Thursday started off great - got up early, had a light breakfast, had a great time trial training ride (~15:00 warmup, 7:30 fast pace, 00:30 sprint, 7:30 fast, 3:00 rest, 7:30 fast pace, 00:30 sprint, 7:30 fast,~15:00 cooldown). Got home and had my traditional post-ride meal of a glass of Spicy V-8 and a protein bar, and went upstairs to shower. By the time I got done with my shower, I was doubled over with severe abdominal pain. Ended up going to the emergency room, almost in tears every time we had to come to a stop in the car or go over rough sections of road. Was at the ER for about 8 hours, with numerous rounds of tests for appedicitis, kidney stones, you name it. They were unable to find anything at that point, and I was still in severe pain, so they decided to admit me at about 5pm on Thursday. I spent the next 24 hours or so flat on my back on a morphine drip. (not listenening to Morphine, unfortunately) The pain started to lessen a little by Friday evening, so I started tapering off the morphine, and tried eating some clear fluids. That stayed down ok, so I tried some soup and crackers and stopped the morphine entirely, and slept most of the way through the night. Ate a relatively full meal this morning, and was home by about 9:30 this morning, still no idea what caused the pain. Will be seeing my doctor this week to try to figure out what happened.
The ultrashea
"It doesn't have to be fun to be fun"
"We don't make sacrifices. If we truly love this sport and we have these goals and dreams in the sport, the classroom, or in life, they're not sacrifices. They're choices that we make to fulfill these goals and dreams."
-Deena Kastor
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift"
-Steve Prefontaine
