Being 77

Being 77 is okay if you have your health and enough money to enjoy yourself when you want to. For me, my main enjoyment other than my family is traveling to places like Santa Barbara, Mt. Shasta, Portland to see my son, Austin, Texas to see one of my daughters and potentially if my health is good enough to Europe to visit my older biological Daughter there in Europe where she lives with her Lawyer husband and new almost 1 year old daughter.

So, Though I miss my children and grandchildren a lot because they all live in Portland, Austin Texas, Europe or San Diego I still have good enough health to visit them when I can or when they can visit me here in California.

There was a book called "Life Begins at 40" that was written in the 1930s that I read years ago now and basically it said, "Life begins at 40 if you have all your ducks in a row".

Well at 40 I didn't have all my ducks in a row and got divorced in 1994 and remarried in 1995. So, since around 1999 after almost dying for about a year I finally got all my ducks in a row where financially I was okay and I had moved mostly beyond dying then (even though I believed I would die by around 2006 then too.

However, then my physical trainer from Germany told me that she thought I had hypothyroid issues which just means my body wasn't producing enough thyroid to keep me alive and healthy.

Once I took a t3 and t4 thyroid blood test I found out she was right I have been pretty much okay in that department since I started taking Armour Thyroid which solved this "Slow death" problem I was facing before then. So, at this point I have lived since I almost died in 1998 and 1999 until now in 2025 which to me is "NOTHING SHORT OF AMAZING" because I can still travel and afford to travel and now I have Medicare which allows me to keep my health enough to keep going to 100 and beyond if I'm really lucky.

So, being 77 is wonderful in many ways as long as you have all your ducks in a row which basically means "having your finances and health in order".

Otherwise, if your ducks aren't in a row you might die pretty soon after 40. This is the reality of the world we presently live in everywhere here on earth.

However, so far at least, God has graced me and my family with Long Life!

By God's Grace