Sorry that this
post is so late, but the hard drive on my ancient computer crashed and I’ve had
to buy a new machine (an IMac, if you’re curious, a big improvement over the
old PC).
And, while all
this was going on, my back went out. This has been happening every so often
over the past 50 years or so, starting with a slipped disc while I was in the
Army. Can’t even call it a war wound. We weren’t fighting anybody at the time,
which is the only way I’d want to be in military service.
Anyway, I was
having back spasms while my old computer was having disk spasms. Fortunately
for the latter case, I’d backed up all my important data onto an external hard
drive before the fall, and thus transferring it to the new Mac was a relative
piece of cake.
Recovering from
my internal back spasms, though, proved to be another story. In previous years,
it only took me a couple of days to bounce back. The older I got, the longer
the recuperation period. And this last episode took more than two weeks to work
itself out of my system.
Which, I guess, is the subject of this posting. It’s a warning about
something you’re probably already suspecting – it takes us longer and longer,
the more we age, to shake off insults to our body. There’s nothing much that
you can do about it, except accept it. And, maybe, wish you were like a computer
that could easily be updated. We’ll wait for medical science to get going on
that one
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