Stanley Simon:  

Hi All - I thought I was such a healthy guy at 81 YO. Well, I sought of was. Fortunately for me, I never smoked or drank liquor in my life. Was built thin and took good care of myself even while working everyday at my business here in CA. Then just 3 months ago at the end of May, I got really sick and had two major operations within a week. During the .second operation, I actually died on the operating table suffering from septic shock, but fortunately was resuscitated and brought back. It has now been appx. 10 weeks that I've been recuperating and starting to feel a little better. The doctors thought I would never make it back, that's how close I got. They now say it will take about 6 months to a year to fully recover that terrible experience. After working for 36 years in my electronics business I felt it (my dying) was a sign from the guy upstairs, that maybe now really is the time to RETIRE. And retire I did. To say thank you to the employees who worked for me for many years, I gave them the business to keep and run, said thanks and quietly left the office with tears in my eyes. And that brings me to retirement. Not ever thinking about retirement prior to my illness, I really never gave thought to what I would really enjoy doing when I retired. So here I am today, thinking what do I want to do with myself and start drawing up a bucket list. I just don't know where to begin. Any help out there? I do like to write (songs - children stories - TV comedies - poems etc.) I gave up my commercial acting (which I did a lot of and liked because I'm a ham) but had to stop that too because I'm also loosing my vision to AMD and can't dri...Expand for more