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My wife has had three hip replacements, which is not nearly as rough as a knee, and rotator cuff surgery, which is a lot worse than a hip.

Yeah, her knee has been pretty rough; she did really well in February when she had a total reversal of her shoulder (instead of rotator cuff) and bounced back really quickly.  Hoping she does the same now so we can convince her to do the other knee sooner rather than later - she has been bone-on-bone with both knees for a decade or more.  

and ouch - three hip replacements?  I hope that when it comes time for me to have my hip replacement that it doesn't turn into that!  

Freakin’ knee has been killing me this week. For almost no reason. Just hurting. Got an appointment with the ortho doc on Monday. 

Unfortunately for me, I really let myself go for quite a few midlife years.  I'm paying for it now in terms of fat, though I'm fortunate my moving parts are mostly OK.

When you hit around 45 I think there can be a tendency to let it all go for some reason, the weight of "life" can get oppressive.  Then I had a bout of depression I treated mostly with alcohol.  Get up walk, he says, while posting here.

Freakin’ knee has been killing me this week. For almost no reason. Just hurting. Got an appointment with the ortho doc on Monday.

a year or so ago my freakin knee was killin me for no reason - couldn't even squat down on my haunches to read a putt - told the Doc about it hopin for some help, he just smiled and said I was gettin old.
It's better today but I still can't squat all the way down

Called an ouchee - get back in there and play thru the pain. Well maybe not the amatuers

Yeah, I played and continued to play into my 40s, and started back again at 60.  It was odd to me that on rare occasions I could still throw with a lot of zip, but most of the time my are felt dead.  There is a sound the catcher's mitt makes when a pitcher throws about 80 or more that I found quite pleasing.

It got to the point I couldn't raise my arm without pain, so I had it checked out, torn labrum and miscellanous debris.  Surgery fixed the pain by my arm is still quite dead.  I can MAYBE throw 60, but probably more like 55.

BTW this isn't so much a "today" thing... 

But my son started playing golf at 13. He got hooked on it, and tried out for his HS team as a freshman 3 years ago. At the time, he was probably somewhere around a 33-35 handicap. THANKFULLY, it was a weak year for his team, and he made JV. Which gave him the ability to play and practice a lot, and it's paid off.

By the end of his freshman season, he was probably low-mid 20s. By the end of his sophomore season, he was probably mid-high teens. And now, as his junior season is finishing, up, he's on the cusp of reaching a single digit index. 

His last two rounds at our shorter course (par 59) he's shot 67 both times. And his most recent school/competition round at a longer/regulation course, he shot 83. His team won the conference for JV golf. 

It's a little bittersweet to watch him go from MUCH worse than me to MUCH better than me over 3 years, as I'm just as terrible now as I was then... But I still get to be the proud dad. 

Happy?
I made it to the Sheraton in west des Moines w/o incident.   Lobby bar has sam Adam's Boston lager bottles for $2.  Going to supper on the boss's tab soon.  Hopefully find some customers at the lobby bar later