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I'm getting soooo damned tired of going to the Hospital

Pops
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‎12-01-2018 11:16 AM

Good morning EXer family!  I know it is not my normal cheerful self, but I gotta tell you...I'm going to take a minute to complain this morning....

Geez!  Two weeks ago, my dr told me to get into emergency immediately for fear of the ultimate....Just a couple of weeks before, she said that my heart scan was troubling to her, and she wanted the heart team to look at it....(six weekls later!).  My aortic stint was installed in my lower aorta in Jun of 17, and now they want to look @ it and make sure it isn't leaking...

Then last wednesday, I took and ambulance ride to the emergency room for a 10 hour barrage of tests....

....and just yeterday....I spent all morning long seeing three different doctors...Yikes....

I just want to retire one day and be able to enjoy some of the golden years....it seems that my life is hosting a foot race between me meeting the retirement day, or the funeral director day....Getting old is not for sissies...that is for sure....

Don't get me wrong, I am very grateful to be smokefree, and am not in the least bit concerned over smoking....I'm just feeling that simply being smokefree...isn't enough.  After all, we gave up this hideous addiction to begin to live again....Tomorrow, my friends and I are going out on an all day long ride....

Enough of gthe whining...today Pops is rocking 70 DOF!  Woo Hoo !!!!

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About the Author
Hi, and thanks for stopping by to read my page....My name is Ken Bishop...aka, Pops. I am a stubborn older addict of nicotine....I have quit on numerous occasions in the past, and have experienced great rewards as a direct result of not ingesting deadly toxins into my bloodstream. One of the curses of having a strong constitution that seems to be able to withstand much more than others can...is this...my body would still be able to move around, and get things accomplished even after I was poisoned by the harmful effects of nicotine addiction. Eventually, the harm became so significant, that not even I, with all of my denial...could avoid the truth that to continue to smoke, would most assuredly be the death of me, and in short order as well. On Sept 1st, of 2018...I found myself in a rehab facility for alcohol abuse, and came very near death. I quit messing around, and had a deep and moving spiritual encounter, and have remained sober without one single urge to pick up a drink since. That was after consuming copious amounts of booze for many years in the past. After a short while.. I asked for spiritual help from my creator to make it possible for me to get the same amount of conviction towards finally being able to successfully put down nicotine once and for all...As of....(September 14th, 2019)...I have 17 days of living smokefree! Woo Hoo!!! Friends and family are all very proud and happy for me. They have asked me what I thought was the turning point, after having experienced so many failed attempts before. I simply reply, "I took the God Shot". xoxoxo Pops update: in Dec of 19 when the stock market started going nuts...I used that as an excuse to start smoking again. I see-sawed back and forth for severa months, and when the COVID crisis hit, I simply lost all desire to be smokefree...I was going to smoke & that was final. Well, as always...the pains of excessive injestion of nicotine into my blood stream...(one puff is all it takes) started affecting my everyday life again...I knew I had to quit placating my inner child and grow up and accept a life without nicotine. The normal person would read this and say well duh...finally he's getting it. But the normally addicted nicotine addict would understand...weird huh? So now I'm back with a new quit date of July 8th, 2020 & am hoping that I can accept that as a perfect quit date that does not need to be changed. Thanks for reading and good luck to you in your quit journey. Pops w 4 DOF!