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"content": "<h2>A new goal</h2><p>This afternoon I went on a walk all by my self.</p><p>What I really wanted to do was ride my bicycle and get closer to 2,000 miles for the year, but several recent days of chemo in the hospital and still more chemo at home now have slowed me to a stroll down to the lake. Still, the walk in fresh, winter-chilled air was an OK restart.</p><p>Depending on the weather, the meds, the numerous blood tests and yet another bone marrow biopsy in a couple of weeks, maybe I’ll still get close to those extra miles.</p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img data-attachment-id=\"7681\" data-permalink=\"https://smithcompound.blog/2024/11/25/a-new-goal/image_editor_output_image-953949763-17325879139153710574323959020777/\" data-orig-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image-953949763-17325879139153710574323959020777.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1254,1671\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"1.9","credit":"","camera":"SM-A205U1","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1732544404","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.6","iso":"40","shutter_speed":"0.0015","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"0","longitude":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"image_editor_output_image-953949763-17325879139153710574323959020777\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image-953949763-17325879139153710574323959020777.jpg?w=225\" data-large-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image-953949763-17325879139153710574323959020777.jpg?w=768\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"225\" height=\"299\" src=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image-953949763-17325879139153710574323959020777.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7681\" /><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">View from a walk. </figcaption></figure></div><p>It wasn’t even a goal until I found myself reaching 1,755 a couple of weeks ago, just before I learned the leukemia was back. I’ve already nearly doubled my total mileage for 2023.</p><p>I certainly won’t get to 2,000 without walking more until I’m strong enough to ride again, then getting out there and pedaling like my life depends on it, right?</p><p>Right.</p><p>Pedal on, my friends.</p><p>B.J.</p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" /><p>Related posts are tagged <a href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/aml/?order=asc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AML</a> if you’re interested.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/aml/\">#AML</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/cancer/\">#cancer</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/cycling/\">#Cycling</a></p>",
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"content": "<h2>No vaccines? Don’t come around here</h2><p>Imagine you wake up one day from nearly dead to find your immune system has been wiped out by chemotherapy and you need to start over again with all the vaccines you’ve had since you were born.</p><p>You read about increasing numbers of children now getting diseases that could have been avoided if only their parents had had those children vaccinated as you were decades ago.</p><p>Not only are those children now in serious danger, they and their irresponsible parents are now threats to your own health and your very survival.</p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-attachment-id=\"7674\" data-permalink=\"https://smithcompound.blog/2024/11/24/no-vaccines-dont-come-around-here/injection-7773033_1280778066264242600909/\" data-orig-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/injection-7773033_1280778066264242600909.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"847,847\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"0","longitude":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"injection-7773033_1280778066264242600909\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/injection-7773033_1280778066264242600909.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/injection-7773033_1280778066264242600909.jpg?w=847\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"847\" height=\"847\" src=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/injection-7773033_1280778066264242600909.jpg?w=847\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7674\" /><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image by <a href=\"https://pixabay.com/users/joko_narimo-3032599/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=7773033\">Joko Narimo</a> from <a href=\"https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=7773033\">Pixabay</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Not to be overly dramatic, but that’s exactly where I am now, along with countless other people whose immune systems are compromised.</p><p>You’ve either made good decisions or you’ve listened to the wrong people, the anti-vaxxers who have brought us to this dangerous point in history.</p><p>If you’ve made good decisions, thank you. If you haven’t, stay the hell away from me and my loved ones.</p><p>Seriously, </p><p>B.J.</p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" /><p>Related posts are tagged <a href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/aml/?order=asc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AML</a> if you’re interested.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/aml/\">#AML</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/cancer/\">#cancer</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/vaccines/\">#vaccines</a></p>",
