My story after all these years/ update/02/03/18 back surgery yesterday

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This site is the best.  All of my life I have stuck my chin out and took life as it came.  Then the breast continued to get bigger and bigger and for the first time in my life I had a hard time dealing with the issue.  Then I found this site and I realized that accepting the large breast and wearing a bra was no big deal.  Gotta add that my wife realized how much the boobs bothered me and helped me with my concerns.  Now, no big deal.  Having said all this today, a woman came to visit my injured wife. The entire time she talked to me, she stared at my chest.  Hummmmmmm.   

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Maybe she stared because she was jealous!

Nothing beats accepting these damn things than having a good woman help us alone! God bless the woman in our lives!

I wish her a fast and full recovery on the injury that she has.


Bob

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Hey Bob.  Thanks for the well wishes for Sharon.  Poor thing is about to loose her mind.  She is not made to sit around and take it easy. 

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Maybe it is time for some good books, puzzle or a online coarse! I am an expert at spending all day entertaining myself being disabled and being limited on how long I last when I do a project.

The only thing that I do in the list above is the online coarse, and once in awhile a book but it is normally a how to book or maintenance manual.

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I NEED HELP FROM MY BROTHERS FOR A DEAR FRIEND!

Many of you may think this crazy of me to ask for, but we bottled raised this dear friend from a two day old and now he will be 6 years in Sept. He has woke me up two times from a sound sleep when I was in low blood sugar, and brought me to reality when I was in low blood sugar and got me to test my blood when I was awake and confused. All these low sugar times I was low 30's which is very low!

This dear friend is always by my side and keeps me company, he is my cat Sunny. He is a yellow tabby that has come down with feline asthma and we are having a hard time getting this under control. First it was pills and today we started an inhaler. He has never been sick. It has always been him staying by my side as I recover from surgery. Yes, even as a one year old he would lay at my side as I would have my leg in the CPM (constant passive motion) machine and keep me company. He did it again with the second knee replacement and again a year later with the back surgery.

Sunny has been more loyal then any dog that I have ever had, and I had them all my life.

I believe in the power of prayer, and if you do too, would you say one for my little buddy that we can get this asthma under control, and make his life as comfortable as he has mine.

Thank you all.

Bob and Sunny

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UPDATE ON SUNNY

I know that there has been prayers, thank you! Sunny is showing improvement. His eyes are looking so much better, he is not coughing or sneezing as much, only a couple times a day and his color is good.
I think that the inhaler is the right medicine, however prayer is too.

Once again thank you for your prayers from both me and Sunny!

[Paa_Paw]

You might look into getting Sunny registered as a Therapy animal. Most therapy animals are Dogs but certainly not all. Some are cats and some are pocket pets. The Registration allows the animal to wear a distinctive vest and to accompany you virtually anywhere.

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Paa_paw, Sunny has definitely been my therapy animal in more ways then one! I have read news paper articles about the yellow tabby's and how they would lay with residents at rest homes that would die in the next few days to keep them company and not be alone! The articles stated that the big yellows where the best care givers and Sunny is one big cat. We bottle raised him so we have a great connection with him. With him and I being together every day we have a one on one companionship like most man and dog companionship's. He is a great buddy, better then any dog I ever had!

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I understand that. Registering Sunny as your Therapy Animal would Allow him into grocery stores, restaurants etc. Just like a guide dog.

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Sunny is back to playing again! I can't say he is back to 100% but he is very close. I am giving him his inhaler every other day. The cost of the inhaler was $184.00! I toyed around for a long time about the idea of getting health insurance for him, and finally did, just before he got sick. Timing was so close I almost felt guilty about it! His pet health insurance cost $22.00 a month and has more then paid for it self several times.

Paa_Paw, do know what and where I would need to do/go to look into getting him Therapy Animal credentials?

