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by sp332 5411 days ago
My uncle had a heart attack 2 weeks after retiring. my family explained it as, "Some people just can't handle retirement" :) He's OK now. One actual explanation I've heard is that the stress can keep your body from healing properly. So as soon as the stress stops holding you together, everything just falls apart.
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My wife is a teacher, and she tends to get sick at the start of pretty much every vacation. It's like her body knows that she doesn't have time to be sick until vacation.
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I am a teacher. You keep going for the students, then suddenly there is silence, no work, the background noise comes up like a compressed audio channel. Strange embodied meat things we are.