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Japonicus

Japonicus

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When I grow up I want to be retired. Well, today I retired!😁☺️
So if you see me bouncing around on here, my foot is fractured and going from 37+ years
at one place, and working 6 days a week, I cannot even walk the neighborhood now thanks
to the glutton of Amazon packages in the delivery scheme of things. I can't sit on my butt
so it's making healing a bit extended, nearly 6 weeks now, so anxiety is getting bad hitting me hard.
Once I can cut grass, and walk decently again I will be able to get over that part and enjoy it.
8 hr workout 6 days/week - to doing nothing, it makes all the sense in the world.
No shovels under foot this year. Last year I could hop on a shovel like a pogo stick.
 
I broke my ankle last year and they said it would heal in 2 months. I didn't wear the boot as often as I was supposed to and I walked on it too much. Six months later it still hadn't healed. The surgeon wanted to do surgery and put a giant plate in my small ankle. The plate had five holes in it and he wanted to put pins in those holes. I walked out and never went back. I went to a different surgeon and three months later my ankle healed on its own.

Try and do what they tell you to do! You don't want to have surgery on it and always get a second opinion if someone wants to do surgery.
Take good care of yourself and congrats on retirement.
 
Katie0317 said:
I broke my ankle last year and they said it would heal in 2 months. I didn't wear the boot as often as I was supposed to and I walked on it too much. Six months later it still hadn't healed. The surgeon wanted to do surgery and put a giant plate in my small ankle. The plate had five holes in it and he wanted to put pins in those holes. I walked out and never went back. I went to a different surgeon and three months later my ankle healed on its own.

Try and do what they tell you to do! You don't want to have surgery on it and always get a second opinion if someone wants to do surgery.
Take good care of yourself and congrats on retirement.
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So glad it healed up for you.
I'm wearing the walker boot all the time except nightly trips to bathroom. Next step is hard boot and I refuse.
Thank you
 
Scorpius said:
Honestly, retiring sounds terrifying. I plan on working part time even after retirement. Too much time to think leads one down paths one shouldn't go.
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The injury is the only scary thing really, when I can't do. Happened 2 years ago when I hurt my back at work again
and was off for 6 months. After 2 weeks I was a mess. Lay down in bed, and get a claustrophobic feeling
that gets under your skin, in your head and chest..."I can't be here, get up and pace the floor
sit at the table, get up...can't be here. My clothes bother me in the evening, and just a wrinkle in the sheets
drives me nuts when my arm touches it. Goes away once I'm back to work working off the energy I have.
I normally drink 1 cup of dark roast grounds in my coffee for 1/2 a pot. I'm now down to 1/3 cup grounds of decaf once/day.
I'll get there when I can expend all this energy built up from a very high stress job. I'm now sleeping to about 4am with Rx help.
In the meantime, I'm little miss Susie homemaker, and my boot scares my cats :)
 
Japonicus said:
The injury is the only scary thing really, when I can't do. Happened 2 years ago when I hurt my back at work again
and was off for 6 months. After 2 weeks I was a mess. Lay down in bed, and get a claustrophobic feeling
that gets under your skin, in your head and chest..."I can't be here, get up and pace the floor
sit at the table, get up...can't be here. My clothes bother me in the evening, and just a wrinkle in the sheets
drives me nuts when my arm touches it. Goes away once I'm back to work working off the energy I have.
I normally drink 1 cup of dark roast grounds in my coffee for 1/2 a pot. I'm now down to 1/3 cup grounds of decaf once/day.
I'll get there when I can expend all this energy built up from a very high stress job. I'm now sleeping to about 4am with Rx help.
In the meantime, I'm little miss Susie homemaker, and my boot scares my cats :)
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Sounds like me some days.
And my dad keeps telling me I should go to work for the postal service. I twitch enough as is on a good day!
 
I feel your pain, I broke my ankle a few years back and at the time I didn’t realize it was broken (thought it was severely sprained). Now The tip of my fibula floats around in it…. Most days it’s ok but some days I can’t walk on it at all. On the positive side, I now know when it’s going to rain better than the weather person does. If it’s hurting there’s rain on the way. 🤣 congrats on the retirement!
 
Scorpius said:
Honestly, retiring sounds terrifying. I plan on working part time even after retirement. Too much time to think leads one down paths one shouldn't go.
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Im eligible in 3 years. I have so many hobbies and things I can do. I don't think I'll be bored at all.
Not having that daily commute sounds wonderful.
What scares me more is being able to afford it.
 
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