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mouthy

I am 76 - feel like 40. Act like 100. People say I look 65.. I have perfect health apart from Rheamatoid Arth. Osteo Arth. Resticted eshophugus,diabetus,cataracts.But I can talk your ear off- Laugh like a Hyena. Love like a lady!!!!! No not of the night!!!!I am out every day taxing my grandkids. who inform me "Nan your going to live till your a hundred" ( nasty little critters)& I still have to get my 2cents in with all you youngens

RAYZORBLADE

Aren't we all.

I can't complain, but I do notice my metabolism is not like it used to be.

When you eat food: it stays longer in the body and shows up too!

Exercise is not so easy, and well...you get the picture.

I'll be 41 in September, and well...overall, I have good health. Nothing to complain about.

Francois, my goodness.....what the hell happened, did you lose your balance, or did the ladder break or blow over due to high winds? Just a few words into your injury and my teeth were like...on edge. I hope you're better. So sorry to read that. Damn.

Mouthy: as per usual, you're adorable.

Makena1

((((((mouthy))))

You remind me a lot of my mom. I know that if we ever get a chance to meet - I would love you - hey, I already love you from your posts.

((((Mulan)))) thanks for the kind words. Love you and Big Red!

Warmest regards,

makena

Francois

Razor - I had just purchased a beautiful home on the Medway River south of Savannah. You couldn't see another house from my porch facing the river, and marshes, and the next county about two miles across the marsh, and hammocks, and hopes, and islands you could see plus all the wildlife. Except that the guy who had owned it before me had never trimmed the low branches off all the trees and the view was obstructed. Soooooooo.

I was at the top of an extension ladder with an electric chain saw taking care of low branches. I was on the last one, a bigger branch than all the others, about eight inches in diameter. With only about an inch of branch left, it hinged in the cut and came crashing down on the ladder. One second I had ladder. The next second I had air. I faw down. Go Boom.

Split the great bone in my right heel. Those bones were poking out my instep. Screwed back together.

Compression fracture of right femur. That one is rodded with a titanium rod.

Open Book fracture with rotational dislocation of right pelvis. Bolted back onto spine with titanium carriage bolt. Sacro-Illiac joint fused.

Fracture of pubic symphesis. Reconnected with titanium plate.

Crush fracture of L4 vertebra. Inoperable.

Compression fracture of right distal radius. Inoperable.

Altogether, just under $10,000.00 worth of titanium. And it hurt my feelings, too. I recommend: do not get on ladders. Hire a professional.

francois

P.S. - Oh, btw, the view now is excellent.

outnfree

(((((((((((Francois)))))))))))))

I can't imagine! I've only had a laminectomy/discotomy on L4-5 and I have to be careful with body mechanics and listening to my body. ... But I felt 80 before the surgery. I'm sorry some of your fractures were inoperable.

Ken,

I pace myself all the time. The family has come to expect it now. I think it's good, actually, for the kids to see that listening to your body is important to overall well being.

Hang in there, everybody! The sex got better right?

out

xjw_b12

Now we all know why Francois is so grumpy.

Seriously, that was one serious fall, and I think you're fortunate to be with us.

BTW What are they going to do with all that titanium, when you won't be needeing it?

viktoria

Wow Francois, you are lucky to be around after something like that happening to you.

How are you now?I can inmagine that you still have a lot of pain.I hope you´ll be ok-it might take some time though.

J6ocr9, hope you are ok after all those accidents-when my boys were small they were just like you, omg when I think of all the time we spent at hospital with them.

Mouthy- hi, I´m new here and I think you are sooooooo sweet.

Viktoria

Francois

I don't know what plans anyone has for all that titanium. And I certainly don't care.

Yes, I'm lucky to be here at all. About 60% of people who fall 20 feet die. I don't know how I survived. I was aware, while lying there on the ground waiting for the helicopter, that if I wanted, I could just give up and let slip the ghost right there and it would be all over for this life. But, I didn't.

I has taken four years to recover to the point where I am now. I don't limp any more, and I can unscrew the lid on the mayo jar now. But I'm on 150 mcg fentanyl around the clock. That stuff is expensive, and when I turn into a ward of the federal insurance program who is going to buy that stuff? It costs $1,200/month. And it's 50 times more powerful than heroin. Getting off that should be great fun.

francois

RAYZORBLADE

Francois, when I read your story about the fall, I have to admit, I cringed more than once.

20-25 feet - that's about 3 storeys.

From where I live, and I live on a third floor (top floor) it's not quite 25 feet. The roof part, that would make it over 30 feet for sure. Nevertheless, that's a helluva ways to fall.....and fall hard you did.

Francois: you're damn lucky to be alive.

Here in Toronto, there was a case of toddler/young child that fell something like 20-25 storeys, landed in a tree.....and lived.

Whew...Francois, what a story. Glad you're on the mend, and yes, the view is beautiful.

Take his advice, hire a professional.

outoftheorg

Yeah I know how some of you "elderly" ones feel. Will be 68 next november. I find it helps to walk a mile or two every other day. And stay busy in things that use the muscles and the mind.

Don't have the pains you talk about 'yet' and all of my aaah "machinery" still functions.

I have always been careful with my body, although I had some jobs that could get one injured. Sheriffs deputy and diesel mechanic and construction machinery mechanic. Been lucky -dare I use that word- I guess.

I hope to live another 20 yrs. and think that way. I do notice a lower level of stamia. Still do the work but it tires me more.

I have been told that anger and anxiety can cause physical problems so I am working on discarding some of the lingering results of the cult and its damage.

My biggest problem, is trying to not let being shunned by some of my kids, cause me so much mental pain and feelings of loss. That is the issue in my life now. I am working on it and think I feel some relief. But there is more to do.

Got an email from LOVE ATTORNEYS today. They want more info on the pedophile elder that molested my daughter. Hope that doesn't stir up too much. But I will give them anything I can find regarding that bastard.

Outoftheorg

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