OW!

Ignore the jammies and purple socks and homemade slippers.  Focus on comparing the size of my right leg compared to the left.  I earned the booboo on my right leg yesterday, just 6 weeks after I injured it in the first place.  The swelling was almost down.  I'd been diligent about wearing shin pads, even on the easiest mountain bike trails.  Yesterday the trail we rode wasn't particularly difficult but I had one of my famous uphill falls (not quite enough momentum).  Normally these kinds of falls don't do very much damage because they're low speed but this time there was a bank to my left, the direction I fell.  My right leg hit the top bar of my bike.  The shin pad rotated around so bare leg hit bike frame.  It probably would've only left a bruise, except that I did more or less the exact same thing 6 weeks ago in the same spot.  So now it (my leg) is being dramatic about being whacked again.  I've grounded myself from my mountain bike until I receive my shipment of Sette shin pads, which are beefier than the pair I had been wearing.  I'll look like an insect with jointed pads on both arms and legs.  But less bruised, I hope.