[Leica] Nathan's PAD 26-27 August 2017: another failed brevet

[Curtis Fant]

Glad you are ok!!!

Curt

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> I flew to my hometown Aarhus on Saturday morning to spend a few days with
> my best friend Lars, cycling, enjoying life, and taking in art during the
> Aarhus Festival Week going on right now. The cycling cornerstone of the
> trip was a 300 km brevet we were riding on  Sunday. Alas, we are not having
> luck with our brevets this year; back in April, when Lars was visiting me
> and we were going to do a 400 km on Mallorca, he came down with bronchitis
> and we had to abandon when he could not breathe on the climbs. And this
> time an alergic reaction to some unknown Danish insect did me in at the 132
> km mark. But all is not lost. There are always photos, and today I rode a
> very nice 90 km rute in glorious sunshine.
>
> I arrived on Saturday, and Lars and I walked to the supermarket for some
> shopping. He lives smack in the centre of the old city, and everything is
> walking distance. Around the corner from his apartment, we came across the
> Carlsberg horses, used during the Festival Week:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-vnGvfhc/A
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> The on Sunday at 8 a.m. we set out on our brevet. I had not trained
> properly due to my knee injury and leg inflammation earlier in August, but
> things were working out fine.
>
> We cycled through a bucolic Jutland landscape south of Aarhus:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-FbnLkWc/A
>
> At the second control, the 99 km mark, a hill west of Aarhus called
> Himmelbjerget (“the heavenly mountain”, totally ridiculous given that it is
> only about 150 m tall), I rewarded myself with a Danish classic:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-h4qmdH7/A
>
> At 132 km, we stopped at a supermarket to get coffee, and Lars noticed
> that my lower lip was swelling rapidly; I had noticed some swelling (but
> not the bite that gave rise to it), but now it was really growing. So Lars
> called the local guard duty doctor, who said that with allergic reactions
> on or around the face, there is a concern about them spreading to the
> throat and impacting breathing, so he was going to send an ambulance to
> take me to the hospital in a town called Viborg, about 50 km from Aarhus,
> to have me checked. Here I am, packing the stuff that I was taking with me
> to the hospital—the bicycles were left at the supermarket and picked up
> later:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-rGcLDMs/A
>
> The ambulance and the doctor arrive; they gave me some drugs intravenously
> and did some tests already during the 20-minute drive to the hospital:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-sv27fRL/A
>
> At the hospital, and not pleased with the situation:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-VWXb8T9/A
>
> But my face sure did not look pretty:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-c443pQ8/A
>
> It all ended well, though, and after some additional tests and drugs I was
> discharged with some additional medications to take during the next 3 days.
> Meanwhile, Lars with the help of his brother, went back to Aarhus, got his
> car, and came back to pick up the bikes and then me. By 9 p.m. we were back
> in Aarhus.
>
> The experience with both the ambulance crew and the hospital staff was
> excellent: competence and friendliness are the two words that come to mind.
> And despite the fact that I am not in the Danish health insurance system (I
> am a Danish citizen but I do not live here), the issue of payment or
> insurance was never even mentioned. It simply did not exist for the doctors
> and nurses who treated me.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <
> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
> YNWA
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