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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\" srcset=\"https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pxl_20210810_154427007.mp-cropped.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pxl_20210810_154427007.mp-cropped.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pxl_20210810_154427007.mp-cropped.jpg?w=150 150w, https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pxl_20210810_154427007.mp-cropped.jpg?w=300 300w, https://smithcompound.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pxl_20210810_154427007.mp-cropped.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /></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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