Full face helmets are a good thing - Mini Gadget goes to InstaCare!
Mini Gadget and a friend, we'll call him Q, were going out for a ride last night. Apparently there is a short (what they call a DH run) shuttle ride nearby and Q's mother was going to chaffeur them for two of three laps. I put on my gear to go ride Glen Wild and was just about to hit the trail when my phone rang. It was MG, he said that he had crashed and bloodied his nose. I got back in the car and met them at the house.
MG and Q were both wearing their full face helmets and pads on their arms, but not their leg pads. To hear Q's mother tell the story, MG went over the bars in spectacular fashion. After MG crawled out of the shower, it was obvious that he had cut his nose above the right nostril. I hemmed and hawed about taking him to the local InstaCare, but thought there was a chance he may need stitches. So off we went.
Based on the skin that was missing from his nose and the bruise on his chest from the chin bar of his helmet, I can't even imagine what might have happened had MG been wearing his XC helmet. I do know that we probably would have been off to see my brother, a maxillofacial prosthodontist, instead of going to the all night doc shop.
After numbing his nose topically, they were able to clean the wound and determined a few steri-strips would do the job. MG's bruise was more colorful this morning and the rash on his chest and belly complimented his cheese-gratered nose nicely. ;)
I'm really glad he was wearing his full face helmet.
