>i wish you all the luck in the world. i have a wonderful family. would not
>trade them for the world, but, i am working still (throught quite a bit of
>pain) after the doctors started talking disability retirement in 1993. i
>need to keep doing this for 6 more years to get my youngest through high
>school. hoping he'll get a scholarship for college. just wanted your eyes to
>be open going in. i was pretty robust when i married at 36. most of my
>problems have came on in the past 7-8 years. 1 am 50 and don't feel a day
>over 90.
>hang in there, i did not intend to go into this as much as i did.

Kenneth,

        I've put mine through college and a Master's. Now I'm working to
keep from going nuts. One word for the young people out there. Don't invest
all your self-esteem in to any one thing. Invest it in family and hobbies,
etc. WHen the one thing(in my case, worl) is taken away, its scary.

Bobby