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    I have been feeling a bit low & unlucky of late. I had 2 heart attacks and heart surgery at Easter last year. 12 mths on my Cardiologist told me I needed to get exercising and to loose 20kg. I joined the gym and did light weights for 3 sessions but needed to do some cardio. So I explained my situation and asked what was the easiest entry level goup class and I picked one that was full of 60-70yr olds, should be easy right? Well let’s just say that night I ended up back in the cardio ward and had another heart surgery. Post surgery was told they found nothing new. My Cardiologist at the time was overseas, my follow up appointment in his option was the surgery was completely unwarranted. Just as I recovers from what is now referred to as a heart event and the surgery I copped pneumonia. I thought it was just the flu so took me a while before I saw the dr. 2 courses of antibiotics and I think i’m Good. For a change of luck I won the woodworking forum give away!
    Few days later i’m Back at the Dr pneumonia is back and I have infections in both lungs, my blood oxygen is 92 and I should go straight to hospital.....well I refused to do so as i’m Sick of those places this was Saturday and I was looking forward to catching up with a friend for dinner on Sunday. I left with a bunch of papers to get tests.

    So today I went and had 3 vials of blood taken and followed with chest X-rays. On the way home I stopped in to old mates to help him shift his air compressor as he was moving house. He’s 74 and quite frail so I’m still in better shape than him.

    his drive way is super steep like 45* and I wasn’t game to drive up it let alone test the handbarake. At the top is a very narrow car port that you have to walk sideways through to get past the car. To get the compressor out he drove the car forward just out of the carport. I was wheeling the compressor down the steep drive trying not to let it get away and pull me down. Old mate was going to put the car back in the carport when I was about 10m or halfway down the drive I hear a loud engine revving look up and see him slam into the tree right beside me!
    Luck was certainly on my side today!

    He had somehow managed to get his for wedged under the brake and on top of the accelerator. The car is completely written off and I had to pull his foot out of his boot and even then it was hard to get the boot unstuck, no idea how he got it in there.

    i called an ambulance and he has been taken to hospital and i’m Still waiting to see how he fared. The airbags failed to deploy so a bloody nose and sore chest is all I know the ambos had him in a neck brace when he left.

    i’m just Glad he had enough reflex to pull the car left at last minute or my day would have been much, much worse and so would my Missus and little one who were I waiting in the car at the bottom of the drive for me....
    …..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands

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    Crikey, after all that my bung knee and the rest of my probs don't seem quite as bad.

    Hope your friend is OK and recovers.

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    Hey mate, my sympathy on a mixed bag, im not that far from you in the scheme of things, If you need a hand moving, lifting or doing anything else just let me know. You have my number i think.

    Ralph

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    It's amazing where a foot can go in an accident. Mine were pidgeon toed, under the clutch and brake pedals, and couldn't move them, turns out my legs were broken, in many places.
    I'm glad to hear that you weren't injured in that episode, and I hope the ticker keeps working properly.
    Kryn
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    It is just part and parcel of getting old I am afraid.
    Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore View Post
    It's amazing where a foot can go in an accident.
    About a second before my "head on" with a Civic I took my foot off the accelerator and hit the brake. The Civic went under my van and the front strut of the Civic tore away the accelerator pedal and it ended up under my seat. The windscreen and drivers side windows shattered and the dash collapsed which together with the steering wheel trapping me in the vehicle. The accelerator went to full revs and I couldn't reach the key to switch the motor off - after about a minute the motor seized. Outwards it didn't look like much but both vehicles were written off. Air bags didn't go off, just some cuts and scratches and by wriggling the dash back and forth I managed to get my legs out. The Civic driver broke a collar bone and got out of his car holding his mobile!!!! Yes he had been texting.

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    Golden rule: Never go anywhere near us old farts when we're behind the wheel...

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    we all get old and eventually life catches up with us...some earlier than others.

    Son got a dog (siberian Husky) mid last year and since he failed to walked it, I now find myself enjoying the 7-10 Klm walks (depending on which way we go...errr she takes me) we have in the mornings...she never fails to amuse me with her eagerness to get the get the leash attached and friendliness with other walkers ... and her attempts to pull my arm off when I am not expecting it...

    They keep drumming into us that 10000 quickish steps is a key to keep the heart healthy..... hope this keeps mine going for plenty of more years to come.

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