Signs We Are Getting Old

[frorider]

Other peoples' deaths makes me sad they're gone, but doesn't make me feel old. Being old makes me feel old.

If we pretend for a moment that we attend class reunions, and you consider going to one and then realize that the 8 or ten people you were looking fwd to seeing are all dead, wouldn’t that make you feel old in the sense of being aware of your age?

Maybe this thread has a semantics issue. ‘Feeling’ old in the sense of body breaking down, vs ‘feeling’ old when you realize you’re eligible for Medicare or whatever.

None of my grandparents are alive, and 80 yr old parents is making me aware of the passage of time. Not yet feeling old.

[XXX-er]

As you get old the cards you were dealt become apparent and its mostly to do with genes you inherit from your parents

I see people in care at 68 while some are still skiing at 80, early dementia at only 70ish

its a crapshoot

[ötzi]

@ Fro: Yeah I mean I'm completely cognizant of the fact that I'm old, and fully aware of my mortality and limited expected life horizon. In that sense I was born old, I've always been fully and consciously aware of all that. I've thought about it my whole life. Not every minute, fortunately.

To me, "feeling old" is when something -generally something painful - happens to the body that not long ago would have been shrugged off or not even noticed. But if someone needs something to happen to become aware that they gonna die, well, okay. All I'm hoping for is to stay in reasonable shape until the closing bell.

[Dantheman]

Pretty sure death is just gonna make me feel, well, dead. Living is the shit that hurts. Being dead doesn't hurt. Well, I hope.

It seems like a reasonable assumption that being dead will entail less physical sensation than being under general anesthesia, i.e. not much.

[mud]

I don’t have that problem, my two best friends from high school died right after they graduated. One by suicide, one driving drunk.

[Mofro261]

I'm feeling 7-up.



That probably makes me old.

[riser4]

[MarsB]

As you get old the cards you were dealt become apparent and its mostly to do with genes you inherit from your parents

I see people in care at 68 while some are still skiing at 80, early dementia at only 70ish

its a crapshoot

I hear ya. My Dad gave me the "well, this is probably the last pair of skis I'll buy" a few years before he turned 70. I then told him about the 80+ ski club that I would print the passes for every Wednesday back when I worked on the mountain. It's all about perspective.

[sb]

Short on time.

Short on legs.

Short on everything except for kegs.

[gravitylover]

As my old man used to tell me, "Ain't none of us gettin' out of here alive." Probably doesn't make it any easier...


Dude - if you *need* fuckin' back surgery, get back surgery. I blew my L4/L5 but good when I was 41. I suffered mightily for several weeks before my PCP finally ordered an MRI and I took it to a spine doc, who said, "I have a spot available next week."

I accepted without hesitation and even in my post-surgery fog I could tell it was a night/day difference. I basically got my life back.

If surgery is warranted, don't fuckin' wait until you're 80.

I've had 3 docs look at it over the last 20 years and they all say the same thing, 'you have a 50/50 chance it will work but if it doesn't you'll be a paraplegic or may lose the use of your right arm'. Nope, not taking that chance.

Maybe you have B12 deficiency. B12 is needed maintain to myelin sheath around nerves.

Hmm, gonna have to try that. Thanks.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

I have found that in today's world when you are really nice to people it totally fucks with their head.

Yeah, you use common courtesy and be a good human and people think you’re a monster these days


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[skaredshtles]

I've had 3 docs look at it over the last 20 years and they all say the same thing, 'you have a 50/50 chance it will work but if it doesn't you'll be a paraplegic or may lose the use of your right arm'. Nope, not taking that chance.

Yeesh - that seems like dicey odds.

[Timberridge]

[JimmyCarter]

How long until we have a Ken Griffey situation in the NFL?

[ötzi]

A "Ken Griffey situation"?

[MakersTeleMark]

A "Ken Griffey situation"?

It's way after your time.

[JimmyCarter]

A "Ken Griffey situation"?

Father and son playing together.

https://baseballhall.org/discover-mo...-son-in-lineup

[Bunion 2020]

Walking into the living room this morning. Just another morning. All of a sudden my lower back just says, "fuck you, I am outta here".

No reason or rhyme. The kind of pain I would normally call my Chiro except he got old (55) and sick of cracking backs and retired. New guy is kind of a hipster doofus and my 1 session left me unimpressed. Fortunately a PT showed me a couple of simple stretches that seem to do the trick along with a leftover muscle relaxant.

Random old age complaint.

[liv2ski]

In my life I was always the type A guy that was on top of everything, did everything for my family. Now I fuckin hate being in that boat and just want to blow everything off and relax. I am old.

[whipski]

I'll know I'm truly old when I stop doing this and order a propane tank

[gravitylover]

All I'm hoping for is to stay in reasonable shape until the closing bell.

Like Hunter said "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"

Walking into the living room this morning. Just another morning. All of a sudden my lower back just says, "fuck you, I am outta here".

No reason or rhyme. The kind of pain I would normally call my Chiro except he got old (55) and sick of cracking backs and retired. New guy is kind of a hipster doofus and my 1 session left me unimpressed. Fortunately a PT showed me a couple of simple stretches that seem to do the trick along with a leftover muscle relaxant.

Random old age complaint.

Mine has done that standing up off the toilet so I raised the toilet 1.5"

[ötzi]

I think they have like toilet ejector seats, maybe that's what you need.

As far as the Hunter quote, I'm more with the famous Mickey Mantle quote (that I recently saw Dick Van Dyke steal in a commercial for his "Dick's Old As Fuck" TV special, but I guess he's allowed 'cause he's old as fuck), "If I knew I was gonna last this long I woulda taken better care of myself."

[gravitylover]

What's that button for?

Heheh

[ötzi]

Like taking a dump in Japan. You never know what's gonna happen when you push a button.

[Timberridge]

The wagon thread has further devolved into Mercedes wagon discussions.