diff --git a/_posts/2019-06-23-aids-lifecycle-2019.md b/_posts/2019-06-23-aids-lifecycle-2019.md index 146388f..f693067 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-06-23-aids-lifecycle-2019.md +++ b/_posts/2019-06-23-aids-lifecycle-2019.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ San Francisco, Santa Cruz, King City, Paso Robles, Santa Maria, Lompoc, Ventura, Los Angeles. For the better part of seven days, I sat on a bicycle with over 2,200 cyclists and 650 volunteers riding from one part of California to another to raise money for HIV/AIDS services as part of -[AIDS/LifeCycle](https://www.aidslifecycle.org). In perspective, 545 miles is +[AIDS/LifeCycle](https://www.aidslifecycle.org). For perspective, 545 miles is further than the distance from Boston to Washington D.C., further than Brussels to Berlin, further than Tokyo to Hiroshima. It is countless hills, steep descents, farm fields, supportive on-lookers, packets of chamois butter, @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ take a look at my aching hindquarters. I knew that they were pressure ulcers, bu I was hoping for some relief. Nurse Sarah directed me to a tent like those we slept in, and asked me to bend forward on a chair so she could inspect my bottom. -My feelings of vulnerability were eclipsed by my desire to get fix the problem +My feelings of vulnerability were eclipsed by my desire to fix the problem so I could finish the ride. She was concerned that one of the pressure ulcers looked so close to opening this