Food & A Wheel

6.14.2010

Road to Recovery

I know it has been awhile since I last blogged there has been many things that have happened. The first thing I should tell you about is that I have not been on the bicycle since the beginning of March 2010. The root cause of this is I suffered from AVN, not the Adult Video Network, but Avascular necrosis. The short version of this is a disease where there is cellular death (necrosis) of bone components due to interruption of the blood supply. Without blood, the bone tissue dies and the bone collapses. I my case it caused bone on bone in my right hip. There was a lot of pain and made things very uncomfortable for the day to day life.

In early March I join the group for a ride 40 mile ride on the Silver Comet here in the greater Atlanta area. The Comet (aka The Vomit) is a Rail to Trails trail. The pace was to be winter pace 15-17 MPH but when you get a lot of testosterone in one location the original plan is thrown to the side. The pace for that day was 20 MPH. It was not that I could not handle the pace that ended my riding season it was the increased amount pain that followed for the next five days.

At that point I decided to have a conversation with Dr Rollins, my family doctor, about the increase in pain. After that conversation I decided to get the surgery. I selected Dr. Kress to be my surgeon and the surgery was promptly set up for March 12^th 2010. On June 17^th it will be 5 weeks since surgery and I must tell I feel a hell of a lot better.

It was decided that total hip replacement was what was needed. The surgery itself was pretty straight forward. An incision was made the femoral head was removed and a titanium hip prosthesis, with a ceramic head and polyethylene acetabular cup were installed. There are two things that amaze me, one I was out of the hospital in less than 28 hours and I was walking within 4 hours after the surgery.

I am still not allowed to ride my bicycle. I have been advised to wait the full 6 weeks before I start. If you are a cyclist then you can understand the insanity I am going through.

In a few short weeks Yellow band chef and I will be headed to Europe for our EuroTour 2010. This year we will be headed to Rotterdam, Brussels, and Amsterdam. Again this year we will be following a few stages of the Tour De France. The stages we are planning to see are the Prologue in Rotterdam, the departure from Rotterdam, the arrival in Brussels and then the departure from Brussels. We will then be watching the tour on the television like everyone else.

This year on Euro Tour we will be do our best to keep you update on our adventures.

Ciao,

Sir J Rotten