Subject: RE: July Team Captains Pow-Wow Attention Captains: I'm making a plea on behalf of kimj81 (who has temporarily relenquished captain duties). One of our athletes (Gwozdzilla) has a severe health issue and I'd like to request that she be exempt from her bike goal. Below is a copy of her post from the "Team Hoss" thread. It may be TMI, but it gives you a sense of what she's dealing with. Note that she is swimming and running through all of this; we only want her to be excused from her run goal. Thanks for your consideration. Gwozdzilla's post: Howdy team! Well the good news is that I am 14 yards from my swim goal and 9 miles from my run/walk goal. The bad news..... 365 miles to meet my bike goal. I haven't been on my bike for a couple of weeks and don't know if I will be on it for awhile, which soooo sucks for me. I love my bike. My tummy issues are starting to clear up somewhat but I have been dealing with a new, fun, exciting, joyous problem for the last 2 weeks that is not getting better..... internal hemorrhoids complete with anal fissures! Wow what fun. After a series of embarrassing questions: Doc: "So why are you here today?", Me: "Um, I can barely sit and when I have a BM it feels like red, hot razor blades are coming out my butt". LOL. Doc: "Have you had anal sex recently?", Me: "not that I know of", Doc: (looking down at the ground) "Have you inserted anything into your rectum recently?", Me: "what? oh, I see where you are going with this... let me ease your pain...this is strictly an EXIT ONLY orifice. No entry. One Way. Do not enter. Dead End. Turn around here. U-turn ONLY." He was so trying not to laugh and I really wanted him to (I have a great relationship with my doctor) , I was hoping to break the ice for the exam part. I don't know if anyone here has had such issues but it's pretty tough to stay serious when the doctor is holding what looks like a big megaphone in one hand and a curling iron looking device in the other knowing where he's headed. Anyhoo..... fissures have improved greatly, downgraded from razor blades to cactus, "butt" the other stuff is not repsponding to any treatment thus far. Something about them being catagory 3 (and I don't think he's refering to any of the mountains in France) and looks like surgery may be in the cards very soon. Nice. Sorry if that was TMI but after all this I have no shame left! GO TEAM HOSS! |