I fought the lawn (mower) and the lawn won!

[Jim Kennedy-ar154me]

The best info I have heard here, I will paraphrase.

If you are over 60, DON'T FALL!  (Although I am close enough to 70. I am 69)

Also, I have read, tongue in cheek, the number 1 reason old men end up in the emergency room is for thinking they can still do things they did when they were young men.

[MikeBjerum]

To share a saying I have had bouncing around the internet for years:

I dream of dying like a Crusader in battle against evil, but in reality I will probably fall on my head, with a spoonful of frosting in my mouth, while trying to put my underwear on.

[PegLeg45]

To share a saying I have had bouncing around the internet for years:

I dream of dying like a Crusader in battle against evil, but in reality I will probably fall on my head, with a spoonful of frosting in my mouth, while trying to put my underwear on.

Probably.


But hey, try it with one leg.......

[MikeBjerum]

Probably.


But hey, try it with one leg.......

I have a good friend who lost his right leg just below the knee and the right arm just below the elbow. Last month he went in for surgery on the good leg. 100% blockage in the iliac artery.

He was having some issues with his left foot, and after waiting a month the vascular doctor said you have a partial blockage, and we will need to clean it out. Three weeks later he was scheduled for surgery on Tuesday - "Late in the day, so will call Tuesday morning and tell you when to be there." Surgery canceled, because others went too long. Friday, they called and rescheduled for the following Thursday first thing in the morning.

I went to visit him on Sunday after church. Partial blockage turned into 100%, and doctor said if he had waited a few more days, he would have lost the leg, possibly at the hip.

[PegLeg45]

Geez that sucks.

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[Rastus]

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Also, I have read, tongue in cheek, the number 1 reason old men end up in the emergency room is for thinking they can still do things they did when they were young men.

I'll be 69 in a month and I'm fighting it as hard as I can.  I can see it's a losing battle...but I'm gonna see how long I can keep up this fight up.  My wife hounds me to get more done and I do a lot more than most of the worthless younger generation does..but she's only 61 and not feeling it like I am so she can keep on wishing in one hand.... I've fallen a couple of times in recent years and I was able to roll and not injure anything that matters....like ribs.  With the dadgum neuropathy in my feet I cannot feel when my foot hands up on something so I find out when I start heading down...however I can feel a dadgum nail when it goes through a shoe...figure that one out.  I did try to kick a pain in the ass dog out of the way...it moved as I was kicking and my foot ended up hitting the side by side.  Broken foot..14 months later the bone is only 2/3's healed. 

The 50# feed sacks are feeling like the 100 pounders did 50 years ago.  I had to slow my ass down on the 4 wheelers and side by sides because either I'm not paying enough attention to driving or I react to slow or both.  And someone please tell me that the hay bales are tighter and bigger than they were 50 years ago...I just about dropped my good nut on the ground moving some hay around a little while ago.