Have you ever had to 'retire hurt' in your younger days?
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After 25 years of geriatric dementia nursing, my body (especially my back) is knackered. Its getting to the point that if I cant back up my truck, roll the animal into the bed, I almost dont want to shoot it. I certainly make sure my hunting buddies arent Nancy boys.
the spank
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I don't hunt mountains and rarely big game but old injuries(cracked vertebrae & ankle in my early 20's), 2 1/2 decades of getting beat up in heavy trucks and equipment along with unhealthy eating habits and osteo arthritis eating the cartilidge out of knee joints pretty much sidelined me starting three years ago. I got my act together a year ago and started taking better care of myself, had a knee replaced this year, lost a pile of weight, been doing lots of physio and am getting around much better and will be back at my beloved waterfowl and upland hunting this year. Now I won't be able to hunt from a layout blind again. Mobility wise I could but my back can't handle laying on the cold ground any more. It leaves me almost paralyzed so a big high comfy chair and upright blind will be the order this year. You can find ways to make it work by modifying your techniques and minimizing strain where you are experiencing pain issues. There is nothing wrong with being comfortable when you hunt.
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I passed the 76 year old mark this past July. A week ago climbed all the way to the top of a 30 degree slope at Wiener Roast Camp on the Yukon River, and am so thankful I was able to do so.
Four years ago I decided I had to do something about my weight which I had been adding to for the previous 20 years or so. It had been so easy: two pounds that year, half a pound the next, another pound the following year, then three pounds, half a pound that year, then another two,... whoah five pounds that year! Before you know it, you step on the scales one morning, and you weigh 249 pounds! Of course all the accompanying annoyances, aches, pains, and limitations came along with that.
Without going into all the details, over the next four years I got back down to 183, and feel like I am fifty years old again. No drugs, no supplements, no yoga, no personal trainer, just the one basic best exercise, pushing away from the table. Never skip breakfast, put as much as you want on your plate, but no second helpings, park at the far end of the lot, don't take the elevator. It's amazing how much can be accomplished a little at a time.
I'm back in the saddle again, so to speak, and if I can do it, so can you. Yes you can! You may not be able to reverse the complications and results of injury, I have had plenty of them over the years, but you can certainly ameliorate them by losing a few extra pounds a month. Before you know it, you are feeling better, sleeping better, walking more and going farther.
Give it a try. It will be one of the greatest gifts you have ever given yourself, and those who love you.
Best,
Ted
Four years ago I decided I had to do something about my weight which I had been adding to for the previous 20 years or so. It had been so easy: two pounds that year, half a pound the next, another pound the following year, then three pounds, half a pound that year, then another two,... whoah five pounds that year! Before you know it, you step on the scales one morning, and you weigh 249 pounds! Of course all the accompanying annoyances, aches, pains, and limitations came along with that.
Without going into all the details, over the next four years I got back down to 183, and feel like I am fifty years old again. No drugs, no supplements, no yoga, no personal trainer, just the one basic best exercise, pushing away from the table. Never skip breakfast, put as much as you want on your plate, but no second helpings, park at the far end of the lot, don't take the elevator. It's amazing how much can be accomplished a little at a time.
I'm back in the saddle again, so to speak, and if I can do it, so can you. Yes you can! You may not be able to reverse the complications and results of injury, I have had plenty of them over the years, but you can certainly ameliorate them by losing a few extra pounds a month. Before you know it, you are feeling better, sleeping better, walking more and going farther.
Give it a try. It will be one of the greatest gifts you have ever given yourself, and those who love you.
Best,
Ted
nowarningshot
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Slow down, just don't stop. You have to keep movjng or you lose movement and fitness. Swimming is awesome, low intensity, use lots of muscle groups, low impact. A good mattress, and proper sleep also allows regeneration.
Avoid drugs, pain is your body sending a message, listen. Drugs are a dead end.
Avoid drugs, pain is your body sending a message, listen. Drugs are a dead end.
Bunch of old buggers. I'm 71, and have worked since I was a kid. Drank myself into oblivion until I was 26, haven't touched a drop since. My main complaint now is an "arthritic lesion", aka a "spur", located between the base of my spine and my hip (that's where I think it is) . I can sit all day running a tractor at 10 mph or a combine at 5 mph, but I can't stand in one spot or walk very far and it starts to numb my leg and burns like heck on my right shin. I am waiting for a meeting with a surgeon, but I may die of old age first. I have no sense of smell for ten years now and am almost always plugged up. Otherwise, I'm as healthy as a horse - an old horse, that is. I didn't go whitetail hunting last Fall, but now have things under a bit of control with prudent application of Tylenol. I enjoy going out to my friend's 100 yd range and blasting away with various old milsurps.
