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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 26-27 August 2017: another failed brevet
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:07:33 -0500
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Hi Nathan,

I like the image of you and the horses.? Sorry about the bad luck.? 
Sounds like the Danes have the medical situation well in hand.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/29/2017 11:50 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I flew to my hometown Aarhus on Saturday morning to spend a few days with 
> my best friend Lars, cycling, enjoying life, and taking in art during the 
> Aarhus Festival Week going on right now. The cycling cornerstone of the 
> trip was a 300 km brevet we were riding on  Sunday. Alas, we are not 
> having luck with our brevets this year; back in April, when Lars was 
> visiting me and we were going to do a 400 km on Mallorca, he came down 
> with bronchitis and we had to abandon when he could not breathe on the 
> climbs. And this time an alergic reaction to some unknown Danish insect 
> did me in at the 132 km mark. But all is not lost. There are always 
> photos, and today I rode a very nice 90 km rute in glorious sunshine.
>
> I arrived on Saturday, and Lars and I walked to the supermarket for some 
> shopping. He lives smack in the centre of the old city, and everything is 
> walking distance. Around the corner from his apartment, we came across the 
> Carlsberg horses, used during the Festival Week:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-vnGvfhc/A
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> The on Sunday at 8 a.m. we set out on our brevet. I had not trained 
> properly due to my knee injury and leg inflammation earlier in August, but 
> things were working out fine.
>
> We cycled through a bucolic Jutland landscape south of Aarhus:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-FbnLkWc/A
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> At the second control, the 99 km mark, a hill west of Aarhus called 
> Himmelbjerget (?the heavenly mountain?, totally ridiculous given that it 
> is only about 150 m tall), I rewarded myself with a Danish classic:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-h4qmdH7/A
>
> At 132 km, we stopped at a supermarket to get coffee, and Lars noticed 
> that my lower lip was swelling rapidly; I had noticed some swelling (but 
> not the bite that gave rise to it), but now it was really growing. So Lars 
> called the local guard duty doctor, who said that with allergic reactions 
> on or around the face, there is a concern about them spreading to the 
> throat and impacting breathing, so he was going to send an ambulance to 
> take me to the hospital in a town called Viborg, about 50 km from Aarhus, 
> to have me checked. Here I am, packing the stuff that I was taking with me 
> to the hospital?the bicycles were left at the supermarket and picked up 
> later:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-rGcLDMs/A
>
> The ambulance and the doctor arrive; they gave me some drugs intravenously 
> and did some tests already during the 20-minute drive to the hospital:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-sv27fRL/A
>
> At the hospital, and not pleased with the situation:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-VWXb8T9/A
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> But my face sure did not look pretty:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-c443pQ8/A
>
> It all ended well, though, and after some additional tests and drugs I was 
> discharged with some additional medications to take during the next 3 
> days. Meanwhile, Lars with the help of his brother, went back to Aarhus, 
> got his car, and came back to pick up the bikes and then me. By 9 p.m. we 
> were back in Aarhus.
>
> The experience with both the ambulance crew and the hospital staff was 
> excellent: competence and friendliness are the two words that come to 
> mind. And despite the fact that I am not in the Danish health insurance 
> system (I am a Danish citizen but I do not live here), the issue of 
> payment or insurance was never even mentioned. It simply did not exist for 
> the doctors and nurses who treated me.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws 
> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ 
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> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator 
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> YNWA
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