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Am a sickly cuss. I get around in my wheels (wheelchwir) and some with my walker. I have a terrible time with steps due to the arthritis in my left leg. Am gone on gone hip and knee, and that left us quite a bit shorter than the right. I can't have surgery to fix due to heart -congestive heart failure, aortic aneurysm, and aortic stenosis. Everyone thinks heart problems and lung problems were caused by smoking. Heart probs are congenital and lung was a severe infection caused by inhaling dental decay. I went into respiratory arrest in November right before Thanksgiving, and I truly thought I wasn't going home. Before then I spent the better part of three years in and out of nursing homes and rehabs.

Considering I did dentistry for 25 years... It's easy to tell where the lung infection that came from. I was an expanded duties assistant. The dentists I worked for injected and drilled. I did everything else. Filled. Removed and replaced bad crowns. Took impressions for crowns (caps), placed and cemented veneers and braces, and much more. I loved it. Up until My hands started to tremor I thought I'd have this as a career until I retired. But my body betrayed me. I have essential tremor brought on by meds and later it became much worse when I started falling and suffered a TBI.

But that's enough of that crapola. Let's do some writing!
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I've gallstones, an ulcer and fatty liver disease from good cooking although at 5'5 150lbs. I am not fat.