Erica Decker
Appearances
Big Time
The Ride | 4
After you're in the world of cancer for five years, you understand the mechanics of diagnoses and biopsies and lab work and treatment and how the appointments go and the different specialists that are involved and the terminology and everything. You could teach a course on it after five years. They made absolutely no sense.
Big Time
The Ride | 4
That's a fundraising technique. I mean, I'm no fool. Those St. Jude commercials work for a reason.
Big Time
The Ride | 4
I reached out to him and asked about his doctor. And he said he wouldn't give her name out because so many people in the Pelotonia community had reached out to her, want her to do more to help him because they just wanted him to be okay and they wanted him to be saved.
Big Time
The Ride | 4
And then he said he was going under an alias at the hospital because it was just too much for the hospital to handle the notoriety that he was, you know, getting. And the whole thing was just so crazy. But it was obvious to me at that point that it was all a lie.
Big Time
The Ride | 4
He picked the wrong mom because I was not satisfied and I have never been one to shy away from controversy.
Big Time
The Ride | 4
There was a lot of F-bombs, a lot of cussing. Then we just devised a plan, and we were not going to let Pelotonia dismiss us.
Big Time
The Ride | 4
I mean, just to pick such an evil disease that picks on kids and the frail and then think, oh, I know. It's just it was unfathomable at that point.
Big Time
The Ride | 4
There was a guy on stage and one of my friends said, oh, this guy's amazing. He's beaten cancer like three times.
Big Time
The Ride | 4
I think when I first learned of him, I mean, that's all you listen for when you're a parent or a family member or loved one of someone with cancer. That's all you need to hear is someone made it. And if this guy could beat cancer and ride 180 miles on his bike, I thought, okay, all right.
Big Time
The Ride | 4
He would love to come and meet us and visit with Lily. And I thought, well, who, what?
Big Time
The Ride | 4
I read all of his posts back to the very beginning, and he'd been posting for years at that point. But it moved around a lot, the cancer and his tumors and his different treatments and biopsies and all the things he was having done, and it was astonishing.