{"id":24789,"date":"2026-07-20T13:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=24789"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:34:50","slug":"healing-a-hefty-scrape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/20\/healing-a-hefty-scrape\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing a Hefty Scrape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Triad Hydrophilic Wound Dressing, Vashe Wound Solution OTC, and bandages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As much as I try to avoid them, I’m unfortunately familiar with the bumps and scrapes that come with mountain biking; typically minor injuries from brushing a tree of or falling over in the dirt. A few weeks back when riding at River Bends on a far-too-worn-out tire<\/a> and working on faster, flat cornering, I ended up sliding out, falling over, and scraping the front \/ outer-side of my left shin \/ calf on some hard-packed sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This wouldn’t have been notable at all, except it was a bit deeper than normal and thus had difficulty figuring out how to treat it. I subsequently got a (likely staph<\/a>) infection that made it much more painful, and took a lot longer to heal, than a normal abrasion \/ road rash<\/a>. Thus this post, wherein I document what went wrong, what went (very) right in healing it up, and what I intend to do next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Went Right<\/h2>\n\n\n
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My shin, nicely healing and on the mend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After a week of getting worse, and a few days of constant stinging pain that even interfered with sleep, I went to urgent care because I was concerned it was getting infected. The nurse practitioner agreed that it seemed infected and prescribed cephalexin<\/a> (oral) and mupirocin<\/a> (topical) antibiotics. Beginning to take these cleared up the infection and allowed healing to begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A riding friend who noticed the bandage, and whose spouse works in wound care in an ER, had dealt with a much-worse leg injury in the past, took an interest, and the two of them recommended a course of action that worked wonderfully:<\/p>\n\n\n\n