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Phillip Wood
USA
52 Posts |
 Posted - 06/02/2010 : 23:23:47
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Bacteria identified it's ecoli
but no big deal see the ecoli didn't know how many friends I have for support!
Love you all and thankyou!!!! |
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robike
USA
22 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2010 : 22:42:11
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What a posting, I have not been on for a while and read the entire posting and wish you the best of luck beating the leukemia. Hopefully, you have ridden your bike by now, but if not, don't ever give up, it is your destiny. All of the Michigan wheelmen are rooting for you and praying also. It is an insperational story.
Randy |
Randy Oleynik |
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Phillip Wood
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - 06/13/2010 : 07:37:51
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Bless you!
Yes it's been a long road. No haven't ridden yet!
Today if I feel strong enough!
But'
I have dreamed of ridding her during thru some bad times!
So today's the day I hope.
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Fergie
USA
33 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2010 : 13:40:42
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How is everything going Phil? Haven't heard from you in a while, and I'm hoping it is because you are so busy doing good stuff.
Hope you are well. Sending good thoughts your way.
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Highwheeling in NYC |
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Phillip Wood
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2010 : 00:35:49
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A month fighting ecoli!plus round a of chemo, out of hospital to go thru the bad part of chemo as my blood numbers drop
then wait for my body to start rebuilding cells to build up good blood! Then start round b of chemo!
6 rounds left then I hit maintinace level of chemo only once a month for two yeArs of that! No remission with my type of luekemia ! Just a lifetime of fighting!
Hopefully
making five years is about all! But you take what hand your delt!!
I haven't tried to even ride bike yet!!!
I just need more strength!
So I polish her And dream of that first ride!
So I don't know if I can ride her!!
Haven't ridden a Highwheel bike since I was 13 for only a few hours! But once it's I'm my blood I know I can again.
My dream is to just ride if possible in maceys parade!!!
That's all I want to aim for!!!!
That keeps dieing out of my mind, keeps the unreal pain in perspective!
And to see my kids since I haven't seen any of them since October of last year
trying to rAise 221 to fly my youngest Herr
but can't work! Don't know what charity to even ask for help?
But my fAith tells me it will happen,
my kids don't grasp the fact I will die of this one day!
How do you explain ? To your kids that?
Why?
Maybe my desire just to hold them one more time and tell them daddys love is always there!!!
So I dream and fight '
text her everyday
so she knows I'm still Daddy
I live with my girlfriend and her autistic son
he shows me god is real by him being himself
I thought I was put in my girlfriends life to show her son some men don't run away and to me I'd be proud to try to be something of a father to him!
But after luekemia hit me it's opposite
he has been there for me!!
Pure love is what he gives me!
Strength ;simple life! Laughter in simple things!
So I could die tomorrow and ask for nothing!
But I still have a few dreams to live out!!!
Then there's the love people like you which I don't deserve but gladly accept!
See before feb 9th 2010 I wasn't sure god wasn't anything more than a guy in a book!
But with what's happened since!!
He is in my life! In so many people!
I am blessed! Luekemia was the best thing to ever happen to me!
I see the wonderful things in people I never saw in my life before!
That insite has brightened who I am!!
I have no regrets! I don't any longer ask why me? Or how did I get this!!!
I just know I'm more now than I ever was before!
So the only thing I want to know is how do I express my thankyou to everyone????
But thankyou from my heart!!!
Godbless us all
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Joseph Martin
USA
108 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2010 : 10:14:22
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Phil! You are a living example of God's love. God's ways are not man's ways, we will never know why you are being tested. You are showing all of us the 'good fight' and you keep it going from day to tiring/exhausting day, making our own concerns seem so trivial!
I'd like to see your wheel set up in a "stationary" rig so you could at least sit on and pedal it. I don't know how to accomplish this without the help of someone who lives near you. I'll keep pondering and maybe I'll come up with a solution! In the mean time I'll continue asking God to give you strength.
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Phillip Wood
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2010 : 20:59:55
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Tried to ride tonite! Fell bad! Banged up knee! But I tried! Just not enough strength to lift my body up. I should have known better!
Chemo starts back on tuesday tthen for 7 days. So I'll try again when I get released!
First time I've seen my blood in six months where it was
my fault and not a doctor that made
me bleed, I'm low on platelets so trying to get knee to stop bleeding!
Anyone have some ideas?
Anyone?
I just spent the only thing I have on a bike I can't even ride?
Maybe a bad idea? But
I know I will be strong one day soon
so I just have to wait!!!!
If you have any ideas I'm listening????
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walter branche
703 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2010 : 21:42:39
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| mounting and dis-mounting are the most important steps to learn,,.. do not be in such a hurry to ride .. get the bike propped up where it is secure ,.. and sit on it , (live it),, you do not have to be in motion to appreciate the feel of your ordinary ,,. take your time ,,. always have someone spot you while you attempt your motion,,.. check out dave toppins video's of mounting the ordinary ,, good luck,, looking forward to giving you a riding lesson,,,i taught Ed Schwinn how to ride one of his highwheel bikes,.it will be on.dave toppins disc available in a few years , of cycling history and events ,,, , |
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David Toppin
USA
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Posted - 07/03/2010 : 23:35:29
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Been meaning to do better mounting and dismounting videos. You can see what I have done here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/pelletman65#p/u
I hope it doesn't take you a few years to send me stuff Walter |
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Phillip Wood
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2010 : 01:10:39
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Thank you both! I know how to mount it. I just don't have the muscle to lift my body up that high. I can hardly climb stairs so I'm sure riding yet is crazy. But I see how much I need to build up some muscle. My biggest problem after years of bmx, unicycles . Recumbents , I know I can. I've just forgotten I'm not 13 anymore !
