hit the pavement on an angle instead of dead (ok, really bad pun) on and I had already stopped half the speed with my arm (which, as you can imagine, is not thanking me for that but incredibly isn't broken either).



So I'm feeling pretty fortunate right now, but as a result my day involved eight hours of the emergency department @ my local hospital, including a CT scan, and then a lot of lying around on my couch watching TV. Fortunately I had a very cuddly and comforting couch buddy who made me feel much better: