Well, it’s been a couple days now since the journey back east and it wasn’t too bad.  I had a direct flight from Phoenix to Providence and my brother in law picked me up at the airport, of course southwest lost my bikes and woke the parents up at 2am when they delivered them, but thats the norm for most airlines these days.  I didn’t expect to be flying back east with hairy legs and two guys on both sides of me talking about football and beers. Oh well.  Being sick like this is killing the form, but the motivation is high, just waiting out some blood tests now to see where the virus is and then I maybe I’ll be able to start riding a little more.  Once I get back going again I’ll probably do some type of ride to raise awareness for valley fever since it knocked me out for a month so far.  Since I’ve been so useless I’ve been looking at the new Xbox 360, looks pretty sweet, but I wouldn’t get anything accomplished if I bought one so its all a dream.  Thats it for this post, seeya!

Still have Valley Fever, Good news is the rash that was covering me from my hands to my feet has left my body.  It was getting ridiculous, I looked like Tyrone Biggims from Dave Chappelle the way I was scratching.  Today is my last day of antibiotics and I’m excited for that.  I take those and I’m instantly zooted.  Crazy thing about Valley Fever is antibiotics don’t really do anything for the virus as its not bacterial, its a fungal infection, whatever.  Got some new tunes from mixunit.com.  I downloaded Lupe Fiasco’s new mix tape, pretty good if anyone needs something new on they’re I Pod, it was 5 bucks, some decent banga’s on there.  After 2wks off the bike I’ve been able to get out a couple times now and it feels weird, like that ride after a good winter break.  Trebon and Guptill phoned from the Joe Martin, I’m surprised they got service out there. They told me they hoped I wasn’t dieing and that I probably caught this thing from watching medical T.V.  …Hahah, Good one guys, Since a bunch of people think this is a joke, here’s a couple photo’s of my chest on May 3rd. And another one here from the 5th, so two days later…  White isn’t what we would say is a good thing.  That picture from the May 5 is actually about 2/3 collapsed.  I was stoked (sarcasm) when I got to the hospital and I almost got a needle blasted in my chest to drop that fluid.  Good news is, fluids gone and I’m getting better and really looking forward to getting back out they’re and racing.  Thats all I’ve got, thanks for reading.

So it’s looking like I’ve got the flu, no it’s mono, no it’s teburculosis, NO…actually it’s Valley Fever. I didn’t really know anything about this infectious disease until five days ago when my chest started to act up. I’ve definetly got the fever though. I’ve been poppin tylenols like candy.  After a couple really enjoyable 6hr trips to emergency care, I’m up in Phoenix to see a different doctor.  It doesn’t make any sense, one weekend I’m racing my bike enjoying everything, next weekend I’ve got more problems than the Belgians do with Boonen getting stuck at a railroad crossing.

Look at this joker at Gila…I found this picture floating around on cyclingnews while laying out on the couch;

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos.php?id=photos/2006/may06/gila06/gila062/JDgilastg2020

It seems to me that since I left my exclusive rudy projects in his car after Bisbee he took it upon himself to give them a test drive. This is coming to an end. Thank you for a lot of e-mails, text messages and phone calls, from everyone thats been wondering how I’m doing. Lata’