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"It is a curious sensation: The sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
When your heart is broken. Your boats are burned and nothing matters anymore.
It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

~ George Bernard Shaw

Anyone who has been close to death knows how peaceful and pain free the moment is. Life is good live it while you can.

Diesel,

You are going through hard times now.
That's a lot of stress looking after your wife who came close. Now that's tough enough on a good day in your prime. As we age, of course the hormones and the physical mechanisms for coping decrease. You know this no doubt. I'm just stating the obvious, but sometimes it helps to step back and be reminded of the bigger picture when you're not in the middle of it.
The winter and early spring leave us with little D3 hormone reserves and various other required nutrients.
Eating right helps more than we realize. I developed a
One thing that many find helpful to stave off the winter blues, and depression are supplementing with vitamin D3 at the proper dosage, exercise, talking to your family a little every day. I don't know if you are a Christian, but God offers a lot of encouragement in the Psalms. It's a good book to read a chapter from each day along with the Gospel of John. The Holy Spirit is our comforter too.

Prayer walks in the mornings in short sleeves with a family member or friend, D3, lots of water, cutting out sugar... there's lots that we can do with the Lord's help to strengthen and get past the tough times. The morning sunshine really helps, especially if your wife is able to get out there with you. Pray and read or listen to the word together too. I know a family who doesn't have a local church, but they've come through tough times reading it every day. They just lost their daughter. I was just contacted by the son as I write this, that the Dad just had a possible stroke. However, we have the Lord to ask for help in these times of need.
I'll post the audio Bible in the next post if you want to listen.

Those are a few ideas, but there's guys here that have had time to be there just to listen since you have been a member.
Sometimes thats what helps.

I will prayer for you and your wife.

HC

In the nearly 45 years we have been married, we both have had plenty of reasons to get to that point. My bride has had more abdominal surgeries than I care to remember, the last one just over a month ago. I have diabetes, MS, a bout with Covid last fall and have had a few surgeries myself. I have been beside her and she beside me through all those times. The older we get the less the "little" things matter to us (i.e. lawn mowing, immaculate landscaping and garden). We are both slowing down but still try to focus on what we can do when we can, as long as we enjoy it, It would have been easy to give up instead if going forward but we are not built that way.

Forge ahead, Diesel. Prayers for better days/weeks/months/years going forward for you and your wife.

Had another attack on Easter morning and was glad i had some meds to make it quit.

Till it stopped i went to my shop and pulled some brass out of the cleaner.

It took a lot longer to get it done because when standing i got dizzy.

Go set on a stool for a spell then go again.

When done i came back to the house and told the wife i was going to lay down for a spell.

I have a oxygen generator by the bed,so turned it on and had a nice 2 hours of doing nothing.

The oxygen made the aftereffects easier and i was not as tired.
The Doc told me they could to an ablation but he could not say i would wake up without a pacemaker so no dice.

As long as the meds work or if bad enough i will to the er.

SVT's suck but if caught in time won't maim you or get one planted.

Hope you folks can get over it and back to some type of normal.

Bookmark this and you'll have the best audio Bible available IMHO.

Psalms is first. Then to find John, you have to scroll down a ways.


[video:youtube]https://m.youtube.com/c/GoodHopeKJV/search?query=Alexander[/video]

There are certain things that happen to many of us that suck but we except them as part of life. I can live with that even though I may not like it. What depressed me far more is watching what my country is becoming at the hands of some of the most corrupt and disgusting human beings on Earth, and knowing that future generations will never understand what American greatness really was.

When you get really sick in the head and have no life you view mowing the lawn as a control mechanism.....lol

Big things are actually small.
And the tiny, huge.
Maybe perspective changes as we get older, or maybe we slow down enough to just see things for what they are.

I used to be smart. Now im not sure.
Know less, but understand more.

People are different and so are relationships.
Double edged sword, comparing yours to others.
Or what you think others are.
Maybe we settle when we shouldnt.
Maybe we are better off than we think.

Lost my career, bud and marriage, and have a sick kid.

Sure didnt turn out the way i planned. Deserve way better.
But Im a spiteful bastard and thats one reason im still here

Some little shred of optimism I can never shake myself free of.........that things might get better, or if they dont I still need to be here for some reason.

If I really knew the answers itd be pretty easy to make the call on leaving, or not.

I strive to stay alive because I think I’m the most important person on the planet.

There are patches in life that are there just to get through and learn from; it is no crime using our memories and dreams just to make it. All good things come to an end and so do all bad things. Godspeed, Diesel.

If you have a spouse, or grandkids, or yet give a damn about this once great country....proly need to stick around as one person can have quite a bit of influence/ effect.

Depression is part of life, thankfully its usually temporary.

Think most folks can weather such storms, but repeated ones can have the dangerous aspect of making one weary.

Good Book says something about that.

Isnt that the definition of a liberal?

weekly, unless I manage to avoid the evening news every day of the week...

I quit TV about 6 months ago

Sure does help.

And have cut back on web crap too.

I LIVE to antagonize "The Warden" She calls me Pepe le Peu!
That said, I live for her, the kids, and the grandkids. Everything I do is to try to improve their lives.
Money, faith, and values, all the way around.

No.

Does TV kill people?

you should print this out and give it to your dad.......bob

That is DARK.