I broke my ankle 6 years ago, that’s it really. My PSA number has been up and down for 25 years, had 3 biopsies, two ultra sounds on it, no cancer, so not really anything except enjoyed all that crap.

Cut off 3 fingers last year

The schitzz!

Induced several ways.

Caught a weird, life-threatening blood disorder that, long story short, ended up with me having my spleen removed, which was an life-threatening adventure in itself.

Happened in 1996. Haven’t looked back.

Fell 14 feet sleep walking to living room floor at my brother home and hit back of couch with shoulder and broke collar and about destroy shoulder. Good friend is top notch ortho and year and a half some what normal..... No basic heath problems

Heart disease, they put a stent in on 13 Mar 99.

Chinese flu, that's it.

Car wreck at 22. Cancer at 26. Full recovery from both.

Fractured ankle, football.
Fractured collar bone, softball

1st place goes to Kidney stones (actually only dust, but you’d think it was pit run)

Runner up was a tablesaw accident when I was about 12. Thankfully I got to keep all my fingers.

About 35 years of cutting timber, masonry work and oilfield has wore both my shoulders out.
3 on the left last one little over a year ago and month ago on my right.
Should have listened 30 years ago.

Broken pelvis from falling tree while running backhoe.

Ruptured appendix that went unattended for 3 days in the mountains.

There's not much we don't know about each other.

Thyroid disease, specifically Grave's disease.

On the bright side Great weight loss plan till I had thyroid gland irradiated.

sepublic Posting this here as a Public Service for the Floridians. Don't know any details, but I'm not a Floridian so not impacted.

Prostate cancer….surgery 2017, recurrence and 39 radiation treatments in 2018. Undetectable PSA since then.

Chronic kidney disease.

Broken bones, numerous infections that would likely fixed me if not for
good antibiotics.

I had a spontaneous pneumothorax several years ago. One of my lungs partially deflated into my chest and made a big air bubble which prevented the lung from refiling completely. Could have been worse, but it was certainly an unsettling event.

Double pneumonia from the China virus.

Only what I’ve caused myself.

AIDs?

MI with stent, but the worst, day to day is multiple ruptured lumbar discs, which led to one leg being 2in. smaller in circumference.

As far as I know crohns disease. Did have a staph infection once that might have cost me my arm had it not been treated a few more days.

My back hurts all the time so passing kidney stones was no big deal.
Gallbladder attack was pretty crappy as was appendix about to burst.
Broke a few bones, again no big deal...sucked day of, but was way better after that.

Worst crap has been immune system going crazy, first from a bee sting. 2nd time post covid.

Hives all over, for a month or longer. Been about 20 yrs between those events.

Had shingles a couple times, blah feeling for a week.

Nothing compared to that rash chit from the bee and covid
events.

Maybe take that back, botched surgery had me in excrutiating pain for 3 yrs, but it was constant the first year and a little less and less frequent year two w even lesser yr 3. That pretty much shut down any major activity ( my job had me working in a lab so was doable ).

Was fine when it finally freakin healed.

RH Factor at birth, Last Rites, the whole shebang.

Not bad since.

Paper cut.
No problem though, it was Worker's Comp.

Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis- in remission due to a loving wife who researches and performs critical fact findings. A low carb high fat diet combined with fasting has resulted in an incredible drop in my glucose numbers.

Had 6” of my pecker removed (yes from the middle). Was sick of it coming out of my shoe and stepping on it. Haven’t looked back.

Ducking bullets in Iraq. Definately bad for your health.

Had a case of Beaver Fever aka Giardia in 1987, just let it pass and never got it again.

Other than that, nuttin other than a flu bug maybe 20 or so years ago.

Prostate cancer surgery about 7 years ago. Didn't get it all, PSA went up. Had to get 49 radiation treatments to finish it off. Been cancer free ever since, thank God.


Currently down for the count with double pneumonia (non-covid) for the last 10 days. Not sure how long it will take to clear this, but it's a lot more serious than I first thought.

Cancer

Carotid endarterectomy last winter.

Broken collarbone (twice) riding dirt bikes.

Stroke in 2008.

might as well post this stuff on FB.

I'd be blind, and dead without anti biotics, anti-coagulant meds and modern surgery techniques, and my widow would be richer.....

