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"Looking forward." Has PN taken that away from me, too?
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Ray, you must be a writer at heart. Your words resonate quite a bit with me but at 82 I just can't do what I used to do and it's definitely demoralizing at times. I used to look forward to long road trips to see different sites, venues and state parks but have pretty much given those days up. What I haven't given up and really look forward to is coffee with the my ex-coworkers at the local telephone company most every Friday. I usually stop by and pick up some fat pills (donuts🙃) and share them with my friends at the office and we sit around on their break and solve the world's problems.
I do really look forward to my phone alarm going off at 5am to remind me it's time to feed my cat and get my wife off to work. She's a year younger and in much better health and still working full time, although I am hoping this is the last year so we can enjoy our "golden" years 😂.
Everyday is an adventure my friend! I wish you fair winds and smooth sailing if you take the water route.
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Aw, John, we are birds of a feather, birds perhaps with a couple of gimpy wings. I, too, used to look forward to long road trips –– cruises, too (on small ships, thank you very much). I can too easily feel cheated by PN. I'd been to Europe several times but always by plane; I looked forward to retiring and being able to go on a long lingering cruise –– which my partner and I did within months of our both retiring. Little did I know that the wobbliness I would sometimes feel onboard the Aegean Odyssey (my favorite small ship) was due to more than the rolling Mediterranean. It wan't long after returning home that Doctor B. said to me: "It's called idiopathic peripheral neuropathy. I'm sorry, Ray, but there's not much I can do for you." How life and hop tracks in an instant!
I guess we're not 100% birds of a feather. I don't need an alarm going off to tell me it's tie to feed our cat. Our cat does that for me, that good ol' 5 am eeeee-owwwww-eeeeeeee-ow-ow-ow! 🙂
Have a great day, John!
Ray