Dwight Rudder posted this on the Vinduro site:
"Our friend Teddy Landers has been sick for about 4 months or longer
and was just diagnoised with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. He will not be at the AHRMA 2-Day ISDT Vintage Qualifer this weekend. He could use your thoughts and prayers.
Dwight"
Let's join in and wish Teddy a speedy recovery, Mike
Michael R. Winter
I enjoy rebuilding and appreciating Pentons!
1974 250 HS Pentons-1980 KTM 175-400'S
1975 Can Am 175 TNT & 77 250 Black Widow
1979 Husqvarna OR250 & OR390
1976-78 RM & 77-79 PE Suzuki's
1974 CR250M 07 CR125R
Teddy,
Get well friend. Keeping good thoughts and prays for you. Hope to see you up and back at the rides. Sorry you won't be at the MI CC this weekend. I'll be on the lookout for you and Rose at AK for the ISDT RR.
See you down Old Dusty.
Amherst Paul [8D]
Wow...."Iron Man" Landers sick?
Teddy...It's gonna take more than this to keep you down. I've added you to my prayer list. Take care and listen to Rosemary.
Steve Minor
Wilmington, NC
Hang in there Teddy. I contracted Lyme disease in 1987 and it was 4 years before it was diagnosed. 2 years of IV antibiotics and 4 years more of eating right and being healthy as I could be and I finally received a clean bill of health. Medicine has learned a lot since then and I'm glad youre was caught fairly early. We'll be praying for you and your family.
Hank Rinehart
Teddy,
Get well as soon as possible, we need you and Rosemary at the races. Not because you are such a part of the successful XC series (which you are), it's because you guys are the nicest people around. Rest up!!
Mike H.
Tulsa
Get well soon Teddy!-we know you are tougher than them Rocky Mountain ticks!Take Care,
Ric
ric emmal
Get well Teddy. You and your Family are in my Prayers.
Ron Carbaugh
I talked with Teddy yesterday, HE thinks he's on the mend but not quite up to a ISDT ride. I kinda feel sorry for the tick that bit him.
Pete Petrick
175 Jackpiner
Slow but Good
I talked to Ted this morning. He will be making a post to update us on his condition.
Alan Buehner
Great
Teddy, I hope you are doing well. YOU are AHRMA cross country!
Dennis Jones
I'm trying to lure Teddy back by offering to resurrect the Soggy Bottom Boys ISDTRR team with Phast Phil. Since all of us are riding for fun and don't give a rat's posterior about a trophy, this should be right up the alley for a recovering spotted fever victim! I'm betting you'll see him on a Penton come October!
Jeff DeBell
Wunderbar !
Quotequote:Originally posted by Jeff D
I'm trying to lure Teddy back by offering to resurrect the Soggy Bottom Boys ISDTRR team with Phast Phil. Since all of us are riding for fun and don't give a rat's posterior about a trophy, this should be right up the alley for a recovering spotted fever victim! I'm betting you'll see him on a Penton come October!
Jeff DeBell
You guys are great!!!! I have received so many emails, phone calls, and get-well cards, it is truly humbling. Rosemary and I really appreciate all the prayers and your fantastic friendship.
I have had this since mid April. Had a tick bite on my ankle that was festering for weeks and wouldn't respond to antibiotic creams. I entered the Diamond Don's CC with a band aid over the puss filled sore in my boot and after 1.5 laps, I have never felt so bad in my life. SPLITTING headache, wanted to puke, couldn't get up on the pegs, and barely hung on until the checkered flag. Went to bed immediately in the RV and slept for hours before being able to get up. By Monday, I felt normal. Then a month later, the same thing at the Stillwater ISDT Qualifier - started out OK then felt terrible and slept a lot. Went to the docs when I got back and he said everything was OK after analyzing the blood work. Then during the month of June, I was on a job in South Carolina for 3 weeks out of the four. It was 115 Deg F in the shade!!! I worked 65 to 75 hour weeks outdoors in it, but the weird thing was I felt strong and healthy. The following week we went to Florida for my daughter's engagement party on the July 4th weekend and ended up in the emergency room of the hospital with a 101 Deg F fever, shakes, vertigo, chills, no strength and total misery. That doc looked at my legs and said - you've been bit by an insect and he prescribed 7 days of Doxycycline antibiotic. In 3 days I felt well enough to drive the RV back home. A week after the 7 days of antibiotic, I was again nauseated, fever, vertigo (couldn't lie down) and sicker than a dog. Called a new doc, and he said the first doc shouldn't have prescribed the meds for only 7 days and the bugs come back extra strong so he put me on the antibiotic for 30 days. His blood work confirmed the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. The 30 days were up on Aug. 29. At that point I was sleeping naturally til 10 or 11 Am every day and getting 12+ hrs per day sleep, staggering into work and doing nothing but TV in the evenings. My face was all splotchy (SP?) with red splotches, I had very little energy and felt light headed all the time. After getting rid of the drugs which included the antibiotic, some kind of anti-inflammatory drug and Benadryl to fall asleep all night, in 3 or 4 days I started to feel better. Then the following Thursday, I woke up naturally at 7:30, then on Friday at 7:00 so I thought I was finally back to normal.
So I set the alarm for the first time in months and got up at 6:15 AM Saturday 9/10/11 to go to our Gideon prayer meeting at 7 AM. Then I worked with a group from our church at a Christian Boys ranch with my chainsaw cutting limbs in trees, shovel/pick digging up stumps, burning brush all day. I was exhausted that evening when I got home and fell asleep immediately after a shower but then woke up and watched a movie with Rosemary. Sunday morning we got up early for church, felt sore but good. After church I hit the shop about 1PM and got the 175cc MC5 running by 6PM after being broken for about 4 years. Rode it around for about 45 minutes then went inside and did neglected paperwork until 11PM, felt tired but not light headed and felt good in general. Got to work Monday morning earlier than I have in 4 months and felt great until about 2PM Monday afternoon. Then it hit me. I was exhausted, light headed and by 5:30 went home and went to bed. I basically slept for two days until Wednesday morning. Got to work on Wednesday at 10:30AM.
Now it's Friday and I am still feeling tired and a little light headed, but not like Monday and Tuesday. I guess all the warnings that RMSF hangs on for a long time is true. It is SOOOOOO hard to not get out and do things when you feel you can. I just don't know how to pace my activities to get rid of this thing. AS MUCH AS I WANT TO, I probably should not go to White City for the cross country this weekend. But I want to see everybody again!!!!
Thank you all again for all the kind words and prayers and I hope to see you at the Reunion Ride.
Teddy
Hello Teddy I'm so glad to be able to read your post! Every thing you are describing is spot on. Lyme disease does the same things and responds to the same kinds of treatment. You will continue to have periods of feeling great and crashing. With a little care on your part and some moderation of strenuous activity when you do feel good these episodes will become more infrequent and further apart until one day, you'll realize that it hasn't happened for a while. Take care Teddy and know that we are praying for you. Hank PS You need to stick around so you can sign my tank again. Its wearing off.
Hank Rinehart
Teddy, I am sorry to hear that you have not been feeling well.. that has to be tough. I am just now hearing about this and for sure you are in my prayers.. Hang in there brother. thanks for taking the time an energy to post, It would have worn me out to write that long of a post [8D]
Thom Green,Still crazy after all these years!
76' 250 MC5 (orginal owner)
74'250 hare scrambler (project)
74' 1/2 440 maico
78' 440 maico
72' cr125 Husky (project)
93' RMx 250 suzuki