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06-08-04, 07:55 AM
Monday is essentially my day off. I get off a 16 hour shift at 8am and don't need to be at work until 4pm Tuesday. Yesterday, I called the dentist with a complaint of a tooth ache. I had already called the Dr for an appointment Monday morning, so I'll be seeing the dentist Monday afternoon.
Load up the bike to go to the doctor, and find the front wheel has a flat, the first CO2 cartridge is discharged, a second doesn't seem to fill the new tube. I push the bike with 30 lbs of stuff (laptop, gorceries, clothing, bike parts) to the LBS and sit for 1/2 hour since they don't open at 9AM, it's 10 AM.
Okay spend a wad of cash at the LBS, cause I can't just buy one tube, need bar tape, and some miscelaneous other bike stuff that I didn't get the day before when I replaced a head set. Need to get home to catch a friend, who is bringing her commuter over so I can tune it up. Make it, with just enough time to jump in the shower and make it to the doctor.
My miles to this point 12.
Get done with the doctor. Diagnosis? Arthritis in my hips. This eats at me, I'm scared that it will get bad enough to knock me off the bike, I'll fight this too. Home for a bite, and floss and brush then off to the dentist. Add 8 miles.
Dentist happy to see me, does some tests, an xray, announces I need a root canal. I'm soooo pleased by this, you don't know how pleased, I also just got his bill to a managable size, from the last root canal. So it's down 3 floors to the endodentist(?).
Add no miles for riding an elevator.
By the time I hit the street, I'm dead tired (only had 4 hours of sleep because my tooth kept me up), half my face is numb, I'm still reeling mentally from the experience of having my tooth worked on. What better to do than get on the bike and ride, into the westerly wind.
Add 23 novacaine ladden, mentally wasted, physically tired miles.
I actually slept pretty good, fell asleep watching the 98 Giro DVD. Sort of feel like I did a century yesterday, but no tooth pain, and a good sleep, a gray morning with thunderstorms in the forecast.
I'm going to get through this.
Load up the bike to go to the doctor, and find the front wheel has a flat, the first CO2 cartridge is discharged, a second doesn't seem to fill the new tube. I push the bike with 30 lbs of stuff (laptop, gorceries, clothing, bike parts) to the LBS and sit for 1/2 hour since they don't open at 9AM, it's 10 AM.
Okay spend a wad of cash at the LBS, cause I can't just buy one tube, need bar tape, and some miscelaneous other bike stuff that I didn't get the day before when I replaced a head set. Need to get home to catch a friend, who is bringing her commuter over so I can tune it up. Make it, with just enough time to jump in the shower and make it to the doctor.
My miles to this point 12.
Get done with the doctor. Diagnosis? Arthritis in my hips. This eats at me, I'm scared that it will get bad enough to knock me off the bike, I'll fight this too. Home for a bite, and floss and brush then off to the dentist. Add 8 miles.
Dentist happy to see me, does some tests, an xray, announces I need a root canal. I'm soooo pleased by this, you don't know how pleased, I also just got his bill to a managable size, from the last root canal. So it's down 3 floors to the endodentist(?).
Add no miles for riding an elevator.
By the time I hit the street, I'm dead tired (only had 4 hours of sleep because my tooth kept me up), half my face is numb, I'm still reeling mentally from the experience of having my tooth worked on. What better to do than get on the bike and ride, into the westerly wind.
Add 23 novacaine ladden, mentally wasted, physically tired miles.
I actually slept pretty good, fell asleep watching the 98 Giro DVD. Sort of feel like I did a century yesterday, but no tooth pain, and a good sleep, a gray morning with thunderstorms in the forecast.
I'm going to get through this.