Photos from Saturday July 10 Hills Hills and More Hills

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Photos from Saturday July 10 Hills Hills and More Hills

The were numerous daunting hills and some very scenics views as well, and some old covered bridges.

After these mamoth hill we get to the top only to find it goes higher yet.

This is some of us took a little post race dip or squat. It was a shallow fast moving, and COLD, river.

This is a different set of hills than the previous shot, and most unfortunately they all came after the halfway point.

I was not hit with a $5 fine even though I broke the speed limit - hopefully.

Quote of the day: " Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty." - John Ruskin

1 comment:

UnknownJuly 19, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Ok, seeing these photos make me CRINGE! LOL - Ufta, you really are doing amazing and I'm in awe. I love the scenic nature photos. Did you carry a camera with you? I'm new to this blogging but how do you get text on the right, do you use a different template?
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Most of it contained in the blog somewhere but I will summarize here: I started to notice symptoms during my freshman year of college. They were subtle little hints like I was more difficult to chew and had some twitching in my face. And when I got nervous my voice would become very tight and strained, this was true from middle school but was getting worse. By the end of my sophomore year I knew something was physically wrong, it was nothing mental. I was luckily diagnosed very quickly compared with most dystonia patients around 1990. I quickly sought treatment, and quickly ran throuh the numerous meds I had tried, Botox was used but I became immune, surgery was done in 1995 which helped my pain greatly but didn't do anything for the voice. In 1999 I went to NYC, to a doctor I considered the finest mind in the dystonia field at the time, and he suggested an experimental study they were doing called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). This was the first I had heard about DBS, I went back to my aunts house in NJ and thought about it for a few days and decided against it at the time. I still think it was the correct decision but I also made a wrong decision out of desperation during that visit. Instead of waiting for them to improve the DBS technology I opted for a palidotomy, which permently alters the brain. The surgery left my speech garbled instead of breathy when I went in. I was now following the progress of DBS and checked it out in Chicago in 2001, decided to hold off a litle longer. In 2004 I went back to Chicago and opted for the surgery at this time, fully aware the affects on the voice were really an X factor, but likely no change. I had the surgery done but the DBS had yet to be turned on, that came a month later. So I laughed when people said I looked better during the first month! After a month passed and my body adjusted to the new hardware I had installed it was turned on and the facial spasms started going away with each fine tuning that came once a month. I love to talk to dystonia patients (the nicest people on the planet, not quite sure why that is - maybe it is the empathy that comes with realizing you have to live with dystonia.) Feel free to email me at Brianst@sbcglobal.net.

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Sunday, July 12, 2009