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A mystery ailment brought so much pain he could barely walk. But riding—that was different.
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The sound that came out of me was high-pitched, shrill, and something like a choked bird. I dropped to my bedroom floor, slumping against a wall, breathing heavily. My chest was drenched with
. I struggled to my feet. I was exhausted, even though the active part of my day hadn't yet begun. Indeed, it was the routine preliminaries of a ride that were wearing me down: climbing into my shorts, pulling on socks and shoes, searching for
. A few blocks away, my friend Jason waited on his bike. "I'm ready," he had texted a few minutes earlier. "Let's get going." I hobbled downstairs. My right foot was numb and slipped out from under me. I fell hard, let out a yelp, and bounced down the last few steps. My six-year-old son suddenly appeared before me, looking puzzled. "What's wrong, Daddy?"
"Go play," I said.
I limped 40 steps to the garage and knelt to rest when I got there.
Pumping air into my tires
required enormous exertion, but was not as difficult, or as embarrassing, as my efforts to climb onto my bike. Raising my leg over the top tube felt like being scalded. Pain streaked up my right leg and didn't stop until it drilled into my rib cage. I winced. A neighbor working in his yard looked over at me. I turned away and started pedaling. I thought: What am I doing?
I swept by Jason's house without stopping. "How's it going?" he said as he caught up. He knew I was hurting. "Okay," I said. "We'll see." By day Jason is a doctor, but on a bike he is simply an irritatingly fit and determined civilian, seven years younger than me—oh, to be 40 again—and restless for some weekend miles. We rode out of town into a stiff, blaring wind. It was pointless to banter, even as we pedaled side by side, warming up. Silence was fine with me. All I wanted was to keep moving as long as I could. There were clouds ahead of us but the potential for rain didn't bother me. I rode tentatively at first, falling behind Jason as he stomped uphill in a big gear. In my condition I had little hope of staying on the road for long, let alone of keeping up. I was waiting for pain to force me from my bike, leave me sitting on the roadside, calling home and pleading for a pickup. Every quarter-mile I pedaled was a small victory.
This pain thing—I had no other way to describe it—was new to me. I'd never had a serious injury. I clung to the belief that I would be a better athlete in my 40s than I was in my 30s, when I'd been better than I was in my turbulent 20s. Age had helped me grow more focused, I told myself. Soon after moving to Iowa I was riding more than ever before, and each week I pushed deeper into the surrounding countryside. I made plans to spend a week in Colorado in mid-June for the annual Ride the Rockies tour, which would cover about 500 miles and climb some 25,000 feet. I cajoled my best friend from New York to join me, and I set about training in earnest.
Toward the end of April, a persistent pain in my right leg started to wake me at night. There was no finding a comfortable position in bed, and I began moving to the sofa to avoid waking Emily. Sometimes the pain was a heavy, dull ache, as though weights were tugging at my leg. I attributed it to stress, to sitting at my desk too much, to muscle strain. Whatever it was, it gave me a jolt when I rose from a chair, and nagged at me when I stood in line at the supermarket. I found myself having to sit on a stool while I prepared dinner. Demoralized, I tried resting a few days. Still the pain intensified. I iced, I sat in a hot tub—no relief. I went to a physical therapist, wanting to be told that the right stretches would clear things up. The therapist assigned me some exercises, aimed at core strengthening, and I dutifully followed her instructions. The next morning, I woke in agony. I could barely move. Walking my son two blocks to school, I had to lean against a neighbor's fence to stay upright. Another parent asked if I needed help, and it struck me that she thought I was having a heart attack. I returned home and forced myself through the physical-therapy regimen. When I was done, I came close to passing out. I stayed in bed, or on the sofa, for the next three days.
The weekend rolled around. Jason called. I couldn't bear my immobility any longer, and I wasn't ready to give up on Colorado, a month away.
Emily was skeptical. "If anything happens, I can get immediate medical attention," I joked. Five miles in, I began to loosen up. I picked up my cadence and crept in behind Jason, allowing him to bear the brunt of the wind. My eyes were fixed on his rear wheel and the pavement, and I entered that hypnotic space that cyclists know, that place of convergence among bike, road, and body.