I count my blessings. Very little health wise for me. Lost a finger tip and thumb tip in separate accidents. High cholesterol. Wife is another matter. Having to deal with all the things that accompany being the spouse of someone with dementia. Forced me to retire early to care for her.

At 61 nothing yet thank the good lord for that. Did have a nose surgery years ago to open up my airways from a broken nose.

Few experiences with shrapnel. Fellow teaching me how to be a scout pilot flew us through a really large tree so I got a ride on a Medevac to DaNang. Dysentery during the second tour. The latter was one of the most bizarre adventures of all time. One learns how to land lightly when so afflicted.

Ripped on my left ring finger long time ago. What I refer to as a brutal divorce, and it ended my guitar adventure.

4 styles of cancer over the years. Large B Cell & Follicular Lymphoma, prostate and skin

I went down in early January. My oxygen levels started staying above 95% in mid April. Had an X-ray done in early May and the report said my lungs were normal for someone in my age bracket. It's probably going to take a couple months to get back to normal.

West Nile Virus that developed into encephalitis in 2018 almost killed me.

Sarcoidosis, since 2020.

I went to the Dr on Thursday this week. He ordered x-rays for the next day and gave me prescription. Got the x-rays on Friday. The x-ray lab tech came out immediately with concern and told me to go see my Dr. Within 10 mins of that the Dr. calls me with a new , much more powerful prescription and a word of warning to get some rest or I'm going to be admitted. Another appt. on Wednesday this week and more x-rays to chart progress.

The sweats when sleeping are 2nd to none. I got up in the middle of the night last night just to towel off.

Broken bone outside edge of left foot playing racquet ball. Needed a stainless plate and some screws to fix that.

besides high blood pressure, broken stuff.

I was diagnosed with MS in 2015. Gradually going down hill.

damn heart attack some 11 years ago. Still causes daily issues.

Surgery for a hernia when I was five.

Been a type 1 diabetic since age 2 and now paying for thinking that I was immortal all those years. I'd love to have traded for type 2 as that's easy cruising comparatively. Had double pneumonia 13 years ago that left my lungs scarred and asthmatic which makes everything difficult if you get even mildly winded. I know that dialysis will be in my future someday with the way my kidney numbers are going. Fuggin sucks.

Who cares????

Ruptured spleen. Could have died, but didn't.

Aortic aneurysm

It took emergency open heart surgery and the installation of a plastic graft to replace my upper thoracic.

I will require more surgery in the future to replace my leaking aortic valve.

Cancer

Blood clot put me in the ER on my 55th birthday.

Told family Dr. I wanted bump removed from the side of my nose. He said it's gettin a bit big for me to burn off, I'll send ya to a guy. Went to specialist & he said it's got to go, it's cancer.

Blood work & EKG for surgery. Got a call from nurse friend of mine wanting to know when I had a heart attack. Never I said. She said you've had one, maybe 2 according to the test.

Turns out the heart attacks were minor silent ones & the skin cancer removal was successful.

I'll have to admit that I was on edge for a week or 2.

Get my aortic root replaced this fall if I make it that long.

Quadruple bypass surgery last month.

God bless you

I have had numerous broken bones, bad knees and worn out shoulders for most of my adult life. Bacterial menigitius almost got me as a youngster, and melanoma that spread to lymph nodes. By far ,and I mean WAY far ,the worst thing I ever been through was having a stent removed from a kidney through the natural course of drainage after a kidney stone removal with no pain deadner other than the doc saying , "this is gonna suck , but I will make it quick!!!!!"

Been pretty lucky, other than broken bones (too many to list here)
Long head of the bicep re-attached in both shoulders.
Blood clots in my leg.
TIA at age 44.

Cancer.

x2

Motocross

Clap in '91

MS . . . BTW, it doesn't go away.

Bad car wreck (hold my beer) when I was 17. Rare benign tumor at the base of my skull when I was 55. Had it removed and all good since. 66 now. Work out at the gym everyday. Try to eat right. Still chase my wife around a little and generally feel pretty damn good.

Our health can change in the blink of an eye. Live every day to the fullest and thank the BiG GUY in heaven for everything he gives us.

Mackey

CIDP, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. An autoimmune disease similar to MS but the peripheral nervous system is damaged instead of the central.

