A Bummer (LUCKY) Start to 2014

New Year's Day! At the Bangkok Airport on our way to sun and sand on Ko Lanta Island, near Krabi.

A taxi, flight, shuttle and ferry ride....this was the reward.   A New Year's Day sunset.

January 2: Onions and I planned for the 3rd to be our day to go out snorkeling, so on the 2nd we decided to rent a scooter and tool around the island.  Go to different beaches and just sit in the sun.  Unfortunately, about 15 minutes into our scooter adventure, we took a tumble.  I was in back with Onions driving.  I was talking to him and he didn't see a part of the road that wasn't paved.  Our front wheel caught the edge of the "pothole" and we tumbled over.  We were lucky in so, so many ways. Helmets?  Yes.  Onions, turns out he's particularly sensitive to sun, was fully decked out covering his entire body (top and bottom) and there were no cars directly behind us.  Plus one of those motor rickshaw taxis was nearby to ferry us directly to the hospital.  Onions was injured with scrapes on his leg, a deep cut on his foot, some scrapes on his hands and a cut lip.  I just had a large scrape on my hand.  Onions took the brunt of the impact.

Needless to say, we had an immediate halt to the fun part of our vacation.  But again, what did I learn about Onions?  His immediate reaction was to apologize for ruining our vacation. How can you be mad at that. And of course, he was scared that he was going to be permanently injured, which would be hard for him because he is an athlete.  Plus there is the unknown of what the ultimate prognosis would be.  The afternoon of the accident was scary for both of us.  But we managed.  And the following days, things hurt and were boring since we couldn't do anything, but we managed.  I like the way he handled the crisis.  Logical, but emotional.  Perspective....and understanding that patience to let his body heal was most important.

Day 3, we got ourselves to the beach to get some drinks, watch the sunset and eat dinner!

Special treatment at the airport.

Two week report!  I am fully recovered.  Onions is 80%!  He only has some residual pain in his knee and his foot hurts as the cut was deep.  He's walking and we are basically up and running as normal.  Plus, he can now shower and go to the gym and work out his upper body.  Lucky?  Yes!