Then I came to, suddenly, with an amazing realization: I was not in pain. I felt better than I had since—what, since the last time I rode? I pulled in front of Jason and took my turn leading into the wind. We steered west and crossed into a landscape of serenely rolling farmland populated mostly by Amish and Mennonites. It must have rained a bit, because the grasses and leaves seemed to glow deep green. At an intersection, Jason asked if I wanted to head back. Let's keep going, I said. There wasn't a car in sight—nothing but a horse and buggy on the crest of a faraway hill. "Let's catch it," I said. We picked up the pace and kept riding into the wind until we overtook the buggy near a deserted place called Joetown, whose only inhabitant appeared to be a tow truck. Then a tailwind swept us home.
Those three hours, those 50 miles, were the best I would feel that day. A few days later, a doctor pulled up my MRI on a computer screen. My injury could not be more common: a herniated disk in my lower back. The doctor showed me where the disk matter was intruding into my spinal column, narrowing the pathway of nerves. My options weren't appealing—bed rest, narcotics, an injection of steroids at the nerve root, surgery. I asked why I felt better while cycling, and he suggested that being flexed at the base of my spine might be taking pressure off the disk. "If it works, do it," he said.
So this is where I found myself: I couldn't walk, but I could ride. I didn't climb onto my bike seeking the exalted sensation of a cyclist's suffering, but rather hoping for a break from the ordinary suffering of an aging, fallible body. In the process, I rediscovered the primal pleasure of movement under my own power, with the road beneath me and the Rocky Mountains rising in my sight line.
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Warren Fowler
Sat, 2013-09-21 03:52
How true. in 2001, I was having the same kind of problem. After a year of therapy and injections, they finally took two x-rays. one of me in the fetal position and and one with my back arched. the two vertebrae at L4 and L5 weren't connected. Since High School they had been sliding back and forth wearing out my disc. At this point, I could barely walk, could not sneeze or cough, but I cold ride my bike with no pain. So, off to Kansas I went with my son to do BAK. I couldn't carry my bags or put up my tent, but I could ride. One week after returning home, I had spinal fusion. Had an awesome Doctor. Took a year off and started Mountain Bike racing at 50 years of age. Had a great race last weekend at the Chequamegon Fat tire festival. My second fastest time in 9 years of doing the race.
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Someone should do a study on this - it is exactly my story. 6 years into my desk job, at age 35, I could barely bend to put my socks on in the morning. I had to lay on my back to do it. Numbness down my right leg, constant dull ache in the arch of my foot, flaring to immobility and pain after a long or stressful seated day or a hard weekend of yardwork. My ribcage and back ached constantly. My doctor diagnosed scitaica, ITB syndrome, and/or herniated disk. So I re-started cycling regularly and I religiously exercise every day when I get up - 20 minutes is enough. I noticed an immediate improvement, within a month. Since then, the pain is gone and the worst I ever get is the slight foot ache coming back after a really hard day of immobile sitting or standing in place too long. It's made a world of difference - at 35 I felt 60 and now, 10 years later, I feel 20 again. So cycling saved me years of chronic pain, time lost for medical treatment, and probably saved me many times the cost of a brand-new bike in copays, etc. My health insurer ought to buy me a new bike! My brother had similar results - after years of chiropractic, surgeries, etc. he upped his cycling, added yoga and now is also a decade free of pain. Miraculous! Are you listening Blue Cross, CIGNA, United Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, and other health insurers?
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Sleazy Rider
Thu, 2013-09-19 14:59
Due to a left ankle that is now devoid of any cartilage, and is basically fused, with only 2 deg. up/down range of motion, I can't walk without a cane. But I can beat anyone in Chicago on a climb! Seems a frozen ankle has little effect on the force you can generate against a pedal. Same thing happened when I went for an echo/stress test: I couldn't use the treadmill, and didn't want the chemical version, but the hospital had a cycling contraption. I was able to generate 300 watts on it (I'm 62, BTW).
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Thu, 2013-09-19 11:29
I can really relate to this article. At 67 years young, I am in pain every day due to a bad left knee from my long years running a bldg. maintenance co. The only relief I have is when I'm on my baby which lasts for a day then I have to get back on Merlin or the pain returns.:)
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Tue, 2013-09-10 21:53
Had lumbar surgery for a herniated disk, five years ago, after a long history with 'sciatica' — she is not a pretty girl, if you're wondering. Had cervical fusion three years ago. Pain free now, but I watch and am careful my back. Ride my Cannondale Synapse an average of 26 miles everyday and have logged 15,000 miles in the past two years. Biking, I throw caution to the wind and is physically — and many times mentally — the best part of my day.
