When is Enough, Enough?

How near do we have to get? I'm 56 and I feel as good as I did at 30....Funny 'cause no one ever thought I'd make it to 30 much less 56!

I was a bit of a wild one...

 

I've got hand pain,shoulder pain,back pain,and other assorted ailments. I'll be 61 the first week of July. guess I ought to make my next job sitting at the lake fishing,but I just can't see myself sitting around all the time. So i guess I'll keep going till I can pass the physical anymore and find me a local job for something to do.

 

Never had a whole one to start!

 

From what I've been told by the ER Doc (he's a family practitioner at the local clinic... very competent IMHO) the test will only determine whether I am a candidate for the surgery... if I am not there is no cure or treatment that will help me. I will slowly lose my memory and control of my bodily fluids and the ability to walk... kinda like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's all rolled into one.

After that I will assume room temperature... might be a year... maybe three. They can't say.

There are two ways to fix the symptoms and lead a fairly normal life... I hope I'm a candidate for one or the other.

I didn't have a stroke... but the deal I have puts extra pressure on the brain. Right now it feels like I have a bad sinus infection... I can feel the pressure in the front of my face and head. Nothing severe but I know it's there.

 

Most of them are already history....Some from the very things that they thought would get me.

Go figure!

 

Got pinned between a dump truck I was working on and the counterweight on a roadgrader behind me when the boss' son showed up drunk and started the truck in gear. Lucky it wasn't the big ol Reo diesel he did the same with months later. Put that one right through a brick wall.

Weather don't bother them much, knees ache a bit when I get real tired or been driving too long but I can still do the important stuff like outrun the wife when she gets mad at me.

Heck, it's nothing atall compared to what our soldiers go through. God's blessings on each and every one of them.

Shoot, y'all know all us old truckers have banged ourselves up just doing our jobs; falling off trailers, going airborn with tarps,etc,etc. Crap just happens and we keep on going. That's trucking..... no special thing y'know?

 

7 more years myself i think or maybe lol. Kind of depends on the way the industry goes. From the looks at it this new CSA RULES they seem to be trying harder and harder to push out the older drivers.
I guess to make it easyer to control the new younger drivers and illegal drivers they seem to want out on the road.