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How do you feel about falling?
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@johnnoregon What an extraordinary story with an equally extraordinary conclusion, "It's what I do, my wife and animals count on me. I get up and keep going." Wow, perhaps strength through adversity leads to more strength? Besides the dependence of your family and your animals which, no doubt, includes their love for you and yours of them as well, to what do you attribute such energetic attendance as well as endurance through discomfort?
And, a question for others on this site, in light of obstacles and difficulties and fears, what prompts YOU to get up and get going?
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Every day starts with my dog Hazel waking me, wagging her tail, ready start our morning routine, which ends with a one to two mile walk, depending on the weather or our whims. Yesterday as we arrived home we met our friends Fred and Clover, so we went on a second walk with them. Then my day usually proceeds to an extensive, creative project designing and building musical instruments. My 70s are the best years of my life.
My wife has some serious health issues that cause pain, discomfort and depression. When it reached the point that she had not left the house for three weeks, we got her a little dog, a happy Havanese rescue. Now she also has no excuse to not get up. They do sleep late, but my wife has regained ability to walk, now up to about a half mile, and I hope eventually she'll be up to join Hazel and me for some of our nice river walks.
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Hi Steph,
I learned that meeting medical issues with as much mental force as I can when it happens results in a much shorter path to feeling a LOT better. Laying around and fussing about it makes me miserable, and makes feeling better mentally a hard road to hoe. That's my tactic: meet it head-on, dedicate my time to rehabbing whatever it is, and get it over as soon as I can.
John