Dear friends,
I would like to thank you all for your patience as it’s been a while since I last posted anything on BikewithDiabetes.com or on the other social media channels. You may hence wonder where I am and what I have been up to. As a matter of fact, I have good and bad news to announce. The bad news is that I had to set the project on hold after reaching the south of Egypt in early January 2018, after injuring my back and right leg. I was forced to return to Brussels to seek medical treatment where a scanner revealed a hernia in my lower back, which compressed the root of my sciatic nerve, hence the pain in my right leg. Besides being painful, the sciatica greatly affected my mobility.
While temperatures were falling below 0˚C in Belgium in February and the hills of Ardennes were being covered by snow, the temperatures in Sudan, on the other hand, were reaching up to 50˚C in the south of the country. Continuing the journey in Continue reading “Back on the Saddle”