Propane burn 2 years ago. Spent 3 nights in the hospital and minor surgery. Wasn't that bad but definately got close to if any more would have got burnt it would have sucked. Debridement is not fun, but fentanyl helps.

My impending death. I don't know when, how, where it till happen or whether it will be instantaneous or if I will linger for months, but it's a sure thing my earthly life is rushing toward an end.
My eternal life is another issue.

3rd degree burns over 10% of my body when I was 5. Bad car wreck about 20 years later. I don't remember buckling my seat belt, but it was. EMT's said it saved me. Plus a couple other times I came pretty close to death. My guardian angel is really on his toes.

G23

Steward Hamblem, "Don't be afraid of the River of Death son, Our Father owns Land, on both sides of The River."

Paracaditis (sp?). An infection in the sack surrounding the heart. Felt like a heart attack.

Have an abdominal aortic anurorism and type 2 diebetes that needs constant monitoring

a couple of strokes over the last few years.

About 8 years ago, feeling like I was in good health, several doctors insisted I do the treadmill heart test.
They freaked out and pulled me off the treadmill after a few minuets.
I laughed and told them I could do this all day long.
Cardiologist insisted on an angioplasty.
Major blockage of all four main arteries.
A week later I had a quad bypass

Hyponatremia bad enough that I flatlined. CPR and a number of IV’s and I got started again. Took a while to recover. At least I learned my limits.

Old70

Leukemia 2012 in process of cureing the cancer I developed gragh vs host disease that trashed my lungs. I now have COPD so bad my doctor gave me 6 months to live. That was in September 2020 I'm in a wheel chair and unable to walk more than 20 feet without running out of oxygen. I thank the Lord every day I'm alive.

May God Bless You kind sir.

Bless you.

Symptomatic SVT twice.
Once converted by synchronized cardioversion, (shocked) and once converted by adenosine. The first one was alarming since it woke me up. Headache, tightness in chest and palpitations. Called 911 and got zapped. The second one was more like 'really? Again?'. That got taken care of by meds. That one caused chest pain going to my neck and back and dizzyness.
The second time the ER doc told me it was a benign rhythm. I asked him if it was benign, why did I have chest pain?

I don't consider my MX injuries health issues. The worst I had though was a Grade IV AC separation from September that bothers me still and a broken foot that that required surgery and 5.5 months off work. I have hit the ground pretty hard over the last 50 years but those were the two worst.
At 65 I still try to ride once a week.

Fractures in neck and back with spinal cord impingement was painful when I were 23yrs, but that was an injury underground and not medical. My worst medical issue is gout. Ouch gout is painful. I've heard gout and kidney stones or stones are high on the pain scale.

They're going to cut off my left foot in a couple weeks because of a condition called Charcot Foot. Brought on by neuropathy.

Bad judgement

I don't know what it was, neither do the doctors. All I know is for a couple of weeks, literally, my legs didn't work. I couldn't walk.

When I stood up - the pain was so bad my vision would go black and I passed out (early on) - after that, it was just excruciating. LOTS of blood work, a week in ICU, marrow biopsy, more narcotics than your average CVS and a trip to Mayo - they never figured it out.

At one point they thought I had some form of bone cancer. Had 3 choices. No cancer, cancer A and cancer B. Between the 2 cancers - best case was 6-8 weeks to live. I had 9/10 symptoms of 1 and 8/10 of the other. No cancer obvs and that's when I went to Mayo.


So I'd say that was the worse couple of months for me - medical wise.

I have made historically bad decisions regarding women...

MANY TIMES...

Had a valve job done to my ticker in March. Couple setbacks along the way, but on the mend now....

An encounter with a Dodge truck in 1974. He cut across the road in front of me….hit him broadside at about 50 mph contact speed. Totaled my 1973 Honda…..I pretty much walked, OK, “hobbled” away with lots of deep internal bruising and a very sprained ankle. Did my squirrel hunting that Fall on crutches. Crutches “suck” pretty badly in soft Louisiana dirt! 😁 memtb

Reading all the comments makes me feel pretty lucky and a comparative picture of health.

Intensive care for 9 days including a kidney machine operation... all from topping a tree

These postings sure put life in perspective!

I have some a few serious issues but minor compared to some on here

May 2018 Brain hemorrhage 1/2 mi from home while turkey hunting. 60 mi ambulance ride (not fun), 9 days ICU, 6 months later stint put in brain above left ear. Meds rest of my life but lucky to be alive and still live normally.

