I live my life by my Opa's example.

He loved wine and cigars.

Every year he went to vineyards around Stuttgart and Southern Germany and sampled the wines.

What he liked he bought by the cases.

Every day he went down to his wine cellar, selected a bottle, brought it to his study and had a glass with a choice stoggie. The rest of the bottle ended up on the dinner table.

One year during his annual physical the doc said, "you need to lay of the wine and cigars or you'll be dead in a year."

So he asked, "what happens if I do as you recommend?" The doc told him he'd see at least another 2 years, possibly more.

So Opa tried it. After a few months he was just miserable and decided he'd rather live another year happy than 2, 3, 4, more in misery.

Couple of months later he slipped in the shower, hit his head, was dead two days later.

He never made it the year and the wine and cigars had nothing to do with it.

At some point it's about living life, not prolonging death.

Worst part, when he bought wine by the case, none of it had a label. He was the only one who knew what was where in the cellar.

We'd go down, grab a bottle and it would be awesome so we'd go to get another and not have any idea what it was and how to find another.

Took us 15 years to finally polish off his collection.

Miss him, he knew how to live life.

Heal quickly, Hugh. Glad you're home.

Phew, that's a bit scary Hugh. Stay well, we need you around here!

These kind of posts are not what I want to see when members are about to retire.....
stay healthy!:)

Wow. That does sound scary Hugh. Glad you are still with us Bro.
With such an interesting working life, I think lots of us are just waiting to see how much fun your retirement will be.

Cheers Richard

Wow Hugh, glad to hear you are OK! Rest easy.

"Rest easy" sounds like RIP....

You might say, "At ease," and that might get some kind of reactive response...but "rest easy."

Bet the Rattlesnakes were throwing a PARTAY...

Wow - happy to hear you're on the mend! Make sure that med is printed all over your doc's files and same for pharmacist

Glad to hear that you are well!

Wow just reading this all now... glad to hear you are ok Hugh!

Hugh, PM me your address..

Glad to hear you're felling better Hugh. I guess I'll hold off shipping that Scotch ;)

Step father had long time arrhythmia with procedures and was rather stable until 'helped' by modern medicine doctor and modern drugs from a major hospital.
-Prescriptions turned into 10-15 different drugs, each to counteract the side effects of the previous.
-He passing out repeatedly from the cocktails with repeated falls and huge lumps on his head.
-(still no change in prescription or closer hourly/daily care that I was aware of)
-Needless to say his kidneys finally almost shut down completely, meanwhile his 'prime time' doc was 'less than adequate' responsive.
-The next doc took him off almost everything but the essentials, and his color and health returned for a while but he was trashed at that point.
-He lived a while longer but that criminal over-medication took several good years off his time on this side, IMO.

I heard marines are just too damn stubborn to die.
So get that extended blink in, and get yourself ready for training recruits.

I'm glad to read you survived and are doing better Hugh!

PHEW!!

glad you are better..

I talked to him today. He sounded great. Crazy story though..

Good health!

Thank you David Targa 811S!
 

David and I share a rare thing here. He and I came close to dying. He sent me a dozen or so really nice Churchill cigars for medicinal purposes. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1507164213.jpg