navegator wrote:
I have replaced a few items on my 10+ year old rig, not on me I have all of my bones, same heart, same arteries, pushing 70 and in excellent health, ...
One might want to knock on wood when one says that about the health that they think they have: I'll be 73 in a few months and up to about 11 months ago I thought that I was in "excellent health" too. I can still run with the dog. I can still climb the built-in ladder and fix stuff on the roof of our RV. I can still climb up onto, and sleep in, the RV's cabover bed. I think I could change a flat tire on the RV if I had to. HOWEVER, in about the last 11 months, I've had:
- My first ever cataract surgery on one eye.
- My first ever cataract surgery on the other eye.
- My first ever root channel.
- My first ever kidney stone attack.
- My first ever surgery to remove the kidney stone.
- My first ever series of gaul stone attacks
- My first ever surgery to remove a gaul bladder.
"Excellent health" is always a statement about the past and it can come to an end in a heatbeat and so can any snobbery connected with it ... just like one drive through a mud puddle can ruin a pretty boy RV and end any snobbery connected with it. ;)