It's Official

I went to the doctor a few weeks ago and it seems that I’m falling apart and I didn’t even know it. Besides a knee thing that’s been bothering me for a month or so, I feel fine. “Nay, nay, reindeer”, says the doctor. I have really high cholesterol and my bone density is not good so now I’m on medication for both. I decided that maybe I need to get healthier so I quit smoking June 1 (I hope telling everyone doesn’t put a hex on me!) and Jim got my bike down for me last night. I think it’s been at least a year since I rode it. I even offered to give it to Angie last year when she said she needed one because she & Brian were going to start riding because he has really high cholesterol. Anyway, Jim & I went riding last night. We hadn’t even gotten up to the first cross street which is about maybe 200 yards from our driveway and I told Jim that I was already tired and I didn’t know if I could make it very far. You have to give me a break because although it isn’t a steep hill, there is a definite incline. I persisted and we rode up to the entrance of the neighborhood and back. I think we were riding for approximately 3 minutes and 55 seconds. I told Jim I’d have to work my way up to riding further. The problem is that the road coming into our neighborhood (Jacobs Station) has a huge hill and there’s no way I will ever be able to ride all the way up that. I’ll have to push my bike and then I’ll really feel old! I guess we’ll have to ride the opposite way going out of the neighborhood but it’s supposed to be private back there. Oh well, I may be old but I’m still a rebel!