“If you’re over 60, you wake up one morning and don’t feel any pain or discomfort, it means: you are dead”

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OK, I’m planning to finish the baseline because it takes too long and it’s now a moving target; so, I’m going to nail it in place, even if it’s too short and formal. So here it goes:

1. Enlarged prostate: waking up about once every two – three hours to pee. Haven’t checked it at doctors office. The reasons are: (1) don’t want to get another pill into my system, (2) don’t think it’s cancer: don’t have it in my genes (my dad had the same issue, and, as far as I know, none of my ancestors had cancer), (3) don’t like the process of checking the prostate, if you know what I mean. More on this in the future when things change to the worse (obviously). And yes: I do eat pepitas regularly.
2. Two injured knees: torn ACLs (or PCLs, don’t know, don’t care). The left knee was reconstructed (they took a part of a ligament from the front of my knee (not sure what kind of CL is that one) and replaced the ACL attaching it with two titanium screws (that’s my first step in gradually turning into a cyborg). I didn’t do anything with my right knee to see if it can somehow recover by itself – another experiment of mine, which didn’t go that well: I developed osteoarthritis and now that injury bothers me whenever I go to long hikes or need to be on foot for extended periods of time. Reconstruction is no longer an option, but I have the option of taking a more substantial step towards the bright cyborg future and replacing my knee with artificial equivalent. Waiting for now though: I’ve seen some promising research regrowing ligaments, still undecided…
3. Sporadic pains in joints, muscles, tendons, etc., usually gone in few days, sometimes leaving some lingering discomfort for long time. Lower back pains come and go. I used to have really bad back pains since young age, but it is more than 25 years now that I’m exercising every morning: mostly stretching and flexibility, and I haven’t had really debilitating backpain since.

And to finish the baseline posts, here’s the picture of myself taken on 9/11/2024: