Could you live without having to leave your house?

[eticket109]

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When I was single, I hardly did leave the house. When I was out of work one year, I stayed inside for 10 days. I could probably stand it for a few months or so, especially during the winter and early spring when all it does is rain here.

[Murphie]

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I have stayed in for really long stretches before. It was a bad time in my life though, and I wouldn't recommend it.

[TheGrandMom]

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My roomate and I both play FFXI, hes a 75PUP and 75BRD, there are times where we will call eachother by our in game names, and thats when we know "we have to get out of the house"

lol

Oh I do this with my son quite a bit in fact. LOL My poor mother is 76 years old and I was talking to her about my son and kept saying "Edge". She kept giving me these looks like she wasn't quite understanding what I was saying and I thought "Dear God please don't tell me she's gone senile in a week!". Finally she said "GOD DAMN IT! Who the hell is Edge!??" I laughed so hard for a few minutes I couldn't talk.

As for going outside, I've done long stretches of it twice. I developed an allergic reaction to the sun when I was in my early 20's. Strangest thing and the doctor's were baffled. So sunlight was totally out and I was imprisoned in my house. We eventually exposed me to extremely small doses and increased them. Eventually I could go out for 2 minutes and after years of doing this in increasing doses, I can now go out with a very good sunscreen and sit in the shade.

I have degenerative arthritis in my back and injured myself in a very embarassing incident. Well my insurance being a bunch of a-holes, took their sweet time finally getting me the surgery that I needed to get better. For 9 months I was unable to do much without a nurse or my husband. Then I had my spine fused and things improved from there but I was still limited for a couple months. I was just so glad that I could move that the same day I got out of the hospital (in a large brace from my neck down to my ass and with a walker), I cleaned my house and cooked a big dinner!!........and then immediately collapsed on the bed and slept for 20 hours.

[Iarendiel]

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I'm mostly a hermit. I hate going out in public. I love my house, and my things, and so being near them make me happy. If this question were, "Could you live without leaving your PROPERTY", I would say yes without thinking a second thought.

Buuuuut, I need to be outside sometimes. Gets the stink outta my pants--metaphorically speaking, of course.

[Jarre]

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I feel for you TGM, I need a fusion as one of my disks has totally degenerated meaning i have 2 vertebrae scrapign against each other. problem is the NHS here wont give me the op because I am "too young" and it would cost them £150k a time and would have to repeat it every 15 years. and as I'm 28 thats 3 procedures by their lifespan calculations. It is now a lottery to get the treatment you need here, the op would improve my quality of life enabling me to be more active again (i damaged my spine when I fell through a roof on a job.)

My friends mother has got a lump in her throat, its been diagnosed as throat cancer. The hospital wont give her the treatment she needs becauser she is 1 stone overwight. The NHS is so much in debt that they are making petty excuses to refuse treatment to save money. Though they treat asylum seeksers with open arms as they get finance from teh governemnt for them. our country has gone to pot!

[TheGrandMom]

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Wow Jarre, those are horrible stories. I'm so sorry that you are having issues like that there. I know I had to fight tooth and nail to finally get my surgery too. I was about your age in fact when I had it done and they told me that cortisone shots/bed rest/physical therapy would fix my problem because someone as young as I was couldn't have degenerative arthritis in my back. Asswipes. Whenever I hear stories like yours, I wish I were rich and could bring you here and get you what you need. Keep your chin up young man! You are a great guy and I'll keep you in my prayers.

[Vyuru]

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my back and injured myself in a very embarassing incident.

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We can only imagine what said incident was

[TheGrandMom]

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We can only imagine what said incident was

Trust me....it's better you use your imagination! LOL

[Raydeus]

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It would really depend on the circunstances.

I can say I could spend years inside my house just eating/playing/sleeping if it was my choice.

But having to live like that because you are forced to would really, really suck.

[Vyuru]

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Trust me....it's better you use your imagination! LOL

So then it WAS pg. 149 that did you in eh?

On the flipside, my Dad injured his back by leaning over the fence to pickup the baby duck's water (we had like 30-40 of 'em, so it was one of the big ones) Next thing he knows he's flat on his back in the duckpen, with 30-40 ducklings swarming all over him and one of them standing on his forehead looking into his eyes.

[TheGrandMom]

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Ok, I know I probably shouldn't have but that made me laugh. I feel for your father but the visual of a big man with little duckies all over him cracked me up. LOL

[Vyuru]

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My Dad did say that he'd have been more amused if he hadn't been in horrible pain at the time and if the little duckling on his face hadn't looked quite so sinister.

[Telera]

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My Dad did say that he'd have been more amused if he hadn't been in horrible pain at the time and if the little duckling on his face hadn't looked quite so sinister.

Ahahahahaa~ Sinister duckling!

I pictured it giving him a more 'What in the hell are you doing in my pen, human?'

Something similar to my cats sitting in the driveway watching me on the roof put up Christmas lights. They look at one another and I just know they're thinking 'What in the hell are the people doing? Why are they on the roof like...cats?'

My dad had to have some of his neck vertabrae fused. Accident at work. Rather large rod fell from its harness (he used to drill and blast rock) and had he not stepped aside, would have smashed his skull. As it was, it merely glanced off his shoulder and side of his face, but managed to fracture a few of his neck vertabrae.

Soooo... yeah. As to the topic: No. I like the stars too much. I think I'd shrivel up and die if I couldn't see them, thus, living in any big metro area is out for me. I'd go into a depression.

[TheGrandMom]

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My dad had to have some of his neck vertabrae fused. Accident at work. Rather large rod fell from its harness (he used to drill and blast rock) and had he not stepped aside, would have smashed his skull. As it was, it merely glanced off his shoulder and side of his face, but managed to fracture a few of his neck vertabrae.

How is your dad's range of motion in his neck? Did the surgery help him quite a bit? I ask because I had a run in with a stupid Fed Ex man and a large heavy box and now I have burst discs and they are talking about fusing that too. (I swear, I just can't win.)

[Vyuru]

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I ask because I had a run in with a stupid Fed Ex man and a large heavy box and now I have burst discs and they are talking about fusing that too.

Damn, that's no fun :/

I don't know much about spinal stuff, but just in a broad sweeping general statement, everyone I know at my Dad's work who has had some kind of joint/back surgery almost wishes they hadn't had it. Yeah, the original problem is either fixed or mostly fixed, but they're still in pain due to other things and nothing ever seems to work right. Be VERY carefull and make sure that this is what you want/need to do before going into it.

As to the topic

We had a topic besides teasing TGM?

I like the outdoors too much. I agree with Telera, but I'll take it a step further and say that if I could I'd just camp out all the time, so the outdoors would be my indoors and I'd never have to leave