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Pssst! The latest insider news: Dennis Haueisen: "That was just a bit of luck!"

 23/04/2024

 Dear Team MILRAM fans,

I’m about to feel better again now. However, cycling won’t be possible for quite a long time now. A scar of about ten centimeters is now „decorating“ my stomach and has to heal first. At the moment it is still a bit swollen, so that I even have problems tying my shoes.

I left hospital last Wednesday. But I still feel like an old man, toiling myself up and down the stairs. There is not much more to be done at the moment. It can take about three or four weeks until I can get on my bike again, the doctors say. Maybe even more... Now I have to be patient. This is worse than the winter break, I can’t do anything at the moment.

But I’m glad to have overcome the worst part of it and that the doctors finally found out where my stomach aches came from. After they did the usual examinations for the first time without finding out where the terrible stomach aches came from, they were about to send me back home again. But I felt so lousy and collapsed permanently. Then the next day, when they diagnosed blood in my stomach in the ultrasound examination, everything happened so fast. Within an hour I was lying on the operating table. When I woke up again afterwards I thought „that’s it with cycling“. Tubes everywhere and this big scar on my stomach. At this moment cycling was so far away.

Now I have to say that was just a bit of luck. Everything could have turned out much worse. But I don’t want to think about that. However I was really annoyed that I couldn’t start at Paris – Roubaix where I should have been in the selection. For I did really well at Mergelland and Rund um Köln. But when I saw Grabschi on his solo escape on TV, everything was allright again.

Now I hope that everything will be better soon. I’m still in pain and I sleep badly because of this. I’m the kind of person that likes to exercise. But at the moment I don’t feel like that at all. Yet I’m optimistic and I hope to be back to the races in August.

So keep your fingers crossed,

Dennis