Signs We Are Getting Old

[Iowagriz]

Hemorrhoids just showing up and knocking on the door (if you know what I mean).

No warning, just an uninvited guest.

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Then a hemorrhoidectomy... fuck me, this is a painful surgery. Doc told me I'd hate him for 2 to 4 weeks. 24hrs into recovery, slept well with the Oxy (plan on dropping that after 48hrs).

Don't search for the YouTube video on what it is. I was trying to research and watched a 10yr old Russian video. Yikes!

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[gravitylover]

I’ve actually tried to be nicer and more charming to people in person. I don’t want to be the old angry guy.

I tried that for a while but my world keeps getting fubar'd, often by people I've tried to be nice to.

[riser4]

I tried that for a while but my world keeps getting fubar'd, often by people I've tried to be nice to.

No good deed goes unpunished. I learned this one again recently.

[Bunion 2020]

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

[ötzi]

So, ya know, I gots the covidz. It ain't too bad this time so far at least, feels mainly like a bad cold. Weird how it came on Friday night so fast I thought I was having an allergic reaction to something, I mean it came on like a freight train, I was fine and five minutes later I was sick as shit, but whatever. It is what it is.

But Saturday morning, after sleeping in the guest room, I bent down to pick my clothes up off the ground where, contrary to my normal semi-fastidiousness, I had just left them lying there the night before.

And exactly as I was fully bent over, touching my sock or whatever it was, I coughed sharply from the covid. And I felt like a sharp pop or crack or a cracking pop, from my lower back and instantly felt like a jolt of electricity in my lower back. It hurt enough to basically knock me down onto the bed (which was right there) and now my back is fubar. So now I have covid and my back is fucked. Come on, man.

[riser4]

You're going to love sneezing.

[ötzi]

Dude. Coughing and sneezng both. I gotta brace my back against something or it's trouble.

[MakersTeleMark]

At your age you should know better that you have to stretch really good before getting COVID.

[riser4]

I don't have COVID, yet, but I have a fucked back and it's the opposite for me. If I sneeze, I need to be standing or sitting up right with no back support. If If I'm laying on my back or sitting in the chair, especially reclining any degree, a sneeze fucking wrecks me and makes me consider a fentanyl addiction. It's weird.

[riser4]

At your age you should know better that you have to stretch really good before getting COVID.

That's fucking hysterical.

[gravitylover]

For me a sharp cough sends lightning bolts around my back and ends in my right shoulder with a solid thump that feels shitty for a while after. Frequently just moving sends hot flashes all around my back for a few seconds. I'm pretty sure I can pinpoint where the pinched nerve is, unfortunately the chiro was never able to solve it.

[ExPowderSnob]

15 pages and most people think being sore is a sign of being old.. its not. It's really not.

I used to think those aches and pains were signs of getting old, but then I realized every ache, every stiff muscle, every bruise actually came with a story.... It was a bike wreck on a spectacular single-track, cartwheels down a slope on a deep pow day,, a big fail and swing missing that carabiner, or I was too slow checking that low leg kick... Yeah, sometimes it was a sore back from lifting something too heavy...

But,, and this is the important part..

But, every bruise, soreness, stiffness had a story, and they mostly, usually, probably, made me smile when I remembered how they happened.. They were stories of time spent with friends and other people I love, time spent doing the things I love. Or maybe doing something for someone I love. None of that is the effect of age.

You want something that makes you feel old, like really really old?

It's Death.

Its when you start to realize how often death creeps into your life. It's when grandparents start passing... and then your own parents. its when your best friend from college shows up looking like a skeleton because he was in the 5th round fight with cancer. It's when you mourn with a buddy whose own kid died in a motorcycle accident. It's when your wife asks for addresses for Christmas cards and the list gets shorter because a few months ago you attended yet another funeral.

It's fucking Death.

Nothing in my life yet has made me feel as old as I do when I see death come to visit my world.
And it sucks.

Aches and pains? Fucking hell man,, celebrate that.. enjoy that.. relish in that.. because soon. very soon, we all feel absolutely nothing..

[JimmyCarter]

the chiro was never able to solve it.

I think that’s in their credo

[gravitylover]

I'm running out of things to try, I think it's gonna be acupuncture next. I don't want back surgery before I'm 80 and that's a long way off.

[Ski to Be]

Where to start. Forgetting names of distant friends and famous people that I should know ( scared that I might have early Alzheimers as my mom has it). Got Shingles last fall . It never occurred to me that I was old enough for that. Playing basketball yesterday and both my achilles hurt afterward and I am worried about rupture as that is a thing when you get older. I value every day as if it was my last as I know I am closer to death as both my parents are starting to really become feeble in their early 80's . Turn 57 next week and still going strong but the signs are there and the clock is ticking. The mental aspect frightens me the most but there really is nothing I can do about it. My friends tell me its normal aging and nobody seems to notice but it really bothers me. I read voraciously , write music, play chess online and eat healthy and ski, golf and surf but the writing is on the wall that the party is going to be over at some point in the near future.

