This is what happens… …when you go rock climbing on Pikes Peak at high altitude, your feet get caught in a crack, your hands can't find a hold and you pivot about your feet to do a face plant on a rock face 6 feet or so below your feet.
Thank God there was an occular plastic surgeon in the hospital by chance as I pulled in to the ER.
This photo was taken by the surgeon after cleaning me up but just before he started sewing.
He did a pretty good job I suppose since I don't seem to scare small children any more often than I used to.
Joe J.
All I have to say is…ow.
Here’s to your quick recovery. 
Actually, this picture is almost a year old. The plastic surgeon was a magician. While I know the scar is there, very few other folks even notice. And most of those who do, think it adds to my rakish good looks 
Joe J.
P.S. I only uploaded this picture in order to make this guy feel better:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=28992
I wonder if I have any pictures from gwross’s bike accident
OUCH!!!
Was this from hiking, climbing or mountain biking?
(was the bike trashed too?)
:eek:
edited
ah… rock climbing… (thanks for pointing that out!) I finally read the posting.
Lucky your right eye was not damaged.
That HAD to hurt!! I have looked at that picture several times in awe! You’re the man for not crying (at least not in the picture!)
I remember the hit. Actually, I specifically remember the bomb in my brain and then thinking, “I am not knocked out… …how surprising to have hit my head so hard and not to be knocked out*… …why is my left hand so warm and slippery?” (it was holding my face at that point).
It hurt… though not at that moment perhaps.
Joe J.
*I have been knocked out before skiing and also tubing down a sled hill, so my brain sort of had an idea of the type of impact that ought to hit the reset button – but for some reason this hit didn’t.
That is one nasty cut! It looks like a little tongue, eeewwwww. :eek:
