Ut Ohhh

 

Friday July 28, 2023 was a typical ordinary day. The RV was at the service shop and Brian decided it would be good to ride his bike some of the way to pick it up. Jean was going to be his support vehicle. She would drive ahead and wait for him to catch up, pass her and in a little bit she would pass him again to check on him and make sure he didn’t need anything. We call this leapfrogging. This morning Brian started his trip down Bryant road and Jean went into town to pick up her blood pressure medicine. There is more to the story with that but lets continue down the road to what happened after. She called Brian in the parking lot from Price Chopper to express her displeasure that he did not call her when he got to the 12. They had agreed to that phone call but Brian had decided not to make the call because she can see where he is on Life 360. He had forgotten to tell her that part.  He had to stop and fish out his phone. Jean said he sounded so happy and in his element this was his 4th ride out after the long winter, after skin cancer surgery, after the fall out of the RV from the medications urology had given him. Jean was worried that she would pass Bryant road before him and she would not see him on the road after that. She set out and passed him on the 12 quite a long way up the 12 as she had also stoped at McDonalds for coffee. She stopped at the circle K at the intersection of the 12 and 20. By this time it was lunch time and Jean was warming up a pizza at the convenience store. When her phone rang; it was Brian. It was not Brian…. “Hello my name is … I am a paramedic.” Jean replied “Ut Oh” The paramedic continued “Brian has been in a little accident.”