Road Rash

My camera is not working, but if I can find another camera around this place, I might take a picture to show you Landon's latest mishap. He called me yesterday evening from clear up the canyon. He rode up the canyon on his long-board with a couple of friends. His board isn't the best quality and it started wobbling and he was in the middle of his two friends with nowhere to go but forward off the board. I am still amazed that he even got service, because you usually can't up the canyon. He crashed pretty good. All three boys had their shirts off because it was hot after riding up the canyon. They had taken a backpack and put their shirts in there. The kid who had been carrying the pack started to complain about it and Landon took over carrying the pack and that probably saved his back more severe pain. He has a little spot on his left shoulder, but he did a number on his right shoulder and side. His right elbow ended up getting a pretty deep gouge and we worried that he had broken it.
No broken bones, just a lot of road rash that will take a while to heal. The Dr. had some good advice for him when he said that the best thing would have been to prevent a lot of this by wearing a shirt next time. I told him that he needed to wear helmet, pads, full clothes (hot or not). He said that pads were expensive. The expensive part is all the trips to the insta-care with this kid. We are glad that it wasn't worse and that it will heal shortly.