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I am currently in La Paz. Yesterday, Friday 13th I decided to go mountain biking down the worlds most dangerous road. At the bottom you get presented with a t-shirt to say you survived the worlds most dangerous road but in my case that was not entirely true. About halfway down the road whilst showing off to the video camera I managed to fly over the handlebars in spectacular fashion. This was obviously all captured on video so I am hoping that maybe the money from Kristy?s home videos may go towards the medical fees. Anyway I got up and felt fine but the large quantity of blood flowing from my face began to made me think otherwise. The Guides patched me up and decided I didn?t need stitches. The suggested I get on the bus but I decided to continue a flesh wound from being a d*** in front of the camera wasn?t going to stop me getting to the bottom. 3 hours later at the bottom the fact that everyone was cringing when they saw my face made me decide to investigate it further. Upon inspection it became clear I had quite a gash and would need stitches. Unfortunately it took 4 hours to get back to La Paz and at 10pm I had to hunt down a clinic. I found one and thankfully I was in some near third world country as opposed to England so I got seen immediately. Unfortunately as it was such a deep cut and from now about 8 hours ago and was healing badly they said they could stitch cheaply it but it may scar and really I needed the plastic surgeon. Well when you have the perfect face like mine you don?t want to take any chances. Really it was the fact that is was still only 80 to get it seen to by the plastic surgeon and he could do it in 20 minutes. Anyway he hacked about at my face cut out all the bad scar tissue and 8 stitches later I was free to go. All I had to do now was track down a pharmacy to get my prescription as I needed to take some penicillin tonight. This was is fun in quite a dangerous city at 1pm with limited Spanish. Anyway by about 2am I was all sorted and in bed. I think I?ll say at home next Friday 13th.
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