ER Help

Josh and I went on a 30 mile bike ride yesterday morning. It was my longest of the season yet, and I think I did quite well!

Before our ride even began, though, we had some minor excitement. We had decided to park in the Target parking lot off Santa Fe and ride around Chatfield lake; this would give us the 30 miles we desired to ride.

As we were unloading our bikes in the parking lot, a man and woman walking their bikes approached us. The lady said, "Excuse me, do you think you could help us?"

I figured one of them had a flat tire and needed help pumping it up. They were in luck! I have a fabulous bike pump for such purposes.

"Sure, what do you need?" I happily replied. I am always willing to help pump up a tire.

"Can you take us the ER?"

So that was not what I was expecting.

"Of course! What happened? Is everyone okay?"

The lady rotated her body so I could see her elbow. It looked like she had two fists being help up to her elbow, that's how badly swollen it was. She moaned in pain as she rotated her body.

"We had a bike accident. Since it rained heavily last night, the bridges on the bike trail are very slick. My tire slid out from underneath me, and I landed on my elbow. My husband kind of road right over me as I crashed, and he went over his handle bars."

I looked at the man, and he had a deep gash in both knees and blood was dripping down his legs.

Josh and Shiloh to the rescue! Josh quickly unloaded our bikes off my rack and loaded their bikes on. Josh said he'd stay with our bikes while I drove them to the ER.

The lady was in obvious pain. She kept moaning the entire way to the hospital and she was a bit loopy. She was trying to form sentences but was having a hard time making her brain work with her tongue. Her elbow continued to grow larger and larger on the short 5 minute ride to the ER.

I helped them unload their bikes and got them into the ER waiting room. There was nothing left for me to do. They were very grateful for my help, and I left them with a "Good luck". Both of them were going to need medical attention.

I arrived back to Josh, and we went on our 30 mile ride with no mishaps. I'm still thinking about those two, though, and wonder what happened to her elbow. It looked extremely painful and made my stomach leap whenever I looked at it or at his gashes in his legs.