As the aging process pulls us all in, there’s nothing to stop it. You’re as healthy as a horse in its shining moment but you’ll still be dead as a doornail. Between here and there each of us experiences a different level of maladies.
Some of us have more of these pesky health problems than others. My early life was trouble-free. Now, eh, not so much. Guess what? Things go wrong, and when they do, they seem to snowball, baby.
I have an insulin pump that loves to vacation more than Congress. If it can stop working in the middle of the night and leave me in the lurch because it feels slighted in some way, it will. In these days of slim-line this or that this is more bulky than having an IBM computer and a dot matrix printer strapped to your side 24/7…