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Glenn Hansen
Fri, 2013-09-06 15:51
A great read, and that's been my story for the past year - on and off. In fact, I did a serious MTB weekend in Moab, felt great on the bike each day, and could barely walk in between saddle time. Good luck with it.
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"Are you an angel?" the woman asked. "Have you come to tell my family about Jesus?"
"I eventually learned this lady had come to know the Lord through dreams and visions," Eardensohn recounted at a Sept. 14 service honoring emeritus International Mission Board missionaries. "She had once been a devout Muslim. Now she is a devout follower of Jesus."
It was only one moment in the 27 years Eardensohn and her husband Bill spent serving as missionaries in Tanzania. But she will never forget it. Telling people about Jesus is the reason the couple went to Africa in the first place.
The Eardensohns joined 50 other missionaries honored at the annual emeritus recognition service, held this year at IMB's International Learning Center in Rockville, Va. Among them, the missionaries counted 1,357 combined years of service in places stretching from Argentina to Indonesia, from Australia to sub-Saharan Africa.
"This is not really the ending. It is the beginning of a new chapter in [their] lives," said IMB President Tom Elliff as he introduced the veteran workers. "They've got their sights set on what God has for them in the days ahead. But we get to celebrate the fact that they have sown their lives into the lives of countless thousands of people around this world."
The missionaries' memories were as varied as the places where they worked. But they shared several common themes: God told them to go. He used them despite their own shortcomings, fears and struggles. He multiplied new believers through them -- believers who are now discipling many others for Christ.
And He's not through with these faithful folks yet.
Pediatrician Ken Hinton treated children at Kediri Baptist Hospital in Indonesia for his first 19 years of service and taught pediatrics and other subjects to university students for an additional 15. But before he even finished language school as a first-termer, Hinton discovered his true gift: teaching Scripture to young people.
"Words cannot express my gratitude to the Lord for turning this shy, attention-fearing, self-doubting baby doctor into, of all things, a teacher who discovered the absolute joy of telling the old, old stories of Jesus and His love to slack-jawed, goggle-eyed youth -- many hearing them for the first time," Hinton said. "I thank Him for the precious privilege of seeing some of these become pastors, evangelists and even medical missionaries, doing far more for the coming Kingdom than I ever imagined."
In retirement, Hinton is still mentoring and counseling young Indonesians via Facebook, Skype and telephone.
During 34 years in Peru and Chile, Ken and Linda Bowie experienced earthquakes, droughts, floods, a military coup, martial law, terrorism, robberies, illnesses and shortages of food and water. But God protected them, and their persistence gained them credibility with the people they served.
"When we left Kansas to go to Peru, we didn't know that the overwhelming physical need of Peruvians for water would give us an opportunity to go to villages high in the Andes Mountains and to barren coastal deserts to drill wells, which in turn would soften hearts to hear and accept Jesus Christ as the Living Water that they most needed," Linda said.
Now they're seeing some of the Peruvians and Chileans they trained as disciples reach out to a new generation, not only in their own nations but as missionaries in other places. The Bowies plan to stay vitally involved in retirement as they lead volunteer groups to Latin America.
Jim and Kay Chandler have seen former students at Taiwan's Morrison Christian Academy "join the ranks of radical believers reaching the uttermost parts of the world." One is living in a hovel beside untouchables in India. Another is striving to reach Muslims in Southeast Asia.
"With sadness and joy we leave after 30 years of serving in Taiwan," Jim reflected. "We're sad to say goodbye to those we'll never see again in this world, but we rejoice as we think of these we will see again in heaven because God allowed us to have a part in their salvation."
Baker and Gail Hill, who spent 27 years ministering to Muslims in West Africa, initially scoffed at the idea of spending the closing days of their missionary careers in the Canadian province of Quebec. "We wanted to continue working with unreached peoples," Gail said. "But God has a sense of humor -- and a global perspective."
Even though four years in chilly Quebec felt like going from "the oven to the freezer" after West Africa, Baker explained, "God enlarged our hearts and let us fall in love with a new people group less evangelized than many we had worked with in Africa." They planted a French-speaking church in Montreal that now has a network of cell groups, a daughter church and a thriving ministry to children.
Dan and Brenda Caldwell already had two grown sons when they became missionaries. Entering middle age, they weren't ready for the staggering challenges they would face in South America. But God doesn't call people to be fully prepared before they follow Him; He calls people to be obedient.
