saturday was one hell of a day at desaru. we've planned to do a long bike + some run at desaru..but the 100km bike to n fro pulai and the jetty was suffice to almost kill us.
sequence of events
- nice weather to start bike..wooww..so shiok
- wa lao..head wind.. headwind!
- sun getting hotter..baked us alive. and best thing, we forgot our sunblock. =S
- more headwind. non stop all the way to jetty for 40km there.
- u turn back after hitting jetty...cold drink! cold drink!
- stopped for a bottle of OLD 100plus with NO gas when it's suppose to have. consumed some chocs we brought..and headed on.
- WHAM! tricia collides into billy's bike when he e-braked behind a car which was reversing out. driver failed to see us coming, hence didn't stop. billy stopped on time but tricia crashed right in coz she didn't see the halt coming.
- tricia broke the fall with left hand and was in pain.
- the nice driver got conned off by the malay doctor. (well at least she was nice enough to wait for us while i saw the doc and later paid for the medical bill. some nasty drivers could simply have shrugged off responsibility and zoomed right off)
- rm50 for 2 mins of the doc touching my left hand and bandage without even first cleaning my hand a little. imagine the hand wrapped up with all the dirt and grime. eew. some doctor.
- gotten a pain killer and an anti-swell med, which apparently didn't quite help. it was still in much pain. anarex would have worked much better. pffft.
- driver offered to drive us back but we told her it was alright. i asked her not to worry..cos she really is a nice lady to begin with. it wasn't entirely her fault..coz we came from the right side pretty quickly and there was a van parked on her right side. if i was the driver, i could have missed spotting the cyclist on time too.
- nice rengit town was full of nice people. a middle aged malay uncle rushed to my rescue the moment i fell. he was the first person to tend to me. he helped straighten my wrist immediately upon knowing i have landed on my hand. it hurt like mad..but it really helped.
- nice chinese lady dressed in red tshirt helped me up and pushed my bike to the side. she kept popping over to check if i was alright. she even told us there is a chinese doc who may be able to help check my injury to see if there was a fracture.
- malay uncle helped me straighten my elbow upon seeing my hand begin to swell. pain again..but after the blood began to move, it felt better.
- we went over to the chinese doc after seeing the malay doc who is obviously out to con people only. bleah.
- chinese doc is really good. once again pull and yanked my hand to straight it properly and applied medicated paste..after which he bandaged it nicely for me. MUCH NICER than what the malay doc did. at least he cleaned my hand first.
- chinese doc didn't charge a single cent. he was doing it out of charity and operated under the buddhist society. we are grateful..though we should have given some donation, but i was penniless. didn't bring any money out. i've got to remind myself if i do pass by again, i must stop to drop donation in. i'm not a believer of karma but truly am grateful to the doc's help. =)
- struggled onto bike and in less than 1km of cycling out...rooooooooooooom...RAIN. what?!?!
- we biked into a rundown bike servicing hut for shelter. saw this uncle dismantling an old bike and salvaging the useable parts. smart!
- rained heavily. but it stopped quickly. we headed out and cycled on.
- headwind..AGAIN. WHAT?!!?!?!?!!?!? go also headwind, come back also headwind..wa lao!
- looked up. oh..guess what we see? RAIN CLOUDS. best. i mumbled to billy..rain coming liao.
- and the next moment..RAIN ..again. -sobs-
- we u turned back to the hut which was not far away. once we got into the hut, the rain diminished and stopped. sigh. ok..God play games with us.
- we cycled out. 200m out..RAIN!
- crap crap crap! u turn again back to hut..and this time the rain went on and on and on and on..
- every stop is painful for tricia coz pulling the front brake made her hand hurt alot, already when placing the hand on the handlebar with a little pressure was painful.
- rain finally cleared and we went on.
- lots of hills with ALOT of headwind.
- the last 20km seemed never ending
- finally got back to pulai.. RAIN once again
- we dismantled and threw the bikes into the car, in the rain.
- showered at pulai's toilet, using the fantastic spray that's commonly used to wash backsides. ho ho ho.
- we decided to treat ourselves good and went to segamat.
- we saw a FULL SIZE RAINBOW! now that was a good thing for us!
- it poured and rained cats and dogs along the 4hrs+ ride there.
- nice nice nice dinner at good world restaurant. fish was soooooooo yummy..and yam pot was great too!
- had fabulous wanton mee for bfast the next morning. wow..the gravy is heavenly. the chilli made it even BETTER! yum yumyum
- washed 2 cars in the noon. ang ku kuey regained its showroom shine again!
- nice simple lunch with FISH again. i simply love fish! =P billy's mum treated us to all the meals..thank u so much auntie!
- headed back to sg on sunday 4pm. reached sg at around 8pm.
haha.monday noon now and i'm not at work. coz i'm on mc.
silly tricia went to take ibuoprofen on top of the 2 med given and she woke up with a gastric. bloated. burping. wrist still swelling. eczema not looking at its best.
saw dr kee and she wrote a referral for me to get an xray done on my write and schphiod. she's suspecting a fracture coz there is bruising and swelling. i'm reluctant coz knowing it won't help much. at most i'll get calcium pills.
got home and i went into the net to read up on the wrist injury. in the case of a fracture, there is a possibility of the bones not healing properly, resulting in a condition called non union. it also said that sometimes X-rays taken immediately after the injury may not show a fracture.. so waiting 10days might help as the fracture would surface. i'm choosing to wait a while and see how it goes.
meantime i'll continue to apply my zam buk religiously and keep the wrist in the bandage. dr kee suggested that i go get a wrist guard, which i would do so this evening.
end of weekend episode... i brought some things back..
- i haven't got much chance to visit doctors in malaysia, but to me, that visit to the clinic at rengit with that malay doctor, wasn't too pleasant. he's definitely NOT professional. i have never been prescriped painkillers without gastric medicine. even today dr kee gave me a mild pain killer, it came with gastric med. she even reminded me that painkillers can cause gastric.
- there are always nice people around. at rengit town, i found some. i'm thankful because whenever i've gone into accidents, there are always people out there who are so ready to help.
- accident was bad. first time falling on tania. well. left hand hurts but at least it wasn't my RIGHT hand. i can still write properly. phew!
- i can eat alot of junk food. we were just junk-ing away during the car ride. =P jia lart. how to not grow fat?
- only billy can tahan weird tricia. =P he has been really tolerant and understanding when i got real frustrated with the pain. if it's tricia vs weird tricia, tricia would have walked away. haha.
- headwind to and fro plus sultry sun was bad. but i'll do it again, anyday.
- never leave home without your sunblock.
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