The Ribbon of Road Ahead

The Ribbon of Road Ahead by Carol Clupny Audiobook
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Product Info

Sounded ID: 9781733552424

ISBN: 9781733552424

Publication Date: January 28, 2021

Publisher: Ultreia Books

Language: English

Author Name: Carol Clupny

Narrator Name: Carol Clupny

Studio Narrated Audiobook 8 hrs 6 mins | BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY | People with Disabilities

The Ribbon of Road Ahead

Author
Carol Clupny
Publisher
Ultreia Books
Narrator
Carol Clupny

Studio Narrated Audiobook

This audiobook is a traditionally narrated work produced in a studio with a live voice actor and contains no content generated using Voice Replica technologies or synthetic narration.

At forty-nine years old, Carol Clupny was an active, driven woman with a career, a family, and a zest for adventure. A mere year later, she struggles with strange symptoms of internal tremors, frozen shoulders, and a serious intestinal infection. She doesn’t understand why she can’t paddle a kayak or throw the ball for her dogs. Then comes the diagnosis: early onset Parkinson’s Disease. “How can I keep going?” she asks her doctor. “Keep exercising and taking your meds. You have five to ten years before things get more difficult.” Carol finds she can no longer work. From her easy chair, she wat...

At forty-nine years old, Carol Clupny was an active, driven woman with a career, a family, and a zest for adventure. A mere year later, she struggles with strange symptoms of internal tremors, frozen shoulders, and a serious intestinal infection. She doesn’t understand why she can’t paddle a kayak or throw the ball for her dogs. Then comes the diagnosis: early onset Parkinson’s Disease. “How can I keep going?” she asks her doctor. “Keep exercising and taking your meds. You have five to ten years before things get more difficult.” Carol finds she can no longer work. From her easy chair, she watches videos of people in advanced stages of Parkinson’s. “I can’t go there,” she tells herself. Struggling out of her chair, she shuffles outside to the mailbox and back. These first steps begin her training for the trip at the top of her bucket list: a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Completing this adventure once is not enough, she returns again and again. She reads in an article that bicycling helps mitigate the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Dusting off a seldom-used bike in her garage, she leans it against the mailbox to mount up. Away she goes with newfound freedom to train for the RAGBRAI (the Des Moines Registers Annual Bike Ride Across Iowa). On her trips, Carol faces challenges she never could have foreseen. She forges lasting friendships and confronts the reality of living with a progressive neurological disorder. Crashing her bike, slipping along muddy paths with a heavy backpack, suffering through blisters and tendonitis, using a field as a bathroom, she approaches every aspect of life with an attitude of adventure. Carol is not afraid to face the apathy and depression that come with Parkinson’s. Instead of being drug down into darkness, she finds strategies for lifting herself, and others around her, up into the light.

Chapters

# Title Duration
1. 00 Opening The Ribbon of Road Ahead

0 mins 16 secs

2. Chapter 1 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

23 mins 58 secs

3. Chapter 2 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

21 mins 58 secs

4. Chapter 3 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

19 mins 49 secs

5. Chapter 4 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

13 mins 51 secs

6. Chapter 5 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

9 mins 18 secs

7. Chapter 6 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

29 mins 08 secs

8. Chapter 7 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

8 mins 43 secs

9. Chapter 8 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

12 mins 19 secs

10. Chapter 9 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

17 mins 50 secs

11. Chapter 10 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

15 mins 38 secs

12. Chapter 11 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

25 mins 23 secs

13. Chapter 12 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

37 mins 16 secs

14. Chapter 13 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

34 mins 09 secs

15. Chapter 14 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

15 mins 48 secs

16. Chapter 15 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

26 mins 51 secs

17. Chapter 16 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

19 mins 46 secs

18. Chapter 17 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

30 mins 12 secs

19. Chapter 18 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

23 mins 11 secs

20. Chapter 19 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

16 mins 26 secs

21. Chapter 20 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

13 mins 01 secs

22. Chapter 21 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

12 mins 20 secs

23. Chapter 22 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

15 mins 49 secs

24. Chapter 23 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

13 mins 28 secs

25. Chapter 24 The Ribbon of Road Ahead

24 mins 27 secs

26. 25 Closing Credits The Ribbon of Road Ahead

0 mins 26 secs

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