Twenty-two years ago, "God said 'Go,'" the Caldwells said. "So we left sons in college and took our daughter to the Amazon Valley of Brazil. He said, 'Make disciples and baptize them,' so we witnessed and baptized believers in the river.
"He said, 'Teach them to obey all I have commanded,' so we taught in churches, training classes, English classes and Bible institutes in the jungle and on the river. He said, 'I am with you always' -- and He was, as we struggled with Portuguese, dengue fever and pneumonia, when our parents and siblings died, as we ministered to the needs of others. Was it hard? Extremely. Worth it? Definitely, [as we saw] the lost saved and those we discipled now discipling others."
Brian and Linda Peterson, 25-year veterans of ministry in South and Southeast Asia, sang one of the worship songs they hear South Asian believers sing as they worship in their own way. Most Americans wouldn't recognize the song or the worship styles, but God does.
"God is multiplying churches like this" in South Asia, Linda said. "They do not look or sound like our American churches, but they clearly belong to Jesus. They proclaim the Gospel in ways that Hindus can understand." Hundreds of spiritual seekers are hearing the Good News every week, even as persecution by militant Hindus increases.
After 25 years in Fiji and the Philippines, Dwight and Gloria Fern are still amazed by God's power to transform lives. They remember the young Indian drug dealer in Fiji who gave his life to Christ and led more than 100 friends and family members to faith within a year. They remember the Philippine pastor they mentored for 10 years. He used "Training for Trainers" methods to start 80 small groups out of a church with only 50 members.
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When the missionaries finished sharing their memories and reflections, Elliff called on listeners to pay tribute to their service. An extended standing ovation followed.
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In the years between 1984 and 1993, The Mecklenburg Bar lost eight members to suicide in nine years. Seven men and one woman took their lives in that span of time. They included sole practitioners, large-firm lawyers and those who practiced in small firms. The mean age was 42 years. Five took their lives at home, two in motel rooms, and one killed himself in the conference room adjacent to his office. At least half of the deaths resulted from alcohol and drug abuse. Depression and various mood disorders were underlying causes in the rest. The Mecklenburg Bar under the leadership of then President, Bob Sink, and Bar Director, Mary Howerton, responded to this rash of suicides by setting up the Mecklenburg Bar Lawyer Support Committee. This Committee has worked very effectively over the years to support individual lawyers in need and to promote educational programs about health, wellness, and recovery.
In 1997, the Canadian Bar in Nova Scotia experienced a similar series of lawyer suicides. In undertaking to respond to this distress in the legal community, the Legal Profession Assistance Conference (LPAC) of the Canadian Bar Association undertook to research the scope of the problem. The Canadian Bar Insurance Association offered its help in providing life insurance mortality data. While the Canadian Bar Insurance Association's individual data was all kept confidential, LPAC was permitted to analyze the insurance data in Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces. The result of this was LPAC's 1997 Lawyer Suicide Study. This was the first reported investigation of lawyer suicide in Canada and the United States.
As a part of the analysis of the insurance data, the researchers determined that suicide was the third leading cause of death of lawyers after cancer and cardiac conditions. Suicide accounted for 10.8% of all insured lawyer deaths.
In the general population in Canada and the United States, the rate of suicide is in the range of ten to fourteen suicide deaths per 100,000. The data from the insurance records revealed a suicide rate of 69.3 suicide deaths per 100,000. Thus, the death rate by suicide among lawyers is six times the suicide rate of the general population. This is a starling statistic.
The insurance company's data did not include lawyers over 65 who were excluded from the term life risk pool; however, many other studies, including one by the United States' Surgeon General, indicate that those individuals most at risk are older males, age 48 to 80. The Canadian Study also identified lawyers most at risk as males over 48.
The demographics of the incidents of suicide in the United States spell one word, isolation. Eighty per cent of suicides are men. Whites are prone to suicide twice as often as blacks or Hispanics (which have traditionally had more extended family support). While women are less likely to commit suicide than men, divorced women (like men) have high rates at all ages, but unlike men, where the risk of suicide rises with age - the suicide rate in women remains steady with age. The suicide rate correlates with the proportion of households owning firearms - highest in Nevada and Montana, lowest in New York and New Jersey.
There are major suicide prevention resources in place. Two of the best are, "The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent Suicide" which can be found at www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/calltoaction/default.htm. and the "National Strategy For Suicide Prevention" found at http://www.mentalhealth.org/suicidepreveion.htm.
