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Old 08-15-2014, 07:19 PM  
mikesouth
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So for you it was actually a health issue which brought on middle age, rather than the age itself. It's good that you found ways of working smarter
Ya as odd as that sounds its pretty spot on ya see the surgery was major neurosurgery and the recovery, while not as long as the neurosurgeon expected was still very long (roughly a year and now I have annual MRIs to make sure the 1% they couldnt remove isnt growing back and so far it isnt)

But the bottom line is most of my life I could d things with brute force, I had strong legs and strong upper body...one of the results of the surgery was to leave me with a small amount of paralysis in my ankles (cant flex them up) now that doesnt sound like much but lemme tell ya...LOL so moving things with strength and doing things with brute force are now more calculated to take advantage of leverage, doing things tha require a lot of getting up and down like laying my floors is now calculated to minimize the up and down aspect.

I still do the gym but even something like a treadmill is out...now its low or no impact like stationary bike, arc trainer or elliptical

all in all though I aint bitchin, I love my life and I have great friends and great stories and consider myself charmed.
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