I can relate. No super big health crisis yet since ER, but not working is so much better for my joints. i can spend a lot more time with helpful exercises and other natural forms of pain management. Also without the job stress, my diet is much better now. Nice to be able to spend a little time on self care now, is it not?
58 soon, retired a few months after turning 55.
I have always perceived a real demarcation in attitude among the boomers, it seems to me it falls around the age one would have, or one's male relatives and friend would have, been at risk of the draft in the Vietnam era. I always saw my older boomer cousins as quite frenzied for experiences, good and bad ones, perhaps because of the fear of death (not that I realized it at the time, only years later, as i was just a kid and only thought they were a bit nutty) while us younger boomers were way more conventional almost perhaps as a way to set ourselves apart from them.