Part of the Canadian response to the suicide study was to highlight the risk of suicide for lawyers through conferences and written material. Most Canadian Bars had programs like the Mecklenburg Bar Support Committee, and much of the outreach was to these local Bar support efforts. In addition however, the Canadian Bar, as a whole, undertook to develop educational programs for support committees and lawyers throughout Canada that could be individually accessed through the Internet. In the past these programs have been available on line for purchase. Recently however, because of funding from the Canadian Bar Association's Law For The Future Fund, these courses can now be read and downloaded without any charge. Below is a listing of the twenty-five courses offered in the Health, Wellness and Recovery Education Series. These may be accessed by going to the website http://www.lpac.ca/. Go to Education Programs, click on the course you want, and then click on preview this course, and you will get free access. Please download the program that speaks most directly to you - this will help assure the suicide statistics remain just statistics.
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A robbery at the Elegance Creations jewelry store on Schoenherr near 23 Mile in Shelby Township was caught on surveillance video."Once they're here, they're in and out so fast, in minutes," said owner Pierre Nahed. "Three guys can get a lot of things done in minutes."The store's alarm went off just before 4:30 a.m. Thursday as the front glass of the store was smashed out. Several display cases were then shattered."This was three guys doing this with masks. They had gloves on," the owner said. "These guys are professionals. They've definitely done this before." A delivery driver nearby who may have spotted their getaway vehicle is now working with police.Investigators are also looking into whether this incident may be connected to other similar crimes in the area, only this one might not have been as profitable."We have a line that we leave out because it's all special order items and it's made out of alloy, and they probably thought they hit the jackpot because they thought it was real," Nahed said. "It looks real, but it's not. So the laugh's on them."Anyone with information on this robbery is asked to call Shelby Township Police.
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Looks good Kaz!
My teen vampire, Moth, in webcomic form... Somebody pinch me!
Moth Tales Episode 01
P.S. I meant to add: Thanks to KS for letting me borrow her space!
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Looks good Kaz!
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I appreciate the recurring theme of your young protagonists having inner strength, power and eventual confidence in a world that does not foster such qualities. If I were to predict something about Moth, it will be that she has friends, true friends who are there to support her in difficult times.
WTG, Ms. Mahoney...you have every right to be proud.


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ISSAQUAH, Wash. (AP) — A suspected burglar fleeing from a King County deputy ran into woods near Issaquah, but he couldn't hide from the thermal-imaging camera on the sheriff's helicopter.
The pilot directed deputies Thursday to the "hot spot" that showed heat from the man's body.
Deputies arrested the 27-year-old Issaquah man and booked him into the county jail.
The chase began when a deputy on patrol saw the man attempting to burglarize a house. The suspect drove off. The deputy forced the car to stop and the suspect ran into the woods near Tiger Mountain.


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Saturday was an exciting
day for people in Chatham County. The county's courthouse re-opened, three years after
fire destroyed the iconic symbol of their community.
Fire burned almost
everything except the brick walls. To many in the area, it was heartbreaking.
"We watched in horror
as our iconic edifice disappeared right in front of our eyes," recalled
Walter Harris.
Architect Taylor Hobbs
said accepting the project to rebuild was difficult at first. He said there was
a lot to consider about what was salvageable and what was destroyed.
"It took about two or
three months, and then the light bulb went off one day," Hobbs explained. "We
said, 'I know we have a burned building, but we also have a partially
constructed building.'"
After lots of work,
Saturday was a celebration with the unveiling of a new painting of the county's
namesake and the rededication of the building's cornerstone. The painting will
be displayed in the courthouse.
While the building will
never be used again for criminal trials - maybe just an occasional civil court
case or two - it will also serve as the county commissioners' chambers and a
multi-function meeting room for the community.
"We expect it to be
used," said resident Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour. "The historic society
has a really neat museum downstairs as well. So we expect this to be a vibrant
part of downtown Pittsboro."
While there were serious
discussions about not rebuilding, community leaders said the building was just
too important. They could not imagine Chatham County without the courthouse.
"It is important to
all of us - especially those of us who are interested in history - to maintain
and preserve what we have," Harris said.
Hobbs said he thinks the
county commissioners were wise with their decision to rebuild. He believes not
rebuilding would have left a void in the community.
"What's started out
as a tragedy has a happy ending," Hobbs said. "It doesn't always work that way,
but it did here."
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