[riser4]

15 pages and most people think being sore is a sign of being old.. its not. It's really not.

I used to think those aches and pains were signs of getting old, but then I realized every ache, every stiff muscle, every bruise actually came with a story.... It was a bike wreck on a spectacular single-track, cartwheels down a slope on a deep pow day,, a big fail and swing missing that carabiner, or I was too slow checking that low leg kick... Yeah, sometimes it was a sore back from lifting something too heavy...

But,, and this is the important part..

But, every bruise, soreness, stiffness had a story, and they mostly, usually, probably, made me smile when I remembered how they happened.. They were stories of time spent with friends and other people I love, time spent doing the things I love. Or maybe doing something for someone I love. None of that is the effect of age.

You want something that makes you feel old, like really really old?

It's Death.

Its when you start to realize how often death creeps into your life. It's when grandparents start passing... and then your own parents. its when your best friend from college shows up looking like a skeleton because he was in the 5th round fight with cancer. It's when you mourn with a buddy whose own kid died in a motorcycle accident. It's when your wife asks for addresses for Christmas cards and the list gets shorter because a few months ago you attended yet another funeral.

It's fucking Death.

Nothing in my life yet has made me feel as old as I do when I see death come to visit my world.
And it sucks.

Aches and pains? Fucking hell man,, celebrate that.. enjoy that.. relish in that.. because soon. very soon, we all feel absolutely nothing..

You're not wrong. A buddy I grew up with and with whom I had fallen out of touch died in 2020 of cancer. I found out because my little sister is friends with his little sister and saw it on FB. That's when I found out someone else from the same friend group had died 5 years prior from hard living and none of our mutual friends that I had seen since had mentioned it. The silver lining, if you can call it that, is that I've gotten back in touch with another buddy from that era.

[riser4]

I think that’s in their credo

Rotflmao

[Cisco Kid]

My mom, dad, mil and fil all had this attitude about dying. "We all gotta go sometime". So I guess I was conditioned to be less fearful of dying.

[skaredshtles]

I think that’s in their credo

Witchdoctors... who would be surprised?

[skaredshtles]

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You want something that makes you feel old, like really really old?

It's Death.

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...

I'm running out of things to try, I think it's gonna be acupuncture next. I don't want back surgery before I'm 80 and that's a long way off.

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.

[Buster Highmen]

15 pages and most people think being sore is a sign of being old.. its not. It's really not.

I used to think those aches and pains were signs of getting old, but then I realized every ache, every stiff muscle, every bruise actually came with a story.... It was a bike wreck on a spectacular single-track, cartwheels down a slope on a deep pow day,, a big fail and swing missing that carabiner, or I was too slow checking that low leg kick... Yeah, sometimes it was a sore back from lifting something too heavy...

But,, and this is the important part..

But, every bruise, soreness, stiffness had a story, and they mostly, usually, probably, made me smile when I remembered how they happened.. They were stories of time spent with friends and other people I love, time spent doing the things I love. Or maybe doing something for someone I love. None of that is the effect of age.
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On one hand, I can understand your argument.

But on the other hand, how does one accrue all those 'stories'? There are exceptions, some people do the JImmy Dean and live fast, but for most of us, we accumulate over the course of aging.

[xyz]

For me a sharp cough sends lightning bolts around my back and ends in my right shoulder with a solid thump that feels shitty for a while after. Frequently just moving sends hot flashes all around my back for a few seconds. I'm pretty sure I can pinpoint where the pinched nerve is, unfortunately the chiro was never able to solve it.

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


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[ötzi]

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.

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

[riser4]

On one hand, I can understand your argument.

But on the other hand, how does one accrue all those 'stories'? There are exceptions, some people do the JImmy Dean and live fast, but for most of us, we accumulate over the course of aging.

My motorcycle accident is definitely one of those stories. I don't recommend high siding it.

[Cisco Kid]

Right elbow - I was 17 and highsided in a motorcycle race. Girlfriend had to shift the car for me on dates for a few weeks. Self healed after a year or so.
Left shoulder - 26 y o idiot heaves a rock at a tree full of birds. Tore something. Fainted with the cortisone shot. Self healed.
Right knee - planted foot on instead of next to the ball playing soccer with my 5 y o . Self healed. and couple of years before I cold do a painless deep knee bend.

Currently the elbow say's "good morning" when I wake up. .