Don't get old!

Hey - I just thought I would pass along a little bit of wisdom from one of the older members of the current family group - DON'T GET OLD! I just returned from two hours in the dentist chair being poked at by two dentists consdering what to do about my two upper front teeth. For those of you who don't know or remember, these are the teeth that were knocked out by the Maytag washing machine when I was 5 years old. (At one point, they actually used a torque wrench on me!) I currently have implants for both of them and they are both failing. It is possible to replace implants these days, but the considered opinion of the experts is that I am not a good candidate because of bone loss around the implants. So, the fall-back solution is a permanent bridge. That will be $10,000 please! With this situation in addition to the prostate cancer, I should be able to come up with a really awful pun about getting it from both ends, but I will refrain. The current schedule for treatment of the prostate cancer is that I will have gold seeds implanted on Nov. 6th and begin 8 to 8 1/2 weeks of external beam radiation treatments on Jan. 4th. I believe it was Mother/Grandmother/Mother-in-Law Betty who opined "After a certain age, staying alive is a full-time job!"

Struggling to stay young at heart!

Bob