TFN: Drew Hunter had Lyme disease at the end of the season - "I thought I could run 3:56 and be disappointed"

Imaginary diseases wrote:

Tick Boy wrote:

having lived through this ordeal (hospitalization, 104 degree temp, HIV-level white blood cell count, bizarre joint and head pain of a type I had never experienced before) I'm convinced that tick-born diseases are real.

Notice the first symptom you mentioned: hospitalization.

Swine flu is another imaginary disease.

The unnerving thing is that, although you are clearly just trolling on a Saturday afternoon, there are factions of uneducated kooks who truly think and believe these things you're parodying.

BisonHurdler, M.D. wrote:

The unnerving thing is that, even though I'm not just trolling on a Saturday afternoon and am always this way, there are factions of uneducated kooks who truly think and believe in these things that I'm parodying, and I'm just as likely to kill them as anyone else.

Villanova would be the perfect place for him. They don't thrash their runners

I hope not wrote:

I really don't get why hunter would be going pro now.

Because a couple million dollars over the next 5 years is hard to turn down.

think for a minute wrote:

Because he obviously meant to say "If you have chest pain radiating from your jaw and left arm and I diagnose you with a sprained ankle, but despite the Motrin and ice I recommend, you die, Well then maybe it wasn't your ankle after all." You really don't see how this carries a different meaning?

You recommend to die.

There is no different meaning, and I see that you are an idiot.

Schwartz is dumb wrote:

Because a couple million dollars over the next 5 years is hard to turn down.

No one would pay him that.

This is quite clear wrote:

How exactly does punctuation make a difference, and why is it funny?

He probably says that to people all the time, and laughs about it.

BisonHurdler, M.D. wrote:

bwakem wrote:

That works if you start doxy within a week or so of the tick bite. Some people don't bother seeking medical treatment and keep on running, like I did. Now I have heart rhythm problems and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome as a result. Antibiotics can't fix that, nor did it clear the Lyme as I waited over a year before getting a Lyme test (tested positive twice from 2 different labs) so my body is riddled with it.

What kind of test specifically? Western blot? PCR? This is a lot more important than you probably think.

Elisa and Elispot.

No, you idiot wrote:

think for a minute wrote:

Because he obviously meant to say "If you have chest pain radiating from your jaw and left arm and I diagnose you with a sprained ankle, but despite the Motrin and ice I recommend, you die, Well then maybe it wasn't your ankle after all." You really don't see how this carries a different meaning?

You recommend to die.

There is no different meaning, and I see that you are an idiot.

The meaning is completely different. In the above, the recommendation is to ice and take Motrin.

BisonHurdler, M.D. wrote:

bwakem wrote:

That works if you start doxy within a week or so of the tick bite. Some people don't bother seeking medical treatment and keep on running, like I did. Now I have heart rhythm problems and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome as a result. Antibiotics can't fix that, nor did it clear the Lyme as I waited over a year before getting a Lyme test (tested positive twice from 2 different labs) so my body is riddled with it.

What kind of test specifically? Western blot? PCR? This is a lot more important than you probably think.

PCR is not a test. It is a DNA amplification method.

The article says he "had a couple bouts with Lyme as a child". Some posters have mentioned it can cause issues later in life if not detected early. Was this his 3rd time getting bit by a tick or is this an ongoing issue from a previous bite? It just seems odds to get 3 separate bites that result in lyme. Not questioning the diagnosis, but just curious if this would affect him forward as others suggested.

Flamethrower wrote:

BisonHurdler, M.D. wrote:

What kind of test specifically? Western blot? PCR? This is a lot more important than you probably think.

PCR is not a test. It is a DNA amplification method.

It's an amplification method to test for the presence of DNA. In this example, DNA of borrelia burgdorferi.

It's absolutely a test. But you knew probably that.

*near ticks

This is quite clear wrote:

How exactly does punctuation make a difference, and why is it funny?

Freudian Slip wrote:

He probably says that to people all the time, and laughs about it.

See? He came right back and said it again.

Freudian Slip wrote:

This is quite clear wrote:

How exactly does punctuation make a difference, and why is it funny?

Freudian Slip wrote:

He probably says that to people all the time, and laughs about it.

See? He came right back and said it again.

Is it just me or has the quality of trolling plummeted on this site in the past few months?

It used to be there were some clever ones. Maybe it's just that school let out for the summer?

For an American distance runner to go pro after running 3:58/7:59 3k at 18 would be unwise, even if he would have run 3:54-55/8:27 2M had he been healthy. Going pro is not a magic elixir for distance runners, as Cain, Efraimson, and others have shown. You may still improve or not get worse but you also are not ready to compete yet at the world stage and it will likely take 4-5 years of development to get there. Sprinting is another matter. Oregon has done a fine job in developing distance runners under Andy Powell. He has peaked them so well that Salazar was publicly asking for his workouts. And he has gotten even some guys who were not national leaders in high school, but who worked hard and listened, under 3:40 in the 1500m. He gets very good recruits obviously but some of those guys are more like 4:10 or slower in high school, and so a cut below the top guys, yet they too have often run 3:36-39 in college or just after. The college experience and time on a team developing lifelong friends and a social network are indispensable.

Is testing of Lyme reliable? I'm having symptoms... Fever, aches, rash but my test came back negative

My dog and I use frontline topical. It works.

LymeQs wrote:

Is testing of Lyme reliable? I'm having symptoms... Fever, aches, rash but my test came back negative

Have a shower, and wash all over with soap.