Owning a Ball python at 40?

[Bogertophis]

Very true. That close call I had left me with 11 herniated discs, two tears, and nerve damage in my low back. I now work a admin job because I can no longer wear a gun belt. I have chronic pain and it changed my life. Things I used to do with ease I now pay for in the following days because of the damage.

So you're much safer on the job now & should make retirement OK, but at the price of chronic pain that unfortunately seldom improves with age. One way or another, it's hard to get thru life unscathed, so we have to enjoy the journey as much as we can & remember that "it could have been worse". Hard as it is to believe, even ppl that win big money in lotteries find ways to screw up their lives, so we just have to play the hand we're dealt, I guess?