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I would have to say that my little buddy Sunny is back to is old self again! Just today after a short nap after I had taken a bath I got up to take a phone call, had some lunch and he had been bugging me to lay back down again, (he can see my back is hurting, and he thinks I have to be flat on it when it is), anyway, it took me to long and he thought that I wasn't paying him no mind so he started yelling! Yes, I said yelling! This is something he does and he can get very loud. I told him to cool it and I will be there after lunch. He sat in the living room and once I said OK, lets go he ran as fast as he could to the bed room! Now that is my little buddy, always wanting to be with me. After we get up, I go to the living room to my lift chair and he climes onto me or his cat fort next to my chair, this is or routine and he wasn't doing it for some time and I missed him.

A lot of you may read this and say what a boring life, and others will say, what a spoiled cat. Yes and yes is all that I can say back! When at the age of 40 your life is tipped upside down and you no longer can work and each day you still go down hill and each day you loss the ability to do things that use to be easy, or second nature you have to learn to live a different way! Then when you sit all alone in a big empty house you get a dog or something to keep you company.

We had the same dog for years and a couple older cats. My older daughter brought two kittens about two days old one day and Sunny was one of them. We bottle raised them. You need to rub between their shoulder blades to get them to burp, rub their bottom to make them go potty until they are about 4 weeks old. It was fun raising them. The one died at 4 years old and we could not save her. The dog died when they were 3 months old and Sunny and I really had bonded from the first week. Sunny will be 6 years old this year the two older cats are still alive and well, they are 13 years old now.

Bob

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Sorry Bob I saw something not long ago about registering therapy pets but I cannot recall if it was on TV or online. you should be able to search the subject online and come up with something. The major advantage is that you could then have the animal with you anywhere; even places like grocery stores and restaurants.

I am at the age where I can recall my Phone number from over 60 years ago but cannot remember what happened this morning. Long term memories are sharp but short term memory is pretty lame.

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Don't feel alone on the memory problem! I am finding that with myself too. I can go downstairs or out to the garage for a tool, and once I get there I can't remember what I went there for! I blame it on all that darn medication I'm on.

I will do a search on the requirements on therapy pets. He never has been an outside cat, but I just started to take him out on a leash and harness so he can learn to be on one, because there is no way we can leave him alone at home if Debbie and would go camping. In the past one of the girls would be here, but we now have a empty nest,YA!

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It has been a while, so I thought that I should update that my little buddy is doing great and is back to being his old self again!

We now are getting my mom and dad moved into the old folks living place. Mom was in rehab after another stroke and they wouldn't let her go home unless they moved, and dad can't take care of the house anymore anyway. I can't help with the move, wish I could but that is the way life goes. Mom was given a year to live a year ago last Feb so I can see it now, she will just get move and will probably be called home.

Both the daughters need to be moving as well. I get to drive the truck, but not help load it! Some may say that I am lucky, but I wish that I had full use of my body. I have to use a lawn tractor to mow a city size lawn because I can't push a push mower and the same tractor will have the snow blower on the front come winter. I thank God that I can still change them out myself at least!

When I read and see the pictures that some post that don't have a problem but they for some reason perceive that they do and act as if is the end of the world, I wish that they could just put things in prospective and learn to count their blessings that they can do all that they can and have all their abilities! If they could, maybe they would forget about the chest problem that isn't even a real problem to begin with.

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Well here we go again! If you have read all my story then you already know that I have had a few surgeries that I have felt more important then gynecomastia surgery.

Lost both testicles from rotting after a vasectomy, both knees replaced with metal and plastic ones, my back has been fused. And I had reported that I have been being treated for some other pain that my back doctor thought was trouble with my SI joint. After over a year with no releaf from the pain I decided to get a second opinion as I thought that it was most likely my hip that was the problem and the doctor I was seeing never did an exray to see, and seem to be " stuck" on the SI joint problem.

I went to my knee doctor and the exray did show the left hip is full of arthritis and the joint is in very bad shape! I had an injection today as a diagnostic tool and if the pain goes away for even three days we will replace that hip!

I have had several small surgeries too, and the only one that I was put totally under for was the back surgery  and that took nine hours, so I am glad I sleeped through that one!

I am getting to feel like I can do the surgeries standing on my head. And I am thankful that we have the technologies to do what has been done to improve my quality of life. To bad it really doesn't make me into the six million dollar man, like the TV show from the 70's.