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"content": "<h2>Grow up, be men</h2><p>To men, straight white guys mostly since you’re the ones l know best: Way too many of you continue to be what are commonly known as assholes.</p><p>I met some of you when I was in elementary school, high school, college, and some when I served in the US Navy and Navy Reserve. Eventually, I grew up. Some others did, too </p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-attachment-id=\"7666\" data-permalink=\"https://smithcompound.blog/2024/11/11/grow-up-be-men/image_editor_output_image-807021689-17312746589168403859367017344631/\" data-orig-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image-807021689-17312746589168403859367017344631.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1440,959\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"0","longitude":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"image_editor_output_image-807021689-17312746589168403859367017344631\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image-807021689-17312746589168403859367017344631.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image-807021689-17312746589168403859367017344631.jpg?w=1024\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image-807021689-17312746589168403859367017344631.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7666\" /></figure><p>Apparently, though, lots of you have never grown into actual manhood. That’s when you have learned to respect women and treat them accordingly. You no longer use words that demean other people who aren’t just like you. </p><p>If you’re whining now about being canceled or ignored, just stop. You deserve it.</p><p>Nobody is perfect. But if you voted to put woman-hating traitor Trump back in the White House when he should be in prison, you deserve all the scorn and loneliness coming your way.</p><p>Grow up. Man up. Maybe someone will respect you before you die. The clock is ticking.</p><p>If you’re a veteran who voted for Trump, you are already dead to me.</p><p>B.J.</p><p><em>I won’t pretend to understand why women voted for Trump. Someone will have to explain that to me.</em></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/constitution/\">#constitution</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/treason/\">#treason</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/trump/\">#Trump</a></p>",
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"content": "<h2>Still here a year later</h2><p>A year ago I received a stem-cell transplant to ward off the return of acute myeloid leukemia. I just left my one-year followup at UCHealth in Aurora, Colorado.</p><p>Not the results I expected, but we’re coming up with a new plan. No details yet, but soon. </p><p>My cancer diagnosis came a few months after I retired in 2023, I started writing online about my experience as a way of coping with the situation and keeping family and friends informed. Early in 2024, I pulled those words, thoughts and impressions together and published an ebook and paperback for anyone who might be able to learn from them.</p><p>My ebook – “That time I had cancer…” – is free from today through November 11 (and almost free beyond that). You can find it on <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00XTC54FW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my Amazon author page</a>.</p><p>The same content and more is <em>always free</em> at The Smith Compound. Each relevant post is tagged <em>AML</em>, as is this one.</p><p>The story continues, my friends, and we carry on.</p><p>B.J.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/aml/\">#AML</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/cancer/\">#cancer</a></p>",
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"content": "<h2>Red Dog was worried</h2><p>As we do on occasion, Red Dog and I went for a little trek along a nearby trail, across the Colorado River and up the bluff to C ½ Road. There and back is roughly three miles on foot, or on paws in Red’s case.</p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img data-attachment-id=\"7655\" data-permalink=\"https://smithcompound.blog/2024/11/04/red-dog-was-worried/image_editor_output_image1016347056-17306834215843333662251429889066/\" data-orig-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image1016347056-17306834215843333662251429889066.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"832,706\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"0","longitude":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"image_editor_output_image1016347056-17306834215843333662251429889066\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image1016347056-17306834215843333662251429889066.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image1016347056-17306834215843333662251429889066.jpg?w=832\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"832\" height=\"706\" src=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_editor_output_image1016347056-17306834215843333662251429889066.jpg?w=832\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7655\" /></figure></div><p>It happened to be a couple of days before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Red had been pretty quiet lately, except when someone was seconds late getting him his breakfast or dinner. That happens a lot when we’ve just fallen back to normal time. (That confuses me, too, but I don’t bark at anybody. Not about food, anyway.)