Heatherbikes

Hey, I've been car free most of my adult life except for a brief car ownership affair.
I've been ill with vertigo which I sometimes get and am not supposed to drive or ride a bike until better. I've never had the dizzies this bad, so I have stayed off the bike. 2 weeks without biking! I have to get rides to work or take the bus. The bus is so boring because in the time it takes to wait for the bus I can already be wherever I am going, or at least halfway there by bike.
sigh!

Newspaperguy

Is there any way you can get a ride to and from work with a coworker? You'd be helping him with the fuel costs and he'd be giving you a ride. Other than that, the transit would be the best option, even if it's boring.

gerv 

I take the bus. It's not too long for me. I bring a book along.

swwhite

I actually like the bus, but biking is cheaper and more flexible. The way I look at the bus is that for $2.25 I can purchase 40 minutes of peace and quiet.

DX-MAN

If I can't ride, I'm too sick for work. My job is physical, so things like vertigo could debilitate me. Can't be trying lift 40 pounds overhead if you can't stand up straight! I've worked with an undiagnosed broken ankle (x-rays were neg, i SAW them!) for 5 weeks (until it finally DID show up, through calcification), both wrists broken at different times, and 3x herniated lumbar discs for 8 years now. I WOULD have worked the last three weeks of my collarbone layoff (broken in 5 places) had the doctor allowed it. (When he did release me, Dec. 8, I rode to work Dec. 9, 9 miles one way, in 30F temp.)

I'm not saying HTFU, you have to decide your own limits, and like I said, I couldn't work with vert. This is just where I am.

jogya03

any thought for a folding bike ? it worked for me several times, I was fine going to work in the morning, but at the end of the day I became too tired and did not feel well, then I folded and get car or taxi ride. It also works whenever it rains or flat tires etc. . .

AdamDZ

I take the subway, well bus+subway actually. I did it for the last three days as I'm still recovering from flu.

Heatherbikes

Well, folding bikes wouldn't help if I am too dizzy to ride. The bus is okay but rural and sporatic, and I do get rides to work. I live in the country so distances are a bit long between home and work, or even to the nearest store. We've been hit with a nasty flu, so even my husband who will bike through anything is too sick to bike. I had to venture out for emergency sickness supplies on the bus and must have looked like a drunk zombie I was stumbling around so much!
I normally keep biking as much as possible, even if I am too germy to be allowed at work.
DX-Man-I have a physical job too but also work with food, so anything contagious and germy and we are not allowed to work. I will work through physical injuries though. The vertigo comes and goes-mostly if I look up which is what one does when lifting a 30 lb box over your head onto a shelf! So that has been a problem. I can get other people to do that, but the biking is too risky and it is discouraging. I like my autonomy.

wahoonc

Heather, what about a tricycle? They make a variety of them and some are relatively light weight and can be quite quick. Not cheap though...

Aaron

kochise

subway or walk

gerv 

Thank goodness you aren't driving a car! I often wonder about how sick some people are and they still drive! One way to look at the bus trip. It's long and boring, but it is a temporary solution. It is also relaxing. No driving or riding street. Take a book or snooze on the trip.