from Mangledman:
It seems the madness is not going to let up any time soon. It seems like many people are sharing the same sentiment about more lawlessness, and nobody going to jail yet. The eating and drinking, working and playing, and buying and selling continues. Watch and Pray, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. I have become a SUCKER in the last couple weeks. I went back across the state line to the state of my birth, the land of Lincoln, ILLINOIS-the sucker state! I don’t know when they stopped calling it that, but it was IN MY HISTORY BOOK! A very rural community on the edge of town. After 3 years, the Mrs. and I paid $200 to have a home again, and we are starting to renovate an Ooold house that needs tons of work. Hip replacement last August has me feeling able to do lots more. It is quite maddening, to know how to do all kinds of things, and the only thing holding one back is gettng past the pain. I ran the pain meds until they quit working, and the doctor would switch again. I just hit 4 decades of this the first of June. Finding a good Doctor after the opioid crisis is now an exercise in futility. No one ever expects to ever go down completely, but a few of us were meant to understand these things. I wouldn’t wish this life on anyone, and time on my feet allows me to build something else. I had enough tools, of the primitive kind to rebuild after an EMP or some such grid down scenario, that I could run at least 3 crews of 4-5 people. With limited income, and 0 transportation there was no way to store several garages full of tools. So starting over seems futile some days, when one cannot choose which days I will be up and moving for more than an hour. I have been trying to accomplish about three hours a day, some days only on 20 minute intervals. But hey, any accomplishments are better than none at all. My best therapy is still running a shovel. I found I could make 3-6 times minimum wage when I was a teenager. Yes, this old house might be just the test. I bid a job with my oldest before he passed, and we averaged $18 an hour, but it it wasn’t something I could keep up with long at all. I could still bid well, and maintain decent money. I have accomplished a lot, but I have also been down quite a bit. For someone who was blessed with the miracles I have seen, the degradation of being down almost 1/5 of life, I have still accompliahed a few things. GOD IS GREAT!! The journey continues.
Bondo- the real deal 
I fell down in my garden and it was scary. The one factor we can never prepare for is the human condition, and the extent we will be affected by Father time. Everyone should think about how to handle physical limitations in their future. Thanks for sharing these less than glamorous realities with us MangledMan.
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Amen! I just recently found out I have spurs on my left shoulder joint, both sides of the joint then a few days later, found out why my neck hurt constantly, spurs on my neck, a pinched nerve that was causing pain down my left arm and causing numbness in my left hand, and I’m LEFT-HANDED. The doc gave me a shot in my shoulder but it’s wearing off now. The neck pain, etc, is not as bad as it was but my shoulder, people, if you’ve never had pain, I say, praise the Lord but if you have, I sympathize with you! It’s difficult to get a good night’s sleep, it’s difficult to even change the sheets on the bed, clean house, etc. I can honestly say, anti-inflammatory drugs and Tylenol is what keeps me going and prayer! I’m trying NOT to have surgery on my shoulder but time will tell……….I have arthritis all over my back, hands, knees, etc., but thank God it is something I can live with, it’s an inherited thing, so if they can do it I can do it. 🙂 It’s all about the Lord, He gets me through the days and nights…. ❤ keeps me going.
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Momma always said “gettin old ain’t for wimps”!! Aspirin is probably still the best anti-inflammatory on the market. An eighth teaspoon of baking soda fizzes the aspirin drinkable in an ounce or two of water. This takes away any damage to stomach. 3 aspirin kills a lot of pain and inflammation. I avoid cortizone completely don’t. Forget your chiropractor. Thank you for the comment.
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