An adaptive bike was presented to Ann Arbor resident and Vietnam veteran Asuki O'Neill, who lives with Parkinson's disease, on Wednesday by Jackson's disAbility Connections, according to a report on MLive.

After serving in the U.S. Army as a surgical technician in 1968 and 1969, she was discharged due to being diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Her Parkinson's disease has been attributed to Agent Orange she might have come in contact during the war, and was diagnosed four years ago.

The Jackson program specially requested the bike from AmTryke's therapeutic tricycles program, which has given 15,000 bikes to people with disabilities since 1944.

O'Neil told MLive she looks forward to being able to join her family on bike rides and gain her freedom and mobility back, saying "It's not just a bike. It's so much more than a bike."

O'Neil has been searching for a bike to accommodate her needs for about a year to help rebuild the muscle tone diminished by the disease, MLive reported.

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