Comments on: Guest Post: Why I Started Riding, by Teagen A http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/ It's like reality TV. Except it's real. And there's no TV. Fri, 04 Mar 2022 03:21:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jennifer Callahan http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/comment-page-1/#comment-560276 Jennifer Callahan Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:58:29 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/#comment-560276 Teagen, you are an awesome inspiration. I heard the brief version of you illness, but you really put it in living color here with "the rest of the story"! So thrilled that your mom gave me the link to read about you. You are amazing! God Bless you! Teagen, you are an awesome inspiration. I heard the brief version of you illness, but you really put it in living color here with “the rest of the story”! So thrilled that your mom gave me the link to read about you. You are amazing! God Bless you!

]]> By: Teagen A http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/comment-page-1/#comment-559550 Teagen A Mon, 28 May 2012 15:12:36 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/#comment-559550 Thanks everyone for the nice comments! Gags - I'm so sorry to hear that your wife and family are having to deal with a PE. I think, as with most weird medical things, that everyone's experience is different. I did not ever cough up blood. Also, I had no risk factors (no contraceptives, no long flights/car trips, no smoking, etc.). Also, yes Warfarin is rat poison (this is the same drug that I'm on), but it's not nearly as scary as it sounds unless you are accidentally decapitated or get hit by a car or something, though it did take my body a little bit of time to adjust. When I was first trying to figure everything out the following website was a really good resource!! I hope your wife has a fast and thorough recovery! http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Pulmonary-Embolism/support-group Thanks everyone for the nice comments!
Gags – I’m so sorry to hear that your wife and family are having to deal with a PE. I think, as with most weird medical things, that everyone’s experience is different. I did not ever cough up blood. Also, I had no risk factors (no contraceptives, no long flights/car trips, no smoking, etc.). Also, yes Warfarin is rat poison (this is the same drug that I’m on), but it’s not nearly as scary as it sounds unless you are accidentally decapitated or get hit by a car or something, though it did take my body a little bit of time to adjust. When I was first trying to figure everything out the following website was a really good resource!! I hope your wife has a fast and thorough recovery!

http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Pulmonary-Embolism/support-group

]]> By: Gags http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/comment-page-1/#comment-559541 Gags Mon, 28 May 2012 13:49:45 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/#comment-559541 Great story and great determination. My wife is currently recovering from a Pulmonary Embolism - ambulance to hospital 2 weeks ago (initially with pneumonia) but then when she didn't respond to antibiotics they did some more scans and found a clot on her lungs. She is on Warfarin (rat poison) for the next 6 months or so and is currently still coughing up blood. She had not flown or had extensive bed rest (apparently these can cause DVT) and the only thing that the doctors can put it down to is that my wife started oestrogen contraceptive tablets about 6 weeks ago (she had not taken them for 14 years or so but decided to get back on them in preparation for a 9 day family ride in November to avoid any issues during the ride). The doctors said that oestrogen-based contraceptives can cause clots in rare cases and this was the only cause that they could think of. Interested to hear if you were also taking oestrogen?? I hope your recovery is still progressing well - out of interest, how long were you coughing up blood for during your recovery? Cheers, Gags. Great story and great determination. My wife is currently recovering from a Pulmonary Embolism – ambulance to hospital 2 weeks ago (initially with pneumonia) but then when she didn’t respond to antibiotics they did some more scans and found a clot on her lungs. She is on Warfarin (rat poison) for the next 6 months or so and is currently still coughing up blood. She had not flown or had extensive bed rest (apparently these can cause DVT) and the only thing that the doctors can put it down to is that my wife started oestrogen contraceptive tablets about 6 weeks ago (she had not taken them for 14 years or so but decided to get back on them in preparation for a 9 day family ride in November to avoid any issues during the ride). The doctors said that oestrogen-based contraceptives can cause clots in rare cases and this was the only cause that they could think of. Interested to hear if you were also taking oestrogen??

I hope your recovery is still progressing well – out of interest, how long were you coughing up blood for during your recovery? Cheers, Gags.

]]> By: cece http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/comment-page-1/#comment-559478 cece Sun, 27 May 2012 19:08:33 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/#comment-559478 Thanks for sharing your story of recovery and hope! Thanks for sharing your story of recovery and hope!

]]> By: AKChick55 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/comment-page-1/#comment-559294 AKChick55 Sat, 26 May 2012 02:55:04 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/#comment-559294 I love this post! Sure makes one stop and think. Sure makes you realize what is important in life. Sure makes you stop sweating the small stuff, at least for awhile. And it sure makes me realize I have NOTHING to whine or complain about. Thank you Teagan! I love this post! Sure makes one stop and think. Sure makes you realize what is important in life. Sure makes you stop sweating the small stuff, at least for awhile. And it sure makes me realize I have NOTHING to whine or complain about. Thank you Teagan!

