It's was one week since my Rapid Unscheduled Dismount (RUD) yesterday. Clincidentally, it has also been one week since I had a good night's sleep. There has been some improvement, of course, but as usual the day-to-day changes are barely preceptible. It will be a while before I can lift anything with my right arm, but at least I can now get it high enough to type, and almost high enough to feed myself. Sleeping, or just lying down, has really been the worst, though. The best I can do is to lie on my back with one or two pillows under my head. I doubt I've been asleep for more than a couple of hours. I'll see if I can get on the bike, inside of course, next week after we're done with the Tour de La.
Yesterday I walked over to the Tulane Sports Medicine clinic to see Dr. O'Brien. He gave me a photocopy of a few of the x-rays from the ER, and checked range of motion to see if there was any obvious joint damage (there wasn't), and generally assured me that it should all heal up at the usual rate. He was OK with me getting on the trainer as soon as I could tolerate it, but of course advised to stay off the road for 6-8 weeks. He knows I won't wait that long, of course. I have a followup appointment in two weeks so they can do some x-rays to make sure things are moving in the right direction.
This weekend is the Tour de La, and as usual pre-registrations are low. The weather this weekend should be great, so at least nobody can use that as an excuse. I should have some help loading up the car tomorrow, and then I'll go check out the road course and re-mark the turns and TT (hope I can find last year's marks!). I won't be able to do much of anything as far as course setup goes this year. Hopefully there will be enough help on race day to get the essentials done, though.
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