Oh the cleverness of me...

Ok.. this is a quick waiver... I'm not an idiot. I have this fear of doctors. I know I'm old and I prolly should have gotten over this at some point, but I didn't. You know that feeling you get before a big race, where your stomach hurts and you get all shaky.. I don't get that much when i race.. But one quick mention of going to see a doctor and I turn in to that guy. Prior to this little incident i hadn't been to the doctor in 4yrs, and that was b/c they had to put screws in my broken hand. Hopefully I wont' be heading back to the doctor for at least 4 more years.. Anyway lots of people told me not to write this, b/c it's gross, but hey i had to put up with being sick.. I'll leave out some description though.. and it's my blog, if i write about the cool stuff I do, I have to write about some lame stuff too.


So the story starts with a stupid little NIRA pylon. I step on it the last corner of the 5 lap at Roanoke..BOOOM... So, i get your normal little burn. Nothing worse than any other fall. Except I got a safety pin pretty deep in my leg(I have no idea if this had any impact). As far as burns I get, I actually cleaned this one way more than normal. I left for Colombia the day I got home and everything was still pretty normal. I started to get a few little bumps around the burn, but that's really not abnormal after a fall on roll on, especially titanium. In Colombia, other than feeling like i wasn't recovering at all, everything seemed normal. So I get home and the little roll-on bumps started looking worse. A day or 2 later one of them started to get really swollen. It didn't take long for me to figure out it was staph infection b/c i got staph when I was playing basketball about 6yrs ago. As the swelling got worse, basically everyone said "go to the doctor, go to the doctor." Like stated earlier going to the doctor isn't my favorite thing to do, so I didn't. I decided just to ride it out. Then the bad part hit me. The fever, the pain in the leg, and a huge lump in my leg. After a day or 2 of a pretty serious fever the lump burst and started to drain. Gross, I know.

Long story short I layed around for like 4 days, in that 4 days I should have gone to the doctor at some point. After the 4 days i went to go skate practice, and at the strong suggestion of all the parents and coaches on my team(understatement) I went to the doctor. Turns out my little staph infection is MRSA, which is a type of staph that can be deadly. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I was close to dying. But, just to make sure I had to lay around for a few more days. I get to take medicine for like 3 more weeks(just to make sure it doesn't come back). And i have this cool new hole in my leg(about the size of a dime). I prolly coulda knocked this out in a few days if i would have gone to the doctor earlier. But you live and you learn.

So, I wanted to give my story of how I had staph, but i wanted to wait till it was all the way gone. Just wanted to make sure I didn't jinx myself into it coming back. I'm not really looking for any sympathy or anything, I just wanted to let everyone know how stubborn i can be. Now I'm all healed up, and getting ready to go to Tampa. Of course I haven't done much of any tying for 2 weeks.. If my first practice or 2 is any sign, it might not be too pretty. But hey, last year I was terrible and they let me come back again this year... Hope to see you guys there, and it's cool you can come talk to me you won't get staph from me. And kids if your sick.. go to the doctor, better safe than sorry... I guess that's the moral of this story.