— Check out this nastyness, the swelling has gone down soooo much.
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Thanks for all the comments and emails.
Even the doctors agreed, I had it bad. Blame it on stress, travel and shaving your legs. Total fluke infection but, my immune system was stressed out and I was vulnerable. I can joke about it but, I really was totally unable to do anything for myself for a few days. Thanks to those who really helped me out.
Now I am anxious. The weather is badass right now, pissing rain in typical NW fashion.
Pretty exciting eh?
This was removing and then repacking new gauze into the incisions a few days ago.
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I am sick of the couch and movies and fevers.
My leg has been packed full of gauze and swollen for the last week and today it comes out! The doc says I can take epsom salt baths and soak the open wounds. Maybe I can start to ride again this Monday. I limped all by myself out to the hospital and back home!
It looks like I have multiple stab wounds cause really, that is just what happened right?
I’ve got to snap some new photos cause the cuts are deep and amazing but, check out Autumn’s photos first.
If we do see Lance at the Antwerpen race this winter it will be at the expense of few dozen other Euro renners.
Something to think about: at the Euro races everyone negotiates start contracts. The big stars like Nys and Boom pulling more money to start a race than you can imagine. With the lesser PRO riders getting as little as a few hundred Euro.
When a big name rider like Lance eats up a small UCI ranked race’s budget the lesser PROs are pitched to the sides, often getting no contract at all.
So in reality, Lance racing cyclocross may actually be hindering the sport less than helping it. By keeping a bunch of lesser talent from starting a few showcase races.
Or, should my line of thinking be that Lance racing these few showcase cross races will turn the heads of USAC policy makers and get cyclocross some funding and recognition? Lance racing Euro cx may somehow validate it in the eyes of the US public and bring it to the national consciousness?
The doctor cutting on me a few days ago asked what type of racing I did. She was being polite and trying to keep my mind off the scalpel.
“I don… I can’t explai… I don’t want to explain it right now…” I winced.
We both laughed but, I admit, it would have been nice to just blurt out “cyclocross” and have her say something like:
“isn’t that what Lance tried doing this year? The one where you run?”
Damn! Not spider bites. I’ve been fighting Folliculitis since Starcrossed.
I got a bad fever and chills on Friday night.
And a few giant abscesses got really infected and swollen. By Sunday I had trouble walking.
So Pete drove me down to the immediate care hospital and the doctor cut holes in my leg, used some nasty pliers to dig around in them, and then packed them full of gauze.
I was a wimp. It hurt like hell!
We’ve got some sweet photos of my writhing under the knife.
The doc was great but, it looks like I’ll be off the bike for another week or more!
Not able to make it out to Ohio this week for the races. And, it is pretty unlikely that I’ll be racing locally either.
What the hell? How much bad luck can one bike racer have?
Well, at least I snagged a couple UCI points with my lackluster last month of racing. I don’t have anything besides the USGP finals on my schedule before nationals and Europe. Not looking so good for the start positions eh?
Molly Cameron is the least talented European cyclocross racer in the United States, the founder of the Veloshop (a very small bicycle shop located in downtown Portland, Oregon) and, a proud Vegan.
