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Post by Mark on Mar 19, 2006 20:26:49 GMT -5
How will you make retirement work?
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Post by sandy on Mar 21, 2006 10:54:23 GMT -5
Mark, Put pet peeve else where.It's not in here is it?.Cause I have a pet peeve. And I will post it as soon as I find it.
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Post by Mark on Mar 21, 2006 16:08:28 GMT -5
I just did - I don't know what happened - but it's out on its own now.....sorry for the confusion...'my bad'.  |
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Post by sandy on Mar 23, 2006 10:07:44 GMT -5
Unofficially I have been retired for years. I always said I retired from the work force when I got married.I was and maybe still am a cosmotologist. But I soon found out that getting married and having children was the hardest most demanding job there is. I will be officially retired in August. Meaning I can finally sign up with the government for SS. I'm not sure if that technicality will make a difference in my life or not. I will wait and see.
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Post by Mark on Mar 23, 2006 10:24:31 GMT -5
My first wife was a hairdresser - I gave her her own business and even a slogan - "We'll curl up and dye for you". She thought it was a good slogan and ran with it, in fact she kept running... ;D
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Post by Dabbit on Mar 28, 2006 10:03:03 GMT -5
Like Sandy I have been unofficially retired through ill health for about ten years now, and have about another 19 to go until the official retirement age in the UK of 65. Due to my mobility problems I have found the staying at home thing both advantagous and a hinderence.
On my 'bad days' it is great to know that I don't have to get up and pop out (usually into the cold here in the UK). But on the days when I feel reasonable I get frustrated that I am simply 'sitting at home doing nothing'.
Had things been different and I had retired healthy and fit i guess it might well have been different.
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Post by sandy on Mar 28, 2006 14:45:46 GMT -5
It's a real downer to be limited. I guess we just have to accept what we have and run with that. When I feel down about what I can't do I look around and see others that are having a hard time doing less. Chin up dabbit. Look for the rainbows.
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Post by Mark on Mar 28, 2006 17:24:20 GMT -5
Yes, Dabbit, like Sandy says, stiff upper lip and all that, mate. This not being a dress rehearsal and all that, we've got no other choice and are all limited in one way or the other. My baby sister is legally blind, having Retinitis Pigmentosa, and two years ago had breast cancer. My middle sister is a nervous wreck, of course having 5 children helps explain that. My father-in-law had an angioplasty yesterday. I won't talk about my ailments - I figure that I could be a lot worse off than I am, and am grateful for that. Oh, and my mother is having a hernia operation on Thursday, which explains why I'm 300 miles from home visiting her and not on the Forums as often as I'd like. Yes - retirement - I took it early for various reasons, but find myself busier now than I ever did. Customary retirement in the States is 65 as well, except for some government jobs which are stressful, law enforcement and the like, from which you can retire at 50 if you have enough years on the job, which is how I retired early a few years ago, 2002 I think it was, or maybe 2003. Having a 'senior' moment and don't recall the exact year, but now that I think about it, perhaps it was 2003 and just seems longer....  |
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Post by Dabbit on Mar 29, 2006 2:27:02 GMT -5
I didn't mean to sound 'moany' in my reply, and indeed I do consider myself - 'lucky': Lucky to be alive even, and when I see other who are in dire unbearable pain - again I am thankful for my situation. Of course at times I do get moments of self pity as I'm sure most of us do, but on the whole I think I am quite positive.
My father in law was due a hernia operation last week Mark but they discovered in the pre-op tests that he had an anneurism (spelt wrongly I dare say) and found a tumour on his kidney!! Both of which he would never had known he had if he hadn't gone for the pre-op tests...
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Post by sandy on Mar 29, 2006 11:30:39 GMT -5
Dabbit, we are all allowed to be moany from time to time. I know I get that way.Constant or near constant pain is hard to handle at times. I hate the limitations my body puts on me. But maybe it's God's way of keeping me out of trouble. Hehe. Good thing fopr the pre op tests. Hope all goes well for pop in law.
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Post by Mark on Mar 29, 2006 11:38:11 GMT -5
Thanks, so far so good.
Every time I start getting moany or whiny I think of others worse off, like my sister who can't see. It's a bleak picture - doesn't make me feel better, but it makes me less whiny, that's for sure. Anneurism looks ok to me, there's no grading for spelling around here - I hope... ;D
Anyway, it's off to the hospital bright and early tomorrow, have to be there at 06:30.
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Post by Dabbit on Mar 29, 2006 11:42:15 GMT -5
Hope all goes well at the hospital with you mum...My fathe rin law had his scan and will know the results in a few days. I know what you mean about being in constan pain Sandy, but I do try to be as positive as possible.
I always think of those pictures we see on Tv of starving children with flies landing on them, and tummies bloated from hunger. And also recent reports of thehundreds of children in Arfica who have HIV with parents who have died from the diesaese before. It is heart breaking and always makes ne utter the words "How lucky am I"?
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Post by Mark on Mar 29, 2006 11:53:59 GMT -5
Well said, my friend, well said.
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Post by twiggs on Apr 8, 2006 2:45:47 GMT -5
A retirement Plan? Hmm can't image not doing a little job now and then. I get called by my former employer to do contract work now and then. Keeps me physically and mentally fit. Meanwhile, I belong to a couple of volunteer organziation--one for animals, a homeless shelter, serve on a board , and am getting into gardening. Oh yes, I keep fit by running. Not that I like that at all.
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Post by Mark on Apr 10, 2006 13:56:43 GMT -5
Good deal, Twiggs. We started AAAS, Alabama Animal Adoption Society here back in the 70's and it's still running. I find myself busier now that I've retired than I was when I was working - no kidding!
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Post by Dabbit on Apr 12, 2006 4:00:47 GMT -5
News on the father in law: They think the tumour is benign, and he has his anneriism operated on on 10th May.
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Post by Mark on Apr 12, 2006 12:56:12 GMT -5
I hope the aneurism operation turns out as well, Dave. That is good news on the tumour. Tell, me what sort of procedure is planned for the aneurism, though, do you know?
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Post by Dabbit on Apr 13, 2006 9:07:06 GMT -5
Not really Mark I just know he'll be in hospital for about a week and will need to rest and take things easy for between 6 - 8 week after that, or until he feels 100%. They will then start on his kidney and have already told him he may lose it (but you can survive with just one), and then fix the hernia. Meanwhile my mother in law has a broke back at the top (due to her osteoporsis) and has to take things easy also
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Post by Anita on Apr 14, 2006 23:36:50 GMT -5
I'm already retired and loving it everyday. I do alot of volunteer work for my community and Hospice. (I am almost used up) smilin.
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Post by sandy on Apr 15, 2006 8:18:12 GMT -5
Way to go. Anita! Smiles are contagious if they are real.
Dabbit, sounds like the in laws have hit a real rough spot. Dang. My niece's husband has hit a similiar one with his parents. The dad lives near them and has had heart surgery and was just sent back to the hospital from rehab. Wasn't doing his breathing exercises and filled with fluid. His mom lives in New YOrk and was put in hospital this week for a heart attack. Niece's dog got leukemia and died and one of her cats died. Needless to say she is quite a blue funk with all this happening in less than 2 weeks. Sometimes you want to crawl in bed and pull the covers over your head.
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