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I've had kind of a rough life health wise. I joke that I am completely out of my nine lives and can't afford another big issue. Here is my nine lives (what I should have died from) laid out for you;
-1) Senior year of high school following some buddies at night and was hit by a freight train. I looked down the tracks but only saw black. The 45 MPH train was so close, I was looking at it's front hitch and couldn't see the high mounted light.
-2) 23 years old got stage 3 hodgkins lymphoma and had 6 months of 5 days a week radiation treatments.
-3) 28 y/o had a reoccurance of hodgkins and had 4 months of weekly chemotherapy
-4) 30 y/o developed a blood clot in upper chest about 2 inches from lung
-5) 38 y/o one of the chemotherapy drugs I had 10 years earlier caused congestive heart failure. The first day in the hospital, I lost 15 lbs of fluid from my chest and abdomen (picture 2 gallon milk containers on a 170 lb guy) and my heart was beating at 13% efficiency.
-6) 41 y/o another bought with CHF not as bad this time
-7) 46 y/o another round of chemotherapy for what appears like an early detection of hodgkins for the third time.
-8) 47 y/o Guy ran a stop sign and creamed me and my 83 Porsche 944. Ended up with shattered pelvis (10 breaks), 4 broken ribs, cracked sternum, broken foot, and lacerated liver.
I got 5 months at home for this one, had to learn to walk again on the reconstructed hip with a plate, pins and screws in place, and have been back to work now for 2 months.
-9) 47 y/o For sitting around inactive after surgury, I got numerous blood clots in both legs and abdomen.
I'm ready for crap to start happening to someone else, and my getting old has me concerned on several fronts. To look at me and to talk to me, you would never know any of this stuff has happened, i'm thin, somewhat in shape, and barely look 40.....no grey hair or nasty limp.
I believe my wife and I will have to move somewhere in the SW of the country or go to Arizona for the Winter to get away from the cold wet Winters of NW Ohio. I will gladly trade any of you for your aches and pains, but you have to take everything I have to trade to be fair.
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