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Unfortunately, it's quite common to see entire generations leave the church. There's a vicious anti-Adventist over at CF who managed to round up all but one of his adult children and leave. He goes by Bob S.
Picture yourself in lower Manhattan on the afternoon of September 10, 2001. What happened the very next morning was what 300,000,000 people (especially) thought could never happen.
I can't remember what my name was; Brother Dave or something like that. I was banned a long time ago. I still visit once in a while. Bob S is still going strong. He parks in threads about the Sabbath and the law and just blasts away. I don't know how he gets away with it. I was banned for calling him out.
I'm sorry to hear you're still having trouble, but I'm glad you were able to get your arterial problems repaired. I have a life-long heart condition and I know it's no fun. One of the medications I have to take for it makes it nearly impossible to exercise. That's the worst. Have you tried fresh vegetable and fruit juicing at all? That helps me a lot.
Yeah, me, too (on the pool exercise). Only trouble is, the last few years have seen my fibromyalgia get much worse, and I can't stand water under 85 degrees for any length of time. I've got so much stuff wrong with me, I feel like a hypochondriac when I talk about it. But I feel pretty healthy overall. Strange. And I'm actually grateful that things aren't worse. God is good. Very good to me.
I don't feel like I've been persecuted at all. I don't feel I should count verbal stuff as persecution.
Sometimes. They switch meds on me all the time, so I couldn't say for sure. The med that worked best for my fibro was OTC Dextromethorphan, but it was ruining my nerves so I had to stop. I was swinging my arms and legs around in my sleep. Had some pretty bad mood swings too. I think they used Dextro as general anesthesia in the early 1900s so it makes sense that it would deaden pain at higher doses. But then there are always side effects to deal with. I'm on Gabapentin right now. It's okay, but it makes me wheeze a bit. I'm just generally messed up. lol :)
I suppose making a continuing effort to loose weight is a path to living easier in your skin.
I ruptured 3 discs in my lower back while at work back in 2005 and my employer wouldn't do anything about it, even though I would nearly fall down sometimes from the pain. It finally got so bad that I couldn't get out of bed for work every day so, in 2009, he quite unceremoniously fired me. He fought my unemployment claim tooth and nail. It's a family business and I've always loved the whole family (including him). I went back to see him and he said he was sorry and that I could come back to work any time I felt ready. By then I was on an oxygen concentrator at night and my wife and her co-workers had finally bullied me into applying for SSDI, which I thought I would never get but it was a slam dunk. I could talk aches and pains forever so I guess I'll stop now.
