3rd Times a Charm....Not

So we are all familiar with the phrase: "third times a charm,"  except not so much in my case.

I believe most of you know that around Christmas time, I had a very nasty sinus infection.  Upon arriving back in Provo a few days after Christmas, I saw a doctor and he gave me some antibiotics.  They kicked in and I felt better for about a month.

Then I got another sinus infection at the middle of March, but this time I was not able to get antibiotics quite as quickly.  I finally got some antibiotics at the beginning of April and it took six (6!!!) days for them to work because I had the infection for so long.  When they finally did though, HALLELUJAH!  The difference was like night and day.  I felt so much better... just in time for finals.

Next, the middle of May rolls around and with it, May brings me yet another sinus infection.  This is now my third sinus infection in five months and I have no past history of sinus infections.  I got in to see the doctor yet again to get some more antibiotics and to get a referral to see a specialist.  Though for some reason, he just gave me a referral for the specialist and not the prescription for antibiotics and walked out.  Jena actually ended up hooking me up with some antibiotics when I was out in Wisconsin for her medical school graduation (Congratulations again Jena!).

My appointment with the ENT specialist was on Monday, we took a CT scan, and he told me that the first sinus infection never actually went away.  Turns out my frontal sinus' are very congested, very thick and very full of mucous.  Not good.  So he tells me that we are going to treat this very aggressively, extends my antibiotic prescription for four more days (it was already at the customary 10 days), writes me a prescription for some Nasonex, and gives me stuff to do a saline rinse twice a day.  Hopefully all of this works and we can get my sinus' cleaned out because I really do not want any more sinus infections (plus then, I would get labeled as having chronic sinus infections).

So you see, sometimes the third time is not a charm.

Team Kits

Our team kits finally came in!  We have waited a few months now for our team race kits to come and they finally have!

A few months ago, I joined a bike racing team at my local bike shop here and we all paid for our kits then. They just barely got here as the suppliers were all backed up.  Races started back in April but because of work schedules moving around, finishing school, being out of town, etc... I have yet to be able to do one race.  However, when I make it back into town after my trip to Great Britain, I will have time to start racing and I am so excited!  I am going to do both mountain and road races and it will be fun.  I do the races for fun and because I like to bike, just like I did that century back in September because I wanted to.

However, because of how crazy things have been, I have not really been able to ride my bike(s) lately at all and I am looking forward to getting back into the saddle again!