What's your plans (or dreams?) in retirement?

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Contact lenses (y) that helps with the age vision deterioration immensely.
... I've got nothing for fixing the 20 minute pee breaks, just be happy if it is still yellow and not red.
 
Youngn's!! Stay outta debt! If you don't have CASH, don't buy it.
Don't retire in debt.
You need to be healthy too. Not always controllable.
Chronic pain is real.
We need a "list your surgeries" thread.
7 X left knee surgeries.
1X back... 3 lumbar discs removed / fusion.
1X Hernia.
1X remove 75% of my colon / attach ostomy bag for 6 months. (this sort of thing puts a damper on riding, so I bought a corvette).
1X open me back up, put plumbing back where it works, remove ostomy)
2 or 3X other minor crap.
I just got back to riding this yr....6yr colon related hiatus. Didn't do as much as hoped for, but the fjr rolled 10,000kms since may.
Pills? I haven't taken more than 2-3 aleve in 2yrs.
CBD tincture ftw.
 
Surgeries 0
blood transfusions 0
nights spent in hospital 1
(on a gurney in the hall, they should have just sent me home after I superman'd through that windshield and stuffed my face onto the Eglinton Avenue hard top ?, it was no worse then a motorcycle crash, I'm perfectly f-f-f-f-fine now)
 
Trials said:
oxycontin = one of the dirtiest prescription drugs ever conceived, great if you are aiming for nausea, vomiting, constipation, dry mouth, indigestion, weakness, sweating, lightheadedness, dizziness and drowsiness. Wash that down with alcohol to induce blackouts, hallucinations, slurred speech and make you completely uncoordinated.

That's not a retirement plan that's slow suicide.
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Been pretty bad for society... but pretty awwesome for acute pain.

If you ever have a bad tooth ache, (the kind that makes you think about a quick death) you'd trade your favorite bike for a handful of OXYs.

Oxy abuse is one area I think Canadian and US gov'ts have let us down.
 
If you handed me an oxycontin I would flush it down the toilet, they make you glue bagged, that's not pain relief.
... I don't even take freezing for fillings, all it does is draw out the pain and make you drool uncontrollably.
I had a dentist that would not do me without freezing, worst dentist ever.
 
Gary said:
Youngn's!! Stay outta debt! If you don't have CASH, don't buy it.
Don't retire in debt.
You need to be healthy too. Not always controllable.
Chronic pain is real.
We need a "list your surgeries" thread.
7 X left knee surgeries.
1X back... 3 lumbar discs removed / fusion.
1X Hernia.
1X remove 75% of my colon / attach ostomy bag for 6 months. (this sort of thing puts a damper on riding, so I bought a corvette).
1X open me back up, put plumbing back where it works, remove ostomy)
2 or 3X other minor crap.
I just got back to riding this yr....6yr colon related hiatus. Didn't do as much as hoped for, but the fjr rolled 10,000kms since may.
Pills? I haven't taken more than 2-3 aleve in 2yrs.
CBD tincture ftw.
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Left clavicle x2 (plates, and removal)
Head fracture (went into coma, flat lined, found out a decade later I flat lined. Death ain't so bad...there's nothing there!)
Multiple tendon tears, shin splits, etc. etc. from pushing physical limits (doesn't happen as much now, but if compete in a marathon or something, I get injured every time.)
 
pffft I didn't know we were counting sprains strains and bruises.
 
Trials said:
oxycontin = one of the dirtiest prescription drugs ever conceived, great if you are aiming for nausea, vomiting, constipation, dry mouth, indigestion, weakness, sweating, lightheadedness, dizziness and drowsiness
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Or, you know, pain control after a major surgery?

Its evident you’ve never actually had any sort or major surgery. Try having a dorsal C1-C2 spinal fusion like I had (16 hours on the table, bone taken out of my own hip for fixation plus metal in there now as well, 1 week in critical
Care and a 11 month recovery after before I was able to work again) and let me know how your recovery goes without heavy duty serious ass pain meds.

You would literally be writhing around on the floor in unfathomable pain literally soiling yourself for the first few weeks.

Dental work, broken bones blah blah blah is all child’s play in comparison.

Its easy to dismiss narcotics as “the devil” and all that until you’ve actually experienced pain that justifies them. Serious “I want to die, please kill me” type pain. Most people have never experienced that. That’s a good thing.

Im also very lucky that despite having been on narcotics several times for extended periods (my spinal fusion for about 2.5 months and my reconstructed shoulder for about 3 weeks) I never got hooked and was able to easily bleed down to Tylenol 3 (and eventually just regular acetaminophen without even the tiny bit of narcotics in the T3’s) with no issues at all.
 
PrivatePilot said:
Or, you know, pain control after a major surgery?
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Like my spouse had, the oxycontin they made me buy for her completely unhinged her,
she flushed almost all of it down the toilet other then the first dose.
 
Men can't complain much about pain, I've seen child birth.
 
Trials said:
Like my spouse had, the oxycontin they made me buy for her completely unhinged her,
she flushed almost all of it down the toilet other then the first dose.
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As mentioned, until you've had your back and hip opened up, you don't really get it (not you, n personally, every "you"). 2 yrs ago they butterflied my abdomen. 50 odd staples. They sent me home with dilodid (sp?). I broke one in half, took it, that was it. Binned the rest. Ya, it hurt, but not like spinal surgery. Percs are required for that, there's no way around it.
 
Trials said:
Surgeries 0
blood transfusions 0
nights spent in hospital 1
(on a gurney in the hall, they should have just sent me home after I superman'd through that windshield and stuffed my face onto the Eglinton Avenue hard top ?, it was no worse then a motorcycle crash, I'm perfectly f-f-f-f-fine now)
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Surgeries - 2 (thumb reattachment, LAD oil line repair)
Blood Transfusions - 0
Nights in hospital - 4
Trips to hospital - too many. Mostly cuts, breaks & sprain injuries
Teeth - 6 (hockey)
Bones - 8 fingers, wrist x 2, neck C6, ribs x 2, nose x 3, orbital, ankle x 2, fibula.
Deferred - right knee meniscus, left shoulder rotator, follicular unit transplant, vasectomy
 
Epidurals, you know how long that works for?
 
Mad Mike said:
Surgeries - 2 (thumb reattachment, LAD oil line repair)
Blood Transfusions - 0
Nights in hospital - 4
Trips to hospital - too many. Mostly cuts, breaks & sprain injuries
Teeth - 6 (hockey)
Bones - 8 fingers, wrist x 2, neck C6, ribs x 2, nose x 3, orbital, ankle x 2, fibula.
Deferred - right knee meniscus, left shoulder rotator, follicular unit transplant, vasectomy
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Cool but once again you did not need to make it a reply to my post.
 
If you're planning for a decent retirement and not just eol, you want to hope you don't need any of the above pills and needles, I can tell you that.
You want to be worried about where to buy race fuel next or order a 4pot brake calliper and maybe a new bike that they don't want to sell in this country :|
 
Trials said:
Like my spouse had, the oxycontin they made me buy for her completely unhinged her,
she flushed almost all of it down the toilet other then the first dose.
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You don’t know pain.

Anyone who’s never experienced writhing in uncontrollable agony unable to hold in your own waste and not even able to communicate doesn’t know pain.

I hope you never experience that. But if you do someday, trust me, you will hope and pray for something or someone to take away the pain.
 
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