</p><p>So we were walking along the trail and had just made a right onto the pedestrian bridge over the river when he stopped. Usually he takes just a second or two to relieve himself and we move on, but he just sat there.</p><p>“What’s up, Red?” I asked. “You afraid of the bridge now?”</p><p>He gave me the look he always gives me when something’s wrong. “I’m not afraid of anything,” he said.</p><p>“Except cats, you mean.”</p><p>“Maybe one cat,” he said with a scowl. “But I’m more afraid of humans now. Do some of you really eat dogs? And cats?”</p><p>I crouched down in front of him and looked him in the eye. “No way, Red. No way. Why would you ask that? You haven’t been paying attention to the TV, have you?”</p><p>“No, it’s too depressing.”</p><p>“Then what’s this about?”</p><p>“Butch heard that people do that.”</p><p>Butch is a neighbor’s dog. The guy is one of those neighbors who flies a flag all the time and has some nasty signs in his yard. I scratched Red’s back and patted his head.</p><p>“Red, I’m so sorry you heard that,” I said. “Butch must have picked that up at home. It isn’t true. Someone has been telling lies about that, and some people believe their lies.”</p><p>“Who would lie about something like that?” he asked.</p><p>I was stumped. Red is obviously a smart dog, but how would I explain this to him? He shouldn’t need to know about the worst in people. I don’t want him to know. It’s bad enough that <em>we</em> know how awful some people can be.</p><p>“Nobody we know would lie like that,” I said. “The ones who repeat that crap probably watch too much TV and believe whatever makes them feel like they’re better than other people.”</p><p>I stood and said we should get on up the hill, tap the sign at the top, then head back home. We were halfway across the bridge when he stopped again.</p><p>“What now, Red?” I asked.</p><p>He looked me in the eye. “Do you watch too much TV?”</p><p>“Probably, Red,” I admitted. “It’s been depressing.”</p><p>B.J.</p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/democracy/\">#democracy</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/politics/\">#Politics</a></p>",
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"content": "<h2>Dry Creek ain’t dry</h2><p>Hanging out with Red Dog and Peter, the cat, in an otherwise empty apartment for a few days is about as exciting as it sounds.</p><p>I’d like to thank our awesome daughter for suggesting that I bring my bicycle along so I could get some riding in while she and Mrs. Smith jetted off to do yoga stuff in Mexico, a well-deserved break for both of them.</p><p>Did I bring my bike? Of course. The so-called Big Dry Creek Trail is less than a mile from where I now sit in Westminster, Colorado, writing about my little morning adventure.</p><p>I’d walked along part of the trail months ago on an extended visit without a bike, so I already knew the name is a little misleading. The creek is not dry at all. (See photos.) I’m not sure how it qualifies as big, so will not pick that nit.</p><p>I’d never ridden my bike on the trail, so I gave it a try, setting out in one direction. I went about five miles before getting the first flat I’ve had in at least a couple of years.</p><p>Clearly, I’d gone in the wrong direction, so I backtracked after replacing the tube.</p><p>The trail is quite scenic in both directions, with a few easy hills and lots of curves. And who doesn’t like hills and curves, right?</p><p>It’s pretty well marked so you don’t have to guess what to do at the many intersecting trails and occasional shortcuts to neighborhood streets and little parks and points of interest.</p><p>Several miles after the flat, going in the right direction, I found myself on the south end of Thornton and figured that was far enough. 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I went about five miles before getting the first flat I’ve had in at least a couple of years.</p><p>Clearly, I’d gone in the wrong direction, so I backtracked after replacing the tube.</p><p>The trail is quite scenic in both directions, with a few easy hills and lots of curves. And who doesn’t like hills and curves, right?</p><p>It’s pretty well marked so you don’t have to guess what to do at the many intersecting trails and occasional shortcuts to neighborhood streets and little parks and points of interest.</p><p>Several miles after the flat, going in the right direction, I found myself on the south end of Thornton and figured that was far enough. 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"content": "<h2>Sad days in journalism</h2><p>In the past few days, two major newspapers failed their readers and the rest of us in the face of threats to the constitution.</p><p>Shame on both the L.A. Times and the Washington Post, or more specifically on their mega-rich owners, who made the decisions to not endorse any presidential candidate.</p><p>Some members of their editorial boards promptly resigned in protest.</p><p>The actions by the owners — Patrick Soon-Shiong at the L.A. Times and Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post — both failed to stand up for the First Amendment and pretty much everything else that matters to protecting our freedom.</p><p>Whether this was cowardice or greed or distaste for democracy doesn’t really matter at this point. Both have committed journalistic malpractice.</p><p>The New York Times endorsed Harris weeks ago. <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024.html?smid=nytcore-android-share\">Read it here</a>. No punches pulled.</p><p>B.J., former journalist hoping the press remains free</p></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/crime/\">#Crime</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/journalism/\">#Journalism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/politics/\">#Politics</a></p>",
