>>>"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Fight Night at the UT! On the undercard, Jay vs. Peter, and in the main event, Kevin vs. John. Let's get ready to rummmmmmmble!"
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>>I'm old, have diabetes, have nerve pain in my legs most of the time, can't see well anymore, can't breathe normally because of heart issues, have two arterial stents, lost a portion of my leg to a brown recluse spider almost two years ago that still hasn't healed, and nerve damage in my face. I can't beat-up a sick 7 year-old school girl!
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>I'm old - Lucky you you didn't die young and instead made it so far.
>have diabetes - Medicine is quite good these days.
>have nerve pain in my legs most of the time - Did you already try TENS?
>can't see well anymore - That one counts.
>can't breathe normally because of heart issues - What's the use of running anyway.
>have two arterial stents - I assume they do there work still fine.
>lost a portion of my leg ... - But not your leg.
>and nerve damage in my face - That one also counts.
>I can't beat-up a sick 7 year-old school girl! - Oh come'on, you're still a far better programmer.
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>And me? Since two years I have a list too, although I admit it's not as long as yours. A nerve in the cheek and half of my tongue are out of order, miss half of my neck and have problems with eating, drinking and talking. So, eventually you make a chance of beating me, but I'll fight for what I'm worth. What's your length and weight? Mine is 1.70 meter and 65 kilo. We're probably in different divisions. <g>

Is there much pain with the cheek nerve thing? A guy I worked with had 'tic de la rue'. He thought it was a toothache and the dentist actually did a root canal (on what I can only assume was a perfectly good tooth). When the pain kept getting worse, it finally was diagnosed properly. He had an operation which helped for a while, but eventually it came back. A second operation did not go so well and he ended up with little or no feeling on the right side of his face, so that his speech was slurred. Also he lost a good bit of his short term memory.

Hopefully yours is neither the same issue, nor as extremely painful.