guess what!

I have a hematoma!!

Over a month ago, Lee and I were involved in a scooter accident - when I made my first and only attempt ever to drive a scooter here, and, well, I hit another scooter... So anyways, ever since then I have had a severe bruise on the bottom of my leg and an aching pain whenever I touched it. I assumed it would go away with time, like any other common injury. But here I am, weeks later and my leg has a hard, soar bump on it and the bruise has not gone away. So I finally went to the hospital today and had it looked at, to be diagnosed with a subcutaneous hematoma: a break in the wall of a blood vessel, aka a blood clot. So I have to put a heating pad on it every day and rub this funky gel over the area in order to get the blood soft and flowing again. If this does not work within one month then I have to go back and have the blood removed with a giant needle :o)

Good times!