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11-14-2016, 04:04 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Originally Posted by Nemo2
...Just out of Alora station, and that's where I'm going to haul my cane assisted, arthritis/sciatica ridden, Tylenol reinforced, carcass...
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Do not see you mention the aneurysm. Well, that counts for something.
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11-14-2016, 04:49 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
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Up here in the frozen north (leaving tomorrow), they charge $1.50 for a electronic transfer and zero (senior rate) for a check. I pay it and I own their stock but I still curse them.
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For the fun of it...Keith
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11-14-2016, 04:54 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Les Bois
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w*rked a bit then drove to atx in my dad's new foz. hung out at waller creek pub house with dw, blew the foam off a couple and nailed some queso. about to hit the oyster bar at whole foods in the domain...
atx is soooo big now. I miss the old days
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11-14-2016, 06:43 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NW-Bound
Do not see you mention the aneurysm. Well, that counts for something.
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http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...m-82778-3.html Posts 60 and 74.
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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11-15-2016, 07:36 AM
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What I really meant was not having an aneurysm is worth something.
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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11-15-2016, 07:38 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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This morning we took a stroll over to the English Cemetery* in Malaga; (*a bit of a misnomer, since many of those interred are not English, including, but not limited to, the casualties of the SMS Gneisenau which was forced onto the rocks during a storm in December 1900).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englis...y,_M%C3%A1laga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau_(1879)
Another 'resident' who caught our attention was 26 year old Irish Lieutenant Robert Boyd:
Your Military History – The Martyr of Malaga | Military History Monthly
(Quite a young man, especially when compared to some of the 'Snowflakes' of today.)
And since, on this forum, the subject of mortality often arises, I was drawn to the sentiment expressed on this young man's headstone: "What's Brave, What's Noble, let's do it, and make death proud to take us."
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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11-15-2016, 07:40 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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11-15-2016, 07:45 AM
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Oh man, when we get older, instead of counting what ailments we have, let's count the ones we do not have. Maybe that will cheer us up.
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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11-15-2016, 07:46 AM
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#2309
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NW-Bound
Oh man, when we get older, instead of counting what ailments we have, let's count the ones we do not have. Maybe that will cheer us up.
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And the tally of the ones we don't have takes far less time.
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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11-15-2016, 07:49 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2008
Location: No fixed abode
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
(Quite a young man, especially when compared to some of the 'Snowflakes' of today.)
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I suspect if you check the lists of the dead heroes in all of our recent "conflicts", most of them will be equally as young. War, sadly, tends to work that way.
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"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." - Anonymous (not Will Rogers or Sam Clemens)
DW and I - FIREd at 50 (7/06), living off assets
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11-15-2016, 08:31 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
And the tally of the ones we don't have takes far less time.
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No, not true for me yet, but then I am young at 60.
Man, the other day looking at a photo taken at a family outing, it strikes me as to how old I look. Gah! I've always feel old, but now I look it too. I used to look much younger than my age, but it now catches up with me.
Still, just surfin' the forum makes me feel grateful for not having the problems some have. Of course, I have not told people about the problem I had. One of these days...
When I met old friends, somehow the talk always came to the subject of what ailments we have. Darn, we are just like our parents.
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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11-15-2016, 08:50 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: philly
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Ugh. At the dentist today. No matter how old I get I still have a dental phobia. Getting some old silver filings replaced. Hate the dentist.
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11-15-2016, 09:55 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Colorado Mountains
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NW-Bound
No, not true for me yet, but then I am young at 60.
Man, the other day looking at a photo taken at a family outing, it strikes me as to how old I look. Gah! I've always feel old, but now I look it too. I used to look much younger than my age, but it now catches up with me.
Still, just surfin' the forum makes me feel grateful for not having the problems some have. Of course, I have not told people about the problem I had. One of these days...
When I met old friends, somehow the talk always came to the subject of what ailments we have. Darn, we are just like our parents.
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My DD pointed out the picture of us dancing at her wedding reception two months ago. She was commenting on how much she really likes it. My thought was "Who is that old man dancing with my DD?" You might say it hit me pretty hard.
