Hey Just S

Seems to me that it might help to have a good talk with both your health and care givers about your goals and expectations with rehab and recovery. I'm sure, like everyone, you want a complete as possible return to physical 'normalcy'. The path and result are different for each one of us just like the effects of our strokes.

I 'm commenting here because I had a recent conversation with my wife about me riding my bike with her this weekend.. seems she was about as enthused with me getting on my bike as your dr. was with you skipping. And we had a great little chat about the need and desire for me to be riding my bike. All I think my wife was thinking was that if I crashed and and burned then she would be right back there dealing with it as she was a couple years ago when i stroked.

Now I had no trouble with the balancing issues as I rode my bike. It did require some special focus on coordination. I haven't gone skipping in quite a while. :big_grin: But as I remember there are some balancing and coordination issues beyond walking. So my guess is that the neuro was just expressing their concern and feelings about the need at this time for you to get beyond the basics until you are ready.

Besides with the weight I've put back on during my 2 year recovery, I probably looked like a cicus bear on my bike. :hahaha:

Good luck with the skipping !

Tom

Tom,

Maybe what you need in one of those three wheelers they use for racing and long distance. We know a couple of stroke survivors who have them. They cost a lot though....but you can't crash and burn like you can on a two wheeler.

Jean

Jean...LOL

There's a local guy who wheels around town on one of those three wheelers.

I don't know if he's a stroker but he's a real spectacle...

His bike/trike has one of those long extended aerials on the back with a coontail attached at the top. It reminds me of one those antennas on a dune buggy. He has a couple of shiny boat horns on the handlebars with colorful streamers flowing off the ends.And enough red and orange reflectors attached to any conceivable location on the machine.. To top it off he wears a delapidated old cowboy hat that goes over his ears with some artifical feathers.

I bet I don't have enough money to give him for what he'd want for it!!

And I wouldn't want to get another and have to show him up :yikes:

I looked bad enough as a double for a circus bear on my bike.. I just need a good costume!! :juggle:

Tom

Tom

The three wheel cycles---the kind that make you look like you're laying down in them---have quite a price range, I understand. Our friend spent $4,000 but they go from $800 to $9,000. Great for stroke survivors but that's a lot of money!

Jean