Getting Old Sucks

Drew

Drew

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Well, I believe I’m done for the year. A life time of hard use has used up the miniscus in my left knee. I’ve had my right knee done a couple of years ago. So, surgery later this month and 10 months to dream of next season.

This is not the way I wanted to end my hunting season, but everyone has a price to pay for mistreating their body when they were younger and this is my price. It was well worth it.

I can’t wait until next year.
 
Depending where you are hunting, you could have had 3 more weeks of season, right? Those birds could use a break from your fury too, they might band together and sent a "get well soon" card! Hope everything goes great in the surgery and you have a good recovery/rehab. You will be a machine in the fall!
 
Drew said:
Well, I believe I’m done for the year. A life time of hard use has used up the miniscus in my left knee. I’ve had my right knee done a couple of years ago. So, surgery later this month and 10 months to dream of next season.

This is not the way I wanted to end my hunting season, but everyone has a price to pay for mistreating their body when they were younger and this is my price. It was well worth it.

I can’t wait until next year.
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Mend well
 
I’ll know more this Tuesday. I meet with the orthopedic surgeon then. Who knows, with a little luck, I might get out one more weekend before the season ends.
 
No shit. a couple years ago I started wearing hinged compression braces on my now 67 year old knees when hunting upland. They really cut down the pain at the end of the day.

12 weeks ago I underwent reverse shoulder replacement on my strong hand shoulder. I started shooting shotgun again this last weekend and the new bionic shoulder works fine.

I also bowhunt & shoot competitive archery. I've won two state championships and place 3rd once in the last 4 years. The shoulder started giving me problems mid-way through the 2025 winter indoor 3D season and tapped out at the end. I was very frustrated with my 3rd place finish this year as I was only 9 points out of 1st, until two weeks after the season ended when I was shown the X-rays of the shoulder. After that, I considered it almost a miracle that I placed 3rd.

12 weeks post-op my archery mojo is probably 90% back, with no pain. I'm really looking forward to the start of bow season in a week & a half as well as the start of the winter indoor 3D season in January...
 
TomU said:
Good luck with the surgery. I'm about to turn 81, have been blessed with good health so far and don't own a recliner.
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8 months until I turn 80. Feel blessed to be in as good of health as I am in spite of T-Cell Lymphoma, Afib, Type 2 Diabetes, high bood pressure and colesterol. Other than that I'm great! :)
 
TomU said:
Good luck with the surgery. I'm about to turn 81, have been blessed with good health so far and don't own a recliner.
Dakotazeb said:
8 months until I turn 80. Feel blessed to be in as good of health as I am in spite of T-Cell Lymphoma, Afib, Type 2 Diabetes, high bood pressure and colesterol. Other than that I'm great! :)
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That's the attitude that keeps you "young"! Made it past # 81 and still in good enough health to be packing up the RV for the annual pilgrimage to Pheasant country. Still don't own a recliner :)
 
I think my dad stopped hunting when he was 72. He didn't want to make the long drive up from Southern California anymore.
 
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