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Ok this will be kinda short i am having some issues with my hand lol nothing to worry about just making typing tough. Iwill how ever work on something that i am putting together from my event. I would like to say that beacause off all your help and all the donations that not only did I reach my final goal in donations.... but... well I finished the full 200 miles.
I will not say that i did not almost quit a few times... but I will say that in the end i finished another 100 today...
this has been the hardest thing i have ever put my body through but i did have a humbling thought tonight as i was makking something to eat... I was havving trouble opening something because of how my hands are. And it made me think of Syds blog... when she would get a treatment and come home with the shakes and she could not grip things really well. How this was something she had to deal with from time to time. And well it made me feel that much better about what i did because just sitting there and the frusteration i felt trying to cook something simple and not being able to grip it, and yet the people who have this affliction sometimes loose muscle control permanantly. Its humbling.
I have met alot of great people who make me look like a guy on a normal weekend bike ride. I met a man who was riding a tandome bike with his wife... his wife has MS and he did the event all up and down to coast. A man out there working the rest stops and helping to serve out food in the evening... he had MS and I am thinking to myself why are you here? We are doing this for you... I felt almost uncomfortable having him there helping... having him serve me food. I mean I should be makking him dinner... that is why I am there. Then this man actually spoke at a presentation. And he said that it was his pleasure to be out here. That MS group has helped him with equipment, an med care and so many other things that hh felt obligaited to come help and serve that people that made his life better. That touched me so deep I can not even exaplain it. I wont lie my eye watered a little but it was cause the lights were bright just so you know. But people like this, it just made everything I was doing right... not that it was not before... but even more so.
So I will get off of here for now, i need to rest and I haope to give you guys a full blog about all my adventures later... i mean how could i not tell you about the aligators in the portspoties.... hahaha but that will have to wait untill later.
good night.....
Smile... when you start to doubt your self and what your doing... remember that other people believe in you.
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Posted by DouglasMB on 2009-09-13 22:27:16 | Rating: | Views: 134
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