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@edsnova posted:

My theory is that Stan is nigh invulnerable.

Hardly.

I spent the entire day on the couch yesterday, back brace on and TENS machine running continuously. L1-L5 discs are all bad, and about 2-4 times a year, some routine motion will pop one to the side and I'm down for the count. Yesterday it was from rolling over in bed Saturday night.

My hands take at least 15 minutes of clenching and opening my fists before the fingers are limber enough to keyboard. I have what I'd estimate to be about 25% bloodflow and feeling in the right index finger. They are a mess.

My left triceps tendon was reattached twice, and I've got about half the push strength on that side, as compared to the other. My knees creak when I walk. My musculature long since overpowered my framework, so lifting/pushing/moving heavy objects is something I can do, but the acts of doing them will wreck me (sometimes for weeks) if I do them wrong. I'm often in the position of lifting in some contorted position with the full knowledge that I'll likely be laid up for some indeterminate period of time afterward.

I need to get out of this business, but it pays the bills and it's all I know how to do and it keeps me productive. I've been poor, and I'd rather hurt.

I take a pill to help me get to sleep, use a CPAP machine to help me breathe once I get there, have hearing aids to help me understand normal conversation, and eat a fistful of supplements every morning and night. I'm on BP, cholesterol, and blood sugar medication (along with a couple of other scripts I'd rather not divulge). My Dr. tells me I have the cardiovascular system of an 85 year old man. She's super-encouraging like that. Stress may have something to do with most of the things in this paragraph.

Lots of days I feel like freaking Frankenstein- made upright and ambulatory by use of crude medicine and willpower. The struggle is with that willpower- everything hurts all the time.

Vulnerability: I has plenty of it.

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