This fricken old age is getting old....

[62Dodge_]

Congratulations on your long career, and enjoy your semi retirement. I pulled the plug at 62. The first year many honeydew's were completed. Second year more travel and working on my cars and offloading excess parts. Third year slowing down enjoying life, and prioritizing which projects will get completed.

 

[ckessel]

One of the big benefits of being retired, getting your time back.

 

[Richard Cranium]

One of the big benefits of being retired, getting your time back.

I thought time would seem to slow down when I retired 3 1/2 years ago, but it goes by just fast.

 

[ckessel]

I should clarify that. You get back the time blown from commuting and being gone. Now your repossessed time can be spent at home.

 

[dart4forte]

TIAs are a warning sign that something else is going on. Find yourself a good cardiologist and get a full checkup. Heart attacks and strokes are no fun.

 

[Krooser]

Scary. Hydration factor? Next time you start talking Hieroglyphics, call 911. I am very familiar with this circumstance. Don’t mess around. Don’t care that you are 5 min from ER.

I was in the ER before the ambulance could get out of their driveway and head to my house... I'm one right turn and one left turn and four minutes away. The Flight for Life helo flies low over my driveway during every landing.

Hydration? I don't think so although I really don't drink enough water so they say. I drink water ss my main beverage maybe six to eight 16 oz glasses per day.

My post kinda points to low hydration although , in real time, I was recovered before the IV went in...

I had a sepsis infection five years ago... THAT was a five day ordeal! Seven IV's... yikes!!!

 

[Krooser]

TIAs are a warning sign that something else is going on. Find yourself a good cardiologist and get a full checkup. Heart attacks and strokes are no fun.

I see my cardiologist every six months.... He installed one stent in '20 after I had a heart attack four days before Christmas. Got my first $24,500 helicopter ride!!!

Now that guy retired and I have to meet my new Doc soon...

 

[Krooser]

So I had another MRI scheduled for Dec 3 to look at the lump on my left jaw. I had been treated with an antibiotic and prednesone for a suspected blocked saliva gland under my tonque.

That has changed...

During Thursday's MRI they spotted a small spot or lesion on my pancreas AND now think the swelling in my neck is from my thyroid gland not the salivery gland.

The thyroid deal was found a year ago but was tiny and my chart mentioned it should be monitored... never told me and I didn't look for it in my online chart.

So I get another MRI just before Christmas... and a biopsy of the neck growth.

In '85 I had the right side of my thyroid removed... been ok since then. I thought.

Ooh bla di ooh bla da...

 

[ckessel]

I had mine removed back in 16. Had been having issues with it for 15+ years. Most of the Endo's I went to just wanted to take care of it the easy way[for them] by nuking it. I told them the only it's getting removed is by knife. Finally got hooked up with an ENT who only did knife work. The usual 45 minute procedure took 6 hours on me. It was really entangled around other plumbing. He also biopsied every one he removed, just because. Mine had micro cancers going on. Now I'm on Synthroid for the rest of my life