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I am genuinely curious ....

Are you in a good state of health and wellness?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 38 64.4%
  • No

    Votes: 15 25.4%
  • unsure

    Votes: 4 6.8%
  • other

    Votes: 2 3.4%

  • Total voters
    59
Do you think you are in good health ... if so why? If not why?

WHO

Yes I am - because I can deal with my issues and not let them rule me.

I have a limp, chronic leg and back pain, numb toes, and other health issues that effect me physically - but I'm fine. I know what they are, I have them under control through activity, diet and other issues.
 
Dion said:
Do you think you are in good health ... if so why? If not why?

I could use more exercise. If you have lingerie and a few hours free, you can remedy that.
 
But I do think that a quest to live to be 100 years old, no matter what, is slightly crazy.

There are men and women in the Kenyan village over 95 who can and so still dig furrows and otherwise participate in the family farm. Granted, that's kind of a different world.
 
There are men and women in the Kenyan village over 95 who can and so still dig furrows and otherwise participate in the family farm. Granted, that's kind of a different world.

If my life is all about tending plants and hanging out with my family and friends at 95, I'll certainly stick around.
 
I could use more exercise. If you have lingerie and a few hours free, you can remedy that.

Uh, Gipper?

Dion is a man.

Not that there's anything wrong with that............just don't let RadicalModerate catch you asking for lingerie, or he'll revoke you're "okay to have sex" card.

LOL.
 
The profiles are a lie? I thought people weren't allowed to lie on the internet.
 
The profiles are a lie? I thought people weren't allowed to lie on the internet.

O GAWD!! I have no idea why, but I mistook Verthaine, who spoke of being a widower, for Dion.

I am so sorry, Dion.

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The poll is intentionally anonymous.

I am genuinely interested in how people view their own state of health.

Explaining why would tend to negate anonymous. :confused:
 
I think I am, I used to play a lot of hockey which kept me pretty healthy but had to quite because it just got too expensive. I gained a few pounds because of it, but this past summer I started running a few times a week, got up to 2 miles every other day, also got my diet under control, basically just cut out snacking, and I plan on keeping it up, because I feel great, have lots of energy, it's great. I think people underestimate how much better you can feel when you are healthy.
 
Do you think you are in good health ... if so why? If not why?

WHO
Oops, I voted before I read your OP.

I guess then no, I'm not.

1. The wife refused to work on marriage problems, refused to seek help for her own personal problems, committed adultery and left the marriage. So much for getting to be a husband.

2. My X kidnapped the children, I haven't barely seen them in years, and now it looks like she's going to get away with it and live in another state, so I won't be seeing them while they grow up, either. So much for being a dad.

3. A couple of my best buds decided to use a loaded assault rife as the object of a practical joke on me. I flipped **** and got them in trouble. No more best buds.

I've lost pretty much everything I know and love. No, I'm not doing very well at all. I've been back in country for only a week and I'm already falling back into the 'old normal' of excessive video games and mood-food just to numb the pain. I want a way to express and vent my aggression but everywhere I turn I have to treat people like glass. In Afghanistan I would save it all up for convoy where I could then drive very aggressively, forcing people off the road and, in a couple instances, psychically push them out of my way with my truck. I would see some guys looking suspicious and beg them to do something stupid so I could open up with my machine gun.

Strangely enough, because I could vent, I feel I was fairly well adjusted overseas.

Now I have to color between the lines again, and I will, but that means the anger has no where to go...
 
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Explaining why would tend to negate anonymous. :confused:

Obviously! my point was if someone wanted to vote and not reveal to the forum community they felt they were in poor health I wanted them to know confidentiality was assured.

Clearly, if they comment they choose to reveal what is on their mind regarding the topic.

Joko what is confusing?

I think it was the inner NP in me revealed ... I am trying to respect privacy so posters will vote and only if they choose to discuss their vote are they revealed. I am not sure how well this forum community knows of each other and real identities so i wanted that to be understood. I am genuinely curious and wanted to get as many voters as possible.

Another thought and just general fyi and nothing to do with your post ... I think if someone talks of a personal health struggle it is unethical to throw that back at them in a different thread on controversial topics.
 
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I am not a person who enjoys physical activity, for the most part. I am 59 years old; my personality is never going to change. I do try to get fresh air, but that's about my mental housekeeping, not an attempt to be physically fit.

I could be in better physical shape, as I well know. To do so, I'd have to give up cigarettes, meat, fat, sugar and chocolate. I choose not to, as the payoff just isn't there for me.

I'm not surprised Dion is in the medical filed; I know no such person IRL who doesn't support euthanasia.

Bottom line for me is, my "quality of life" is excellent in my opinion -- and who else's counts?

I do support Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. I was not clear by your comment if you thought I did or did not and how it realtes to people in the medical field.

Do most support such or not support it in your opinion?
 
I could use more exercise. If you have lingerie and a few hours free, you can remedy that.

You remind me of a platonic male friend of mine! He always says jokes such as that!
 
Uh, Gipper?

Dion is a man.

Not that there's anything wrong with that............just don't let RadicalModerate catch you asking for lingerie, or he'll revoke you're "okay to have sex" card.

