I don't fish much anymore, but I still enjoy hunting. I avoid going out by myself (63 yrs. old) as so many things have changed since I was young. Not just my physical abilities and general health, but realizing people I could call on if my truck left me stranded have now passed on. Next door property owners sold to others and I have no connection to them. Our nearest town from ranch is 30 miles away and cell phone is NOT a given, due to terrain. And the property (by road mileage) is at least 3 miles with locked gates between our property and the road.
A lot of truth in that video - Thanks for linking to it.
Something I learned about through dealing with my Father's passing... (Hint - don't read below if you don't wanna know): The folks in the Hospice and home-health aide market call it circling the bowl. Invariably, an elder falls and/or is injured (broken arm/wrist, my father broke his hip getting out of the car, contusion/head injury, etc.) In our normal age and health, it would have been a bad-bump, maybe a broken-bone/cast for 4-6 weeks, back at it good as new. Once you are 'elderly', you are now a statistic. Dad was average, 6-9 months. Some make it 18. The 'fix' to the injury usually is successful, hence why they still do it, but life changes afterwards. In my Dad's case, he died of MRSA - likely contracted during hip surgery, but impossible to prove. The home-health aides agree, the pattern is the same, hospice workers agree, the pattern is the same.... injury, home, dead in 18 months or less for various reasons. Despite best efforts and modern medicine, once injured later in life, it is rare to come back for any length of time. There are outliers, but statistically speaking, its a very poor prognosis (which is really weird, the hip healed up fine, he was totally mobile inside of 3 months from surgery, home-aides kept up w/ the housework and cooking... no reason he shouldn't have made it years more) It appears to me, the trick is avoiding the injury in the first place! Be careful out there in the fields, Joe!
I don't fish much anymore, but I still enjoy hunting. I avoid going out by myself (63 yrs. old) as so many things have changed since I was young. Not just my physical abilities and general health, but realizing people I could call on if my truck left me stranded have now passed on. Next door property owners sold to others and I have no connection to them. Our nearest town from ranch is 30 miles away and cell phone is NOT a given, due to terrain. And the property (by road mileage) is at least 3 miles with locked gates between our property and the road.
ReplyDeleteA lot of truth in that video - Thanks for linking to it.
Something I learned about through dealing with my Father's passing...
ReplyDelete(Hint - don't read below if you don't wanna know):
The folks in the Hospice and home-health aide market call it circling the bowl. Invariably, an elder falls and/or is injured (broken arm/wrist, my father broke his hip getting out of the car, contusion/head injury, etc.) In our normal age and health, it would have been a bad-bump, maybe a broken-bone/cast for 4-6 weeks, back at it good as new. Once you are 'elderly', you are now a statistic. Dad was average, 6-9 months. Some make it 18. The 'fix' to the injury usually is successful, hence why they still do it, but life changes afterwards. In my Dad's case, he died of MRSA - likely contracted during hip surgery, but impossible to prove. The home-health aides agree, the pattern is the same, hospice workers agree, the pattern is the same.... injury, home, dead in 18 months or less for various reasons. Despite best efforts and modern medicine, once injured later in life, it is rare to come back for any length of time. There are outliers, but statistically speaking, its a very poor prognosis (which is really weird, the hip healed up fine, he was totally mobile inside of 3 months from surgery, home-aides kept up w/ the housework and cooking... no reason he shouldn't have made it years more)
It appears to me, the trick is avoiding the injury in the first place! Be careful out there in the fields, Joe!
Going out fishing or hunting no matter WHAT age you are tell someone where you're going and for how long, good grief, it's only common sense folks.
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