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To: Vendome

Dude your 51; get used to odd aches and pains, they just get more interesting with age.
I am 66 and hurt in places I did’t even know I had.
Been to the doctor and apparently in excellent health, except I probably smoke to much.
Rode bulls in the county fair until out of high school.
First real job was fighting forest fires in SoCal, Chilao Hotshots crew 1-5-3
Joined Marine Corps in 68; gung ho, went Recon (jump out of airplanes) and other unnatural stuff.
Heavy equipment operator, 73-78.
Plumber 78-90.
Supervisor 90-2010.
You get dinged up a bit along the way and mostly don’t even notice it. That didn’t even include the fist fights (wins and losses), falling off mountains, felling timber and having logs fall on you, getting stomped by steers, skiing accidents.
And the list goes on. I am just a dumb old farmer now; and 16 hour days are a regular feature of my life, along with the aches and pains.
We have a tendency to beat ourselves up a little bit in our youth; and unless it puts us in the hospital we have a tendency to ignore it, it catches up in old age, in your case very young old age.
I just take 2 Advil PM to get a more comfortable nights sleep (when I ain’t gettin up to piss 2 or 3 times a night), and 2 regular asprin with a cup of coffee in the morning to get me started.
Doc says there’s nothing wrong with me but then again he don’t live in my skin.


184 posted on 04/15/2015 11:23:26 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

Well, I guess I should be grateful I don’t get up 3ven once to use the bathroom.

I’ve done a lot of dumb things too. LOL

Never occurred to me it would hurt later.

But, like my friend said “Getting old ain’t for sissies”

She was 101 when she finally checked out and despite the extraordinary pain she was in sbe never quite trying...


188 posted on 04/16/2015 12:08:22 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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