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tylenols hard on your liver, NSAIDs(Aleve, ibuprofen) are hard on your heart and guts......opiates daily are just plain hard on you period.....

freaked out a doc 7 or so years ago when they were still trying to control my pain levels with percocet.....pain had gotten bad and on top of the percs every 4 hours(dont do this, ask for time release morphine if you get bad, makes your life so much better, truly, taking short acting opiates like that wil lead you to putting a gun in your mouth with the roller coasters) i was starting my morning with 2 Aleve, 800mg of ibuprofin and whatever the dose of Celebrex was cause they all seemed to act a lil different and the combined sure as hell beat picking one....

was sleeping alot and my wife freaked and hauled me in to the doc, who ofcourse asked me what i was taking now, her eyes bugged out when she heard and she figured i was horrible anemic from a GI bleed.....nope not the case, ive got cast iron guts turned out to be the fact i was just wore out from the opiates not lasting enough to get me sleeping through the night and a form of depression where if i wasnt gonna do something for the pain my brain just shut me down so that i wouldnt piss off my knees any more than they naturally are....

doc told my ex to make me pic one NSAID and flush the rest and thump the hell out of me if i ever did that again, even if my guts could take it my heart wasnt going to forever...wasnt long after that they put me on the time release morphine and i started feeling alot better....

I try not to take any Aleve, Tylenol, or Ibuprofen, but I do eat a bunch of coated Bayer Asprin ever day. Figure it can only give me stomach ulcers at the worst. Got to be better than destroying your liver, kidneys, and heart, any old day.

I ran into a similar problem at about your age....15 years ago.

I had been working a school cafeteria for several days just as school started, when along about Wednesday my back got real sore and stiff. I was blaming it on folding up those big 16 seat tables for the last 3 days .. The next day the thought crossed my mind that that last Sunday's moose I pulled out of the swamp to shore by myself might have had something to do with it....

Same yearling moose that blinked at me as I grabbed his spikes to pull his head around toward shore.

It was a quick trip back to the .338 parked 20 feet up the bank....

Funny, they thought these non-steroidal anti-inflammatories would lead to fewer cardiac events.

Greg
Will that keep the yotes away from the rabbits, heavy enough wire on the bottom? Cheers NC

they do if you dont eat them like candy....unfortunately usually people start doing that well before talking to a doc

I was laying down on the ground the other day, putting an auxillary trans cooler on my Honda Pilot. I had my son there to hand me the tools I needed, as I needed them...

so not having to get up and down, up and down over and over...

I had NO PAIN whatsoever that evening...

its up and down, lifting twisting etc, that gives our aging bodies a work out and a half...

and it certainly sneaks up on ya...

i set over 430 ft of tile today, did a little getting up and down to say the least.

get Roger, I've never laid tile, but it seems in that type of thing at our ages, lay down on a floor creeper and have someone handing this stuff down to you...

the lazy old man's way...

Pansies all you young sports. Growing old is only for the experienced as the inexperienced couldn't take it. I have type II diabetes and it has caused kidney disease. I have no knee cartiledge left so the only thing now is replacement. I have had arthritis since I was 18 and take vicoden for pain daily. I wear a back brace and walk with a cane for balance. I have atrial fibrillation so take Warfarin daily. In all I think I take 13 medications. I noticed a cobweb in my right eye several weeks ago and after extensive testing they declared it a 'vitrous hemmohrage' so far no tear in the retina nor detached retina. They said due to the Warfarin it would take several months for the blood to clear. So no shooting of anything that jars the cheek which is pretty much everything but pistol. I still drive and live alone so I'm surviving. Oh yes I will be 81 next month. I was doing pretty good till I hit about 78 and then I had to slow down. I drove from Arizona to Nashville last year this time for my 80th birthday. Made it in 2 days. Fully expect to do it again in May of this year as I have to drive to Denver for my Grandaughter's wedding and will probably drive on to Nashville from there. So all you young squirts don't really know what you have to look forward to. I wish you good fortune.

It's the "Third Layer", nc.

The hutches are setup inside of a tight, taught "dog proof" fence surrounding the Orchard / Garden.

There's a ranch wire outer perimeter that (so far) no Coyote has gotten through, and lived to tell about.



GTC



No worries.

GTC

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