Post Thyroidectomy

I HAVE A SITE DEDICATED NOW TO POSITIVE POST THYROIDECTOMY STORIES. PLEASE VISIT AT HTTP://WWW.LIFEWITHOUTATHYROID.COM!!! Wow, this has been such a busy month, I haven’t had time to update the blog. I’ve been healing from having my thyroid removed. Sorry for all my normal readers, but I wanted to post about the thyroidectomy experience and…

Review: McKenzie River Mountain Resort

Overall summary: Only go here if you want to truly know what the word ‘inhospitable’ in the Hospitality Industry truly means. The owner of this establishment was rude, defensive, and worst of all – knowingly endangered my sister and I which led to physical harm. Stay away!! I purchased the “Escape to McKenzie River Mountain…

Dead fish, vampires and a missing thyroid

So a week ago from today, I went to the hospital to get my thyroid removed. Recap: I had Papillary Thyroid Cancer. The cure? More cowbell. No wait. Remove thyroid. Little known fact since this a blog about biking – I also specialize in saltwater aquaria, with a focus on invertebrates (coral, clams, etc). So…

Happy October

Wow, October is already upon us! I had an amazing weekend mountain biking and hiking up in Oregon. I’ll have a separate post about that. Talk about an adventure, in many ways! Today I am a .. cancer patient? Tomorrow I’ll be a … cancer… survivor? Whuut? Still strange to think about. Not scared about…

Livin’ the Good Life

So for the final weekend of having a thyroid gland, I decided to be a big roller and take my sister and I on a biking/hiking/kayaking trip at the McKenzie River Trail. Check it out – Rated #1 for having the best bike trails in America!! We’ll take lots of pics – I’m super excited.…

Forget the good

This shirt goes straight to the bad and ugly, but yet there is a certain tongue in cheek (hardee har har) element to it that is non typical of the snobby cycling scene. I bring you Cycle Buttcrack jerseys. The name is exactly what the product is. It’s a shirt that makes it look like…

Product Review: Jamis Citizen

High level summary: I hate this bike So while in Massachusetts visiting my family, I rented bikes for my friend and I. I could have rented the lovely Specialized StumpJumper, a $1700+ bike, for $50 per person, or a Jamis Hybrid, a $300+ bike, for $25 per person. I made a huge mistake in getting…

The Pros of Having Cancer

So after disclosing that I have Teh Cancerz, people kept saying I could pull “the cancer card”. So while visiting my dad the other day, we had the following conversation: Me: Daaad. I have cancer. Will you buy me a new bike?? Dad: Sure. What do bikes cost these days? A few hundred dollars? Me:…

Carma-Bikah-Geddon

So this is actually old news for anyone living in Los Angeles, but I thought I’d post this for the non-Angelinos. There was recently an event in Los Angeles lovingly referred to as Carmageddon. Essentially, one of our main highways that runs North/South on the west side of Los Angeles was completely shut down, encircled…