Miscellanea

There's Miffy, my new foster cat.  She is a wonderful cat!  She just purrs, and purrs, and purrs.  Last night, I was talking on the phone, and the cat was behind my head on the sofa... I opted to take her picture.  It is such a pleasure to have a cat in the house again - even if only for 3 weeks.  

I went for a bike ride this morning with a friend from work.  She is going to do the Triathlon with me in August, so we are training (but not real hard).  So, 2 miles into a bike ride, I encountered an unexpected obstacle in the trail, and hit the brakes so hard, I went over the handlebars.  Again.  Thankfully my friend is an RN (and a darn good one too!) and was able to assess how hurt I was.  She was concerned with the fact that I was seeing stars and my helmet was crooked.  I was amazed that for all the road rash I have all over the left side of my body, I have no broken bones!  

So goes another unofficial bone density test.  If there were the slightest bit of osteoporosis, I would have broken my left radius, my left hip, and perhaps even my left femur!  As it is, I am very very sore.  I feel feeble and kind of shaky.  

I am also emotional.  

I am going to go to bed and read for a while and then take a nap.

And thank God that I am not hurt worse than this.  And I think I am retiring this bike.  This is the second time I have gone over the handlebars of this bike... the first time, I broke a rib or two and was out of commission for quite a while.  I have never had an accident with my mountain bike.  I think I need that stability.