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11-15-2016, 06:52 PM
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Location: San Diego
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Spent the day at Kaiser Permanente outpatient center. Older son had his newly discovered dental cyst removed. Our dentist noticed it at a routine 6month check up 4 weeks ago. We went to an out of our medical insurance oral surgeon 2 weeks ago because we thought it was minor and not covered under medical... Then jumped into the Kaiser Permanente system when we realized it was serious. Met with our KP doctor last week, and surgery today.
It was bigger than the head and neck surgeon expected from the xrays - but it's out with no complications. Yay
In the meantime he's on soft food/liquid diet for 6 weeks. Sucks for a 15 year old perma-hungry teenager to not be able to gorge on typical junk food. The worry is that he has very little jaw bone left and chewing could break what's left of his jaw. Yikes!!!
Big props to the 2 surgeons and entire staff that handled his care today at Kaiser... They treated him well.
Glad to have insurance - but the estimates for the surgery show we'll hit the individual deductible and max OOP limits with this surgery.
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11-15-2016, 07:16 PM
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Location: Northern Illinois
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Rodi - what an ordeal! Great that it turned out well.
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11-15-2016, 07:43 PM
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In my early 20s, I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth out in one operation. Two were badly impacted. The surgery was of course done by a maxillofacial surgeon using general anesthesia. My face was so swollen, and my temples turned all black and blue like someone hit the sides of my face with a baseball bat.
My jaws hurt so much, I could not open my mouth, so I spoke with my jaws clenched. I could barely open my mouth to slip spoons of mashed potatoes in between my teeth.
What an ordeal! I still remember craving real food, which I slowly was able to resume eating after 2 weeks.
But then, it affected the way I chewed, and I developed TMJ disorder.
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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11-15-2016, 08:03 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: San Diego
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NW-Bound - that's why my dentist did the right side, then a few weeks later, the left side. No general anesthesia... I could eat on the "other" side of my mouth, etc. All four of mine were impacted also... but 3 came out easy-peasy... the 4th shattered while the dentist was pulling it - and it was a mess. I'm glad that happened on the "2nd" half of my mouth.
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11-15-2016, 08:28 PM
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Fired up the plasma torch and cut metal out of my fireplace to make room for my new insert. Great tool and a good application too. When I bought this thing I never imagined I would be burning though steel with it in my living room. Outside for sure, but inside?
But it's a "fireplace" and what better place to deposit white hot molten steel droplets eh?
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11-16-2016, 07:25 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rodi
Spent the day at Kaiser Permanente outpatient center. Older son had his newly discovered dental cyst removed. Our dentist noticed it at a routine 6month check up 4 weeks ago. We went to an out of our medical insurance oral surgeon 2 weeks ago because we thought it was minor and not covered under medical... Then jumped into the Kaiser Permanente system when we realized it was serious. Met with our KP doctor last week, and surgery today.
It was bigger than the head and neck surgeon expected from the xrays - but it's out with no complications. Yay
In the meantime he's on soft food/liquid diet for 6 weeks. Sucks for a 15 year old perma-hungry teenager to not be able to gorge on typical junk food. The worry is that he has very little jaw bone left and chewing could break what's left of his jaw. Yikes!!!
Big props to the 2 surgeons and entire staff that handled his care today at Kaiser... They treated him well.
Glad to have insurance - but the estimates for the surgery show we'll hit the individual deductible and max OOP limits with this surgery.
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Will the jawbone grow back or will something be done medically, that's sounds like a difficult problem for an active teenage boy.
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11-16-2016, 09:34 AM
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Location: San Diego
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ivinsfan
Will the jawbone grow back or will something be done medically, that's sounds like a difficult problem for an active teenage boy.
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The doctor is hopeful the jawbone will grow back. At his age - there is a lot of growth/bone production. (Less so in someone my age). So they will be monitoring it to see if grows back.
If it doesn't they will do a bone graft. Obviously that is something we'd like to avoid.
He had a rough night last night - waking up in pain whenever the meds wore off... but is semi-ok this morning... Feeling well enough to play video games. Normally I'm pretty strict about limiting his gaming time... but he gets a pass today. I'll be making him custom smoothies and chocolate ice cream shakes as he requests. (We stocked up on rasberries and strawberries for the smoothies. I'll sneak some yogurt in there for protein.)
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