On The Road Again

There have been a whole host of things that have gone on in the past few weeks.

On the health front … went to see Dr Raghu as a follow up for my Sarcoid. He didn’t put me on any drugs at all and told me he didn’t want to see me for another 6 months. Unless of course something “pops up’. The chemo drug he put me on really “messed” with my system, especially my thyroid & my testosterone levels. My Thyroid is coming back on it’s own, and my testosterone levels are getting back to normal with injections every 10 days. When they reach normal & stay … no more injections either. Woo hoo!

On the communication front … I did something I said I would NEVER do … I joined the Twitter Nation. As can be evidenced by the Twitter Widget on the right side of this here blog. The scary thing is I’m liking it better than Facebook. At least with Twitter there are no Fave 5′s and no other extraneous noise. I can “follow” whomever I want, and make immediate posts on random thoughts, picts, and places I’m exploring.

On the exercise front … Chris and I have started riding our bikes again. In the name of excess, our first ride was around 13 miles. Down the Berke Gilman, and Sammamish River trails. And just yesterday I went on a 15.67 mile solo ride. I even Tweeted about it while I was on the ride. At the start, halfway, and end of the ride. I even gave map coordinates, and at the end I photographed my bike hangin’ on my car’s bike rack. The nerdiest part was I used the EverTrail app on my iPhone to GPS track the entire bike ride. I then uploaded it to evertrail.com where you can see it mapped out on a Google map.

Okay … beyond all that. I’m kind of pumped that I can take these rides & my lungs are surviving! Now maybe I can work on losing the weight I need to lose. One step … or ride at a time.