Doctors

365 Group (f)

Monday 4/19/10
Well it was a nice day as I started out to go over the hump to the doctors and all that. The temps were hovering around 60 and it was just about as perfect a day for riding as there ever was.

I pulled out from the gas station at home all loaded down for an extended stay. I was caring about 40 pounds extra and that made for a real solid balanced feeling in the ride. Once I got out away from town a little I opened the old twin up and we literally "howled" down the road. The bike was running like a top and I pinned back the ears and surprisingly made pretty good time.
At about eighteen miles in I got into some traffic that forced a slow down and behave some.
Once I got out of traffic I just floated along for about twenty five miles. With only the occasional chicken truck to give me concern, it was about as good as it gets up here.
Pulling into greater downtown Kingston Arkansas I slowly made the loop around town center and grabbed the Hwy 21 exit for a run up the hill and see just how fast I could tag at the top. Today was a good day as I bested my personal best on this bike by 15 MPH. Topped out at what I read on my LSI as 92 MPH. Not too shabby for a 10 mph rolling start on serious uphill climb on a bike that's 33 years old.
The ride through the hills was every bit as good as it ever was. Thirty five miles of two lane ups and downs. Switch backs and long sweepers. God really smiled on this part of the world as far as riding a Motor Sickle goes!! (Chessie, you should come ride these hills.)
Finally I pulled into my place at Deer and dropped off the baggage. Visited a few with Mom and headed out to the CTCA and the doc's.
The Doc's didn't seem to be able to tell me much with out some super serious testing that we're going to do next month. Seems that they suspected something but always stopped short of telling me. Finally I said "lets just cut the she-ite. Answer one simple question. Can I keep riding or is it THAT bad?" All three looked at each other the made the greatest dumb ass remark I've ever heard... "a motorcycle?" No a Goat. Duh, yeah, a motorcycle. That prompted one of them to ask me all kinds of questions. He definitely came up on my "cool O meter". He's from India and really not a bad guy. After about a dozen questions I finally said come on and took him to the lot and showed him Miss Tilley. He kept saying "so you rode all this way over here?" Seems in his youth he had wanted a Royal Enfield..."many many years ago." Finally I got the sawbones three to issue forth the following statement.
"Ride as long as it doesn't hurt and you feel comfortable doing it".
So now this has opened a whole new can of something or other. As I was thinking from their first comments that I'd cease up riding along and crash into a bus of touring seniors from East Patterson New Jersey killing everyone aboard making headlines for days or something like that. Finally I was in a good mood and I thank God for that.
After making all the necessary upcoming appointments I walked out to the lot and noticed that I had a pretty good crowd. I mounted Miss Tilley and pulled out the kicker. Yelling "fire in the whole" at the top of my lungs I fired up. After that kind of settled down I turned on my "genuine forklift back up alarm" and backed out of the parking space. Now that I had a real crowd...I couldn't help myself and laid the bike over and left them a donut to remember me.
The ride back out to the house is only a pud run as some call it, only 34 miles. I had a blast and just took my time side roading and what have you till I had to switch on reserve.
Looks like you just might see me on the road

BarBQue

365 Group (f)

Getting ready for my ride to the doctor tomorrow I found that I was out some of the things that I needed for an over night or three stay. So I jumped in my "Who-ver round" and headed to town.
With all my errands run and done I decided that I was hungry and started looking around for a place to grab some grub. I decided on the Bar B Que place as their food always hits the spot and well...these are my gals

The lovely young lady all by herself is my "girlfriend " that I have fondly spoken of in the past. Don't she look ornery?

Don't they both look like I'm truly a lucky guy?? hummmmm?

Don't Bar B Que sound good?

Hope to catch ya on the road

Last Ride...?

365 Group ustawaz (f)

For the last month or two I had been having my "usual" bad back trouble and a new wrinkle of being so very tired. I have been going back and forth to my Doctor trying to figure things out.

We did a lot of new testing and and the first round came back like always, birth defect and arthritis. On 4/1/10, I borrowed my friends gold wing for a bit of a softer ride and went back for round two of the testing. Doc said that he wanted to try these new tests as they were a little different. He said he was going to look at a broader range. I guess broad was a good word for it as it took in several more things than the ones before. I had a great ride down in fiftyish degree weather and actually felt pretty OK when I got there. Almost led me to believe a real soft tail might be the answer...almost.

More blood and so forth drawn and the usual "I'll call you."

I spent the night with my mom and had a good ride back up, even with killer cross winds. I have decided that a striped down gold wing is a ride to have. No bags no faring just bike.

On 4/5/10 the doc called saying he may have found the problem. (finally) I was all set to hear that the vertebrae had finally fused itself together. Instead he basically said that what the tests showed and the symptoms I had it was a good shot that I had Chronic Leukemia. He also said he was setting me up with an internal medicine specialist and an oncologist. Ya know, that wasn't really what I was expecting to hear. I mean the warm part of the riding season is just getting started. I have miles to put on! I made him repeat it all, twice. He did say that that was the worst case. That other things had the same symptoms and were indicated in the same way by the tests and not to go and do anything stupid till everything had been looked over. Since he's a real straight shooting kind of a doctor and my entire families doctor, I tend to believe him as he has always been extremely thorough in the past.

So as Mr. Harvey says..."Now you know the rest of the story".

4/20/10 is my appointments with the large gun type doctors and I'm planning on a ride down. Get a look at how the wind is going to blow in this thing and then hopefully a ride back?

Hope you all have a great riding season and that God rides with you. Maybe I'll catch ya on the road?