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Sorry latestarter....get better soon 
Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.
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Bruce
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Geez Joe, I wish you weren't hurting so bad. Nothing a doctor can diagnose and offer some help?
I know, I know, its a typo! 
greybeard
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I realize you are retired military, but are your only doctors VA?
Baymule
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VERY good question.
goatgurl
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God love ya, hope you get to feeling lots better asap. I agree with @greybeard, @Wehner Homestead and @farmerjan about farm and home dirt being actually good for you and good for kids, it truly helps stimulate the immune system but the thing that you pick up outside the home/farm environment is a whole other bag of worms. so many things are bodies aren't used to and so many things you just can't fight. a healthy immune system is hard to come by now a days. feel better, soon
greybeard
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It's kind of a double edged sword tho.
I fully share your and farmerjan's thoughts on being exposed to 'germs' as being 'good' for the immune system.
And, if that exposure is good for us and our immune systems, it's reasonable to believe it is good for 'us' to unwittingly and without malice sometimes expose others to 'our' farm germs. We have all, at one time or another, gone to town in our muddy boots and even manure encrusted jeans cuffs and interacted with the public.
Having said that tho, if the above is true, it is equally reasonable to assume it is also good for 'us' to be exposed (within reason) to germs others may have....city folks' germs.
I'm certainly not a proponent of 'mumps infection parties' that you read about, I cover my mouth if I have to cough or sneeze, but we shouldn't expect to have it only one way, and I'm certainly not in favor of doing anything that might make someone else sick but I'm personally not going to become too paranoid regarding what/which/how many microorganisms other people may be shedding about.
Senile_Texas_Aggie
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Mr. @Latestarter, maybe your idea about going RVing fulltime isn't so bad. That way you could move around the country to where the weather is relatively nice. That would mean a BIG change for you, of course. And what I said earlier about not having a place to come home to if you got tired of traveling for awhile would be a big downside. But maybe traveling would be good for you. It is a big shame for you to have to stay cooped up in your house, chair bound because of aches and pains. Maybe you could try RVing for a month or so. That way you could get a taste of what it is like before you sold your house and animals.
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