Had to post this...

[lfu2]

A friend sent me this on Facebook... I just had to share it with you.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

It is a form of no days off I can live with! And it really does help with managing PMR ...

[Yellowbluebell]

I would hate to have to go back to working. I admittedly took very early retirement when OH was ill 9 years ago but apart from the pmr I wouldnt swap for my 14 hour work days. Something would probably have snapped a good deal earlier than the pmr diagnosis.

[Hidden]

I find now that I don't know how I ever had the time to go to work, let alone 9 to 5. 😉🙃😜

[Hidden]

I was 46 when I had to retire on ill health....though I didn't know I was effectively retiring. I hate it when those damn workers take all the parking spaces at my favourite beauty spots come weekends. How dare they. 🙄😁

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Hidden]

I always swore I wouldn't shop on a Saturday - you can't not here! But here it isn't the pensioners who get in the way - it's the tourists ...

[CT-5012 in reply to PMRpro]

Can relate to that, we have bus loads all following their leader who thinks its raining not to mention the school parties, every day of the week, all year round. 🤬

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to CT-5012]

We get a flush of school parties at the end of the school year when they come to view our archaeological excavations which are all over the village. There is a bit one opposite our block - which they have just dug out to expose the foundations better and then they got the cement out to tidy them up

[Constance13 in reply to PMRpro]

Same here! Also go out and turn left, away from the park.😀

[Hidden]

I have 7 years to work before i retire - probably in remission by then so yipppeee ! Actually i think i will continue working p/t as i enjoy my work and find it keeps me on my toes and upto date with technology and modern methods etc.

[HeronNS in reply to Hidden]

I retired a couple of years later than I could have, would likely have stayed another six months or so if I hadn't been ill, didn't know it was PMR then. Would have given me a better pension. I loved my work, but the workplace has changed and I'm sure I got away just in time.

[Hidden in reply to HeronNS]

My friend, who is 84 now, worked until they basically couldn't extend her work period. I think she was 72 or 74 and loved her work. She hasn't felt very well recently. Her psoriasis is flaring and she has been fatigued since her dog died last December. All she takes is paracetamol twice a day and looks in her 60s. She said yesterday that having had her bloods etc done 2 weeks ago, which showed no significant abnormalities, she had decided that her current energy levels may be the new normal for her in her mid 80s. LIke you though, after initially feeling like she would have still liked to work, the system she worked in (appeal panel for disabled living allowance), has changed completely.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to HeronNS]

OH is heartily glad he retired when he did - and all his colleagues kept telling him how envious they were. It didn't stop him working entirely - he worked on a self-employed basis in a research group in Innsbruck and even though that has finished we still do editing for a an annual meeting. But even that is slowly losing its shine ...

[bunnymom]

We were headed to my daughters last week early in the morning and I remarked to my husband that the traffic seemed heavier than usual. He said it's people going to work. Wow I had completely forgotten other people still do that!! Ahhh retirement... Glad there are people who go to work tho...

[lfu2]

Thanks for all your replies..... keep smiling.