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"content": "<h2>A crash survivor’s perspective</h2><p>Terry Chase experienced some exhilarating times as a young athlete who enjoyed hiking, skiing, climbing and bicycling in the mountains. She was a middle school physical education teacher in Grand Junction.</p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pxl_20210810_154427007.mp-cropped.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"7625\" data-permalink=\"https://smithcompound.blog/2024/10/13/a-crash-survivors-perspective/pxl_20210810_154427007-mp-cropped/\" data-orig-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pxl_20210810_154427007.mp-cropped.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3282,2517\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Pixel 3a","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1628588667","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"52","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"PXL_20210810_154427007.MP-cropped\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pxl_20210810_154427007.mp-cropped.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pxl_20210810_154427007.mp-cropped.jpg?w=1024\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"785\" src=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pxl_20210810_154427007.mp-cropped.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7625\" style=\"width:345px;height:auto\" /></a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Terry Chase with her dogs, Shamly and Bucky. (Photo courtesy of Terry Chase.)</figcaption></figure></div><p>Everything changed one day in 1988. As she rode her bicycle on a bridge over the Colorado River, a black Lincoln Continental slammed into her. She landed on the hood of the car before crashing to the pavement with her crumpled bike. The car sped off, leaving her with a traumatic spinal cord injury at the age of 32.</p><p>Following extensive, challenging rehab and adjusting to her new life with a wheelchair, Terry returned to teaching five months later. After a couple of years she decided to change careers to become a nurse and earned a doctorate in nursing from the University of Colorado. Eventually she started working at Craig Hospital in Englewood, where she had been a patient just eight years before.</p><p>In 2014, Terry returned to Grand Junction to assume a faculty position in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Colorado Mesa University and then retired in 2023. Terry says her mission now is to help educators, healthcare providers and humans service workers to develop resilience and improve their well-being through her speaking and coaching work. To this day, she remains active and enjoys the outdoors, now on her e-assisted mountain bike and her handcycle road bike.</p><p>I asked Terry about her experience getting around now as someone familiar with more modes of travel than most of us.</p><p><strong>Q:</strong> What do you think people need to know about getting around safely in the Grand Valley when using a wheelchair?</p><p><strong>A: </strong>Although there have been many improvements over the years, there are still gaps in sidewalks, and a lack of accessibility or difficult wheelchair access in some places. I do not travel by wheelchair very far or often on sidewalks. There are curb cuts on most in downtown Grand Junction and along North Avenue. I am very grateful to see the improvements in accessibility all over the city, especially at CMU, since I returned to Grand Junction in 2014.</p><p>There can be some large cracks that might pose a problem. Crossing some streets, the crosswalk button is out of reach, so that would be a safety issue.</p><p><strong>Q:</strong> Are there any unique challenges you’ve encountered that are specific to the type of bicycle you use now?</p><p><strong>A: </strong>Crossing intersections with the crosswalk button out of reach is a problem. Handcycles are wider so need to be able to go between poles and gates. Sharp turns going up/down the pedestrian bridges pose a problem, too.</p><p>Many cyclists do not give a verbal shout out when passing. I can’t turn around as easily as others so it can be frightening when being passed by someone going fast and with no warning.</p><p><strong>Q:</strong> As someone who drives a car and/or truck, what improvements to our streets and roads do you think should be priorities?</p><p><strong>A: </strong>Speed (too fast) can be a problem in Grand Junction, especially when I am riding my bike up Monument Road, which has a narrow shoulder for a bike lane.</p><p>I know street crews are keeping up as best they can with pothole repairs. I don’t see any other issue I can address, but streets with bike lanes really don’t connect all that well around the city.</p><p><strong>Q:</strong> What other types of transportation do you use, and what do you find convenient or not so convenient about them?