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re: AT Thru Hikers Jack & Bob Ross From BR
Posted on 1/3/24 at 8:05 pm to highcotton2
Posted on 1/3/24 at 8:05 pm to highcotton2
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You have a line going on how many days they last?
Well, Jack’s knee pain forced them to stop after 3 or 4 days of hiking but he’ll be as good as new after he gets a steroid shot and a few days’ rest, or so he says. Jack seems to have hiking experience so we’ll see what happens.
I hope I’m wrong but I think the Smokeys will be their kryptonite if there’s snow.
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Posted on 1/4/24 at 9:30 am to BobABooey
It takes about a month to get to the Smokies from Springer Mtn. where the trail starts. You couldn’t pay me to try and hike the Smokies in February. During my stint on the AT, we hit the Smokies around Mid-April and we still had snow, if that tells you anything about how cold it is up there at times. The trail runs the ridges, so you’re hiking at elevations between 5500-6500 almost the entire time there. You get one snow storm at those elevations and you’re stuck there a while with limited food supplies, or risking your life to try and hike out in the snow and ice. Bad idea by these guys, if they even make it that far.
Posted on 3/13/24 at 4:12 pm to BobABooey
quote:That used to work for my hip. I'd get a shot, and be OK for what seemed like a long time. When it got unbearable again I'd get another shot. The last one I got that worked was about seven years ago. Two years after I got it, I went back to my rheumatologist and got another one, waiting for it to get better, but it never did. I went to a pain specialist who gave me four shots into the four quarters of the joint. Still nothing. He gave me tqo more with a long needle thru my arse cheek. It never got better.
he’ll be as good as new after he gets a steroid shot and a few days’ rest, or so he says.
Some of my fingers became inflamed and sore. My rheumatologist tested me for rheumatoid arthritis, and I had it. She put me on methotrexate and had me doing $16K rituxan infusions, and I wasn't feeling as much pain. I did however, develop another problem. I had pneumonia three times in a year and a half. The last time was the 1st week of DEC., when I was in the hospital for a week.
Both methotrexate, and possibly rituxan, can weaken an individual's immune system. I quit doing both, and just live with the pain, but I haven't been sick at all this year.
Hiking the AT would be impossible for this 64 year old, but it looks like it would have been a blast for me in the 80's!.
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