Let’s Freaking Gooooooooooo

This post will be one of my more exciting ones lately. I purposely waited until the end of the day because I wanted to see how I felt after going for fluids today. I also needed to go home and sleep from a really and emotionally 💩 day yesterday. Last night I didn’t sleep a wink which is highly unusual for me.

I have been using Google Shopping and Gemini to learn about e-bikes and wow am I excited about this move I made about two hours ago. I had done my research and called ahead to TREK in Schererville and spoke with a delightful associate named Charlie. Thanks to Gemini I was able to tell him exactly the model that I was looking for (even knew size, color, class and that specific midstep frame to easily get on and off with my condition. I asked if they had it available for a test drive and I even explained my situation and made sure Charlie agreed this would be a good fit for the needs that I had. Note, I did NOT take my pain medicines today knowing that this could be part of what I was going to do. I asked my husband to leave the big truck at home so that I could drive this thing over to pick up something I’m thinking about purchasing and let him in on my plan.

Let me remind everybody the first time I drove a car was yesterday, the 90th day since my diagnosis. Today is the 91st day and I drove our big RAM truck a few miles to pick up this electric bike! 🚲 + 🏍️ = Freedom!

Watch my video and see I am overcome with emotion after giving it a test drive. It is like a moped if you want it to be or just a regular bike if you don’t. It’s lightweight and I plan to take it to the lake rental next month and on the trails. I even bought a little two and one stroller and hitch in case I want to bring my four legged friends with me. I need some practice obviously before that happens, but I have goals.

I have to say the people at Trek are AMAZING. I arrived 30 minutes before they closed and Tim took care of me without hesitation. He explained everything so clearly that even my chemo fog cleared enough to understand. I also credit getting off pain meds for the trade off to drive and think clearly today. The fluids are incredibly helpful every single time as well. I have my new e-bike charging now and can’t wait to build up my leg strength while we have a few more months of summer and then fall.

Huge thank you to Leslie for bringing me to the infusion center again and my dear friend Linda who checked on my via phone while I was in the infusion chair. She always says something to make me laugh - ironic that I talked to her today as she and I have stories for days on our middle school moped adventures….

Let’s RIDE! Love you all!