Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Four

[garyoa1]

In my own case, I'm hoping an artificial vertebral column becomes available at some point .. ..

I'm thinkin' body transplant. Brain optional. (but not for me)

 

[Sterno]

What 'cha gettin', Scott?

some bluetooth headphones and an extension for my vamo

 

[Uncle Willie]

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I'm stuck in between ages at this point! I'm not young, and I'm not old either!!!

We like to call that "Age Limbo", not to be confused with the actual activity of doing the Limbo (which could lead to, additional issues)

 

[Vape Suzette]

We like to call that "Age Limbo", not to be confused with the actual activity of doing the Limbo (which could lead to, additional issues)

Oh yes. I have to be more careful these days! Avuncular William? What happened to your poodle haircut? It was the most cutting edge hairdo I have ever seen! It seems as though everyone is experiencing a second childhood here! Such crazy silliness! I haven't laughed so hard since I was thirty!!!

 

[Uncle Willie]

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Oh yes. I have to be more careful these days! Avuncular William? What happened to your poodle haircut? It was the most cutting edge hairdo I have ever seen! It seems as though everyone is experiencing a second childhood here! Such crazy silliness! I haven't laughed so hard since I was thirty!!!

Although the Old Avatar was way ahead of it's time, it was, er, maybe too far ahead .. I am holding it in Reserve just in case ..

 

[MattB101]

"vape Suzette, post: 16753735, member: 57813"]Matt: I read about your knees and I know how serious it is when chronic pain sets in. I see a neurologist after having most of my c-spine replaced in 2013 and then another disc last December of 2014. I had absolutely no idea how I injured the discs in my neck. I woke up feeling very different, and my fingers were numb and I could not play my guitars! Weird! Then I started having shooting pain down both arms and I was worried it was my heart because I have a missing blood protein that causes me to be hypercoagulable and it caused a heart attack 15 years ago. I have three stents. Wow! Pain is the most draining state to be in that I know of. It aged me dramatically last year. I strongly empathize with pain -- especially the knees. They are very difficult to repair. About the only thing one can do is gently walk in a swimming pool (that is my form of PT) and even that is painful!

I just finished reading a book called American Pain and it was all about the clinic that went by that name. They were operating in Broward County and also Boca Raton, Florida. You probably know all about it. They operated a pill mill that accepted patients with no MRIs, X-rays, CAT scans ... nothin'!!! They prescribed Oxycontin and oxycodone along with Percocet in dosages that were usually reserved for end-stage cancer patients. You can imagine the overdoses from respiratory distress. People traveled to the clinic in droves! Junky after junky!!! It really hurt thousands of patients who were in genuine debilitating pain! It just went on and on. I used to take little 3-day vacation packages with my husband from Logan to Fort Lauderdale and have sooo much fun in the sun! I had no idea that American Pain was even around. To this day it holds the record for the biggest pill mill operation in the US!

When you had written earlier that you are looking for a doctor you can trust, you are absolutely right! Dependency is entirely different than addiction. I developed dependency to opioids when I ruptured three discs in my lumbar spine when I was just 26. They just kept writing and writing!!! I kept taking them! I'm lucky I was able to get off of them -- but it took me almost a week of withdrawal. Never again! I took pain medicine with great caution on several occasions and was hooked up to a PCA so I could just press a button every 12 minutes! Oh, how pain bites the big one! People must have access to pain meds, but it scared me the last few years when I had to take them or my BP would send me up a tree! Since 2012 I have had four major surgeries and am glad to be here -- glad to be anywhere is more like it!!!

We have been talking about Florida a lot here lately. The sinkholes, pill mills ... but then you've got Dave Barry ("Miami: Maybe You Won't Get Shot!!!") We LOVE Dave Barry! I remember being lost in Miami thinking to myself, "get me outta here!" I was so scared! It was about as crazy as driving in Boston! Oh, but those were the good old days! And the seafood was incredible! Even though I grew up eating Maine lobsters, there was nothing better than the restaurants in Florida!

Thanks for making me feel so at home here! I know I have probably said this before, but it took me almost four years to start writing here and now, I love it here so much that "Maybe I Won't Shut Up!"

Don't forget about Carl Hiaasen (spelling bad), he wrote" Striptease" the book they made into the movie with Demi Moore and Burke Reynolds. Great book, crappy movie. He wrote a bunch of really funny books all set in South Florida. Highly recommended.

 

[Vape Suzette]

Don't forget about Carl Hiaasen (spelling bad), he wrote" Striptease" the book they made into the movie with Demi Moore and Burke Reynolds. Great book, crappy movie. He wrote a bunch of really funny books all set in South Florida. Highly recommended.

