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I'm a designer in Vancouver, Canada. I work at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, am a director of the 221A Artist Run Centre, and a member of Fieldwork design collective. I'm an Emily Carr and University of Victoria graduate and have worked in the Philippines, Indonesia and the Netherlands. I'm a cycling advocate and race on the Garneau Evolution team.

Daily Activities, May 21, 2004 10:04 AM 0 comments

On antibiotics, DuoDermŪ and socks

A gel-like, green substance was growing from the pothole in my left palm yesterday, which prompted the girlfriend to take clinical action. I was obliged to see my doctor, who hadn't attended to me since my last bout of road rash like four years ago. After a little local anaesthetic, some iodine-brush scrubbing of the infections and some x-rays of the knee, I'm now on a diet of amoxicillin clavulante and a regiment of DuoDermŪ control gel formula dressings, the latter of which make my previously scabbing scrapes give up hope and collapse into puddles that leak onto my bedsheets and throb with each heart beat.

On the plus side, the girlfriend fashioned some pretty cool looking tension bandages for the DuoDerms out of an old white sock, the elasticized and truncated tube of which slides over my elbow and the remaining heal of which, with a hole cut for my thumb, slides over the left hand. Combined with a lack of showering and shaving, I come across as either a tough-ass, recovering, blue-collar street fighter, or a bum.