In a way, you could say that riding a bike has saved my life twice.
If I hadn’t fallen off of one in 2014, I might never have learned that I had cancer. And if I hadn’t started the Arizona Trail 300 two years later, I might never have discovered riding’s ability to take my mind off the disease.
My story begins
I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma at age 36. I’d been cruising around my Corpus Christi neighborhood...
About 18 months ago, I was diagnosed with Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm (BPDCN), a rare and aggressive type of leukemia.
In the summer of 2014, my family and I were on vacation in Italy. Each morning for almost two weeks, I woke up with a terrible headache. They...
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