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[Grumpy]

I didn't realise how much this Arterial Vasculitus that
I've been suffereing from for past 14 months has
knocked the stuffing out of me.

Did an oil+filter change and front discs+pads change
yesterday. I'm now absolutely cream-crackered and
so stiff and sore that I'm hobbling around looking
like a 90 year old John Wayne who has just got off
his horse. Stiff-legged just doesn't come into it. 

Before the onset of this, I used to do this sort of stuff
on an idle morning and go for a 5 mile stroll in the
afternoon. 

[Jimbob]

Doesnt sound fun 

[crazyjoetavola]

Been reading a bit about this Grumpy and it doesn't sound a particularly pleasant condition.

Your post is a timely reminder to all that we tend not to treasure good health until it's too late, and we are faced with the prospect of dealing with distressing conditions such as this and many others.

Hope you keep well and it doesn't get you down too much

[cem_devecioglu]

Grumpy,

I'm sorry to hear this..

Hope you will recover mate..

[Vamps]

I didn't realise how much this Arterial Vasculitus that
I've been suffereing from for past 14 months has
knocked the stuffing out of me.

Did an oil+filter change and front discs+pads change
yesterday. I'm now absolutely cream-crackered and
so stiff and sore that I'm hobbling around looking
like a 90 year old John Wayne who has just got off
his horse. Stiff-legged just doesn't come into it. 

Before the onset of this, I used to do this sort of stuff
on an idle morning and go for a 5 mile stroll in the
afternoon. 

I understand exactly how you feel.  I too was fit and active and took everything in my stride, along came the Big C and everything has to be planned and sometimes even the simplest jobs are a struggle, at best It can become depressing, but you have to come to terms with what you can do, albeit not what you could do.  We all take good health for granted.......

[Grumpy]

Thanks for your kind comments, guys.

Zulu77 and Vamps are so correct when they say
that we take our health for granted. It's amazing
just how fast your general fitness and well-being
can seemingly just drop off a cliff. I can't believe,
feeling as I do now, that I used to run marathons
for fun.

Glad to see you're adapting your lifestyle to counteract
the effects of the big 'C', Vamps, though obviously
I don't mean I'm glad that you got it!!

My wife is still taking drugs to stop her cancer coming
back and they seem to have quite bad side effects.
But as I tell her when she gets fed up and threatens
to chuck them all in the bin, it'll do her no good to be
the fittest corpse in the graveyard.

My daughter had a bone marrow transplant for leukemia,
and the amount of drugs she still takes makes your
mind boggle. 
Her lung capacity has been reduced by approx 30%
from the result of the vicious radiation treatment
she had to undergo before the transplant, but she goes
to the gym regularly and tries to walk everywhere
whenever possible, so she is probably fitter than
most of the burger munching brigade that sit on the
bus and tubes that she walks past.

I'm a firm believer in 'use it or lose it', so same as Vamps,
I intend to keep doing stuff but adapt it to my new,
imposed lifestyle and use a little common sense. 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I didn't realise how much this Arterial Vasculitus that
I've been suffereing from for past 14 months has
knocked the stuffing out of me.

Did an oil+filter change and front discs+pads change
yesterday. I'm now absolutely cream-crackered and
so stiff and sore that I'm hobbling around looking
like a 90 year old John Wayne who has just got off
his horse. Stiff-legged just doesn't come into it. 

Before the onset of this, I used to do this sort of stuff
on an idle morning and go for a 5 mile stroll in the
afternoon. 

We will call you Rooster Cogburn from now on then!

Seriously though Rooster Grumpy, I hope you recover from your excertions speedily and you generally get to feel a lot better. 8-) 8-)

[Grumpy]

I didn't realise how much this Arterial Vasculitus that
I've been suffereing from for past 14 months has
knocked the stuffing out of me.

Did an oil+filter change and front discs+pads change
yesterday. I'm now absolutely cream-crackered and
so stiff and sore that I'm hobbling around looking
like a 90 year old John Wayne who has just got off
his horse. Stiff-legged just doesn't come into it. 

Before the onset of this, I used to do this sort of stuff
on an idle morning and go for a 5 mile stroll in the
afternoon. 

We will call you Rooster Cogburn from now on then!

Seriously though Rooster Grumpy, I hope you recover from your excertions speedily and you generally get to feel a lot better. 8-) 8-)

Hee-Hee 
Very apt!.

That brightened up a dull day, Lizzie.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I didn't realise how much this Arterial Vasculitus that
I've been suffereing from for past 14 months has
knocked the stuffing out of me.

Did an oil+filter change and front discs+pads change
yesterday. I'm now absolutely cream-crackered and
so stiff and sore that I'm hobbling around looking
like a 90 year old John Wayne who has just got off
his horse. Stiff-legged just doesn't come into it. 

Before the onset of this, I used to do this sort of stuff
on an idle morning and go for a 5 mile stroll in the
afternoon. 

We will call you Rooster Cogburn from now on then!

Seriously though Rooster Grumpy, I hope you recover from your excertions speedily and you generally get to feel a lot better. 8-) 8-)

Hee-Hee 
Very apt!.

That brightened up a dull day, Lizzie.

That's good, as I was trying to do that and for once I have succeeded!   We all need cheering up from time to time / all the time!