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Was a OTR truck driver most my life, although I'm not in the same physical condition anymore but, its how I got out here so.......

Wish I was that wealthy to afford someone to move me and catch a flight but, I'm not. I have to pay lumpers to load and unload

the U-Haul I'm taking with a car carrier for my P/U and go the miles myself. I've saved quite a bit of money selling off about 3/4's of my

pipe collection but, not enough to go the easy man's way. Should have enough left to purchase a shop and ready it including a washer, dryer

and tractor mower when I get there. A mover wants about $4000 not including trailering my truck. U-Haul will only cost me about $1800 with lumpers

at both ends. Its what the miles will do to me is what has me a bit worried, I have degenerative disk. But, Lord willing I will make it without

mishap.

Oh, Whats a motel? Don't use'em, can't afford the time off the road nor the price of one. Plan 2 days max. to arrive at destination.

10 years ago I did miles like that in 24 hours.

Is there a way to adjust the seat so you can drive at an incline? Perhap's with some cushions. If you have a bad back the best medicine is soft exercise slowly increasing, if you can. I would also recommend Dr. John Sarno's book.

I am highly outspoken against Chiropractors. I had one destroy my back outright with a 22 mm herniation. It healed once I stopped going to the back quack and took matters into my own hands with diet, exercise, yoga, Rodney's Yee's exercises and Dr. John Sarno's book. I discovered back pain was being caused (in absence of the intentional injury's created by the back quacks for profit) by me. I was creating my own back pain. The problem originates in the muscles which then throws off the skelatal kinetics to create physical symptoms.

People call me crazy but today I have never had back pain because I can use my mind to stop it before it starts. Today I don't get back pain and the disc is 99% healed. I'm back to full capacity. Please take a look at this:

I tell people about this and they ridicule me and laugh but I would rather be laughed at than go through that hell again.

It's too bad you're not still driving. There is a shortage of drivers right now on the West Coast. Companies are being forced to increase wages. Of course living in CA, OR, WA you'd be forced to blow it on rent.

Agree and I would take it farther and say I have a very low opinion of most Dr.s. I've encountered. They turned into businessmen. Sales sales sales.  Some outright lie and con.

Dr. treated my Grandmother for an anyersm for 5 years that never existed. Bilked her out of 80k out of pocket over 5 years + whatever insurance paid him. She had great insurance. Constant Dr. visits to this guy.

Had another Dr. flat out lie to steal insurance money from me. I went to this guy for a letter to get an MRI and he literally made up 8-9 lines of "treatment" that never happened and billed insurance. When I got the invoice from Blue Cross I ripped into him demanding they be removed. And this bastard literally says why should you care when blue cross is paying. Because your causing my marks on my record that's why you scum.

I try to pay these guys in cash because I feel if they have insurance to bill it incentivizes them for "treatment" rather than just fix the problem.

I won't to a Dr. unless it's the ER or I'm forced.

New grads graduate with 500-1 million+  in medical school loan debts...  then later .... private practice debt. A new office can be millions in debt by the time it opens. I've been through many dentists after being sabotaged twice and having so many  demand wisdom teeth extraction - when I don't even need it. The last guy literally got angry at the table at me for refusing wisdom tooth extraction. Now I just flat out direct the treatment. And every single of of these dentists gives me a big story (all made up BS) about why I need to have my wisdom teeth removed. They are healthy and perfect and I am keeping them. yet they all insist. No. My way or the highway Dr. whatever your name is.

I go to another Dentist they have a problem. I literally had a guy in Seal Beach, CA punch a hole into my nerve root after I refused a root canal because there was an healthy enamel wall protecting the root. X rays proved NO root canal was needed. There was not even any pain. I was there for an unrelated issue. The scum intentionally did it. I left and went somewhere else. The guy refused to release the records saying I had a contract with him to use him for the root canal. The man was financially desperate.

I would be willing to wager many people here have similar stories. At the least, where you show up at the Dr. or dentist office and are bombarded with sales while you're sitting your chair. The place I went to in Las Vegas was like a used car lot. The Dentist hired this women who looked like a Thai hooker to  sell "packages". This women dressed up in a short skirt low cut skimply clothes. Totally inappropirate for a Dr. office. Then she literally checked you in, offered refreshments, then later and tried to run sales on you as your sitting in the chair. waiting Beyond tacky. I was there because I thought I might have mouth cancer and was scared. And this women is trying to sell me discounted dental treatment packages.

Same thing with Chiros. They graduate with 000000's in school debt and there are too many Chiros for the market. In seal beach there was literally a quack sitting outside whole foods selling $10 back quack packages. You had to pay up front and were "guranteed"X number of cracks. I know there are good Doctors out there.  But most of my experiences with Dr.s these days .. have not been good.

Thank you Charlie, this would be the only time I'd be pleased to go back to team driving.

But, with my determination, stubborn streak, and Gods help we'll make it in no time sir.