I propose a thread honoring old age in which each person lists their current physical ailments and general excuses that prevent them from beating people like Paul Smith and Rich Saeger.
I will lead with a growing list of my own.
1. Shoulder pain
2. Heart palpatations
3. High cholesterol
4. Left hip stress fracture
5. Lower back pain (from shoveling snow!)
6. Wife and 3 kids.
Perhaps we can give an award to the winner and the biggest whiner at the end of this thread.
John Smith
Parents
Former Member
Holy Cow!! After reading S(he)-Mans most excellent poem about Beth I went and looked up her times...I almost fainted....We are the around the same age and she is every bit as fast as me...Yikes......I am not worthy :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: I am soooo glad to hear that your daughter is doing o.k. Beth I know first hand what waiting for test results like that is like....We had an emergency baptism for my son while he was in the NICU trying to recover from meningitis....lets just say the doctors were not very optimistic about him making it through that....and even if he did they told us he would likely come out blind or deaf from the extreme doses of intervenous vancomycin he was receiving to fight the infection. I would like to say that he is perfectly o.k. now....but even though he has severe brain damage, he has made some wonderful strides since then and he is the absolute joy of me and my wife's lives!!
And Peter, that story about your daughter's horse riding accident gave me chills....I am sooo glad to hear she is o.k. I remember when Neal had to take a life flight helicopter ride one day from here to Memphis because he was convulsing uncontrollably one day after we gave him his seizure meds....turns out the pharmacy accidently forgot to dilute his meds and he received the super concentrated version on accident....thank God he came out of that one o.k. too.
Newmastersswimmer
Holy Cow!! After reading S(he)-Mans most excellent poem about Beth I went and looked up her times...I almost fainted....We are the around the same age and she is every bit as fast as me...Yikes......I am not worthy :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: I am soooo glad to hear that your daughter is doing o.k. Beth I know first hand what waiting for test results like that is like....We had an emergency baptism for my son while he was in the NICU trying to recover from meningitis....lets just say the doctors were not very optimistic about him making it through that....and even if he did they told us he would likely come out blind or deaf from the extreme doses of intervenous vancomycin he was receiving to fight the infection. I would like to say that he is perfectly o.k. now....but even though he has severe brain damage, he has made some wonderful strides since then and he is the absolute joy of me and my wife's lives!!
And Peter, that story about your daughter's horse riding accident gave me chills....I am sooo glad to hear she is o.k. I remember when Neal had to take a life flight helicopter ride one day from here to Memphis because he was convulsing uncontrollably one day after we gave him his seizure meds....turns out the pharmacy accidently forgot to dilute his meds and he received the super concentrated version on accident....thank God he came out of that one o.k. too.
Newmastersswimmer