May 2018 Brain hemorrhage 1/2 mi from home while turkey hunting. 60 mi ambulance ride (not fun), 9 days ICU, 6 months later stint put in brain above left ear. Doctors told my wife I was 5 min. from dying. Meds rest of my life but lucky to be alive and still live normally.

How bout a nail in the eyeball?

I was diagnosed with severe asthma at 8 yrs old. The medicines for asthma back in the early 70's were horrible at best. As I got older, and meds were developed it has been pretty well controlled. I'll admit I took advantage of it through school getting out of some PE classes, but there were also times it held me back from activities I wanted to do. Luckily, neither of my kids has inherited the disease.

I've broken bones multiple times and had a pretty major shoulder surgery. Bones heal and shoulders recover, but asthma is there 24/7 and I have to deal with it daily.

Elk Country

I had a honeybee stinger in the eyeball. It had a be surgically removed because beestingers are barbed, otherwise I had laser eye surgery to fix detached retinas

2 heart stents about 9 years ago, rods and cages in my back, new knee, rotator cuff surgery.Being a electric lineman for 39 years beat my a$$ up..

kidneys aren't the best, just go a diagnosis of melanoma half an hour ago on a spot taken from my forehead last week.

A BAD LIVER FROM PLAYING IN IRAQ

Heart attack

Heart attack here also. About a year ago. I keep getting up in the morning, guess the stints worked.

Still paying it off.....

Looks like I'll have to get mine reworked in the near future.

Probably a aortic replacement

I fear the worst is yet to come.

heart attack, which led them to find out i was an undiagnosed diabetic, which caused all the health issues.

Blood clots at a remote Afghanistan location.

kwg

Ewo ex wives!

Football and concrete work, have had both knees replaced, (which in truth were the best decisions I have made). Running a bull float over many hundreds of thousand of sq. ft. of concrete ate my shoulders up, they will be next to fix if possible. got an ankle that makes me walk like John Wayne, broke third game senior year in high school, they taped it up and shot me full of Novocain and sent me back in, it is a club these days but I get around.

Self induced, about 2 million Marlboro Reds and Lites probably shaved a lot of years off what I could have lived, but I quit 10 years ago and it is not as bad as it might have been, and staying 50 pounds over weight is not helping anything.

Life's been good to me so far...

I wish I had not read this. I will have my stent removed next week. I knew my Doctor was lying.

X3

Kidneys shot. Dialysis 3 days a week mandatory.

Election Dysfunction due to exposure to LGBFJB

Had to have my spleen yanked after developing a rare auto-immune blood disorder that basically turned me into a haemophiliac.

Aside from a clamp failing during the laparoscopic surgery, causing massive blood loss which they had to fix via a crooked 10” emergency zipper, I’ve ever looked back.

1992 stabbed through left lung

1994 shot in right leg

1995 torn abdominal muscle

2002 Broken back.

2005 Broken neck.

2008 Knocked a hole through the left side of my head and lacerated left temporal lobe.

2011 cut left thumb off but was able to get it reattached, it's nothing but a post now. Doesn't bend and minimal feeling.

2012 Car crash crushing every bone on my left side, collapsed lung, ruptured spleen.

2022 Torn meniscus.

2022 Broken shoulder.

2022 Severed deltoid ligament to right ankle.

Oh and cut myself shaving yesterday!

I'm sure there is something I'm missing but you get the gist! Calling me accident prone is an understatement. Everytime my mom says goodbye after a visit or on the phone, she always says "be careful"! She never says it to the other 5 siblings. I think most of her gray hair is my fault.

Anxiety. Essentially, it affected everything in my life, and not for the good.

Got caught in a PTO shaft in 96, broke 8 ribs, my left arm and ruptured my spleen.

Tonsil cancer in 08.

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm repair in 19.

Lucky i'm still kickin.

Appendix out when I was a kid, so back in the days I woulda been removed from the gene pool early on.

Got sick as a dog, vomiting green water and mildly hallucinating for about five days in Africa, the worst part of that was walking out about a hour to the highway and then flagging down a ride for the 120 miles to Accra. The French couple in an old-style LandRover weren’t happy to do it but they did.

