Enormous Glut of Senior Housing

[Carnivore]

I would like to think of it in terms of being pragmatic and assertive. I think the operative sentiment in the above is the last bit. I don't expect the big giant meteor to hit me tomorrow, but even if it did I would have no cause to complain about life being unfair because I've had it pretty good so far. As for the rest, that's just planning my various contingencies in advance instead of letting them sneak up on me and forcing me or my people to be making these decisions in the heat of the moment. I have a plan for what to do in the event of the massive stroke or the vegetative state and I expect my people to respect my choices and not try to second guess me due to thinking I made those choices under duress.

In the meantime, I can still paddle out, I can still hike with my sons, and I've got a new grandson that I'll soon be able to teach how to read so I'm still in a pretty good spot. I have no complaints.

Your saying you want a Living will. That is available and legal, and I already have one on File.

"A living will, also called a directive to physicians or advance directive, is a document that lets people state their wishes for end-of-life medical care, in case they become unable to communicate their decisions. It has no power after death. "

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

I think genetics is more of a factor than bad habits.

Probably plus luck. I outlived my thin and athletic brother and two cousins born the same year I was. None smoked but my brother died of Shy Draeger disease at age 65, a disease so rare there were no one in the state in the support group. His widow lost her brother only a few weeks later when he fell off a ladder and broke his neck. One cousin had an ileostomy when 25...died at 64 from cardiac arrest, no one in family had a heart attack but he developed diabetes a common disease on our side of the family as was high blood pressure but he didn't have that. His A1C was on his desk and it was 6.7. The other cousin died at age 67 but had been in a resthome for over 5 years with Alzheimer's disease. Didn't know anybody by the time he was 62...when his brother died and he didn't attend the funeral because he couldn't understand who had died.

I had coffee today with a guy who had a really bad heart attack and he recalls hearing them ask other nurses if he had a do not resuscitate card. They said no, so they tried to save him and did. He is healthy (comparatively) today. Clean bill of health from his doctor this week, which is why the conversation started. I posted a picture of his red Cobra in the pix thread several months ago. As the good book says, "Time and chance taketh us all."