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when i retired from the Army, i went to the VA to have the damage assessed...after reviewing the x-rays, the doc asked if i was the guy in the picture, so to speak...i said i was and he asked me what i was doing for a fitness routine...i told him i was a land surveyor, doing quite abit of field work...his advice to me was to keep doing what i was doing, because if i decided to sit in the rocking chair for awhile, i wasn't going to get back out of it...
prudent activity is the way to deal with osteoarthritis...so i am told...i keep active, walking ( i cannot run...i have tried, but i don't want to make any more chiropractors/physical therapists richer than i have to), hiking and surveying...
the older you get, the less you can afford to have slack time...you might need to relook what you do for fitness, but you need to find something that fits you current station in life and go from there...
like the bumper sticker says, "Getting Old Ain't for Sissies..."
it's just another opportunity to suck it up and drive on...
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""A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder. if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.""- GEN George S. Patton
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