20-year-old Hannah Jordan, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has competed in more than 150 cycling races and has even claimed a world title. Of those cycling races was a rigorous course that rises more than 2,500 feet in elevation.
Looking at Jordan, you will see an athletic, successful young woman. But what you won’t see is a gastrostomy tube, a feeding tube attached to a bag of fluids in her backpack, that keeps her alive.
The G-tube monitor pumps glucose into her body, which prevents her from going into potentially life-threatening hypoglycemia.
When Jordan was a child, she suffered from extreme fatigue and dangerously low blood sugar, since her body couldn’t keep up with her brain’s need for glucose. Without the continuous glucose infusion into her stomach, she would become hypoglycemic, which could become fatal.
For more than a decade, Jordan has had her g-tube, but this hasn’t stopped her from being active, nor has it stopped her from competing and winning.
“I’m the only person I know who is on a G-tube and competes like this,” Jordan told Good Morning America. “When I’m told I can’t, that makes me want to ride faster and better.”
It all started seven years ago when Jordan picked up an old bike and taught herself how to ride it. Not only was she able to ride it, but she realized that it actually gave her more energy and helped improve her lethargy.
After living her life in a hospital bed, Jordan is happy to be active and says she is living every day like it’s a gift.
Click here to follow her cycling adventures on Instagram.
Hear more about her incredible story in the video below:
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