I really haven’t been using a computer or my phone much the past week or so.  I’m having crazy severe headaches, which makes reading things pretty undoable.  I can only hope that this whole thing clears up quicker than slower.

I guess the deal is that my skull is cracked pretty good.  Good enough that there is a fair amount of swelling that makes a day super long and painful.  I haven’t done a CT scan for since late last week, so this week I should find out if maybe things are getting better.   Because this headache thing is pretty debilitating.  Like I’m not really sleeping at all and just lay around with a crazy pain just about everywhere in my head.

I hope to eventually go and read all the emails and texts, etc. I’ve received the last week.  I have over 700 emails now, but can’t really put much effort into trying to read them.  I’ve got a ton of texts too.  Lance sent me a text, which was pretty surprising.  I don’t really answer any, but plan to in just a bit.

I was planing on going out to LA and do the Donut Ride last Saturday, along with the South Bay Award Ceremony that Seth puts on.  That didn’t happen.  I guess I’m not supposed to ride my bike for at least 4 weeks, maybe 8.  Man, that seems like forever, but it has been 10 days so far and I’m still at square one, so 4 weeks might come along pretty quickly.

I’m taking a bunch of different medicine.  Anti seizure medicine, pain pills, stool softeners, you name it, I’m taking it.  And it really isn’t working nearly as well as I had hoped.  Hopefully when the swelling get less, these headaches will go away and everything will seem much better.  Until then, I’m just going through a day an hour at a time.  I really haven’t slept in a week, which is getting pretty old.  Hopefully this will all change pretty quick and I can sleep all day and night and get feeling better quickly.

Okay, this is about all I can write this morning.  I’ll try to post more often, when things gets feeling just a tad better.

Tucker has been super. He has been just hanging with me, waiting until I feel better.

Man, the days are going by so slowly.  I’m not really on any program other than trying to keep my head from hurting on a constant basis.  I’m not really sleeping much, which is probably the main reason I’m having such headaches.

Bill rode by yesterday afternoon.  He was in the hospital for 3 days.  He has 4 broken ribs and one of his lungs was collapsed, so it took a few days of suction to reinflate it.  His legs are a scabby mess, which mine are too.  I’m not too sure why that happened to both of us.

I don’t have another doctor’s appointment this week, which seems wrong, but I’m not really making any phone calls or doing much, so it is what it is.  Actually I think I might have a vision appointment the next few days, but I’m really not sure about that.  I’m not seeing too well out of my right eye, it is pretty blurry, so the doctor at the ENT called an eye doctor, but I don’t really know when that appointment is right now.

I started getting some bills from the different hospital places.  So far i have been billed nearly $1500 for the 4 mile ambulance ride to the hospital.  Bill was in the ambulance with me.  I wonder if he was charged the same?  Seems like $3000 for two of us being transported to the hospital is crazy high, but the health care system just about everywhere is out of whack, so it is what it is.  I have a zero dollar deductible for accidents, so I’m thinking it all might be covered. But, maybe not.

I have been listening to NPR pretty much all day since I’ve been home.  I can hardly wait until the presidential election is over.  Let’s all just vote and be done with this.   This hasn’t been a highlight of our political system, in my opinion.

I guess I should try to figure more out about this brain trauma I got going on.  I still have nearly 800 emails that I should read.  Maybe next week.  Right now, I don’t have the energy to be on a computer more than a few minutes at a time.

I’m pretty much horizontal as much as I can be all day. It really doesn’t help out much with sleep, but seems to keep my neck from aching constantly.