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Janne,
I didn't say that my body was in "good shape." Quite the opposite.
I have what is sometimes called a "shoemaker's hump" Some days I can hardly straighten up.
I also have aches and pains. For about three years I could hardly inseam my shoulder hurt so bad...hurt so bad, I couldn't even brush my hair with that hand. Had steroids shots three times a year which got me through until one day I didn't need them.
Then about two years ago, the other shoulder and arm went bad. The only way I could inseam was to brace my hand against my knee and use the knee to push the hand away. It's gone now...I had steroid shots for that too but they never helped for long and I just quit them.
Earlier this year I had a bout with both my knee (same knee) and my arm (second go-round with the arm)...intense pain radiating away from the joints. I iced for about two months and now I'm pain free...there.
Sometimes my hands ache fiercely. No help for that. Sometimes the thumb or a finger will even go numb.
My neck always hurts. One day walking to work I developed a pain in my jaw so severe I couldn't chew for about a week. Next day it was gone.
Developed an airy pounding noise in my left ear (same side as the neck injury)...took almost two month to disappear of its own accord. I get PVC's (missing heartbeats).
Never quit making boots or shoes...never even thought about it.
Neither getting old nor being a shoemaker is for sissies...maybe that's why the Holiday Inn School of Shoemaking is so popular.
I try to make shoes. I have always felt that if you concentrated on doing the best you could , you'd eventually develop the skills to make at least sufficient money to survive and sometimes even flourish. But note that "making shoes" comes first--I am a shoemaker first and a "moneymaker" second...or even third. In my opinion, suborning shoemaking to moneymaking inevitably leads to more money but a decline in the quality of the shoes. And, unfortunately...at least in this country...the reverse is also true.
I also believe in the "you get what you need" principle.
I didn't say that my body was in "good shape." Quite the opposite.
I have what is sometimes called a "shoemaker's hump" Some days I can hardly straighten up.
I also have aches and pains. For about three years I could hardly inseam my shoulder hurt so bad...hurt so bad, I couldn't even brush my hair with that hand. Had steroids shots three times a year which got me through until one day I didn't need them.
Then about two years ago, the other shoulder and arm went bad. The only way I could inseam was to brace my hand against my knee and use the knee to push the hand away. It's gone now...I had steroid shots for that too but they never helped for long and I just quit them.
Earlier this year I had a bout with both my knee (same knee) and my arm (second go-round with the arm)...intense pain radiating away from the joints. I iced for about two months and now I'm pain free...there.
Sometimes my hands ache fiercely. No help for that. Sometimes the thumb or a finger will even go numb.
My neck always hurts. One day walking to work I developed a pain in my jaw so severe I couldn't chew for about a week. Next day it was gone.
Developed an airy pounding noise in my left ear (same side as the neck injury)...took almost two month to disappear of its own accord. I get PVC's (missing heartbeats).
Never quit making boots or shoes...never even thought about it.
Neither getting old nor being a shoemaker is for sissies...maybe that's why the Holiday Inn School of Shoemaking is so popular.
I try to make shoes. I have always felt that if you concentrated on doing the best you could , you'd eventually develop the skills to make at least sufficient money to survive and sometimes even flourish. But note that "making shoes" comes first--I am a shoemaker first and a "moneymaker" second...or even third. In my opinion, suborning shoemaking to moneymaking inevitably leads to more money but a decline in the quality of the shoes. And, unfortunately...at least in this country...the reverse is also true.
I also believe in the "you get what you need" principle.