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[Lise]

And all through the Bayou, they're singing:
the fish is home
and we're gonna be ha-ppy
hey-la, hey-la,
the fish is home!



Welcome home, fish.

Re: nekkid butt lady--I cringed at the thought of nekkid-ness on a bike saddle, but that's me. The gal in the picture certainly has some fine lines! In the case of the paramedics/x-ray/Lady Godiva case...I think I'd pretend I had traumatic amnesia, were I the, uh, patient.

[KnottedYet]

Many years ago I saw a pic of Missy Giove riding a nekkid race. It was the night-time entertainment at some mtb race weekend.

so it was dark, and only from the back. And there were a couple other nekkid butts in the picture.

(sigh. Back when Missy and I were young... Does anyone even know who she is anymore? I never hear about her.)

[DrBee]

And all through the Bayou, they're singing:
the fish is home
and we're gonna be ha-ppy
hey-la, hey-la,
the fish is home!



Welcome home, fish.

Thanks Lise! It's great to be home! I still haven't had a chance to catch up on TE TD yet, let alone the other topics. I did get a much needed haircut and finished shopping for my SS. Wahoo!

I'll check in later and see about this naked lady thing.

One sad, but pertinent thing that happened at the meeting was that a woman from Russia had cramps in her calf and ended up going to the hospital and having surgery to remove clots in her legs. Yup - DVT. We had some interesting conversations about DVT and I told some people about what had happened to MP and they were amazed she was alive! Well - this woman from Russia didn't have any insurance and her hospital bills were $2100 CDN per day. She's going to have to stay in St. John's until she is allowed to fly again. We took donations to help her out. With 500 participants at the meeting, I'm sure they raised a bunch of money. We all moved our legs around on the flights after that!

Gotta run to the post office. I'll be back later!

[Nanci]

(I don't have your e-mail at my work...)

(This is an update on my friend who is running the Badwater Ultramarathon, 135 miles in Death Valley, as the first stage of the Death Valley Cup, the second stage of which is the Furnace Creek 508 cycling race, also in Death Valley, which MP had hoped to do this year in October until the PE happened...)

(The winner, Scott Jurek, finished in 25:41 hours. He also won last year. The time limit is 60 hours. Yesterday, when the race started, the high was 126 and the low was 100!)

Hello to Everyone,

I haven't received and more phone call updates, but from his last splits the third time station at mile 72 shows that David gained 7 hours on his run time over last year. He had been ill during this part of the race last year but nothing like that this year !! Keep it up Crew!! Check out www.badwater.com if you are able. Thank You ALL for the e-mails and I have printed them and have them ready to inspire the tired runner that will be checking in with me. Thanks Again! GO TEAM HARPER!!!

Tamara

[maillotpois]

(I don't have your e-mail at my work...)

(This is an update on my friend who is running the Badwater Ultramarathon, 135 miles in Death Valley, as the first stage of the Death Valley Cup, the second stage of which is the Furnace Creek 508 cycling race, also in Death Valley, which MP had hoped to do this year in October until the PE happened...)

(The winner, Scott Jurek, finished in 25:41 hours. He also won last year. The time limit is 60 hours. Yesterday, when the race started, the high was 126 and the low was 100!)

Hello to Everyone,

I haven't received and more phone call updates, but from his last splits the third time station at mile 72 shows that David gained 7 hours on his run time over last year. He had been ill during this part of the race last year but nothing like that this year !! Keep it up Crew!! Check out www.badwater.com if you are able. Thank You ALL for the e-mails and I have printed them and have them ready to inspire the tired runner that will be checking in with me. Thanks Again! GO TEAM HARPER!!!

Tamara

Thanks for those updates, Nanci! Your friend is doing so well!

Where do I know the name Scott Jurek? I wonder if he did the 508? I shall have to research.

[maillotpois]

So I forgot to mention - yesterday I met with my new pulmonologist. I call him Dr. Lung. He was able to pull up my CT scans at his desk and show me (I hadn't seen them before). Wow - how cool is that to be able to see inside your body?!?!? My ribs are SO COOL!! And you could see super bright white stuff from where the iodine "dye" went into my veins.

And the scans proved it - I am totally flat chested...

And the pulmonary emboli (lots of the suckers, some kinda big, but none in major vessels) look like donuts: bright white working blood vessels (from the iodine dye stuff) surrounding the darker non-conductive clot material donut hole!

All in all, super fun. Of course I wanted to be able to watch my own ganglion cyst hand surgery 10 years ago, too. I love that stuff. (My sister's an ortho surgery nurse, and my mom (biological) is also a nurse. Maybe it's genetic?)

Sort of good news/bad news/bad news: Good news: I am not dead (yet). Bad news: no riding for 6 months, period. He was VERY adamant about that. Bad news again (but maybe we can turn this around): I have over 25% lung impairment - NOT related to the clots. Asthma or ??? More investigative work to be done. At least I am starting to understand why I am such a HEAVY breather while climbing on my bike!

[SadieKate]

Bad news about the lungs, but good news you know now and can start the work. How's the running?

I watched my first knee arthroscopy. Pretty cool. I was prepped for general anesthesia (just in case) so I was kind of fuzzy about the details. It was like it was somebody else's knee on the TV monitor.

[chickwhorips]

sorry to hear you can't bike for a while. hopefully you still can stay active somehow. hope the lungs start to feel better.

i had a scar revision done on my tummy (that they had to do a tummy tuck for also, thank you dr) and i was awake for that whole thing. was kinda cool. though strange when they were working on me we were listing to the rock station and chatting about the tv show average joe. just seemed bizzar to me. i've always been interested in medical stuff like that. watching some of the stuff on discovery health channel grosses bf out but i love it.

[maillotpois]

Bad news about the lungs, but good news you know now and can start the work. How's the running?

I watched my first knee arthroscopy. Pretty cool. I was prepped for general anesthesia (just in case) so I was kind of fuzzy about the details. It was like it was somebody else's knee on the TV monitor.

Man I would love to see the arthroscopy! They even put up a curtain for my c-section. I wish I'd seen more of that. Maybe they switched the PP on me while I couldn't look. Nah - stubborn, crazy weird, annoying, talkative, blonde. She's mine.

The running.... well, I have been doing a lot of spin and plan to run this weekend. Stacy and I are doing part of the Dipsea which will be good. I just have not had the time to go outside - what with the Tour and the global warming and all! But all in all I am feeling good.

I think the lung impairment will be able to be improved. I have to believe that. It is probably actual asthma or something. Whatever. Mike has a friend who's 70 and has like 1/4 of his lung left (he was a firefighter and has smoke/burn issues) and he kicks our butt on every hill we climb, so I figure it can't be that bad!

Funny, I have a friend who spins with me - she's a psychologist - and she was telling me this morning how amazed she was about my attitude. Well, what am I going to do? Hole up on the sofa and eat mint milanos? As tempting as that sounds, bottom line is - I could EASILY have died and I didn't. Sure there are some hurdles. But it could have been SO much worse, and I am not throwing it away. So there!

And one of these days, I will be able to beat the Grand Pois up a hill again.

[salsabike]

Thanks for those updates, Nanci! Your friend is doing so well!

Where do I know the name Scott Jurek? I wonder if he did the 508? I shall have to research.

Who would believe people could even DO this? See this Washington Post article for some amazing descriptive detail. Makes me feel faint in my office chair! Pretty awesome, I'd say--

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...602001_pf.html

[Nanci]

I got a short note from Dave- his feet were so bad he had to run the last 55 MILES in sandals...

When hummingbirds hover in your face, they are saying "Get out of my territory!"

First aid for a bird that flies into a window is place in a paper bag in a quiet dark place until revived.

I found a bird in the grocery store parking lot- some little black bird. It was stunned, and big black birds were closing in. I picked her up and rolled her into my sweatshirt in my lap. When I got home, my BF came over to the car to get the groceries. I said "Hey, look who I rescued" and unrolled the bird, who promptly flew out the window and away!

There are two cool books by Arnette Heidcamp- "A Hummingbird in My House" and "Rosie: My Rufous Hummingbird."

I have the first one, and had loaned it to someone at work, and someone else saw it, and loaned me the Rosie book.

[crazycanuck]

The house is oh so quiet...

Ian's flight to Auckland leaves soon & i'm sitting here thinking hmmmm..I have the responsibility of househunting, keeping myself in line and do my long bike rides and getting myself to the perth mtb xc race on sunday....

He's off to visit his parents-his dad's not 500%(and will never will be really after his stroke he had almost 3yrs ago-tough bugger though)thought now would be a good time!The dude decided at the last minute to go so i'm here keeping the fort.

There's a dinner with our gang back in auckalnd fri night...not fair...Also not fair is his hometown (rotorua) is home to some of the best mtn biking in nz & he couldn't bring his bike but will rent one...

The hummingbird pics are cool, thanks for posting them. When we buy a house i'll put a bird feeder up.

c