LOL.

I am 100% female. That is me in my avatar!

Dion is my given name and my mother is from a foreign country ... hence the unusual name. I realize in this country it is ususally used for male gender.

Your post was funny though if I had been male ... as Gipper is such a womanizer!
 
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I am 100% female. That is me in my avatar!

Dion is my given name and my mother is from a foreign country ... .hence the unusual name. I realize in this country it is ususally used for male gender.
Girl we need to get you some Photoshop..that pic doesn't do you justice.
 
I do support Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. I was not clear by your comment if you thought I did or did not and how it realtes to people in the medical field.

Do most support such or not support it in your opinion?

I don't know any medical professional who does not support euthanasia, Dion, so the reply you made above didn't surprise me.

I'd say the same lack of information is at work with a lot of bad decisions people make about their health or the health of someone they are responsible for: they can't accept (or don't know) what life will be like if they have that surgery, get that chemotherapy, continue the pregnancy of the doomed child, etc.

I can recall, years ago, people getting roasted alive by the community for taking an elderly parent off life support. It takes time for attitudes and knowledge to be processed and even longer for emotions to catch up. This is sort of like people who won't agree to donate their organs on their driver's license, because they fear if they do, doctors will kill them.

I do not think most Americans support euthanasia today, but half the population will be over age 65 by 2050. I imagine long before then, it'll be the law of the land.

 
I am 100% female. That is me in my avatar!

Dion is my given name and my mother is from a foreign country ... .hence the unusual name. I realize in this country it is ususally used for male gender.

Your post was funny though if I had been male ... as Gipper is such a womanizer!

Yes, I managed to gig a record number of people in one post -- but you were gigged purely by accident!

LOLOLOL.
 
Oops, I voted before I read your OP.

I guess then no, I'm not.

1. The wife refused to work on marriage problems, refused to seek help for her own personal problems, committed adultery and left the marriage. So much for getting to be a husband.

2. My X kidnapped the children, I haven't barely seen them in years, and now it looks like she's going to get away with it and live in another state, so I won't be seeing them while they grow up, either. So much for being a dad.

3. A couple of my best buds decided to use a loaded assault rife as the object of a practical joke on me. I flipped **** and got them in trouble. No more best buds.

I've lost pretty much everything I know and love. No, I'm not doing very well at all. I've been back in country for only a week and I'm already falling back into the 'old normal' of excessive video games and mood-food just to numb the pain. I want a way to express and vent my aggression but everywhere I turn I have to treat people like glass. In Afghanistan I would save it all up for convoy where I could then drive very aggressively, forcing people off the road and, in a couple instances, psychically push them out of my way with my truck. I would see some guys looking suspicious and beg them to do something stupid so I could open up with my machine gun.

Strangely enough, because I could vent, I feel I was fairly well adjusted overseas.

Now I have to color between the lines again, and I will, but that means the anger has no where to go...

Well ... it sounds like you are doing many things right in your life and those you cannot control are out of balance.

Situational ... that is the part it sounds as though you are struggling with ... yet you already know you need an outlet.
 
Yes, I managed to gig a record number of people in one post -- but you were gigged purely by accident!

LOLOLOL.

Ohhh too funny! I almost wish I had gone along with it to play a joke on Gipper.
 
Dion said:
You remind me of a platonic male friend of mine! He always says jokes such as that!

You should hook up with him. He'd appreciate it.

After I get some, that is. I don't do sloppy seconds. I just hope I don't ruin you for all other men. If I do, I'll give Your Star your number.
 
You should hook up with him. He'd appreciate it.

After I get some, that is. I don't do sloppy seconds. I just hope I don't ruin you for all other men. If I do, I'll give Your Star your number.

Gipper, Gipper, Gipper.

What a loss to the greeting card industry and the romance novel genre you are.

LOLOL.
 
I voted other. I view health and wellness and encompassing the mind, body, spirit and emotions.

Physically: I am not overweight, I do not smoke, I do not drink often (maybe a few times per year), I have asthma and allergies, I have very very low blood pressure (usually 95/50), I drink a lot of coffee.

Mentally: I do not have any mental disorders. I struggle with certain issues but this is the norm for everyone in my opinion, we all have things in our mental health that we deal with regularly.

I am in pharmacy school and have an extremely heavy course load coupled with a part time job and required clinical rotations/lab sessions. I average about 4-5 hours of sleep per night and I have insomnia. I have very little free time and on some days I do not have time to eat meals on some days (on Thursdays my school schedule is literally full classes from 7-12 with a clinical rotation starting at 12 and lasting until 4 that I must show up 20 minutes late for. I do not eat breakfast or lunch on Thursday and sometimes munch on something in my car if I have it). I have to study hard to keep above a 3.5 GPA so that I can qualify for a residency once I graduate with a Pharm.D. so I cannot "slack" off like some of my peers who merely want to graduate and pass their board exams. I have much stress in my mind but I deal with it, I also take time to help others as much as possible. I also haven't been on a vacation in 4 years :)

I voted other due to me having physical conditions that I cannot control like asthma and allergies and due to heavy and busy schedules that I also cannot control. However, I think that I deal with it all appropriately most of the time.
 
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