Ricky's Hub

It has been awhile since the core team has been together. Yesterday all of us, sans Brad, Bobby, and Kenny, got together for lunch. I'm taking the easy way out today - simply letting Dug tell the story. Dug's a great story teller and has tremendous bike...

Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been very diligent in posting. Ok, I haven't been diligent at all - I haven't posted since mid-December. In December my platelets were way low and bouncing up and down like a super ball. I was trying one treatment...

Have you ever wondered what a person's arms and legs look like when they have ITP? I didn't think so. But if you want a peek, look way below. Warning, it's not pretty.
The Look of an Expert Phlebotomist...
Another afternoon at American Fork Hospital for a round of jousting, I mean, a blood check. The Phlebotomist had forgotten that Thursday is joust day and left her jousting shoes at home so it was game off for jousting, game on for "one-hand" blood collection...

The tagline for my blog is the wheels on the bike go round and round.
The tagline for my body is the platelets in my body go up and down.
Ah, I love consistency. Could it be that my platelets are simply mapping to my blog's tagline? I can't wait to tell Dr. Rich to stick that in his stethoscope and analyze it. Two days ago down, yesterday up....