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Dangers In Retirement (or when you have lots of free time)

I've discovered that a danger in retirement (don't like this word) is all the time you have in perusing your own direction is the danger involved.  The danger I speak of is being injured by the activities you have chosen.  Offices are save and real accidents are rare but if you find yourself spending 10x - 20x more in the outdoors, playing tennis, biking, whatever, the chances of an accident go up.  


When working for a living (as opposed to living for a living), I would spend at most 1 day a week fishing and hiking.  That's about all the extra time I had.  But now I've been (before the incident) hiking about 3 days a week and fishing another 3 days (some combined).  Now hiking and fishing risks are low but they are much higher than sitting in an office.  So times the outdoor risk by 3x-6x, whatever and you start looking at when your number will come up.  

I have become a member of the "Broken Husbands Club" that my wife has started and already has a few members.  Legs, Back, Arms, lots of reasons for joining, lots of reasons to avoid joining.  Too late now.

Hadn't really looked at my risk behavior that way, until, the incident.  Now I will, during my healing process while maybe extending to about 6 months.  Fun times.

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