As to your
"Shopping Tips for Aged Upgraders on a Budget" blog/article, I'm keeping it mind. You could really edit the "Aged" out
Oh dear, you've discovered the secret, and now the cat's hopped clean out of the bag!
There's little in that or any of my blogrants that's not equally applicable whether we're 22 or 102.
The presence of that "little," and that the blog does attempt to speak specifically to the aged and infirm, is because though ECF is a comprehensive compendium of information, short of performing a series of forum searches
**, there's not really anything that addresses those particular concerns.
At the same time, an ever-increasing number of people are confronting that critical point - cigarette smoking as a harmful habit is no longer something to worry about decades down the road - it's begun to manifest itself in
perceptible, palpable harm that we don't even need a doctor to tell us about.
Having tried all the various patches and chewing gums and pills and potions, and discovered that while they're very effective in making rich men richer, our intention, our goal, had been more focused on our own tobacco use, selfish as that may sound, and while naturally we hope the rich men enjoy all their new money, we still have that perceptible palpable harm thing staring us so discourteously in the face.
Mindful, however, of all those old sayings about once burned twice shy and fool me twice shame on me, we are understandably a bit hesitant about the next miracle product.
Nor does it help that our only (even second or third hand) knowledge about this latest wonder will likely involve stories of credit cards being charged every month in perpetuity and jackleg pieces of ish from the QuikTrip that fall apart, taste like ..., and generally fail to have any effect on our consumption of tobacco cigarettes.
Having received so much from my ECF brothers and sisters, it was and is my admittedly presumptuous intention to "give something back," and the only thing I have to give back is my experience, faceplants and all, in the hope that it might allay at least a little of the "could I? - would it be possible? - but what about someone like
me?" anxieties of those of us who, not just should, but absolutely
MUST at least reduce our tobacco consumption
NOW, not just in order to live longer, though that is certainly an admirable and laudable goal for those who may realistically aspire to it, but that we may, during whatever time remains to us, do our part in helping the doctors and nurses and our loved ones as they work so hard at "keeping us comfortable."
** While there are more older folks clicking around "the American on the interline" than there were a decade ago, real talk, as a demographic, we're not exactly known for things like forum searching skills.
And as a member of the proud heavily sedated community, I can attest
... hmmm? what was I talking about? searching for a forum? They used to keep one over in Rome, I think. Is that still in Italy, or did I put it in the fridge with my cell phone? I'll be back, let me just get the goat some more Cool Whip...
