OLD AGE

[OLDNAVYMCPO]

After months of practicing with my Ruger SASS .45 Colts, I was beginning to get pretty good at shooting them single-handed, both weak hand and strong side. When I first started, I couldn't even cock weak handed with assurance every try. I was making real progress in both speed and accuracy. In fact in my last CAS match, I had no misses with the pistols and took third place in my division. Then last Thursday morning at four AM, the wife had to drive me to the Emergency Room at Wm Beaumont Army Medical Center. A severe Gall Bladder attack was my undoing.

After the usual testing, my Gall stones had been previously documented, surgery followed. Friday evening, I was ready to be released, then I developed Atrial Fibrillation and was rushed to ICU. After trial and error with various drugs, my heart was finally regulated. Numerous test followed and showed no indication of physical problems. Medical opinion was that I suffered an Atrial Flutter that could be controlled through medication.

I'm home now, feel like I've been beat with an ugly stick. My numerically challenged IQ is further abated by narcotics. I'm so weak that I can hardly handle my guns, can't stand long enough to reload ammo, not that I would under the Meds. Looks like it may be a long recovery.

These Golden Years are about to do my butt in.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Sorry to hear all this, hang in there!
Get better soon.
Will try to make a gun show in El Paso soon.
Will not drive down from ALAMOGORDO, just in case somebody else has an explosion on the highway.

 

[unclebob]

prayers for your recovery on the way..

 

[mojave30cal]

Hang in there Master Chief. Remember: reloading and narcotics
don't mix.

RM2

 

[just jim]

Well I guess us old folkes need to share stories of our maladies so we know it's not just us that goes through the ageing process. Been healthy most of my life and stayed that way by not going to doctors. Sure as heck just as I retire I start having trouble, my gall bladder had stones as big as ping pong balls so they decided to remove it. They cut them out 7 in the evening and I walked out of the hospital 10 am the next morning.

Then just a year later I come down with gaviticulosis, a problem with the colon they treat with antibiotics then run a camera up your but to see what the problem is. Antibiotics killed my system for the way it handles food so I have no energy now. Have been taking Tru biotic to get system back to normal but I think it's been destroyed.

While not ready to sell my guns yet I can see the future, once you start getting involved with the doctors your days are numbered in my opinion. Make the best of it guys and don't let it get you down as we all go through it. Death is part of life.

 

[Aticus]

Boy you guys make me feel disgustingly healthy.

 

[BigCityChief]

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Master Chief.


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[Rustyt1953]

I pray for your recovery MC.
My golden years are turning into the "rust" years.

Ya get it? Huh? Get it? Rust?
I kill myself sometimes.

 

[Aticus]

The old pipes getting a little rusry are they, Rusty?

 

[Lt JL]

I don't know about you guys, but the Golden Years can .... well, the Gorilla won't let me finish.

 

[gunship]

Hope you get well soon. Getting old is the worst. I retired after 30 yrs. and hit with a heart attack 2 months later. I was lucky and felt great. Now 10 years later and I jusr turned 65, I did something to my knee which feels torn and yesterday cracked a tooth in half. What a life!

 

[Bajadoc]

Sorry you've hit some rough seas Chief. Hang in there, best wishes coming your way.

 

[mr-mom]

Hey MC
I feel with you Sir. Approaching 75 in a couple of months and have had some health issues here too. But I get up every morning and say a prayer for still being here. Sure beats the heck outa the alternative! Chin up old friend. Go out shooting.
Dave
SWCA #2778

 

[spricks]

Nothing but the Best Wishes sent your way! Just got home from the neighbors funeral and had to think it sure beats the alternative, and glad to be alive...prayers sent your way!

spricks

 

[pawncop]

Additional prayer from Texas for your complete healing. Mrs. Pawncop suffered with gall stones many years ago. Not fun at all.

 

[Old cop]

I was once told getting old is not for sissies and that was sure true. Besides, nobody is getting out of this alive. I'll turn 70 late next year and have my challenges, but am doing okay so far. Best to everyone on this thread.

 

[Cpo1944]

Hang in there Mate, I will ask my Miss Patti to put you on her prayer list. She is a very very Special Lady and seems to have connections.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

When he was 94, my grandpa said that getting old was not for sissies, and your golden years were golden only for your doctors.

 

[shouldazagged]

All the best, Master Chief. It is, of course, common knowledge that Master Chiefs are too mean and tough to die. You likely will have to be humanely destroyed on Judgment Day.

The golden years can be a real golden shower, but it sounds as if meds will get you regulated and back to shooting and reloading. I hope it happens soon for you.

 

[rwsmith]

Hope you get that under control..

Maybe the meds can be tweaked. Very fortunately my GB surgery was a piece of cake. It's stupid that something like a Gall Bladder can keep you from enjoying shooting. How about get one of those Lee Hand presses, and deprime, prime, resize and flare a few thousand cases for when you get back on your feet then you'll be really ready.

 

[islamoradamark]

had problems with mine had it removed lost 20 LBS cause i could not eat 4 five days before now im back to normal. get well soon u will be as good as new