Hi, Matt! I will definitely check it out because one of my fave movies is "The End" with Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise! I didn't see it until a few years ago. I LOVE comedy! My entire LIFE is a comedy!!! ... of errors!!!

 

[Vape Suzette]

Although the Old Avatar was way ahead of it's time, it was, er, maybe too far ahead .. I am holding it in Reserve just in case ..

Well, it was so you!!! At first, since I had not been around here much before, I did not notice it but I knew something was different about it! I wasn't the type of person to come out and ask if you were wearing a hairpiece!!! LOL! But the more I read and examined the avatars ... well, I finally got it!!! Very funny!!! Hysterical!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Kenna]

Oh yes. I have to be more careful these days! Avuncular William? What happened to your poodle haircut? It was the most cutting edge hairdo I have ever seen! It seems as though everyone is experiencing a second childhood here! Such crazy silliness! I haven't laughed so hard since I was thirty!!!

2nd childhood? Nope. This is what happens when you retire & no longer have to meet anyone's expections or opinions except your own. Professionalism & steel backbones go out the window & you get all loose & wiggly!

 

[Kenna]

Although the Old Avatar was way ahead of it's time, it was, er, maybe too far ahead .. I am holding it in Reserve just in case ..

That hairstyle was straight out of The Hunger Games! [emoji12]

 

[Kenna]

Garyoa1 and Kenna! I LOVE it here! Thanks so much! I don't think there is a better place anywhere in the world! I have decided to have a second childhood and to spend it right here!!! We start out being rocked and then settle into a comfy rocker when we get older! I like that!!! Kenna: What type of butterfly is that in your avatar? It is so beautiful! We have been trying to identify it but can't. So cool here!

Suzette, it's a Lone Star butterfly! My state flag on a butterfly. Yee & Haw!

 

[Vape Suzette]

2nd childhood? Nope. This is what happens when you retire & no longer have to meet anyone's expections or opinions except your own. Professionalism & steel backbones go out the window & you get all loose & wiggly!

I love that! There are some major benefits to aging well and not being so uptight! I need a second childhood -- because I can't remember my first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Vape Suzette]

Suzette, it's a Lone Star butterfly! My state flag on a butterfly. Yee & Haw!

How on earth did you do that? It is so beautiful! If I click on it, will it enlarge? Back several pages in the Monarch butterfly thread, I saw yours and could not figure it out! I love it!!! I can't wait to show my husband -- he'll be amazed!!!

 

[MattB101]

Sitting in the cardiologist waiting room. First time in over three years. I suspect this is not going to be good. Guess we'll find out soon enough. Bet there is another cardiocath in my immediate future. Let you all know when I do.

 

[MattB101]

As long as he doesn't want me to run on that damn treadmill!

 

[bigbells]

Yeah .. I don't remember the details of the "slip and fall", but I thought it was a hip that was beat up some .. thus, I was referring to your current hip pain which could (or could not) have been exacerbated by that incident ..

In my own case, I'm hoping an artificial vertebral column becomes available at some point .. ..

Matt was walking Abby and there was lots of ice on the ground. It was just this past winter I believe. Might have been winter before last. Time flies when you're having fun getting old.

Dave's Free Sage Advice: don't throw out your back until you're sure a new one is in stock.

 

[Debadoo]

Sitting in the cardiologist waiting room. First time in over three years. I suspect this is not going to be good. Guess we'll find out soon enough. Bet there is another cardiocath in my immediate future. Let you all know when I do.

oh dang darlin........what happened that made ya end up there. Hope all will be ok! Definitely keep us posted as to what's going on

 

[Vape Suzette]

Sitting in the cardiologist waiting room. First time in over three years. I suspect this is not going to be good. Guess we'll find out soon enough. Bet there is another cardiocath in my immediate future. Let you all know when I do.

I'll be wishing the best for you, Matt. No fun at all. I can't do much on the treadmill either, so they do thallium stress tests on me every two to three years. It makes me radioactive for about three to four hours afterward! I stay away from pregnant women and wait until I stop glowing in the dark (just kidding about glowing in the dark, it's safe!). I got a head start because of a rare genetic blood disorder. I was never expecting a heart attack when I was so young, but it was caused solely by a genetic defect. I did not choose my parents too carefully!!! Hang in there!

 

[Kenna]

Hi, Matt! I will definitely check it out because one of my fave movies is "The End" with Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise! I didn't see it until a few years ago. I LOVE comedy! My entire LIFE is a comedy!!! ... of errors!!!

"That looks like Walt Disney threw up!". Favorite line from that movie! Here's my butterfly, not sure how big it will show up.

 

[Debadoo]

Here's my butterfly, not sure how big it will show up.

Love that butterfly!!