I'm back!

I'm going to be in Chicago. I'm going this weekend and, yes, I already entered up.

The way I look at it is we have Chicago, one more event (Des Moines), and then we get a weekend off. Then it's just one day in San Antonio before we get a break, so I think it's all right. I feel comfortable about my decision, but you never how it's going to play out.

It may be the worst thing I've ever done or it may be the best. You just never know.

When you work so hard to get to the top and then something like this happens and you stay out for a little while, you lose so much ground, and it's like everything you worked for is going down the drain.

A medical standpoint is different from mine. I'm losing ground by not being there as far as falling down in the standings. I know they want you stay off until you're 100 percent, but I feel like I'm losing so much ground and I need to hurry up and catch up.

Tandy's concern is my head, and I feel like I'm all right in my head. As far as my headaches are concerned, they told me not to come back until the headaches are gone. My body was still a little sore, but I worked out today and I feel fine. I actually feel better than I did.

I was talking to a friend this week and he said, "Well, you're 14th in the standings" and I said, "Oh mercy." I hadn't really been thinking about it. I have plenty of things around the house I can do that keep me busy, but when he told me I was 14th, I said, "Gosh, I got to get back."

I still feel confident because you can come back and win a three-day event and win almost 900 points and, by gosh, that would probably move me all the way back up to 7th or 8th place. I've done it before, where I've won three events in a row. You come back and do that and you're right back in the Top 5.

It's just how it all plays out when I come back.

You never know what's going to happen. I could come back next weekend and draw some really great bulls and win the event, or I could draw a piece of junk and get jerked down and knocked out and then the doctor would say, "See, I told you not to come back."

I don't know - it's a hard decision to make, but it's one of those things you just have to deal with. If I come back too early, then it's my fault for not listening, but it's a hard decision and I just feel like I'm making the right one.

So I'm coming back and we're going to give it a whirl, and see what happens.