Comment On Past Twenty Years Of Retirement

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  1. Trevalius Guyus

    Trevalius Guyus Veteran Member
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    Geez, Lon, I had to blow up your avatar pic. For a second, there, I thought they had you strapped into Old Sparky!
     
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  2. Lon Tanner

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    Pic was taken in Portugal.
     
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  3. Shirley Martin

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    Lon, that looks like a nice place to live. Are you unable to go outside and enjoy the scenery.... because of the virus?
     
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  4. Lon Tanner

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    It is nice but all of us have been shut in because of COVID.. We will all be getting the vaccine before the new year.
     
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    Bidet + Hair Dryer = Assisted Living Legend Forever
     
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  6. Herb Durant

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    I'm 71 still working just can't seem to pass the torch on maybe in 2021 .
     
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  7. John Brunner

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    What do you do, Herb?

    Also, there's a well-hidden place you can introduce yourself to the group if you wish.
    Click here then click on the Post New Thread button.
     
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  8. Herb Durant

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    Hello, John
    I chase airplane parts presently for C130 Hercules military AC
     
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  9. John Brunner

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    Gotcha.

    I spent a good part of my career in procurement, in a variety of industries. If a layoff had not put me out on the streets, I might still be working, too.
     
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  10. Lon Tanner

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    Welcome Herb Nice To Meet You----Why do you continue to work?
     
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  11. Hal Pollner

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    Many pieces of oversize furniture were built to accommodate the filming of "The Incredible Shrinking Man".

    Hal
     
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  12. Boris Boddenov

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    Wife and I took early retirement in 1997. I was 53, she a few years older. These 24 years of retirement have been bittersweet. The bitter part is related to health, mostly wife’s health.

    It was sweet at first but in 1999, because of a precancerous lesion, surgeons removed my wife’s entire duodenum, half of the stomach, and the head of the pancreas. This was the Whipple procedure, a major operation from which it took four months for her to recover. Then there were 10 years of sweet retirement.

    But in 2011, she showed the first signs of non-Alzheimer’s dementia. She was still able to maintain the activities of daily living but I ordered her meds and kept them straight. As she worsened, I needed to feed her, help her shower, walk her to the toilet, and clean her.

    In 2013, Visiting Angels sent us caregiving help, 12 hrs. daily x 7 days a week. International Lions loaned us a hospital bed in which we could change her diapers, give sponge baths, and help the visiting nurse insert urinary catheters.

    She died in 2015. The whole experience was purgatory for me and living hell for her. Although I miss her, in 2015 I went back to organized religion and still had my good health. So retirement was sweet again and I’m glad that I enjoyed the health to be her caregiver and keep my promise of no nursing home.

    But 2018 brought the onset of major musculoskeletal issues, all related to the upper extremities. Nothing life-threatening obviously, but severely disabling. So it’s back to bitter mode.
     
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  13. Lon Tanner

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    Wishing great comfort for you Boris. Hang in there!
     
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  14. Faye Fox

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    I have only been retired for 18 years. I will revisit this thread in 2023 with my 20-year commentary.
     
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    Consider yourself bookmarked. ;)
     
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