I will get up trust me!
My knee feels better ! It's my pride that took the fall worse,
saying thankyou isn't enough!
See I'm not just riding to do it for me?
Everyone of you are with me!
You have been all along!
On nights where I ask god to show me a way thru this?
He has given me you guys!
I may have had my doubts on god and humanity before?
But your support and care has shown me what a beautiful world it is!
We will have our ride I promise you!
It's just not today,
trust me when I say
I believe in tomorrow !
Anything is possible!
I had 5 percent chance of just living till march!
I only have 6 more rounds and I'll be at maitenance level!
Screw the odds
I have a big bucket list!
Thank you again
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marcello
USA
399 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2010 : 07:25:26
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Hi Phil
If you can climb stairs you can mount the bike,though you need somebody next to you in case you need help .As soon as you mount and roll everything change and you feel in control.Watching different videos is great help.If you think you can not do it ,it might take long long time to do it, but when you think positive and try it ,even if you can not mount, you will find the problems and for the next try you have more chance to mount.
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Phillip Wood
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2010 : 02:19:49
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Dear wheelmen
I want to keep you up to date on my fight with luekemia,
had surgury today , bone marrow biopsy it's painful but now pains something like a old friend , I know it's going to hurt , it hurts and never stops, it's reliable in the fact it's gonna hurt, it's dealing with it that's hard,
but I think about the rides we will have in the future and I get thru another day,
I tell you guys how your support keeps me going ! But you have no idea,
each one of you have stories to tell, mr blanchardd in Florida has so much knowledge, marcello sent me a hat, I'm not a member yet but will send my dues in as soon as I can start working,
I worked in bicyles most of my life
I miss it everyday, anyone near Atlantic city?
If so I could use a friend. If I can do anything for any of you?
Just ask?
See I've used all of you to inspire me to fight my luekemia, and I would love to pay you all back,
I watch videos of everyone and one thing I get from it is ---
wheelmen laugh alot!
And that makes me laugh so I forget what I'm going thru,
I hope all of you the best,
you make me happy when I have little to be happy about !
Only six more rounds of chemo till I'm done, I've had 16 rounds so far,
so by end of October I'll be a new
man,
I'm not the man I used to be,
I think I'm better
I know I am.
So I'm asking you to tell me your stories?
Any bmxers out there?
Unicycles?
Tell me anything you want?
If I can ever help any of you?
Just ask
your friend phillip |
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David Toppin
USA
1403 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2010 : 08:15:57
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Phil,
Just get better and come ride with us.. |
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Fergie
USA
33 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2010 : 14:46:02
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OK, I have a good highwheel story.
A few years ago I was arriving at Grand Central Terminal in NYC with my highwheel. As I was walking through the main room, a few young guys saw me and asked if I could ride it there. I tried to explain that I had in the past but one time got a ticket for it. But they just started chanting, "Ride it".
"Ride it!"
"Ride it!"
Pretty soon, others joined in. The next thing I know, the whole place is chanting, and the huge room is echoing, "Ride it!"
"Ride it!"
"Ride it!"
I try to tell people that I could get in trouble, but it seems like a small detail. I look around and there are dozens, if not hundreds of people chanting. I didn't see any cops, so I mount up right there in the middle of GCT, and do a slow lap around that famous clock in the center, while everyone is cheering. After circling the clock, I do a no handed track-stand. My heart is racing, and I'm almost shaking - for a second I'm lost in the moment as I look down at the bicycle.
When I look up there is a NYPD officer with bullet proof vest and police German Shepard standing in front of me. He doesn't look amused. I mumble some sort of apology as I dismount, and quickly walk the bike out onto 42nd street. The noise of the crowd is replaced by the rush of traffic and street life as I begin my ride through the streets of NYC.
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Phillip Wood
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2010 : 21:13:10
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Great story!
Sorry I haven't replied , been in good old hospital, bad round of chemo, kidneys stoped working for a few days, reperator, not fun,
I went riding a few years back with friends me on my coker 36 inch unicyle, we decided to ride thru the president Carter center, soon heard sirens we all took off, well I mean they all took off I had already risen 14 miles just to get downtown to meetup with them ! So here I am going as fast as my coker will go i've
got a cop car on all three sides of me !
I'm slowing down I'm so tired, finally I get off fall to the ground I just couldn't stand up!
Then I notice they are laughing so hard they can't talk. They tell me to leave the property! I tell them to arrest me because my legs were so cramped up I couldn't walk ! So they carried me to the edge of property and even gave me a gatoraid!
My Friends were rolling on the ground laughing, I wanted to get arrested because I had another 14 miles to get home.
I can still remember how those cops in A hot chase laughed as my legs gave out !
But they were very nice. That gatoraid was a life saver!
In Atlanta after dark be aware the Carter center has very good security and any cop car is faster than any unicycle!!!
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