Yes, I am very, very happily married.
There quite a few very decent men out here that are sailing around in their retirement who would love to meet and sail with an adventurous lady. Many would be more than happy just for the company and not be looking for anything more unless it developed naturally.
Check out (lurk I think they call it?) some of the sailing and cruising forums. If you PM me I can give you specific sites.
Thanks gypsysailor, but I was only flirting! My health confines me to reasonable proximity to doctors and hospitals, to the extent that I'm having trouble accepting that I'll probably never travel to the outback again.
Thanks for the flirt.
But really, of course I don't know your problems, but there are some cases of folks going sailing and the separation from stress and civilization seems to cure them of some pretty serious things (or remission).
I've done the Queensland coast and the Northern Territories, so I understand what one might miss out there. We took over 3 months from Carpenteria to Darwin.
With emphysema I'm no longer confident about my physical ability to withstand extremes of temperature which badly affect my lungs, ditto strong winds.
That must've been an amazing trip although if you stayed on the water you did miss out on the amazing desert country. Down the coast of Western Australia would be fantastic too
Flew a small plane across the outback at like 50 feet. Also way up the King River. Twas way back in the mid 70's, though.
I know and understand emphysema well. It has taken me form a 3.5 minute free diver to half a minute or so. That's why I'm fighting so hard to quit tobacco.
Sailing in clean air might be good for you???? Certainly little need for running on a 45 foot boat and at 5 to 6 mph, it's not like you have to do things in a hurry. Try and find someone on the Q-land coast who you can try it with. Never far from a town & hospital up that way now, right? Do you use Oxygen?
You flew the plane yourself? Wow ........ I've been a passenger in both single and double engine planes in the outback, flying low is absolutely amazing, entirely different to whizzing over it in a jet plane. I loved it so much I was going to do the pilot training, but couldn't afford it then or now - it was a nice fantasy while it lasted though.
I'd quit tobacco before I was diagnosed with emphysema and before I had a heart attack, but quit about 30 years too late .... I had a lot of trial runs over the years, stopping for various lengths of time but then starting again, usually via a joint or a lover who smoked.
What have you tried? I assume hypnotherapy/nicotine replacement in all its forms/cold turkey/CBT? I can't even be around other people's cigarette smoke now, it affects my lungs for at least 24 hours, I don't get how anyone with emphysema can still be able to smoke, to be honest.
I'll give some thought to your suggestions ... and no, I'm not on oxygen ...... yet ..... I'm told that's third stage and I'm only in first stage, fourth stage being the last one. Are you on oxygen yourself?
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I'd like to know that too ...... oh damn, you're already coupled with someone, aren't you?
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Yes, I am very, very happily married.
There quite a few very decent men out here that are sailing around in their retirement who would love to meet and sail with an adventurous lady. Many would be more than happy just for the company and not be looking for anything more unless it developed naturally.
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Thanks gypsysailor, but I was only flirting! My health confines me to reasonable proximity to doctors and hospitals, to the extent that I'm having trouble accepting that I'll probably never travel to the outback again.
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Thanks for the flirt.
But really, of course I don't know your problems, but there are some cases of folks going sailing and the separation from stress and civilization seems to cure them of some pretty serious things (or remission).
I've done the Queensland coast and the Northern Territories, so I understand what one might miss out there. We took over 3 months from Carpenteria to Darwin.
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With emphysema I'm no longer confident about my physical ability to withstand extremes of temperature which badly affect my lungs, ditto strong winds.
That must've been an amazing trip although if you stayed on the water you did miss out on the amazing desert country. Down the coast of Western Australia would be fantastic too
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Flew a small plane across the outback at like 50 feet. Also way up the King River. Twas way back in the mid 70's, though.
I know and understand emphysema well. It has taken me form a 3.5 minute free diver to half a minute or so. That's why I'm fighting so hard to quit tobacco.
Sailing in clean air might be good for you???? Certainly little need for running on a 45 foot boat and at 5 to 6 mph, it's not like you have to do things in a hurry. Try and find someone on the Q-land coast who you can try it with. Never far from a town & hospital up that way now, right? Do you use Oxygen?
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You flew the plane yourself? Wow ........ I've been a passenger in both single and double engine planes in the outback, flying low is absolutely amazing, entirely different to whizzing over it in a jet plane. I loved it so much I was going to do the pilot training, but couldn't afford it then or now - it was a nice fantasy while it lasted though.
I'd quit tobacco before I was diagnosed with emphysema and before I had a heart attack, but quit about 30 years too late .... I had a lot of trial runs over the years, stopping for various lengths of time but then starting again, usually via a joint or a lover who smoked.
What have you tried? I assume hypnotherapy/nicotine replacement in all its forms/cold turkey/CBT? I can't even be around other people's cigarette smoke now, it affects my lungs for at least 24 hours, I don't get how anyone with emphysema can still be able to smoke, to be honest.
I'll give some thought to your suggestions ... and no, I'm not on oxygen ...... yet ..... I'm told that's third stage and I'm only in first stage, fourth stage being the last one. Are you on oxygen yourself?