Mickxxx's blog post - Take care of yourselves!

Done with my morning treadmill walk/run. I had this treadmill for about 12 years and for the most part, I only used it to hang my clothes on. About a year ago I learned that I have high cholesterol and high blood pressure. It’s not too high, but its borderline of being high. Yeah, it sucks getting old ppl. Since then I’ve hit the treadmill, usually five days out of the week. As I’ve aged I learned that we must take care of our bodies and minds too. I know, you young pups of NN are probably saying, Pffft, whatever.

Just a short story here. One of my coworkers, (I’ll call him Ron) who later on became my manager suffered a stroke. He was only about 5 years older than me and was in fairly good shape from what I could tell. He did survive the stroke but the sad part was he lost most of his memory. He barely remembered his wife and kids. Along with this, he lost all his knowledge and technical skills of his work. Just to give you an idea, it takes years for someone to become knowledgeable of our software products. Ron was a veteran of our company, about 15 years and he lost all of his knowledge and skills. Unfortunately it was a bad time for our company and ppl were cut left and right and eventually Ron was let go too.

As time past I found out Ron was doing ok, he is working again but not in the software field. I also found out Ron was suffering from extremely high blood pressure and his cholesterol was through the roof, which most likely was a good part of the cause related to his stroke.

I did not mean to get off the path here but wanted to share that sad story with you. Since I’ve found out I was on my way to high blood pressure/cholesterol, I’ve been walking/running on my treadmill since and trying to watch what I eat...and I mean trying regarding the eating part but it has helped. I refuse to control it w/ meds at this point but may have to in the future, we'll see.


What I’m getting at is TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES my NN compodrays. Mick would like to continue reading you’re blogs for a long time and continue perving the lovely ladies of NN


Hey Santa baby, Mickey needs a new treadmill, he’s been a good boy