Am I The First?

[NewHeart]

So, where can we view your blog during your hike?

at-tinman.com or www.facebook.com/BillsHeartBeats

[Kaptainkriz]

Here's to your successful journey, and may you have many more steps past October!

I will check, thanks alot. I plan on taking my first steps 4/26 and my last steps some time in October.

[Miel]

Will you be bear hunting during this trip? I wish you well but hope you, the recipient of life, are not planning on taking a life.

[NewHeart]

Will you be bear hunting during this trip? I wish you well but hope you, the recipient of life, are not planning on taking a life.

Bear hunting is definitely not my thing! And as an update, I took RickB's advice and contacted Laurie P at the ATC. According to their records I would be the first. However, since the registry is voluntary someone could have and just not recorded it.

[Miel]

Bear hunting is definitely not my thing! And as an update, I took RickB's advice and contacted Laurie P at the ATC. According to their records I would be the first. However, since the registry is voluntary someone could have and just not recorded it.

Thank you so very much! You did mention in another thread about being in a stand and all that that entails.

Again, thank you for bringing awareness to donations. Fast, free and easy to register.

[egilbe]

Hunting is awesome. Gives me a great chance to fill the freezer with tasty meat that isn't farm-raised. So yummy.

[Dogwood]

I don't immediately recall anyone who completed a planned AT thru-hike who had a complete heart transplant. I do know of several successful AT thru-hikers and two who completed the AT as section hikers who had previous heart attacks or heart surgery including mechanical and porcine heart valve replacements. I already related my own heart situation so will not recount my thru-hike. In 2006 on the AT I did meet one prospective thru-hiker who never finished who had a complete heart transplant. He went maybe 700-800 miles before wrapping it up and getting off. I saw him on occasion often tired, out of breathe, and ashen as a ghost. His wife was following along in a car.

All MY BEST.


Above all else, attempting a thru-hike with a heart transplant IMO you HAVE TO DO YOUR OWN HIKE ON YOUR TERMS INDEPENDENT OF HOW OTHER THRU-HIKERS ARE APPROACHING THEIR HIKES ALWAYS LISTENING, OBSERVING, AND ADJUSTING FOR YOUR SITUATION.