thanks Ribit. Appreciate you takin time to give me some things to think about. It sounds like this replacement joint stuff is just a long road downhill. Steady, but definitely downhill.
Like you I loved that wall. It was a challenge. As a four sport athlete in High School and ALL STATE offensive lineman for two time Big School football team I always had enjoyed challenges that tested my physical abilities. I was just naturally gifted by God and things usually came relatively easily to me.
It seems as if I am now paying a price for those years of physicality and having lots of collisions with other guys bigger than myself physically but not as strong.
I was benching over 300 pounds in high school and doing reps military presses of 220 to 240 lbs. daily. 220 pounds of 5 % body fat and lots of muscle. Including my head.. lol!!!
I was still exceptionally well coordinated up until about five years ago. But arthritis has been eating at my joints for longer than that and it is catching up to me..
So I am a little bit leary of all these things.
I don't suppose docs can open your hip area and just clean up the arthritis and remove it like they do on one's spinal bones and get rid of a lot of it can they?
I have ZERO rotation in my right hip.. It is not allowing the leg to move normally which is what is causing it to hit and land at an awkward angle and just crusching my foot at the anklke joint and the anterior of the shin part of the leg. ALWAYS highly inflamed after walking anywhere due to that awkward walk and planting of the foot step.
I hate it. I told my grandson that although he loves playing football that one day when he gets older a lot of those impacts are going to bite him in the butt.
PI sure brings back some youthful memories. Some better than others but that was where we grew up and left "self" behind and went to fight for the country.
Now a bunch of moronic imbeciles who know nothing of what it took to have a place that was free from government tyranny and one could live in peace want to throw everything under the bus and enjoy what we worked our butts off to get to th epoint we are at in our lives.
Sacrifice and doing without and Work are not in these socialists vocabulary.. Apparently their mommies and daddies never taught them anything other than how to take things from other people.
Oh well, need to move on.. Sorry for ramblinig and reminiscing a bit.. You jarred my memories when ya mentioned our favorite wall.... I'm pretty much done challenging walls like that except with a ladder. lol!!1
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