Originally Posted by seedsbelize2 (Post 22862972)

What, a thousand miles, give or take?

Originally Posted by seedsbelize2 (Post 22862978)

How long's it been since you heard that word?

Originally Posted by bampilot06 (Post 22862630)

This thread needs more Simon.

Originally Posted by DougRNS (Post 22862999)

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it's not just fun. It's a memory game. It keeps away the olds.

Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 22862982)

789 each way which means 3 days driving for this old man, one of those days a tad longer than I prefer

Originally Posted by seedsbelize2 (Post 22862978)

How long's it been since you heard that word?

Originally Posted by DougRNS (Post 22862999)

it's not just fun. It's a memory game. It keeps away the olds.

Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 22862786)

I look back now from my relaxed retirement status and find I really miss those days and the stimulating cognitive activity. Gave you a good reason to get up in the morning and endure the travel to work. There's no doubt that the mind is meant to be challenged and stimulated just as the body is. I love the photography and the sports and all the other retirement activities, but the pleasure of the cognitive challenges is missing and irreplaceable.

Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 22863008)

Dristan is still on the market.

Originally Posted by DougRNS (Post 22863011)

what about Doan's pills?

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 22862998)

He just posted it.

Originally Posted by seedsbelize2 (Post 22863019)

I've never had surgery before, outside of the emergency room. My eye surgery is tomorrow morning at 9. Outpatient. 8 hours fasted, of course. But why do they want me to bring a change of clothes?

Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 22862851)

My brain is mud now. The trick is to stay in or find a new challenging activity that will keep your mind sharp. If I had it to do over again I would have stayed with the programming all along, or maybe gone into writing. Or counseling, I love working with the youth. I was always a great writer, I look back now at some of my old work . . . notes, memos, reports, etc . . . and I'm forced to realize I couldn't reach those heights anymore. It's like that was a different person. Then when you see various accomplished people passing away in their nineties, you realize that what kept them sharp for so long was that they enjoyed what they did and they stayed at it till the end.

Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 22863023)

Maybe they're gonna have some EMTs in training cut your clothes off for practice.

Originally Posted by seedsbelize2 (Post 22863019)

I've never had surgery before, outside of the emergency room. My eye surgery is tomorrow morning at 9. Outpatient. 8 hours fasted, of course. But why do they want me to bring a change of clothes?

Originally Posted by seedsbelize2 (Post 22863019)

My eye surgery is tomorrow morning at 9.

Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 22863004)

I'll have a bottle of Dristan and a bottle of Doan's please.

I remember doing inventory at a drug store in Sun City circa 1985 and they had tooth brushing powder. Up until then I never knew that was an option.

Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22863068)

Yep. My Dad not only used toot powder at one time, he also used a smear-on deodorant.

Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 22862924)

For the docs, I’ve had spring and fall allergies all of my life. I can look at my journals and tell within a week or so when I’ll get what docs used to call an allergic cold. Now, I’m told that I’m just experiencing a severe chest cold and it’s a coincidence that I get one between April 10 and 30th every spring and again in the fall every September.

So, does it start with allergies that wreck my system and then make me acceptable to a severe chest cold? Just curious. This latest bout started 4/10 like allergies and became cold-like 4/16. I looked at last years journal and noted allergies the same week and again a severe chest cold a week or so later.

Is there a mechanism at play here or just 70 years of coincidences? Btw, back when docs dispensed their own meds, they always gave me a sandwich tablet, have orange and have white. I figured that it must have been an antihistamine like Dristan which it looked like.

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 22863105)

Might be just allergies and might be allergies set stage for infection.

Are you sick?? Or well with congestion and mucus? That will help answer if infection or just allergies.

Originally Posted by bampilot06 (Post 22863112)

looking like i’ll actually be able to eat a decent ride in tomorrow. .