Aging Sucks...

[Deep C]

This old stuff is getting... well... you get the point. A few years back my eyes started to give up the ghost on the fine print. Deteriorated and now pretty stable. Still have my distance at least.
Early last summer I twisted the wrong way as I lowered a five gallon bucket of chum in the water and a whale spouted right next to me. Basically pulled rib muscles. A couple nailed the diagnosis right on "chosto condroitous". It took several weeks but it did heal.
Last year I bitched about the sixth coat of primer and paint on this boat. My arms and body quit and just couldn't finish the last coat without help. This year I'm three full coats deep. A lot more hand sanding though bringing the running gear right. I'm basically done... with the job and physically... Shoulders, elbows, wrists basically telling me to quit pretending I'm still young.

Now I have got something new cooking. Maybe somebody will know what this is... Maybe not... I have been at odd angles kind of squatting under the boat. Getting up and down repeatedly aches but thats not the issue. Last night and again just a while ago I was walking and suddenly blinding pain from my hip to my knee and a sensation that it was about to give out and send me crashing? Last night grabbed a couch and tonight was a shelf to keep from dropping like a stone. Had they not been in reach I would have gone down. Lasted each time maybe a second or two... Never had such before... Unlike the other stuff I have mentioned this is alarming and I'm thinking maybe serious... Any of you had anything like this or know what it may be???

[clt_capt]

Sounds like a hip replacement is in your future

Could just be a pinched nerve...

[Deep C]

I'm hoping something like that. Like I said out of the blue each time. . No abnormal anything, then suddenly felt as both hip and knee were just not gonna hold the weight (and I don't weigh a lot).

Hurt like hell too... Kinda a burning senstation.

[hubris 1]

Do I have to say it? You look old! Shave the **** star moustache for starters, post a pic and we will get back to you. Doctor wooo say, problem not your back. You've just been rode hard and put away wet. Work with me here........... Its a lack of clear vision thats got you down. You think this fishing thing is it. Your just a boat whore........you need a week in the Hubris decompression clinic.

[Deep C]

Yes I need to get back in the water with this one... Fishing here and there with the 31 recently and will be again this weekend. But you are right. Focus not all there. Trying to make lists for my Island run but can't get off the ground til she's wet and ready...
This sudden hip/ knee thing though came from nowhere that I can identify. I like being in control of my body. Not have it in control of me...

As for the stash... It stays... I gather strength and wisdom from it... Besides the chicks love it...

[intruder]

Deep,

Just face it , your an 80 year old in a 50 year old body. Take one low dose aspirin per day.

[Deep C]

Haaaayyyyy! My ankles might be eighty from all those soft landings I make after leaping off the bridge or tower.... But the rest of me is spry and nimble and hunky!

Except my eyes, hips, knees, ribs, wrists, elbows...

[clt_capt]

Kinda a burning senstation.

A shot of penicillin?

[Deep C]

Burns when I'm standing...Not when I pee !!!

[Captain Fred Archer]

I hear ya, Deep...believe me, I hear ya.

Remember, it could be worse.

The bad side of that is that if you live long enough...

IT WILL!

Hope everything works out with that sore wheel.

Buenas suerte.