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<blockquote data-quote="DavidA" data-source="post: 1906590" data-attributes="member: 72334"><p>For me here is my experience. Life is short and do what you feel inspired to do. What make you feel alive. I will be 67 in July. This last December I had a real awakening. I am 6'-5 1/2" an d have suffered from severe spinal stenosis which has resulted in numbness at the bottoms of both feet and at times in my front quads as well. I weighed 300 lbs and not obese but I lifted weights and I am not a small person. Any hoot December 21rst of this year after working out I came home and my lower back bothered me. Within a day I could not stand up straight and the pain down my left leg was so bad I was taking 15 mg of morphine every four hours to just maintain my sanity. On January 5th I had emergency surgery and after the operation I was able to Stand up without pain. Residual numbness but no pain. My doctor told me that I was lucky (this guy who was the surgeon on call was the bomb) and that I really needed to loose weight and muscle mass because in short my back is a mess and every extra pound I carry is detrimental to my health. So once I started to recover from surgery I started limiting my intake mainly through portion control and long cardio exercise regiment. So now I am down to 262 lbs and I ride my bicycle four times a week and I rode 27 miles this last weekend. </p><p></p><p>So here is the point I went to my calendar in Outlook and I put in the date January 5th as my 2nd birth date. Why because I love the outdoors. I ride Adventure Motorcycles, Street Motorcycles, I shoot rifles and not so much hunt as a lot of these activities I share with my wife, but we are all here only temporarily and for me being out in the woods, seeing nature, stopping at the top of a bluff and seeing Gods creation is a religious experience. I am lucky because my wife loves shares some of this with me. (hiking, riding my bicycle) no shooting or hunting. But she gets it. She knows how a ride my motorcycles, (fast knee dragging) and she lets me do it because she knows I love it. She loves me and she puts up with me . </p><p></p><p>What struck me about this was while I was in the depths of my pain all day laying around the house I thought " This is not living". Living is out there. Living is about being, about experiencing. So from what I know we go through once. So live it. As i said to my kids what ever you do in your life, do it. So not compromise your beliefs to and for anybody. In the end it is all we have. I do not know where this leaves you with your wife? You just need to share your time with her as well. Doing things she wants tot do. Then there is time with you, time with yourself, your thoughts and your experiences. Got to be. As Kahlil Gabram, a poet said let the relationship between a man and his wife be like two oceans, where the meet they mix and they exchange, bu they always have their own Identity. This you will have to figure out. Let me leave you with this picture my wife took of me standing at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. I believe it says it all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DavidA, post: 1906590, member: 72334"] For me here is my experience. Life is short and do what you feel inspired to do. What make you feel alive. I will be 67 in July. This last December I had a real awakening. I am 6'-5 1/2" an d have suffered from severe spinal stenosis which has resulted in numbness at the bottoms of both feet and at times in my front quads as well. I weighed 300 lbs and not obese but I lifted weights and I am not a small person. Any hoot December 21rst of this year after working out I came home and my lower back bothered me. Within a day I could not stand up straight and the pain down my left leg was so bad I was taking 15 mg of morphine every four hours to just maintain my sanity. On January 5th I had emergency surgery and after the operation I was able to Stand up without pain. Residual numbness but no pain. My doctor told me that I was lucky (this guy who was the surgeon on call was the bomb) and that I really needed to loose weight and muscle mass because in short my back is a mess and every extra pound I carry is detrimental to my health. So once I started to recover from surgery I started limiting my intake mainly through portion control and long cardio exercise regiment. So now I am down to 262 lbs and I ride my bicycle four times a week and I rode 27 miles this last weekend. So here is the point I went to my calendar in Outlook and I put in the date January 5th as my 2nd birth date. Why because I love the outdoors. I ride Adventure Motorcycles, Street Motorcycles, I shoot rifles and not so much hunt as a lot of these activities I share with my wife, but we are all here only temporarily and for me being out in the woods, seeing nature, stopping at the top of a bluff and seeing Gods creation is a religious experience. I am lucky because my wife loves shares some of this with me. (hiking, riding my bicycle) no shooting or hunting. But she gets it. She knows how a ride my motorcycles, (fast knee dragging) and she lets me do it because she knows I love it. She loves me and she puts up with me . What struck me about this was while I was in the depths of my pain all day laying around the house I thought " This is not living". Living is out there. Living is about being, about experiencing. So from what I know we go through once. So live it. As i said to my kids what ever you do in your life, do it. So not compromise your beliefs to and for anybody. In the end it is all we have. I do not know where this leaves you with your wife? You just need to share your time with her as well. Doing things she wants tot do. Then there is time with you, time with yourself, your thoughts and your experiences. Got to be. As Kahlil Gabram, a poet said let the relationship between a man and his wife be like two oceans, where the meet they mix and they exchange, bu they always have their own Identity. This you will have to figure out. Let me leave you with this picture my wife took of me standing at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. I believe it says it all. [/QUOTE]
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