Yesterday, I got word that the bike shop couldn't get the pedals free of the old extenders... So, it was on me to figure out what to do with them. I collected them...
and pulled out my Dremel and face shield... Then I got busy with a cutting wheel this morning...
After a while, I had some pretty deep notches of my own cut out of the pedal extenders, on both sides of the pedals. I took care not to cut into the actual pedals.
I then took them back to the bike shop, and with a couple of blows from a hammer, they were able to get the weakened extenders to crack in half, at my cuts, freeing the pedals... YAY!!!
My bike now has a new light (one of the Cygolites lost the silicone switch cover that waterproofed it between work and the bike shop (likely in the van that took me and the bike to the bike shop))(its battery was old, and needing replacement anyway), new pedal extenders that I'll replace in 3 years (the old ones were 5 years old, and I suspect that despite the new ones being new, this will prevent a fatigue fracture from repeating this injury), and a new rear tyre.
If only my leg would heal as fast as my bike. I'm on antibiotics (Cefdinir) to eliminate any infection. One doc thinks that there's one despite not being to get the infection to express (by poking tweezers in the wound)). I think that the area he thinks is infected is a patch of dead fat cells that the color resembles an encapsulated infection. Still, it's better to be safe than sorry. I'd like to get the OK to take a shower. My attempts at showering have failed to keep the injury dry. However with my own dressings, and iodine, I'm able to rebandage the area in the same manner as the docs are doing.