It is what it is....

This has been our mantra for the past month.  We can't do anything about some bad luck, and are trying to make the best of a rotten situation.
It started on my first ride here in Girona on April 5.  I managed to fall about 1 mile from home and really messed up my right leg.  Walking almost impossible due to torn adductor muscles.
We had a wonderful week with Kate here. I was able to go to Paris for a few days to meet her, but my sightseeing was cut very short by my hobbled status and then food poisoning the last day.  It was, what it was.....
Kate and Larry did some wonderful riding the week she was here, and we did some sightseeing one day in a rental car to see more of all things Dali and some of the beautiful Costa Brava.
On Kate's last day here we were able to do a short ride all together, and it felt so good.  Still feeling frisky 2 days later, we teamed up with a friend we have met here.  We had a fantastic ride through the countryside and I was back in my happy place.  Then disaster struck again.  Our friend was leading on the only busy road we had to ride, and he thought we were way behind him, so he stopped to see where we were.  Sadly, we were right on his wheel, and I ran right into him and Larry into me.   Yes, there were adorable ambulance drivers, yes, much scraped skin, a few stitches, a slight concussion, 8 hours in a cervical collar on a stretcher in the hospital trauma center, a head scan and many x-rays. Fortunately everything is basically ok except for my elbow and my re-torn adductor muscles. Walking is again an activity I can't partake in over a turtle's pace.  It has been a week, and Larry and I are healing slowly.
A final note on all of this medical attention here in Spain..... My first clinic bill 3 weeks ago, which included 2 docs, several e-rays and a very streamlined visit to the clinic was 385 euro and the 8 hours in the hospital trauma center was 305 euros.  Darn that socialized medicine we supposedly hate in the US.  As a Spaniard, they pay 85 euro a month for their healthcare.  And the healthcare was excellent.
I am hoping my slight dizziness will abate soon and that Larry's elbow and hip will feel better that we can once again hit the road..... but keeping the rubber side down this time.