{"id":1019,"date":"2017-10-16T04:59:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T22:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2021-06-21T23:57:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:57:17","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, 2017!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, so this is the second blahg in the past month featuring a topless me.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"Scott<\/a><\/span><\/strong>This wasn’t intentional but if you had read my last blahg, BRIDGE CITY AGAIN, PIRATES, AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CANADA!<\/a> , you will recall that I said I suffered an injury during the writing of that blahg.\u00a0 So therefore, this blahg will be the explanation to that blahg and will also continue with something else that I mentioned last time.\u00a0 Make sure you’re wearing your helmet because it’s a bumpy ride.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In my last blahg I talked about being on holidays.\u00a0 That’s why last month’s blahg pictured a topless picture of me at the beach.\u00a0 \"Honda<\/a>I was writing last month’s blahg when I decided to take a break and ride my daughter Abbie’s scooter around Big Island which is a couple kilometers from my home.\u00a0 At left is a picture of what the scooter looked like when it was new.\u00a0 That’s not a photo of my own but one I found on the Internet.\u00a0 Somewhere I have a picture of Abbie sitting on it after she won it.\u00a0 Yes, she won it.\u00a0 She bought a raffle ticket at a school event and won the scooter about two years ago.\u00a0 Unfortunately both my son and I have had mishaps on the scooter so it doesn’t look so new anymore.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Getting back to the joy-ride and eventual accident, I left last month’s blahg unfinished on Friday September 15th and took that fateful ride.\u00a0 I’ve ridden the scooter around Big Island many times before and had actually taken the scooter for a ride the day before up another long road looking for a lost hubcap off my wife’s car.\u00a0 I didn’t find it but I also didn’t wipe out that day.\u00a0 On the Friday, I drove across the causeway to get on the island and decided to take the long counter-clockwise ride around the island that I have before.\u00a0 I was whizzing along at around 60 kilometers an hour and slowed down to take a left turn onto a side road to start the loop back.\u00a0 I was probably only going about 20 or 25 when I wiped out.\u00a0 All I can figure was that the side road was comprised of loose gravel and that was my undoing.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let me be clear that I was wearing a motorcycle helmet but because it was unseasonably warm, I was also wearing a t-shirt and shorts.\u00a0 \"Abbie's<\/a>After taking the turn onto the side road, I just remember lying on the road.\u00a0 I don’t think I was unconscious at any point but I sure was dizzy.\u00a0 Without the helmet I think I might have had a serious head injury.\u00a0 As it was, I was dizzy for about 10 minutes and my left elbow really hurt, as did my left lower leg and my right chest.\u00a0 I knew I was bleeding and after my head was clear I decided I better get moving and seek medical treatment.\u00a0 It didn’t occur to me then that I could have called an ambulance because I had my cell-phone with me.\u00a0 But then again, the scooter (and you can see the damage to the left side in the picture above…click for larger) would not have been able to fit in the ambulance.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I decided that instead of driving home, I should probably just drive to my wife’s school because my vehicle was in the garage that day and I thought my injuries probably would require more treatment than what I had at home in the medicine cabinet.\u00a0 My wife’s school, and she’s a teacher if I haven’t mentioned it before, was just across the road from the causeway that I drove over to get onto Big Island.\u00a0 It wasn’t a very long ride but I was in enough pain with my left leg and elbow that every bump in the road made it that much worse.\u00a0 I parked the scooter outside the school and went into the office.\u00a0 I don’t know if the secretary recognized me as my wife’s husband but I quickly explained who I was and that I probably should go to the hospital.\u00a0 I was thinking my wife could drive me in her car but the secretary quickly called an ambulance and the Principal attempted to clean my wounds.\u00a0 It was probably about 15 minutes before the ambulance came and by that time my wife had been summoned to the office.\u00a0 She was a little surprised but she quickly understood I had been riding the scooter and then wasn’t so surprised.\u00a0 So now I can joke that it’s her fault because she didn’t tell me not to ride the scooter.\u00a0 The police also showed up to make sure I was alright and that I hadn’t been drinking at that I had been wearing a helmet.\u00a0 Yes to the helmet and no to the drink.\u00a0 I don’t drink but at that point I was thinking I could use one to dull the pain.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A short ambulance ride later and I was at the hospital in Picton.\u00a0 It’s a nice hospital in a small town and I quickly received attention from the nurses and the Doctor.\u00a0 That’s where the half naked picture of me from above was taken.\u00a0 \"Scott's<\/a>The picture to the right is of my injured left elbow.\u00a0 It was a nasty scrape and some gouging that is still healing.\u00a0 I’ll probably have a nice souvenir scar.\u00a0 The picture on the left is of my scraped up leg.\"Scott's<\/a>\u00a0 They did x-rays on my elbow and chest.\u00a0 It turned out the chest pain was not cracked or broken ribs but probably pulled chest muscles from having the scooter pull me and ride on top of me for a while.\u00a0 The x-rays did reveal a slight fracture in my left elbow.\u00a0 I had to wear a sling for about ten days and then visit the fracture clinic at the Belleville hospital.\u00a0 I survived to tell the tale and will have that souvenir scar.\u00a0 That ten days with the sling was a little rough and the first couple of days and nights after the accident were painful but I took nothing more than Advil and put Polysporin on my scraped leg and elbow.\u00a0 The scooter remained locked up at my wife’s school until she walked it home about a week later.\u00a0 She doesn’t ride scooters and she certainly wasn’t going to let me near it again for a while.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As I said, I had to wear the sling for ten days and of course my 55th Birthday fell during that time.\u00a0 I’ve had worse Birthday’s but having your arm in a sling and having your wife have to help you dress, doesn’t rank among my favorites.\u00a0 It was also the first Birthday where none of my children were home to enjoy it with me.\u00a0 They did video chat with me later and my son even showed me my present…something that will link back to last month’s blahg.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Remember last month and all that jazz?\u00a0 \"The<\/a>Specifically recall how I detailed about “Pirates, Buccaneers And All That Jazz” by The Pat Riccio Quartet.\u00a0 I posted a few of the tracks and mentioned another album by the Quartet.\u00a0 Before talking about that other album I have to mention something else about the Pirates album.\u00a0 I don’t think that’s the original title and cover.\u00a0 \"The<\/a>I came across the same tracks on a different album called “The Basic Sounds Of The Pat Riccio Quartet ” on the Quality label in 1959.\u00a0 The quartet in 1959 featured the following members:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n