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Ok. I have to think practical.
Limited mobility elimitates the general Lee and the Bach to the failure.
Low cars are also out eliminating magnum pi, Miami vice, Kitt and James bonds ride.
Too many modifications takes out mad max

And that leaves two.
A-Team van and Ecto 1.
The van has 1/3 of it's engine inside of the passenger compartment, sooo, I've gotta pass.
Put a trailer hitch on the Ecto 1 and me and the Boss Lady are set on quite a few road trips in the future.
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I hate taking meds but I really hate worrying about having them. My pharmacy is very good about keeping me taken care of. They have an app that I have installed that confirm each drug is still active and later it shows when my fix is ready for pickup.
 
olbriar said:
I hate taking meds but I really hate worrying about having them. My pharmacy is very good about keeping me taken care of. They have an app that I have installed that confirm each drug is still active and later it shows when my fix is ready for pickup.
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They text me all the time, Walmart for my prescription refills.
 
I think I'm pleased that the PEBA folks just changed the company. The letter that I received from the old company simply said that I would be disenrolled from the plan effective on January 1st. What they didn't say that the PEBA folks just changed to another company.
I was almost in a panic because some of my meds are over a couple thousand a month.
I was looking at the marketplace offerings and couldn't make heads or tails of them.
I'm ready glad that I don't have to navigate all that.
 
It's a yearly PITA for my wife. She has some expensive drugs that are dropped from her coverage each year and she is forced to shop. Fortunately, my son sold insurance for a couple of years...years ago. He has some insight and always helps his mother find a new drug plan. I had zero insurance beyond medicare when I had my heart attack. I was able to get an advantage plan that helped pay for my drugs. I was taken off the drug that had me bent over backwards within six months and everything I take now are tier one drugs that most everyone covers. I'm out of pocket 2 bucks a month for my meds. Lucky Ducky.
 
I have a bad knee and an okay knee.
Last Sunday I knelt down and then rose with a mild twist, a motion I do more than a hundred times a week. That time I felt something twinge, and it's been messed up all week.

This is the pic I took on Thursday.

I bet you'll have a great deal of difficulty discerning which knee is which...


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olbriar said:
Ouch my friend. With that much swelling, Dr olbriar thinks you put a tear in your meniscus and hope I'm wrong. Have you consulted with your doctor? That looks wicked!
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Regrettably, there's no meniscus to tear, as it was removed about fifty years ago after I tore it. Now it's just full of arthritis and other junk. There's some bursitis and fluid, too. It's been debrided a couple of times over the year, and the ACL let go twenty years ago.

Basically my lease is up on that joint, so I'm shopping for a replacement. Not looking forward to the process, but I am looking forward to having it behind me, sometime in early 2026 I'd guess.

Happy Thanksgiving! :D
 
My sister has a knee replacement and so does my wife. My father had both of his knees done. I will say this, the procedure is no walk in the park and rehab is no fun at all. However, the aches and pains of the bad knees became a thing of the past. It might not always turn out to be a success story but four for four left me thinking that when the knee is shot and keeps a person in constant misery, a replacement is a great option. disclaimer... easy talk from someone not having knee problems.

I wish you luck on whatever you decide and hope that swelling subsides soon and quits hurting you.
 
olbriar said:
My sister has a knee replacement and so does my wife. My father had both of his knees done. I will say this, the procedure is no walk in the park and rehab is no fun at all. However, the aches and pains of the bad knees became a thing of the past. It might not always turn out to be a success story but four for four left me thinking that when the knee is shot and keeps a person in constant misery, a replacement is a great option. disclaimer... easy talk from someone not having knee problems.

I wish you luck on whatever you decide and hope that swelling subsides soon and quits hurting you.
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Thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I've had periodic trouble with this knee over the years, and I have long known I was going to have to have the joint replaced if I lived long enough. I'm grateful to live in a time where replacement is a solid option, because the alternatives of the past (awful, chronic pain couple with canes, walkers and ultimate confinement in a wheelchair) are unpleasant, to say the least.

I only wish that knee replacements were as reliable as hip replacements, which are almost like cookie cutters given the nature of that joint. There seems to be as much "art" as "science" involved in knee replacements, with more room for error, and that's my greater concern. Then you have the agony of deciding whether to go through it all again or living with pain and problems the rest of your days (granted, probably still less pain and fewer problems, but...) or until the joint fails prematurely due to the stresses for which it wasn't designed.

The prime example of which I'm aware...more than a decade ago a good friend in Colorado, about fifteen years my senior, needed to have his knees done. He debated the option of first one, then later the other, but he's always been pretty active and that would mean longer downtime and two ugly recoveries rather than one single uglier recovery period. So he had both of them done at the same time. Same doctor. Same surgical team. Same replacement joint. Same rehab procedure and team. Result? One was great, one had to be redone. Ugh.

Anyway, as I say I've known for years this was going to happen if I lived long enough, and that knee has climbed its last mountain and skied its last slope. It will improve enough that it will see some more dog walks and daily chores (man, nothing really gets you off the "honey do" list!), and then I'll trust in God for things to go well with the surgical process and for Him to sustain me through the aftermath. Hopefully the end result will be another notch in the plus column. And if so, then it should last the remainder of my life, unless of course some giant medical advance happens that gives us all another 25 good years or something.

Happy Thanksgiving, folks. (Oh, and the last Thanksgiving meal my old knee will have to support!)
 
I have one not so good but ended well knee story to share. My stepmother who is now 100 had a knee replaced years ago. Years later she developed an infection around the replacement and they removed the knee. She went a couple of months in a wheel chair before the infection was cured and they deemed it was okay to put in another replacement. The second knee is still serving her well at her ripe age.
And another story to share that serves as a duh... do your rehab warning. I once mowed for a lady that walked somewhat stiff legged. She told me that she didn't do her post rehab because it hurt and the end result were joints that didn't work well.
 
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