what to expect health wise

[jan behnke]

What to expect health wise being a refrigeration engineer
Well we all start off young fit and healthy in this game hopefully, I am in my mid forty’s know and have been on the tools in the UK for over twenty years, and i am falling to pieces. Here it is, do any of it sound familiar to you.
Bad back.
Right leg shorter than the other caused by carrying my toolbox at the moment it weighs 18kg.
Strained relations with my wife, in the summer I am working too much and in the winter I am not bringing home the money no over time.
Hypo glycaemia caused so the doctor said by irregular hours and eating on the hoof.
At the moment I am on my second hernia, to many compressor changes on my own, the doctor told me to change my occupation ha ha ha.
A constant ringing in my left ear working in noisy plant rooms.
Last but not least, two years ago I took up running to keep fit for the summer months, last august I had to give it up due to very bad pains in my knees, I had them examined by orthopaedic consultant, he told me to give up running completely as my knee joint’s had worn away. Not by the running but this had accelerated the process but by my occupation all the bending down ect, over the years, so I need two knee replacement’s but I am to young to have it dun.
But I am still working, will I last to I retire.
www.on-the-tools.co.uk