I will try anything for the first time LOL. But the real reason for me to get the shots was that my spouse is being treated for stage-4 cancer for 3+ years and has a compromised immune system from all those radiation and chemo treatments. Her doctor advised her to get the shots along with our daughter who works in trials for cancer treatments with newer drugs coming on-line.
Anyways with my daily exercise routine, that 1/2 cc of clear liquid in Moderna shots is no where strong enough to harm my well exercised body. I can’t even remember getting a cold for 10-15 years. I have firmly reached the conclusion that as we get old, we need not get feeble, weak or lose balance, if we exercise regularly. At age 81 I feel no weaker than at age 51.
Thank you kindly for your good wishes for our coming cruise.
I intend to post a full report with photo’s after returning.
I will live vicariously through your posts upon your return heh.
There’s an ol farmer down the way here, he’s 79 or 80, I don’t know exactly, but he’s never missed a day of farming in his life, and he’s still out doing hard labour all the time. He has a few hands, but he still does lots himself.
Another old timer near here, he’s 86 and hard at it, just welded himself up a new wagon for his half quarter half icelandic horse team. He built the frame, mounted the wheels and mounted seats, all from almost scratch. I do go babysit him from time to time though because he gets overzealous. He once tried to put a ladder against an RV and with a brush and some tar go fix a skylight. I was driving by on the way home from work and stopped and asked what on God’s earth was he thinking. I said, I don’t care if you fall off and die, but your wife will kill me if I saw this and didn’t intervene, so I ended going to do it. Perhaps it was his way to get me to do it, maybe he heard me coming, the wily basterd lol.
At any rate, you’re right about the activities, it’s important to stay active. My folks do a lot of kayaking, and hiking, which keeps them fit and going, and his brother hunts still with just a bow and no rifle for backup even on grizz (which I told him he’s insane for). Nobody says one has to be sitting on the front porch all day. Although sitting on the porch on a warm morning with some coffee isn’t all terrible either.