Quote from: Knarf on Aug 04, 2023, 05:58 AMIt is always interesting for me to read your posts. Having played the monk game has worked about the same for me. I have $6000 in the bank and only get $700 from SS. I developed acute Peripheral Neuropathy a couple years ago. I am in pain 24/7 and fatigue and sleep problems...I will be 71 next month. Collapse is an appropriate word for how my meat package is. I probably will be gone before the "great culling". I sure hope the aliens land, and force change on the Homo Saps. Maybe I can get my head frozen when I die and they can clone me in 2400, for a day, no more....back to eternal ?.

Great to hear from you Knarf!

Peripheral Neuropathy is also among my numerous meat package problems, and I have similar pain and sleep issues.  I'm 5 years your junior at 66, but the work accident accelerated my physiological progress toward my voyage to the Great Beyond so we are more or less in the same condition.  Of course I am also missing one leg which limits my mobility, but I have a good electric wheelchair and outdoor electric scooter, so I can get around OK as far as I need to, which is not much,

I find little reason to leave my small room, which I have nicely set up with my computers, a big screen TV and my electric recliner, which I sit in when not rolling around the facility on my wheelchair.  I sleep in it also insofar as I sleep, which is only for a couple of hours at a stretch a couple of times a day.  I get 3 meals a day delivered to the room, and the food while not great is edible about 1/3 of the time.  I supplement this food with food I buy at Fred Myer and keep in a small fridge like in a college dorm room.  In fact the room is just about the same size as my old collegge dorm rooms.  The girls are not as attractive however, not even the young Filipina CNAs. lol.

I also get delivered every 4 hours or so some kind of meds on my list of pharmacopaea, which includes stool softeners to make for easier shitting and a statin to keep the cholesterol level down, as well as the Pain meds of course.  They recently referred me out to a Pain Clinic, because the in house supervising doctor wanted to offload the responsibility of prescribing opiates. Not good for his licensing record or malpractice insurance. I was getting oxycodone 10mg and 1000mg tylenol 3X/day which was controlling the pain pretty well, but the pain doctor dropped me to 7.5mg oxy/850mg tylenol and added 500mg Lyrica 2X day for nerve based pain.  This stuff is good for the neuropathy based pain, you should ask your doc about it if you are not already taking it.  Doesn't help me though with my other pain source coming from the circulation problems in my remaining leg.  Need the opiates for that, and next visit with the pain doc I will be pushing to get back to 10mg or get my dose 4X/day.

I also doubt I'll be around for the great HS population knockdown, at least in the FSoA, but I do hope to remain above ground long enough to see the collapse of the monetary and banking system, and see what follows it to keep the elites in power a while longer.  I'm not too hopeful of a cavalry style rescue by Aliens dropping into our solar system from hyperspace in the nick of time.

Anyhow. keep us updated on life in the monastery and how the Show Me state is holding up to climate change.  ;D

RE