tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817452185173695206.post3997310833000180216..comments2024-03-23T07:45:48.802-10:00Comments on Snow Crash: Geezerhood Can SuckRichard Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01888881107773218874noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817452185173695206.post-54907337722989588372013-12-12T14:53:55.684-10:002013-12-12T14:53:55.684-10:00Randy's posting...very helpful...thank you ind...Randy's posting...very helpful...thank you indeed Randy.Coleen Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06054705102024616391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817452185173695206.post-66136267596871010292013-12-12T14:50:29.251-10:002013-12-12T14:50:29.251-10:00I appreciate you sharing this with us. Misery lov...I appreciate you sharing this with us. Misery loves company? I feel like I have performed more than my share of mental gymnastics in trying to come to terms with being on this side of vitality. So, much of what you mentioned resonates...although some of your concerns don't bother me as much as I thought they would. I am finishing semester 4 of a part-time associates degree program in Health Information Technology. A very surprising bonus for me has been the knowledge gained from the medical portion of the program. I feel so much more confident now in the Medical-Industrial complex. After my Pharm course, my understanding of drugs has gone way up. I still hate the aging process, but I have to say things are going better for me. Keep writing, Dick.Coleen Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06054705102024616391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817452185173695206.post-17062308285557313902013-11-15T16:18:11.167-10:002013-11-15T16:18:11.167-10:00Dear Dick,
So sorry to hear you have been slammed...Dear Dick, <br />So sorry to hear you have been slammed so hard in so many ways all at once. I hope that things improve for you soon. In the meantime, as you say, you CAN take charge of how you construe it. <br />Thinking of you, and with best wishes to Karen, too, for whom this must also be wearing. <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00104438670067358714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817452185173695206.post-6456119047973901072013-11-15T15:53:04.913-10:002013-11-15T15:53:04.913-10:00Your good-boy behavior probably bought you 5 or 10...Your good-boy behavior probably bought you 5 or 10 years of well deserved health, free of the issues you now face, so that's cool. I learned bad things happen real fast and good things are slower & slower, but they often do come. As for continuing your active life style, never give "a inch" (From Sometimes a Great Notion). I've scaled back repeatedly & then ramped back up to what I can manage in the way of exercise. Recently I got my BP back to normal & cardiologist took me off the med for it. Mostly that was diet. New meds came along & have fewer side effects with the same benefits. I did have some whacky side effects including blowing up my skin on my whole body in a tumescent way with much reddening, sort of phallic like, but no lasting effects & I refused that drug on the spot. <br />So live long enough, some things can get better and you might figure out your own patches to work around the deficit. Key to me is doing good with what I got left & letting go of what I can't regain. What Randy said here resonates much for me. I'm old enough to be dead, but mean enough to keep going! Take care my friend! Oh, and these "prove you're not a robot" on the comment page often defeat me. Can't hear 'em, can't read 'em, so you may never see this post here, but I did learn to copy the whole thing so I can email if this doesn't work.Dennis L. Nord, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02069155738465945716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817452185173695206.post-67567916413232898212013-11-15T14:48:25.897-10:002013-11-15T14:48:25.897-10:00As a hospice volunteer I have often seen that the ...As a hospice volunteer I have often seen that the main thing that people have a hard time coming to grips with at the end of their life is the loss of control. Of course the loss is real - they used to be a provider, a lover, a whatever - those labels were used by them and others as their identity - who and what they thought they were - and now they have strangers coming in to bathe them. People will say that they have come to a complete state of acceptance of their condition and then say that either (A) they want to die soon or (B) they want to live another x amount of time. Most of these people felt that they were in charge of their lives the whole time. They made good decisions that got them where they wanted to be. Now none of their decisions are “working” anymore. But it all comes down to an entitled feeling that they need to be in control. Of course all of this is just an illusion. All of your high school friends who died in sundry and various ways way before you - they thought they were in control too. Sure choices that we consciously make do make a difference in our lives - but we are never really in control. But you hit on the one thing that we can control - and that one thing is rarely totally taken away from us. The one thing that we can control is how we accept what is in front of us. The friction and pain comes when we do not like what is in front of us - we do not wish to accept it. As is said - Pain is inevitable - suffering is optional. The radical acceptance of what is - whatever it is - is the path to a state of grace, enlightenment, peace - call it what you may. Yes, easier said than done. But this absolute real control - the only one that matters - can never be lost - rather it has to be found.Randynoreply@blogger.com