MILE$ FOR MONEY

We are home after a lovely wedding for my daughter! Scott is keeping up his biking legs while also resting to ease the deep, pervasive fatigue from 2900 miles in. Mind you, he rarely complains but we know the fatigue is there!  We are excited for an event Tanner Motors is sponsoring on  this Saturday September 30, 2023 in Brainerd, a 10:00 am bike ride from Tanner Motors to the Paul Bunyan trail and back, and a community celebration at 11:00 with food, t-shirts, and many great prizes. Grand Prize is a dog sledding adventure from Points Unknown! If you are in Minnesota, I hope you can join us at this terrific event. Next week we head to Rochester for the Mayo tests and treatment. We are trying to keep the upcoming appointments out of the forethought of our brains, but it seeps in. Scott has been through surgery, radiation, chemo and is still on Lupron hormone therapy. He is scheduled for his next injection at Mayo (assuming nothing different comes forward on the blood tests o...

 Scott is 2900 miles, 17th state, into this 11,000-mile cycle trip of the perimeter states.  We started on June 26 th in NW Minnesota. We just stopped in Virginia Beach, VA: Scott has cycled through the Northern tier to Bar Harbor Maine, then down the East Coast. He has cycled through mountains, horrible weather with both heat advisories, air quality advisories, heavy wind, and torrential rain. He has run into dead ends, bad washed-out trails,  ( where he carried his bike,) poor routes, heavy traffic, and limited narrow shoulders. But he persists and he determinedly goes forward day after day, week after week, to make his dreams come true. He wants to honor the life he has been given, and Benny's while making this life long dream come true. Scott is stage 4 prostate cancer. When the cancer metastasized to his bones (and multiple lymph nodes), a cure was no longer possible. (Scott’s reminder: early detection saves lives! Get your PSA checked men- Scott will be getting h...

  Scott is almost 2700 miles into this 11,000-mile cycle trip! Today he is biking fron just outside of Washington DC to Fredericksburg VA, which will be his 17th state.   Scott is doing fantastic! His mental, emotional, and physical stamina is  truly extraordinary.   If you have followed Scott’s story, you know that he was 53, healthy, very active and completely uninterested in having a physical when I pestered him ( true statement) about getting a checkup.   He had zero symptoms and felt great when he was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer. The cancer was found through a simple blood test, a PSA test. It was confirmed with a biopsy.   At that time Scott did not know what a PSA test was and had not had one done before.  It was a real punch in the gut to both of us. Scott and I were married late fall of 2017.  All but the first two months of our marriage has been an ongoing cancer battle. When it is not directly in our forethought ...