Leader: Joan Oppel
Members: Anonymous User, Donaro Gardner, Patricia Sanders, Tom Short and Pat Walthers
Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38243618 About 7/8 of the first half of this ride actually happened and the same 7/8 became the second half of the ride
Weather: Temperatures ranged between about 55 at the start to 65 at the end. Bright sunny day with a little wind and beautiful blue skies.
Mishaps: None but read below
Report: Our route took Mt Pisgah to Ripley, then Poorhouse to Rt 6 and Chapel Point to St Ignatius. All arrived uneventfully to St Ignatius - except for your ride leader. Somewhere on Causeway or just after turning to Chapel Point, something got into my right eye and began to cause irritation, watering and very quickly - pain. I slowed down as I tried to blink the foreign item out. Everyone got ahead of me and I pushed on to St Ignatius. By the time I got there, the pain was really intense. I tried rinsing my own eye out, then Pat Walthers took over, pouring water into my eye, none of this alleviated the pain. Everyone was very patient. We were at mile 15.8 out of 35 and conversations went on about going on, turning back, splitting up. In the end everyone turned around.
I needed to go back and get some kind of care and everyone decided the same so we retraced our route.
Many thanks for eeryone's patience and most especially to Pat Walthers and Patricia Sanders. We did an online search for an urgent care clinic, found one in Fort Washington, they both accompanied me there, stayed with me, took great care of me.
*I have a small corneal abrasion, treatment is antibiotic cream to prevent infection and eye drops with a topical anesthetic (only for 24 hours). "It usually takes a few days to heal."