Wrecked on my bike and looked horrible for a while, raccoon bruising around both eyes, in hindsight prob’ly a minor skull fracture (I told the kids I was in a parent-teacher conference and never saw that purse coming, but when I got up off the floor I sure showed that lady what’s up )

Had three molars get infected and break off at the gum ( old root canals) over the last five or six years.

But...... when it comes to major health deals, just dumb luck so far. I’m grateful for every day of it.

Life. It's a serious hurdle for those things that try to end it.

Two heat attacks got 3 stents put in knees worn out from driving long distance trucks the usual overweight and diabetes problems and of course my pecker don't perk up and look around like it used to

Heart dammit can't spell either

It's a bitch only being able to count to 7 now......


I guess to worst for me would be a Stent in my LAD artery.

food poisoning

Clogged heart artery. Stent put in Mar 13 99

I should of thrown in an unsuccessful back surgery as done at Walter Reed in September 2003. It has left my right leg very numb. I just saw an entry by another forum member about Charcot foot. It's something I need to look into. All I have to do is get someone from VA to return my telephone calls so we can have a discussion about this.

kwg

Stroke and bad lungs are the worse. Pain wise, kidney stones, two back surgeries, and a replaced shoulder

I got to be one of the lucky 5000 guys a year to get male breast cancer....between allergic reactions to 2 different chemos and the radiation I was one very sick puppy. Wife and daughter twice had the conversation of what do we do when Dad dies? Still here.

The worst and something I couldn't account for was 2 episodes, 6 months apart of SVT. It is spontaneous rapid heart beat of 140 or higher. I was dizzy and had chest pain. I called paramedics for both episode. The first time I converted from adenosine treatment, the second time I needed to be shocked. No rhyme or reason from the docs for it happening.
The ortho stuff I get. I know what I did and how I lived, it isn't life threatening.

Blood clot in the lungs this past summer.

Tore the left pectoral clean off the bone a bit more than a year ago.

Broke ankle in 2016

Cancer at 42. Blew out my knee about seven years ago. Threw a blood clot and went temporarily blind in left eye this year. Kidney stone this year. Diagnosed with Thrombocytosis this year. Grew a third ball recently. A pretty little blond woman did an ultrasound on my bag and said that it was nothing to worry about.

Hernia surgery when I was 5 years old. I had my annual a month or so ago and the blood work said all was good. A titanium liver apparently. Knock on wood...

Ruptured spleen I guess.

Going in on Friday to have polyps biopsied on my vocal cords.

Take your pick:

Brain tumor wrapped into spinal cord.
Lung cancer.
Bladder cancer.
Broken pelvis/arm,eye scocket. ribs.
Appendix/ gall bladder removal
Hernia
Depression from above. GW

Surgery on both knees, both shoulders, left ankle, right hand.
Now its arthritis that's the problem.

Nothing compared to some of what I've been reading. Crushed my right leg in a debarker cylinder, back surgery, pneumonia, shingles, and arthritis in the knees, shoulders and hands. Healthy as a horse otherwise!

Spinal fusion followed by an infection where I reacted to the antibiotic and was in a coma for a week not expected to wake up. Infection affected hips, knees and feet. Pain ten years later. Two years ago, stent, aortic valve replacement where they messed up the electrics and heart stopped. Pacemaker added. Now, a-fib/flutter. Just had an ablation.
Now, need another knee, cataract removed so, as they say, getting old ain’t for sissies and I’m only 78.

April 3rd 2011 MC accident. I got broke up / cut up pretty good and split my helmet right down the middle. I did get a free helo ride to the trauma center though.

As an adult, heart attack.

This thread is a hypochondriacs dream.

