Hit by a car door

Yesterday as I was biking to my uncle's (mike) in the inner city of Amsterdam, someone was friendly enough to open his car door right in the spot I was biking at the moment.

I managed to get out with fairly little damage....

Luckily I didn't hit it right on, he sorta hit me in the knee with the door.
The street I was on (Kinkerstraat) has a kind of roofed walkway with big massive concrete pillars in between that support the upper buildings. I managed to swerve between two of them and more or less crash into a contactlens shop.

Funny thing was that I was talking to my mother on the phone while this happened, no idea what she must have heard...
I lost my bluetooth earpiece pretty soon in the proces :-)
Must be weird hearing a live-accident happing to the person you're talking to.

Anyway after a few minutes of bending my knee to check whether anything was broken and a glass of water from the contactlens shop I felt a lot better. Aside from a dull ache in my knee and some weird tingly sensations in my toes I seemed to be alright so I continued biking towards my uncle and managed to arrive.

The actual guy who opened the door without looking was extremely sorry and we exchanged addresses in case anything serious would develop from it.

Meanwhile at mike's place my knee started to hurt pretty bad (not really surprising, car doors are probably harder than my knee). Although I could stand on it and it wasn't broken it hurt so bad that I decided to call my GP.

As usual he gave me the sensible and expected advice to rest, keep cool with ice and come by tomorrow if it still hurts :-(
Good advice but I already thought of that myself....

Even though I was pretty happy that X-rays were not neccessary it still makes you feel kind of useless if you get the same advice from your GP as you thought of yourself.

I ended up taking a taxi home because I couldn't stand properly and didn't dare to ride the bike back.

So right now I just got back, knee is hurting like hell.
I'll need to call the GP first thing tomorrow for an appointment and hobble over there.

Anyway, how was your day ?

Ramon