Sounded ID: 9781733552424
ISBN: 9781733552424
Publication Date: January 28, 2021
Publisher: Ultreia Books
Language: English
Author Name: Carol Clupny
Narrator Name: Carol Clupny
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.
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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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