]]> By: lulea http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/comment-page-1/#comment-559269 lulea Fri, 25 May 2012 20:57:17 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/#comment-559269 Wow a scary but inspiring story well told. Thanks for sharing it as I can relate to being cut off from your source of stress relief. About 10 years ago I had some issues that resulted in severe knee pain. It made walking hard so I took up biking and slowly progressed as my body would allow. It became my stress reliever. Then 4 years ago I herniated a disc in my back and I couldn't bike for a long time. I couldn't figure out how other people got rid of stress without some physical activity. I did find non-super physical things that brought me some joy eventually and took the edge off. Took up container gardening and volunteered for events I liked. It was hard when I did start biking again to not keep up with others and now be the one panting up the hill instead of the one waiting at the top. It did teach me that all that doesn't matter and I need to do what my body needs. This year I was feeling good and wanted to increase my biking again. Now I am sidelined again with no activity at all allowed. I am so frustrated and back in the what do I do now to get out pent up energy. I will eventually figure it out but each time it is a process. Wow a scary but inspiring story well told. Thanks for sharing it as I can relate to being cut off from your source of stress relief. About 10 years ago I had some issues that resulted in severe knee pain. It made walking hard so I took up biking and slowly progressed as my body would allow. It became my stress reliever. Then 4 years ago I herniated a disc in my back and I couldn’t bike for a long time. I couldn’t figure out how other people got rid of stress without some physical activity. I did find non-super physical things that brought me some joy eventually and took the edge off. Took up container gardening and volunteered for events I liked. It was hard when I did start biking again to not keep up with others and now be the one panting up the hill instead of the one waiting at the top. It did teach me that all that doesn’t matter and I need to do what my body needs. This year I was feeling good and wanted to increase my biking again. Now I am sidelined again with no activity at all allowed. I am so frustrated and back in the what do I do now to get out pent up energy. I will eventually figure it out but each time it is a process.

]]> By: Turn The Damn Cranks http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/comment-page-1/#comment-559248 Turn The Damn Cranks Fri, 25 May 2012 18:31:04 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/#comment-559248 No free verse. Again. Tragic. But an inspiring story instead? Tragic's opposite! Thank you. No free verse.
Again.
Tragic.
But an inspiring story instead?
Tragic’s opposite!

Thank you.

]]> By: roan http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/comment-page-1/#comment-559245 roan Fri, 25 May 2012 18:01:57 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/#comment-559245 Teagen, Great story, does scare the crap out of me though. I tend to pass on going to a doctor, what's a little pain even if it hurts a lot but I'm sure nothing is broken, or so I think. A mtn bike crash did cause some hurt, co-worke5s were concerned about DVT, so off to the doctor for x-rays and echo scan. Nothing except the bills. Then a year later a bone scan for hip, knee and wrist pain...thinking arthritis. Question from doctors was "When did your break your leg ?" I've a name for one of my bikes...her name was McGill and she called herself Lil but everyone knew her as Nancy, causes an earworm when riding. Best wishes Teagen. Teagen, Great story, does scare the crap out of me though. I tend to pass on going to a doctor, what’s a little pain even if it hurts a lot but I’m sure nothing is broken, or so I think. A mtn bike crash did cause some hurt, co-worke5s were concerned about DVT, so off to the doctor for x-rays and echo scan. Nothing except the bills. Then a year later a bone scan for hip, knee and wrist pain…thinking arthritis. Question from doctors was “When did your break your leg ?”
I’ve a name for one of my bikes…her name was McGill and she called herself Lil but everyone knew her as Nancy, causes an earworm when riding.
Best wishes Teagen.

]]> By: Clydesteve http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/comment-page-1/#comment-559244 Clydesteve Fri, 25 May 2012 17:54:43 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/#comment-559244 "...But my bike had always been merely an inexpensive, but slower and wetter, way of getting somewhere..." I <i>knew</i> you must live somewhere near me when you said "and wetter"! (I live about 80 miles south.) Way to soldier on, Teagen A, I hope you are able to hit that sub-3 marathon someday - but don't give up on the biking! Why don't you come down and ride the Strawberry Century in Lebanon on June 9th? It is bar-none the best organized and one of the most beautiful organized centuries you can find anywhere. “…But my bike had always been merely an inexpensive, but slower and wetter, way of getting somewhere…”

I knew you must live somewhere near me when you said “and wetter”!

(I live about 80 miles south.)

Way to soldier on, Teagen A, I hope you are able to hit that sub-3 marathon someday – but don’t give up on the biking!

Why don’t you come down and ride the Strawberry Century in Lebanon on June 9th? It is bar-none the best organized and one of the most beautiful organized centuries you can find anywhere.

]]> By: mykill http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/comment-page-1/#comment-559235 mykill Fri, 25 May 2012 17:09:38 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/05/25/guest-post-why-i-started-riding-by-teagen-a/#comment-559235 "...my life isn’t under my control, but there are no dead ends" Love it, great story told beautifully. “…my life isn’t under my control, but there are no dead ends”

Love it, great story told beautifully.

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