As a life long carpenter, I've been beating up (badly) on my poor body for 70 years. Every day at work is an athletic event! Digging down, climbing up, falling down, climbing down, using my hands like they were hammers, etc.

Here's my laundry list of body breakdowns and repairs:
a heart remodel;
four months of spine traction;
two hand surgerys;
one new hip;
one foot surgery;
four eye surgerys.

Now for the GOOD part ... I'm still going strong. I really got back into my music 6 months ago, which resulted in two house concerts and my first CD. And, I now have more damned songs constantly popping out of my brain than ever before. And ... I've got TWO serious deck building projects going, and my business phone is ringing off the hook. (mostly from all the doctors that have come to know me ... true).

I'm following in my Father's footsteps, he lived to 95 ... good Finnish genes. (I also am enjoying this thread) CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson