you wanna do what??

So the flight home was unremarkable...other than the 3 hour delay in Dallas and I arrived home around 0400. After getting a couple hours sleep I headed to the local urgent care to discuss what was going on with my race-ending malady and what to do about it. Even after 4 days off the bike everything back there was still pretty tender and I still had a mild fever. The doc took a look and was more than a bit concerned by the damage that she saw...said it looked like 2nd degree burns. I have to say that I felt bad for the nurse that had to act as a "witness" to the exam...that is apparently a thing now...and I think that she might have been fairly new to the field given her obvious discomfort 🙄 A 10 day course of two different antibiotics, an antifungal (because of course that happened also...) and a "stay off the bike" warning was now part of my near-term plans...just ugh. I was already starting to feel the effects of a sudden dropoff after prolonged cycling activity.