So my Top Secret BF Doctor pals are telling me 'get a compression sock on that effected leg'. I finally go to the med supply store yesterday and get fitted for one. I wear this for five hours. I take it off when I go to bed. Amazing. Dramatic response. My effected leg looks 95% normal. Even better this AM. I can wear it when I ride too. Hell, if it does that in a few hours, this therapy may help dissipate the remaining clot in that leg and get back to normal in a week or two. That's great.

Just imagine how scary His Holiness might be on a Di2 Cervelo or a Red Addict as a skinny, pulmonary embolism and blood clot free picture of 53.5 year old health and virility. You shall all rue the day I got that surgical sock, and I daresay some of you will even covet this hosiery.