Had bypass surgery in 77 at age 27. Had blowout that nite and they had to go back in. Blood shortage and they had to get more blood from my Dad and a nurse’s husband. I had been in ICU for a week; so unstable unable to transport me to Jackson MS for cath and surgery. Had several more heart attacks and strokes. Had to take medical disability due to a stroke in 03 that caused short term memory loss. In Oct 2020
came down with Covid pneumonia had a trach, 3 of us survived ventilator, stage 4 sacral wound big enuff to put your fist in, fecal tube, feeding tube, colostomy and Covid toes and heel. When transferred to a specialty hospital in Meridian MS, I could speak with trach button in, shake my head and twiddle my thumbs. Lost several toes and heel, eventually the L leg below the knee. Had all kinds of surgeries, abradments, and emergency abdominal surgery to to a bad baked potato in my hospital food. Over 6 bouts of pneumonia and heart palpitations caused by breathing treatment meds adversely interacting with heart meds. Spent 14 months away from home in specialty hospital and nursing home. I was on a first name basis with ambulance crews. Never took the jab; I had worked at Baxter Labs and knew there was no way in hell a drug company could develop a vaccine and fully test it in a year. Had a hernia repair cos colostomy bag would not seal; eventually a reversal. Made it home and have Home Health and wife tending to me. In a wheelchair and use a walker; progressing to a cane. I’m cooking meals and driving, getting skin grafts at home for sacral wound. For the most part, met some wonderful folks from all walks of live. I woke up in a foreign land, TV talking about President elect Joe Biden. Had to call my wife and ask what in the hell happened. Feel much like Lazarus raised from the dead. I should not be here. It was especially tuff on the wife. Been at death’s door many, many times. All that matters is memories you made with loved ones and your relationship with God provided by the shed blood of His Son who paid my sin debt. You have a soul that will live forever somewhere. You have a choice as to where. You can choose life or death. I have had 2 near death experiences (out of body). This life is temporal, dying is easy if you have prepared for it. I live to be an influence on my grandchildren, spoil them, and mentor those I come in contact with. Life is good when you’ve been thru trials like I have. It is true that that which does not kill you will make you stronger. Still have have flashbacks and wife suffers from anxiety/panic attacks. Prior to Covid, I was caretaker for her thru 2 different types breast cancers, skin cancers and bilateral mysectomy and reconstructive surgery. Pp
,

Ostioid ostioma in back of my right knee big as a grape 21 yrs old 8 inch scar on the back side of my leg.Surgery was in august I was hobbling in the deer woods come October.Took about 2 years to fully recover dam thing still aches when weather changes.

20 years ago my body rejected my external skin. Landed at the UofM Hospital, sent there from the Mayo Clinic. 3 months burn unit. The U saved my life.

Osky

Well……it could be an air rifle pellet in the lung whenI was a kid. Or maybe getting West Nile about 15 years ago! Other than those two little issues……nutt’n to report! memtb

Prostate cancer and limber dick!!

Quad bypass at 57

Staph infection had multiple surgeries on my back. Some wicked scars remain

Brother, that's the hardest !!!

I ran out of McCallan once. Thought I was a goner.

Crap…..forgot about the two back surgeries. Last one (almost 11 years ago) was a “fusion” which fixed it very nicely……better than I’ve been in many years! memtb

A few broken bones.

Blood clot above the knee after bone graft surgery in rt. foot. My doctor standing at my bedside in the ER, telling an insurance rep. that I could die.
I had some very close calls while firefighting, but this was different
Have to be on Xarelto the rest of my life.

Twice broken back, cancer, crushed left shoulder...all about equal, IMO. Getting old is da-schidtz. I was never in a hospital bed until 2007.

Broken back, prostate cancer, removed prostate

4 back surgeries, ruptured Achilles in June, but phfuuck it, beat it all.

Getting old isn't for the faint of hearted

need to change the title of this thread!

CIDP, like MS but attacks the peripheral nervous system instead of the central nervous system.

Grade III hangover

Skydiving out of the back of a moving truck will do that to a guy.

Lol

🦫

Heart attack, and getting married.

Kinda a toss up for me. 2002 I got hit in the face by a 4” waterline while I was operating an underground scoop. Had 6 skull fractures, one was an open skull fracture. 2019 I had an appendicitis but never had any pain that’s normally expected with it. Blood work showed my white count was through the roof. ER doc had an ultrasound done that showed a mass in my abdomen. Next day surgery took two surgeons 9 hours with me on the table getting me cleaned out. My appendix had ruptured and detached and I was septic. Two weeks of strong antibiotics to get me well.

Broken heart...

Well, y'all know, so I ain't gonna say.

The good news is that I'll probably get thrown out of PT tomorrow. I've improved tremendously just since Deer Season ended. I still can't do a full deep knee bend, but I'm getting there. I've got a tad more feeling in my feet and fingers.

KYHillChick gave me one of those dry fire thingies. My groups are steadily improving.