Wedding, Community Celebration and Mayo Visit



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 or pet scans that will call for a different course). We pray to let go of the worry and for a good report, God willing! After Mayo, it is back to the East Coast to Virginia Beach to continue the biking.

It is still prostate cancer awareness through the end of the month and donations are tripled! If you have not already, please take advantage of this extraordinary match. Thank you! https://milesformoney.org  

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