Just a heads up for you older guys..and gals

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Post by cabinover » Sun. Dec. 23, 2018 9:01 pm

Last Friday had a friend fall at work when stepping on water flowing over ice. He's 67 or so, very ambulatory, and had been coming to work for about a month part time. Anyhow, he stepped and his foot went right out from underneath him. When all was said and done he fell, was loaded into an ambulance, and taken to the hospital. This was about 6:45AM. When I talked to him tonight he told me the rest of the story. At 1:00PM Friday, he was being put under for pins in his hip. Much better than what the scuttlebutt had said, he needed a hip replacement and now.

Fortunately he walked out yesterday at 2:00PM on his own albeit sore. He said he won't be back to work tomorrow (humor is his baby)...I kept telling him to quit answering the phone about 3 weeks ago. His spirits are soaring and he's comfortable. He also knows there is work to come in the weeks ahead.

So long story short...watch that step. It could just as well be any of us.

Take care my friends on the forum and Merry Christmas to you and yours.

 
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Post by coalnewbie » Mon. Dec. 24, 2018 8:35 am

These youngsters are always getting into trouble, you need to worry about more us older folks.

 
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Post by cabinover » Mon. Dec. 24, 2018 10:42 am

:lol: :clap:


 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Mon. Dec. 24, 2018 11:07 am

I took coalnewbie's advice and tried wrapping myself in bubble wrap.

Worked great for whenever I fell down, but, it made it difficult to concentrate during sex. I kept getting this mental image of her father shooting at me again. :D

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Post by coalnewbie » Mon. Dec. 24, 2018 11:50 am

I kept getting this mental image of her father shooting at me again. :D
Flyer5 has a soon to be teenage daughter. Besides being a black belt he is crack shot and very well armed. Watch the news for violent teen deaths near Montrose PA.

 
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Post by VigIIPeaBurner » Mon. Dec. 24, 2018 12:25 pm

Now that I'm in my mid 60's I have to remind my 35 yr old thinking brain that THIS is my mid 60's body! I did one of those bonehead maneuvers getting out of the boat after a morning of duck hunting. Long story short, you've seen videos of people with one foot on shore and one in the boat, well I use to jump with the boat foot before the boat moved. Not this time :lol: Ended up sitting in 10" of ice and water none the worse for the wear :oops:


 
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Post by coalnewbie » Mon. Dec. 24, 2018 12:54 pm

My mind still imagines I am 35 as well but I am acutely aware I am always a second away from disaster. So now we have quarter speed Simon as I do everything very slowly and deliberately. Strangely, my productivity has not really changed. It is very frustrating but it is better than the alternative.

Doing nothing is no solution either. My chiropractor reminds me .. he can mostly fix injuries but inactivity turns bones to jelly and that he can't fix. So we soldier on.

Which idiot stated these were the golden years.

 
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Post by VigIIPeaBurner » Mon. Dec. 24, 2018 4:44 pm

coalnewbie wrote:
Mon. Dec. 24, 2018 12:54 pm
My mind still imagines I am 35 as well but I am acutely aware I am always a second away from disaster. So now we have quarter speed Simon as I do everything very slowly and deliberately. Strangely, my productivity has not really changed. It is very frustrating but it is better than the alternative.

Doing nothing is no solution either. My chiropractor reminds me .. he can mostly fix injuries but inactivity turns bones to jelly and that he can't fix. So we soldier on.

Which idiot stated these were the golden years.
The guy staring into his bottle of urine :baby:

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