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When is Enough, Enough?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Wargames, May 14, 2011.

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  1. May 28, 2011 #51
    Krooser

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    Thanks... I am going to TRY to delay this deal until November. the first test involves three days stay in the hospital to do some tests... might as well do it when it's a little slow and I can stay around for the holidays.

    I'm not sure if I can hold out that long.
     
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  3. May 28, 2011 #52
    Wargames

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    Are you diabetic ? Ill let me wife know, and her Prayer Warrior women she hangs around with will Pray for you. Stay in touch Krooser.
     
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  4. May 28, 2011 #53
    Wargames

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    Krooser, I would not wait, get the test done, you wont regret it. I held off one time also. Got up on the dock, and started seeing double, this happen 2 years ago. I lost my vision for almost 2 weeks. You want to talk about being scared, LOL, Doc. says in his office, so, your retired now. Not funny doc., I said to him. I had a TIA stroke.
     
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  5. May 28, 2011 #54
    Wargames

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    As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang.
    Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him,
    "Herman, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on Interstate 77.
    Please be careful!"
    "Heck",said Herman,
    "It's not just one car. It's hundreds of them!"
     
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  7. May 28, 2011 #55
    Working Class Patriot

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    Hey....The goal here is to make it to retirement still vertical....

    There's no big award for shifting gears and holding the wheel when you are in your 70's....

    At 60...I'm done....Not by choice...Well my choice....It's effing CARB...They made that decision....In '20...I will hang up the keys...I won't be buying another rig...

    I suppose I'm luckier than most....I planned out my retirement in my late 20's....

    Mutual funds, rental properties, and both my wife and I have pensions from when we worked for major companies....


    To you young hands here....Tomorrow will come faster than you think....You are never too young to plan for your retirement....
     
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  8. May 28, 2011 #56
    Wargames

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    Yes, It sounds like you planned it right. My wife and I did the exact same thing and some.LOL Planning for retirement is great, but when the expecting happens, kind of puts things off a bit. I never thought anything like this would happen to me, and if its not one thing, its another that starts aching. I was living on Tylenol for a while.
     
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  9. May 28, 2011 #57
    Working Class Patriot

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    Yeah...I have bad knees....The problem started in my late 20's and progressed....Left kneecap has missing cartilage...And the right one began to go in my mid 40's.....
    That's why I started a dump truck biz....to get out of the crap that caused it in the first place....Climbing in and out of excavations......Carrying 3" X 12" and 8" X 8" timbers for shoring.....Staying awake for 36 hours straight on leaks and damages......Money was good...But it sure takes it toll...
     
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  10. May 28, 2011 #58
    Wargames

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    I just went to the doc. last week, had a MRI and the exact thing is happening to my knees. In the late 70`s I got a job delivering Hammermill Paper, Till one day my back went out. Delivered a Engine Block one time, and (No Offence to Aisians) but this little 110 lb guy comes out. I help you, he says. I hold one side, you hold the other. Looked at him, said, not a chance bud. I pulled the crate to the end, pulled it half way off the truck, leaned into it, and slowly brought it down, to about a foot off the ground, and dropped it on the end of the skid, so the block was not hitting the ground. For sure he would have let it go on my foot. LOL
     
    Wargames, May 28, 2011
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  11. May 28, 2011 #59
    ‘Olhand

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    Well I do understand the want to wait till things are slower--especially when working for yourself--and we are behind you 100% whatever you choice--I just hope you aren't being pound wise and penny foolish--If ya know what I mean--good luck
     
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  12. May 28, 2011 #60
    Joetro

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    I just got back in the truck after 7 1/2 years behind a desk as a computer tech. I put on a lot of weight sitting behind that desk. A LOT of weight. Yesterday was my first day back in trucking and I'm feeling it today. I just turned 44 and there's no good reason to hurt like I do except for not taking better care of myself over the years.
     
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