Johnn Peterson
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I think the further we get along the path of life, gradually, more signs of our experiences and sometimes 'indiscretions' are going to show up. I know in my case, many of my aches and pains now are the result of some of my less than safe work practices in my early employment years. Some when I was a rigging slinger on a steel tower logging show on the west coast years back. And in later years as a millwright on the tools in a pulp mill.
However, the big surprise came a short time ago. Following some right side face and finger numbness and a stumble, I ended up in the local emerg. From there, to the emerg in a bigger centre close by. Long story short, I was diagnosed as having experienced a 'transient ischemic attack', a mini stroke. I quit in Oct. of 2002 but I was wondering if 40+ years of smoking had caught up to me. Blood tests, 'cat' CT scan, chest xray, carotid artery ultra sound and other tests have come back and the only indication of a possible cause is a slight a fib heartbeat issue. To try and correct this, I have cardioversion that will take place at the end of September and a echo cardiogram mid October. Other when the 'problem' first took place, I feel fine and the experts assure me I can be as physically active as ever. Still, an unnerving experience to say the least.
However, the big surprise came a short time ago. Following some right side face and finger numbness and a stumble, I ended up in the local emerg. From there, to the emerg in a bigger centre close by. Long story short, I was diagnosed as having experienced a 'transient ischemic attack', a mini stroke. I quit in Oct. of 2002 but I was wondering if 40+ years of smoking had caught up to me. Blood tests, 'cat' CT scan, chest xray, carotid artery ultra sound and other tests have come back and the only indication of a possible cause is a slight a fib heartbeat issue. To try and correct this, I have cardioversion that will take place at the end of September and a echo cardiogram mid October. Other when the 'problem' first took place, I feel fine and the experts assure me I can be as physically active as ever. Still, an unnerving experience to say the least.
Well wishes sent yer way Johnn.
Oh, do I git firstist dibzs awn the Mewsie divet and nawt tuh be furrgawtt'in, the 44-40...………………………..
Figured you have been real quiet awn'ear.
Tuff ol`critter like you has lotsah tread left awn yer mawkahhsins…………..
Oh, do I git firstist dibzs awn the Mewsie divet and nawt tuh be furrgawtt'in, the 44-40...………………………..
Figured you have been real quiet awn'ear.
Tuff ol`critter like you has lotsah tread left awn yer mawkahhsins…………..
Yes, you could easily be just fine from here on in, but the medical attention helps increase those odds. Needless to say, none of us should be going out on solo hunts anymore.
Baaah hum bug.
Me wifie hazz proclaimed I don’t play well wid t’uther peepole folk.
One thing bout gewn by yerself, well chit, only yew arrr respawnsibill
fur wartchin the sun tuh deetermin qui’ll oar et’ll.
Preitty gooder we we aye?
Fruck, I’m awn tuh sumting.
Yes i used to train horses
At 25yrs old in the prime of my ridong career i was working as a rider at Woodbine racettrack where i rode and exercised Thoroughbreds on the track, breaking and the works. When out with some 2 yr olds i had a freak accident where my company horse ( the one beside me) kicked out and snapped my left leg mid tib/fib. I was out on crutches for over a year with external pins and then a IM nail in my left tibia due to a non-union of the tibia
....i made it back to the track for 26 but was injured again shortly after when another incident occured where one of the young colts i was ridong out to the track flipped over backwards while spooking at other horses and i was unable to jump free before the big colt fell down onto my left leg and i was caught up in the stirrup and dragged a good ways....fortunately i had a rod in there from before and was able to do a sit up and pull my stirrup free or odd are id have died. When i landed my left leg was bent about 30 degrees with the rod inside bent. I ended up having that rod removed (somehow?) And a new IM nail inserted. According to that surgeon i am the only guy in Canada who at that point ever had such a deviated rod removed and a new one inserted successfully. He told me he spent 6 hrs on the phone with a surgeon from California learning the procedure afterwards. I went back with some of my own horses a few years later but had to quit due to Dalton McGinty and his slashing the profit sharing from the slots in racing and devastating the industry. A small guy like me could no longer afford to pay the bills where previously i could at least break even doing my own work and earning prize money.
Now im a nurse but i still make sure its known that i am a cowboy first and foremost. Hopefully you wont see me in an emergency but if you do i have tried to be as good at my current job as i was at my old one. I was on workers compensation for a while while in school retrainikg to be a nurse but am proud to say i used the social program as well aa it was intended and am using my work insurance education as best i can.
