u/Master_Variety5303

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Long Locking Pliers for Long Fusioneers.

I had a bone infection after a long spine fusion surgery and was then put on Cipro for 2.5 years - was told i need to be on this for life.

I started noticing negative effects from the Cipro after six months, and the doctors began reducing the dose every 3 months, and this helped some for the first year and a half, after this, the side effects got exponentially worse, physically and mentally, to where I couldn't eat anymore, as if digestion stopped working, and I had no energy as in exhausted taking a shower and sleeping much of the day. I stopped taking the Cipro.

Now I am waiting to see what happens.

Last relationship was 2015, so consider me charmingly out of practice. I've been told I clean up well and don't text like a serial killer, which apparently counts as a green flag these days.

Some context, not a plea for sympathy: I put myself back together after a bad wreck and a few surgeries. Somewhere in all that quiet recovery time I published three books, because apparently I don't know how to sit still. So if you've got a "past life / this life" story of your own, I'll get it.

A few things about me:

* Texas born and raised — San Antonio originally, now up in Fort Worth to be near family

* Moving into AI these days, which is either very smart or very funny depending on the year

* Can hold a conversation across a weirdly wide range — history, real estate, tech, why the storm sky turns that particular shade of green

* Love a good drive, ideally with the top down

* Independent by nature but not allergic to good company

I'm not here to speedrun anything. Slow replies are fine, a day is fine, I'm not going anywhere. If any of this resembles a remark you'd make, HMU.

Where does a tall, smart, financially secure retired guy in his 50s even meet a great woman to travel with in DFW — and why is it so hard to find one?"

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