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Hello Wayne - 

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CA>> Muscle is what holds us together and supports joints. I
CA>> think the physical condition of the patient combined with
CA>> their ability to heal after surgery (age?) are all factors
CA>> in this. Some heal so fast it's like magic. My
CA>> father-in-law healed three times faster than I did and he
CA>> was in his 70's. My mother heals faster than I do now. 

WC> I still heal fast. 

I don't. This growing old thing is begining to remind me of
trying to keep an old car. My father died at 48 and I have had
little contact with men older than myself the past decade. My
stepfather is over 80 but I wasn't paying enough attention nor
asking any questions when he was my age. :-\ 

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WC> Once I hook up an external CMOS battery that machine should
WC> be good to go in a minimalist fashion. 

In some ways the old AA battery packs were easier to deal with. 

WC> I need to read the docs for the Promise Tech BIOS'ed I/O
WC> card I'd added to reconfigure it to replace the existing
WC> I/O So I can use the 40X acer CD-ROM instead of the
WC> Creative propietary sound card CD-ROM interface. All the
WC> software is already setup for the ACER drive on another
WC> machine so it's easier to check the docs and rejumper and
WC> move the drive cables. Got to check and see if there's a
WC> jumper to disable on motherboard I/O but either way I
WC> expect it'll work given my experience with that I/O card.
WC> Previously I was just using the BIOS and for that all you
WC> need do is slap it into an ISA slot. I believe you can hook
WC> it up to the IRQ for secondary primary drive which the
WC> mainboard I/O lacks so I'm confident in any case. 

When the 24x LITEON did work here (doesn't now) it was
interesting to watch it burn a CDR. Funny part is total time
wasn't all that much less though? 

CA>> At the time of my shoulder injuries I was still in pretty
CA>> good shape. I may have made a mistake in turning down the
CA>> surgery. 

WC> I doubt it would have been a good idea even them. 

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That was my original conclusion but we do tend to second guess
ourselves as time goes by. I would've liked to have gone back
to the gym and tried to build them back up again but two of my
children were living with me then and I couldn't afford the
money or the time away from home (no wife). 

WC> Would have been a walk in the park for me in 95, today I'm
WC> quite sure it would kill me. 

I think the years of pain have worn you down, I know the pain
wears on me. I have had a 'bad' knee since I was 21 and now two
shoulders. It makes me very tired at times trying to ignore the
pain. Once either of us gets tired beyond a certain point, yes
it does seem that any sort of additional pain would kill us. 

fwiw: I have witnessed people who were put in so much pain that
even after everything healed they were never quite the same. It
affected how they viewed the world and I would imagine there
was a great deal of anger knowing other people had not had to
endure what they had to. 

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