I consider myself lucky, one i can walk, i didnt suffer a severe head injury, the fracture i sustained was also found on a MRI of king tutankhamun and was likely his cause of death, so i survived what previously killed a King!. I find the history and development of how i came to be treated fascinating . I was healed thanks to one the development of antibiotics around the turn of the 20th century and later i have the great patriotic war and Germany's invasion into Russia to thank for the mending of my leg. A doctor by the name of Dr Ilizarov who when facing the reality of many wounded soldiers with lost limbs made it his lifes work to restore their damaged limbs that would previously been cut off. Antibioticshad allowed ins to be saved but they would be forever short where the middle was missing and the two ends reattached. He developed the Ilizarov device allowing the progressive lengthing of destroyed limbs where the mid shaft had been previously desctoryed. Thanks to his work thousands of people can walk today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavriil_Ilizarov
I am 39 now and have a 7yo daughter thanks in part to Dr Ilizarov i enjoy walking and even running every day and have lived at least 14yrs longer than i would have were i a king in ancient Egypt.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/king-tut-died-from-broken-leg--not-murder--scientists-conclude/
At 25yrs old in the prime of my ridong career i was working as a rider at Woodbine racettrack where i rode and exercised Thoroughbreds on the track, breaking and the works. When out with some 2 yr olds i had a freak accident where my company horse ( the one beside me) kicked out and snapped my left leg mid tib/fib. I was out on crutches for over a year with external pins and then a IM nail in my left tibia due to a non-union of the tibia
....i made it back to the track for 26 but was injured again shortly after when another incident occured where one of the young colts i was ridong out to the track flipped over backwards while spooking at other horses and i was unable to jump free before the big colt fell down onto my left leg and i was caught up in the stirrup and dragged a good ways....fortunately i had a rod in there from before and was able to do a sit up and pull my stirrup free or odd are id have died. When i landed my left leg was bent about 30 degrees with the rod inside bent. I ended up having that rod removed (somehow?) And a new IM nail inserted. According to that surgeon i am the only guy in Canada who at that point ever had such a deviated rod removed and a new one inserted successfully. He told me he spent 6 hrs on the phone with a surgeon from California learning the procedure afterwards. I went back with some of my own horses a few years later but had to quit due to Dalton McGinty and his slashing the profit sharing from the slots in racing and devastating the industry. A small guy like me could no longer afford to pay the bills where previously i could at least break even doing my own work and earning prize money.
Now im a nurse but i still make sure its known that i am a cowboy first and foremost. Hopefully you wont see me in an emergency but if you do i have tried to be as good at my current job as i was at my old one. I was on workers compensation for a while while in school retrainikg to be a nurse but am proud to say i used the social program as well aa it was intended and am using my work insurance education as best i can.
I consider myself lucky, one i can walk, i didnt suffer a severe head injury, the fracture i sustained was also found on a MRI of king tutankhamun and was likely his cause of death, so i survived what previously killed a King!. I find the history and development of how i came to be treated fascinating . I was healed thanks to one the development of antibiotics around the turn of the 20th century and later i have the great patriotic war and Germany's invasion into Russia to thank for the mending of my leg. A doctor by the name of Dr Ilizarov who when facing the reality of many wounded soldiers with lost limbs made it his lifes work to restore their damaged limbs that would previously been cut off. Antibioticshad allowed ins to be saved but they would be forever short where the middle was missing and the two ends reattached. He developed the Ilizarov device allowing the progressive lengthing of destroyed limbs where the mid shaft had been previously desctoryed. Thanks to his work thousands of people can walk today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavriil_Ilizarov
I am 39 now and have a 7yo daughter thanks in part to Dr Ilizarov i enjoy walking and even running every day and have lived at least 14yrs longer than i would have were i a king in ancient Egypt.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/king-tut-died-from-broken-leg--not-murder--scientists-conclude/
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Johnn Peterson
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- Chemainus B.C.
Well wishes sent yer way Johnn.
Oh, do I git firstist dibzs awn the Mewsie divet and nawt tuh be furrgawtt'in, the 44-40...………………………..
Figured you have been real quiet awn'ear.
Tuff ol`critter like you has lotsah tread left awn yer mawkahhsins…………..
Thanks bud. You're #1 on the list for the old 44-40.
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Chemainus B.C.
Right you are. I have been cautioned against taking part in any high contact sports and warned to wear my helmet on my bike rides.
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
Johnn: You need to stay out in front so guys like me and Looky can find our way!
I fully intend to give it my best shot. A couple more tests to go through and if they go as well as tests have done so far, it looks like a definite GO
. Lots of shooting and Moose chasing still on my bucket list.
buck knife
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22 years on Tyd atlantic ocean lobster fishing,50 knot winds pounding you all day into anything and everything aboard the boat .getting hit with pots etc all take a toll.The only time I was really hurt bad enough was when we had a worker aboard and he was passing down the last few 100 lb anchors off the top of the wheelhouse.He had diabetes and required insulin and didn't let anyone aboard know because he was scared of losing the job.He passed out and let go of an anchor which came down and caught my right knee,tearing the kneecap off and pushing it to the side of my leg...that hurt more than anything else .I was supposed to be done but the er doctor fixed me up wick with a bunch of painkillers and a knee brace and I went back to work instead of taking the workers comp.BIG mistake.Was hooked on perks and oxy for awhile before I finally got off them .I wish I had taken the comp now because my knee is fawkt.
