Pam's Lil Kidney / PLK's Journey

(10 days before chemo) Finally!   Been a long, almost 7 weeks since I last rode Quickie the day before surgery.  Saturday, Dan and I rode a slow & easy 100k and it felt soooooo good!  Trees were stunning.  Halloween and fall decorations still out.  So many families walking and playing in the yard.  Really couldn't have been a better day :)  Rode through Grapevine and even saw Santa! In hopes I can do a 200k next wknd (get one before chemo starts), I pushed things a bit and did another 100k Sunday.  That one:  Lot more wind.  Headwind both ways since the wind shifted.  Not many, but a few pretty significant hills.  LOL, including the last 1/2mile uphill to the car in my granny gear :)  Lots was on the Trinity Trail, which also had the FW Marathon today!  At first, it was cool.  Cheering all the runners, but after a couple hours of dodging people, I was hoping they would all be gone when we came back... an...

You. Aways. Have. The. Choice.  That's how my sis's email started and she's right.  There are so many things we feel we don't have a choice about, but my health and my personal advocacy ain't it.  So,  I'm making what feels like a really big choice now and this blog is mostly for me.  I know she and Mom might make a different choice, but I'm more scared of saying no.  I have to try. I VOTE YES. A lot led to this, so the back-story is really the biggest story for me, but I thought it would end with surgery, so I didn't blog... I was too busy taking PLK (Pam's lil' kidney thanks to Ethel) on her bon voyage tour!  PLK got to have some last big adventures and I hope she felt loved and appreciated.  She sacrificed herself to protect my entire body and I will be forever grateful!  Hiking ~ Diving ~ Biking. Backpacking and camping the backcountry of Yellowstone with llamas! Scuba diving the only known spawning area of the Goliath Grouper. Last ...