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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 1983783, member: 71723"]Ignorant is as ignorant writes and advocates. I'm almost 60 and I have a head start on being the crabby old man I hope to become. At the rate my body is medically breaking down, I may not get there, so I have to hurry. I have a short tolerance for foolishness. I suffer fools EXTREMELY badly. I also have a short fuse for selfishness. For the first time in my life, I have some decent disposable income, and I live a truly spartan lifestyle. Everything I do, say, or acquire is about my son and the life and country I'd like to leave HIM. It's not about me. I'll be totally disabled soon enough, and dead shortly thereafter. The diagnosis is in, and the clock doth tick. You might like to know what knowing of what you will die is like. I no longer need to wonder. There are lots of people less impaired than I am collecting disability. I choose to continue working 50+ hours a week and donating all of my vacations to serving the ANA as a National Volunteer. On the other hand, my son is in a hospital also fighting for his life right now, and he's only 19, so the whole exercise may be moot.[/QUOTE]