Finally a good day!!

[Kentucky Highlander]

Getting old sucks!

2 months ago a couple of dopers ran my mailbox down so I got out the post hole diggers and set about to put down a new one. Well I got the mailbox taken care of, but in the process I sustained some injuries that are taking some time to heal. Got up the next morning with something called 'trigger finger', which would have been a good discription had I caught said dopers, Doc says I can learn to live with it or go see a orthepedic surgeon to take care of it.

Well that wasn't all, right elbow and shoulder set up tendonitis/bursitis, 9 weeks of Ibprofin 800 mg didn't even phase it, so I go today and get a cortizone shot in the shoulder. Doc also gave me Vioxx because I told him that at about 5 am every morn when the Ibprofin wears off I can't even roll over in the bed. Left Doc's office at 11 am today.

Well the worst part of the whole 9 weeks was that I didn't feel up to going out to work in the shop. I'm a barber working in a business run by my father, I work with him, my sister and my wife, my 65 year old mother serves as the receptionist. Now this arrangement introduces a certain amount of stress into my life and the only relief from it that I have found is this 30 x 60 building in the side yard that I call my woodshop.

Today was the first day that I was able to go out and get some stuff done. I put up some of those sturdy brackets up next to the cieling and stacked all my wood up on them, made a big dent in the clutter of the shop. Got a good deal done on my cabinet makers bench I've been working on since the first of the year, should actually be able to finish this weekend if I didn't get over ambitious and make things worse today. I also replaced a porchlight on the shop with a motion sensing floodlight.

Needless to say a great weight has been lifted off my shoulders this day, so much so that I don't dread going to work tomorrow, I believe I could even stand my father telling me a few times more how if I lost 50 or 60 lbs I wouldn't have so many problems. I think that this is his favorite thing to say to me for the last 15 years now, maybe you begin to see why working in a barber shop with close relatives is so stressfull now.

Happily making sawdust again

The Kentucky Highlander

[Edwin Pawlowski]

Yes, yo have a lot to look forward to. Any your not even old yet!

Sure is nice to have a shop to escape to. Working with family has to be the most stressful of any. Keep the chips flying. Ed

[Lew Hodgett]

RE: Subject

You wake up in the morning.

You swing your feet over the side of the bed and feel them hit the floor.

You check and both lungs seem to be working.

After that, everything else that day is bonus money.

You have another shot at another day, what more can you ask?

Just the way I look at it.

[Norman D. Crow]

I'm still on top of the grass. Beats hell out of the alternative.

[jo4hn]

I wake up, get the newspaper, and read the obituaries. If I'm not listed, it's a good day. mahalo, jo4hn ps Heard that the first time from George Burns (IIRC).

[Rodger]

[Jeremy]

Watch that Vioxx if you are taking other medications and have someone monitor your IQ for the first week or two to make sure you do not go stupid. In combination with a sleeping pill that stuff turned me into an idiot to dumb to know I was stupid, for about 4 months. Good luck with the rest of it.

JJ Cheap teak, remove the cigar to reply

Kentucky Highlander wrote:

[Norman D. Crow]

Ain't that Cortisone great stuff? Get an "oil change" in my knees every 6 wk.(last time he got 26-28cc. fluid out of right knee). That, Celebrex, & some 750 Vicodin keep me moving(barely) until I can get enough weight off to be worth new knees. Rodger is right, it ain't for sissy's. SWMBO has to go for "rotator cuff" surgery in early June(now how the hell did I escape that handling freight & cranking dollies all those years?).

[mttt]

In our family of four - three (Mom, Dad and Bro) ended up all working in one business for a few years. When things were "good", they were great. but when things went bad - they really went bad.

Ain't it funny how Dad will always be Dad, no matter if you're 8, 18 or 48?

[Charles Spitzer]

does your father let you use the straight razor?

[J T]

Thu, Apr 15, 2004, 8:31pm [e-mail] (Kentucky=A0Highlander) says: Getting old sucks!

2 months ago a couple of dopers ran my mailbox down

Ah. What you need to do is check the archives for mailbox. Read that, then get a nice steel, big, mailbox post put in. Then wait for them to hit it again. That'll cheer you up. LMAO

JOAT I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

- Maureen Reagan

[Kentucky Highlander]

Wasn't complaining, was just praising the end of a long streak of bad luck. Took the first dose of the Vioxx today and haven't felt this darn good in I don't know how long, I honestly didn't realize my hands and fingers were that stiff. Now I'm loose as a rag doll, seems to actually taken care of the trigger finger as well.

If this c> >>RE: Subject

[Kentucky Highlander]

Got a few years before I can retire, but man I am looking forward to it.

tendonitis/bursitis, 9

[Kentucky Highlander]

I couldn't stand much of an IQ drop, my german shepard thinks she and I are intellectual equals at the moment and I would hate to hand her the upper hand.

KY

tendonitis/bursitis, 9

[Kentucky Highlander]

Yes sir I would tend to agree with that.

I cannot take narcotic pain killers, something with my chemistry causes me to absolutely freek out, I begin thinking everyone is out to get me.

did I escape that

I hate to hear that, the replacement parts don't seem to work quite as well as the original equipment did. Good luck to her.

KY

[Kentucky Highlander]

Yep I've been working in this arrangement for 28 years now. LOL And some folks still come in and ask for "The Boy" LOL

KY

[Kentucky Highlander]

I used a straight razor up till the time AIDS became known. At that time Paul Harvey said in his news show that the Russian Govt had traced almost all their AIDS cases to barber shop straight razors and as a result had banned the practice in Russia. About 5 years ago the State Board sent out a letter saying that they had learned of several cases of Hep B that had been contracted via straight razor and asked the barbers of KY to retire their razors. The Hep B transmittion was from patron to barber rather than patron to patron, the stuff we sanatize our tools in is an effective viruside, but from what I have heard a pin point of blood is enough to catch Hep B.

KY

[Kentucky Highlander]

Ah. What you need to do is check the archives for mailbox. Read that, then get a nice steel, big, mailbox post put in. Then wait for them to hit it again. That'll cheer you up. LMAO

I told my wife that if they hit this one I'll make the next one out of 1/4 inch steel tubing and weld old lawn mower blades, ground to a point, onto the thing. If they hit that they'll be there the next day fersure.

I'll scan the archives, but I doubt my state of cheer could get any higher, it's like the sun has never been brighter than it's been today. Wonderful day.

KY

[p_j]

Were they caught?

[Kentucky Highlander]

No, but I live on a dead end road, two other families live past my house and my mail box has been run over almost every night for the past 4-5 weeks until it could no longer be propped up. One of those times they left a piece of the ground effects from the door area of the car, matching said suspect down the street. The family in question has an affinity for setting fires, mostly to their own house, so calling the cops isn't in the plan. ;-)

KY