@JamesAFurey The first clue was 8th grade graduation where they recognized everyone with straight A’s for the past three years and roughly 65% of the kids got the award.
@sam_gzstrength Multiple year recovery - no surgery but still chronic low level discomfort. I expect I may have had underlying / undiagnosed back issues before this, but this was the proverbial straw that took me out.
@sam_gzstrength From slow decent dead lifts - L4 and L5 disc bulge, excruciating femoral nerve pain, immediate difficulty walking. Completely out of the blue. Was not lifting heavy or doing anything I hadn’t done 100 times before. Started lifting at age 16, this happened at age 49.
@japan_nobunaga “Ranch dressing is made out of buttermilk and sadness.” Jim Gaffigan
I’ll never understand why people drown their otherwise healthy salad in this stuff.