Only twats ride with worn cleats

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oh clive.
:(

this is not good. i hope you're working out a dreadful revenge for all those that have blighted you.

Clive, how's your bum chum?

Clive.

Though we've not met from reading your arse-saga I feel as I am perhaps overly intimately aquainted with your person.

Might i suggest a novel way of avoiding a hospital aquired infection should you need to go under the knife once again.

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/dec15_1/b4965

get well soon.

Nice idea, Raskol, but that was an auto-appendectomy. I am not sure that I am up to auto-arse-antics in the antarctic.

Seeing the consultant tonight. Still dripping away but no further explosions....

Can't believe this saga is still (arse) dragging on..... Get well mate!

Thanks scherrit. My last cycling in anger waas my slide from the top of the banking at Newport. I am becoming desperate to get out on the bike again. I actually came into work on a train this morning, crushed into a small space with smelly germ-ridden people. Not something I want to do too often.

something i should imagine they wouldn't want to do that often. what with your ass ;)

So have the drs given you a date when you can work towards?

Perhaps you're right and auto-arse antics should be avoided in this instance; as i expect should discussing auto-arse antics online whilst at work.

All the best for the next prognosis.

I was kept in hospital for 5 days with a view to the leaking stopping, a proper dressing being applied and healing commencing. After 5 days they realised that it was not healing and decided I would be happier at home. On leaving hospital on the Friday, I was given an appointment for the dressing to be done on the following Monday. When I arrived, I was told that it was still leaking too much to dress and that I should return when it had dropped to 10ml a day of leakage. Over a week later and with one major explosion (of around 300ml - 400ml) behind me, I am still leaking at 50ml a day. Hopefully the surgeon will have an idea what to do when I see him later today.

In brief, the dates that I have been working towards are all in the past.

Some inspiration for later Clive;

Don't let the consultant off the hook.

Thanks scherrit. My last cycling in anger waas my slide from the top of the banking at Newport. I am becoming desperate to get out on the bike again. I actually came into work on a train this morning, crushed into a small space with smelly germ-ridden people. Not something I want to do too often.

I hope you still have the old people-avoiding skills from before you started cycling so that no-one punctured your bubble.

So I saw the consultant. Apparently the original sack of fluid was really huge and so its response to treatment is not easily predictable. Whereas when the fluid was in the sack between my buttock muscle, it was contained by pressure and no more fluid was pumping in, the release of the fluid during the original operation has caused it to flow unabated. I need to keep flushing the fluid out of the wound - not in a once a week sort of way but by keeping the wound open so it does not build up. I also need another operation under general anesthetic.

The saga continues and I remain off my bike and with a plastic bag attached to my side and with the prospect of more hospital time ahead.

I will be at the Rollas tomorrow if anyone is sufficiently curious to want a gander at the bag. [/joke]

are you racing? i might be able to beat you.

i doubt i'll be there though, night class and everything.

this thread is nothing without pictures :)

hope ya healing Clive.

Sadly I am off games and so only there to spectate.

I am pleased to see that you are improving yourself.

sorry, im new but i still feel for you, sincerly
get well soon, everyday a cyclist is not able to cycle is like killing a puppy, only worse.
its an abomination sir
but get well soon

this thread is nothing without pictures :)

Bollox to that. You want pictures, get Clive to PM them!

Bollocks. Just had a sit down in suit trousers, cap slips off bag, spillage moment.

Operation next Thursday - 11 Feb. MRI scan on Monday. As I have exhausted my out-patient insurance cover, I have to pay for the MRI scan myself. MRI scans are unbelievably expensive. New cleats are much cheaper.

lesson learnt?? :)

Are you in the States, Clive?

No, in London

So why are you having to pay for treatment? Surely the good ol' NHS will cover your oozing problems?

Sadly the NHS wouldn't treat me. They said that I had to leave it untreated for a long period before considering whether to do anything. That was not satisfactory.