</p><p><strong>A: </strong>I don’t take the bus. It’s not in my area or useful to me now. I have used public transportation in other cities when it is convenient, and the wheelchair ramps are working. I do use the Grand Junction Airport frequently for flights for personal and business trips. Very convenient.</p><p><strong>Q:</strong> What’s the significance of the title of your book, “Spoke by Spoke”?</p><p><strong>A: </strong>I love my bikes. The spokes are important elements of both bicycle and wheelchair wheels. “Spoke by Spoke” is a collection of important stories of my life.<ins></ins></p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" /><p><em>For information about her many honors and achievements, her speaking and consulting services, and her award-winning book, “Spoke by Spoke: How a Broken Back and a Broken Bike Led to a WholeHearted Life,” visit </em><a href=\"https://drterrychase.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Terry’s website</em></a><em>.</em><a id=\"_msocom_1\"></a></p></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/cycling/\">#Cycling</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/transportation/\">#Transportation</a></p>",
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(Photo courtesy of Terry Chase.)</figcaption></figure></div><p>Everything changed one day in 1988. As she rode her bicycle on a bridge over the Colorado River, a black Lincoln Continental slammed into her. She landed on the hood of the car before crashing to the pavement with her crumpled bike. The car sped off, leaving her with a traumatic spinal cord injury at the age of 32.</p><p>Following extensive, challenging rehab and adjusting to her new life with a wheelchair, Terry returned to teaching five months later. After a couple of years she decided to change careers to become a nurse and earned a doctorate in nursing from the University of Colorado. Eventually she started working at Craig Hospital in Englewood, where she had been a patient just eight years before.</p><p>In 2014, Terry returned to Grand Junction to assume a faculty position in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Colorado Mesa University and then retired in 2023. Terry says her mission now is to help educators, healthcare providers and humans service workers to develop resilience and improve their well-being through her speaking and coaching work. To this day, she remains active and enjoys the outdoors, now on her e-assisted mountain bike and her handcycle road bike.</p><p>I asked Terry about her experience getting around now as someone familiar with more modes of travel than most of us.</p><p><strong>Q:</strong> What do you think people need to know about getting around safely in the Grand Valley when using a wheelchair?</p><p><strong>A: </strong>Although there have been many improvements over the years, there are still gaps in sidewalks, and a lack of accessibility or difficult wheelchair access in some places. I do not travel by wheelchair very far or often on sidewalks. There are curb cuts on most in downtown Grand Junction and along North Avenue. I am very grateful to see the improvements in accessibility all over the city, especially at CMU, since I returned to Grand Junction in 2014.</p><p>There can be some large cracks that might pose a problem. Crossing some streets, the crosswalk button is out of reach, so that would be a safety issue.</p><p><strong>Q:</strong> Are there any unique challenges you’ve encountered that are specific to the type of bicycle you use now?</p><p><strong>A: </strong>Crossing intersections with the crosswalk button out of reach is a problem. Handcycles are wider so need to be able to go between poles and gates. Sharp turns going up/down the pedestrian bridges pose a problem, too.</p><p>Many cyclists do not give a verbal shout out when passing. 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"content": "<h2>A lost friend</h2><pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">We hiked and drank and soaked<br>in hot springs and dined all together<br>on a shared adventure with our loved ones<br>to celebrate our remissions and good fortune.<br><br>Hoping we could travel as four again <br>and again and more beyond that, <br>we met and talked as life allowed<br>but never enough, never close to enough.<br><br>Three of us remain, left with memories<br>of Becky and of precious times <br>that will stay with us always.</pre><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/img_0602-cr2.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"7617\" data-permalink=\"https://smithcompound.blog/2024/10/08/a-lost-friend/img_0602-cr2/\" data-orig-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/img_0602-cr2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1686,2510\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Canon EOS Rebel T7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1713480837","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0602-cr2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/img_0602-cr2.jpg?w=202\" data-large-file=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/img_0602-cr2.jpg?w=688\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"688\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/img_0602-cr2.jpg?w=688\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7617\" style=\"width:322px;height:auto\" /></a></figure></div><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/cancer/\">#cancer</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/poetry/\">#Poetry</a></p>",
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