I already buy the largest pants that Wal Mart or anywhere around here carries, which is a 48" waist. They work ok with a pair of suspenders, but cut into my stomach when I sit down. I just need something smaller to carry. I think I will probably use my Ruger as the house gun and get me a PF-9 for carry. I think you guys have talked me out of an LCP or P3AT, because they are not pleasant to shoot. I have carpal tunnel as well as cubital tunnel which affects the wrists and elbows, I don't need anything that will make that any worse. The pain now is finally tolerable. My grip in my right hand was to a point where it was only 68Lbs when my left was 115Lbs. Now it is back up to around 135Lbs and my left at 125Lbs. My shoulders are finally healing up too.
I have completely changed my eating habits, not that I was eating too much, I was eating incorrectly. You see I have worked in the service industry for 25 years. I lived 2 hours away from base shop, so I left in the morning at 4:30AM, would drive the 2 to 2.5 hr drive in rush our traffic, load up equipment for the day's route, and would not eat anything except maybe an occasional hot dog our something like that at the AM/PM gas station food mart and a soda. Then I would finish my route and get home around 7 or 7:30PM and eat a big dinner. Hang out for a few hours and go to bed and do it all over again for 6 days a week. After my accident, I still didn't eat breakfast or lunch, but would eat dinner. Now, forward to 1 year after the accident. I have gained 100 extra pounds, I still can't get any exercise, and am working part time in an office after 25 years of working in the field. I get very little exercise and still have the same eating habits. Now 3 years later I am still 100 pounds overweight, but after 6 months of some extensive physical therapy, I am no longer in the amount of pain I was in. I am eating right. 3 small meals a day with 1 or 2 very small snacks and going for 3 ten minute walks a day, plus doing 30 to 45 minutes of strenuous exercise 3 or so times a week. I have not weighed since my last Dr visit, but I can feel my body transforming. I do not care or worry about whether I lost weight, because I know I will if I keep up on this life changed routine. I am not on a diet. Diets do not work. I just made a life change that is really working out for me. I am never hungry, because I was not hungry before in the daytime, but I have to force myself to eat, because my body does not know what to do with my fat. It does not know whether to burn it or store it, because it doesn't have anything in the stomach saying it is ok to burn it, so it stores it. It is a self preservation thing.
Like I said, this was going to be a temporary solution from the beginning of the thread and nothing has changed except that I will probably want a larger than pocket sized, but smaller than my Ruger for concealed carry. Thank you guys for all of you help and information. You were quite helpful and informative. I hope to pay it forward sometime soon.
Mikey!
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