Update on Riding

It is nearing the end of October and my health is not allowing me to ride at all. I thought I would be on a new adventure by now but it looks like it could be a year or more before I am healthy enough to ride again. At the moment I can not ride my bike at all. According to the doctors, I have a frozen shoulder now. They can't tell me why it suddenly froze up on me and they can't tell me how long before I heal enough to ride again. One of the doctors told me to figure on 18 months of physical therapy to get back to a normal healthy shoulder. I hope it does not take me that long or I will not survive without riding. I tried to ride yesterday and I am just flat out in too much pain to ride. I thought I could ride one handed or even no handed but every bump hurt and when I ended my short ride my pain was ridiculously higher. So no riding for some time. I will go nuts. I am doing daily therapy, I even got a steroid shot (which I am very opposed to but I got one anyway so it shows how desperate I am to get better). Since I stopped riding I have gained 32 pounds! I expected to be on a new ride by now so I intentionally was trying to gain some weight for a cushion on the ride. I typically lose almost a half pound a day when I ride so I like to start out a bit heavier. But now that I won't be riding for a long time I will have to get to a healthy weight which would be about 15 pounds less than I am right now. The best part of riding so much was that I could eat as much as I wanted and I love to eat. Now? Now I have to watch my diet until I am back to riding regularly. I will post a few updates on my plans over the next few months and about when I might be able to ride again but otherwise my blog will be mostly silent. Enjoy life while you are still able to everyone.