Cycling and CF

Here is a quick word from Walter: I started the ride on oral antibiotics, started ten days before the flight to Europe and continued till a day or two into the ride (a good two weeks+). I then changed to nebulised antibiotics for a while. Now I am just on the usual vitamins, glucosamine/chondroiton, Pulmozyne, decongestants etc. Doing a fair bit of coughing on all hills and the first 1-2 hours of each day.

One of our daily battles is keeping medicine chilled. We use hotel fridges, campsite fridges, refreeze our ice-blocks... And we have a small car fridge for pulmozyne and antibiotics.

Something above my left knee started hurting lots after a few days of hard riding, which made my leg very stiff. Now I am taking some aspirin in the mornings, and it is slowly going away. I am the slowest rider on the trip, but that was to be expected! Also, app art from David, I am the only one riding every day!

Tomorrow we leave France and enter Switzerland. We will have an unscheduled rest day there, but will catch up to our schedule shortly thereafter.

We miss our good gear from our lost luggage very much. My GPS navigator PDA is a painful loss, we might have to replace it soon before we leave civilisation. David's Garmin GPS is doing well, but the support car has nothing to locate us with.

The great Patagonia outdoor gear that was in our luggage would have made life much better too, we miss that lots. David got his luggage, so he has his! The clothing I bought in a hurry is mostly misfitting and uncomfortable, especially the sleeping bags. But once you are riding and on the bike everything is perfect, ills or no hills, tail or head wind no matter!

That's enough from me, back to Heather!