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<blockquote data-quote="THAT Gurl" data-source="post: 4179050" data-attributes="member: 45551"><p>Yep! I am most assuredly blessed in that department. My biggest problem is I don't have the upper body strength to hike my own stuff in and out and I'll be damned if I expect anyone else to do it for me. I have a year to see if I can get the muscle I've lost back. We shall see when next November rolls around.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Would?? Most definitely. Could?? Absolutely not. Not right now. But we WILL revisit this whole thing next fall. I'm not getting any younger. And those fractures have healed enough that I don't believe me doing bodyweight and weight-lifting exercises will mess them up now. For some reason doctors like to try to scare you into not doing anything. "You're an old woman. Old women have horrible bones." "You are just gonna put yourself in a wheelchair." "Why can't you just act your age?? Why you ALWAYS have questions about stuff you SHOULDN'T be doing??" Lol</p><p></p><p>My last MRI showed all my fractures healed and stable. My last bone density test showed I'd moved from having osteopenia (stage before osteoporosis to having normal bone density), something both my PCP and my neurosurgeon says is practically unheard of.</p><p></p><p>So ... I'm gonna say, tentatively, I will be able to get up in a tree stand by next November. And if I can't it won't be from lack of trying. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷" title="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" /></p><p></p><p>A few years ago, when RNGs were all the rage, Grumpy did not want to do them. I dunno. He just didn't. Probably something about spending 25 years sitting in a patrol car. Anyway, we had a HUGE blowout here because he basically forbade me to "do it". <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😲" title="😲" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f632.png" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="🤔" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="🤔" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" /> Have you met me?? was the first thought I had AFTER I got over the initial shock of some fella telling me I wasn't gonna do something. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="😂" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="😂" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="😂" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" /> Now ... I didn't shoot at either RNG because I had to make a decision to miss out completely or take meds that, at that time, altered my ability a bit (I had just started pain management and those danged pills used to **** me up HORRIBLY) or not go at all. Nope. I'm showing up. I finished the course both times.</p><p></p><p>First time the GUY I was buddies up with didn't even make it halfway. After running his mouth on here about how he was gonna kick everyone's ***. He didn't train at all I found out later, because he thought I would tap out and I would be his excuse to quit. Yeah ... He's NOT a friend any longer. Not because of that -- there was some other stuff, too, but ... Nope. I finished.</p><p></p><p>Second time was the same deal. Given my age, and the physical limitations I had BEFORE the damned tree attacked me, I'm honestly surprised I finished either time. But I did. AND ... I got to see my ONLY female friend in this world take a shot, that to this day, I'd defy ANY man or woman to do. She fell while we were jogging through the woods and landed FLAT on her AR. **** ...<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😬" title="😬" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62c.png" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😬" title="😬" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62c.png" /> Got up, finished the jog, got to the first rifle stage and took her first shot. No ding, nothing. Which is NOT like her. I wanna say it was 500 yards but it's been a while. Maybe [USER=42]@SMS[/USER] remembers because he was ROing that stage. Second shot same thing BUT I saw the lightbulb come on. She'd knocked her optic loose. So ... Without missing a beat she turned her rifle sideways and LOOKING DOWN THE RIGHT SIDE OF HER ******* RIFLE she hit that target dead center.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😲" title="😲" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f632.png" /> Greg and I just looked at each other like <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😲" title="😲" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f632.png" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😲" title="😲" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f632.png" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😲" title="😲" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f632.png" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😲" title="😲" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f632.png" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😲" title="😲" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f632.png" /> . I just shrugged my shoulders and off we went. Cuz she was ready to move before we had had time to blink twice.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't have missed either one of them for the world. And Grumpy doesn't tell me I can't do stuff I want to do anymore. Win-win if you ask me.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😇" title="😇" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f607.png" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😇" title="😇" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f607.png" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="THAT Gurl, post: 4179050, member: 45551"] Yep! I am most assuredly blessed in that department. My biggest problem is I don't have the upper body strength to hike my own stuff in and out and I'll be damned if I expect anyone else to do it for me. I have a year to see if I can get the muscle I've lost back. We shall see when next November rolls around. Would?? Most definitely. Could?? Absolutely not. Not right now. But we WILL revisit this whole thing next fall. I'm not getting any younger. And those fractures have healed enough that I don't believe me doing bodyweight and weight-lifting exercises will mess them up now. For some reason doctors like to try to scare you into not doing anything. "You're an old woman. Old women have horrible bones." "You are just gonna put yourself in a wheelchair." "Why can't you just act your age?? Why you ALWAYS have questions about stuff you SHOULDN'T be doing??" Lol My last MRI showed all my fractures healed and stable. My last bone density test showed I'd moved from having osteopenia (stage before osteoporosis to having normal bone density), something both my PCP and my neurosurgeon says is practically unheard of. So ... I'm gonna say, tentatively, I will be able to get up in a tree stand by next November. And if I can't it won't be from lack of trying. 🤷 A few years ago, when RNGs were all the rage, Grumpy did not want to do them. I dunno. He just didn't. Probably something about spending 25 years sitting in a patrol car. Anyway, we had a HUGE blowout here because he basically forbade me to "do it". 😲🤔🤔 Have you met me?? was the first thought I had AFTER I got over the initial shock of some fella telling me I wasn't gonna do something. 😂😂😂 Now ... I didn't shoot at either RNG because I had to make a decision to miss out completely or take meds that, at that time, altered my ability a bit (I had just started pain management and those danged pills used to **** me up HORRIBLY) or not go at all. Nope. I'm showing up. I finished the course both times. First time the GUY I was buddies up with didn't even make it halfway. After running his mouth on here about how he was gonna kick everyone's ***. He didn't train at all I found out later, because he thought I would tap out and I would be his excuse to quit. Yeah ... He's NOT a friend any longer. Not because of that -- there was some other stuff, too, but ... Nope. I finished. Second time was the same deal. Given my age, and the physical limitations I had BEFORE the damned tree attacked me, I'm honestly surprised I finished either time. But I did. AND ... I got to see my ONLY female friend in this world take a shot, that to this day, I'd defy ANY man or woman to do. She fell while we were jogging through the woods and landed FLAT on her AR. **** ...😬😬 Got up, finished the jog, got to the first rifle stage and took her first shot. No ding, nothing. Which is NOT like her. I wanna say it was 500 yards but it's been a while. Maybe [USER=42]@SMS[/USER] remembers because he was ROing that stage. Second shot same thing BUT I saw the lightbulb come on. She'd knocked her optic loose. So ... Without missing a beat she turned her rifle sideways and LOOKING DOWN THE RIGHT SIDE OF HER ******* RIFLE she hit that target dead center.😲 Greg and I just looked at each other like 😲😲😲😲😲 . I just shrugged my shoulders and off we went. Cuz she was ready to move before we had had time to blink twice. I wouldn't have missed either one of them for the world. And Grumpy doesn't tell me I can't do stuff I want to do anymore. Win-win if you ask me.😇😇 [/QUOTE]
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