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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2017 14:30:42 GMT
I don't have any balance problems but I have horrible night blindness. I don't even dare drive anywhere after dark. I don't know what I would do in the case of an emergency save call upon one of my neighbors or in an extreme emergency call 911.
I was ever so relieved that I was not summoned to the hospital this past summer at night time when my husband was ill and also that it was still light out in the evening which allowed me to visit for longer periods of times.
Yes Lagatta, it does take longer to bounce back from an injury. My shoulder which I fractured in March of 2016 continues to act up despite rigorous PT. The fracture itself is mended but, the muscles and tendons near the sight pose some problems from time to time and I have to be ever cautious when I am trying to do something that entails using those muscles too much (as I did a couple of weeks ago while pruning the lemon trees).
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 31, 2017 18:08:46 GMT
Nature likes to be in balance. I wonder if that is the reason I am losing hair in some places but gaining it in others?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 18:59:32 GMT
What's so dismaying for me right now is the lack of stamina I have particularly working in the garden.
Whereas I could easily go pretty much non stop for 4 to 5 hours, I now easily get wiped after just barely 2 hours. Not just puttering but fairly labor intensive kind of chores (macheteing, hauling, digging and the like).
I get so discouraged because I know it's not going to improve with time.
And, I remember now when the very same thing happened with my mother.
In a word, it sucks.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 10, 2017 14:07:08 GMT
I'm dismayed by the post-menopausal tissue changes that result in muscle melting away and being replaced with sagging skin, or worse, flab. And don't get me started on thinning hair and age spots.
This is the life stage where inner beauty needs to step up!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 14:17:31 GMT
I really don't like the fact that I gained about a kilo a year for 30 years. At least that has stopped.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2017 16:24:24 GMT
I took a very frightened friend to the hospital this morning for some major age-related surgery. It made me think that I should really examine some of my insurance policies about coverage of various things. While I will never have to pay for medical treatment, I have been paying for disability insurance and I suddenly realised that I should check the policy to find out what qualifies as a disability. If I can get a home cleaning service to kick in, that would be great, but for the moment I just feel lazy, not disabled. Am I deluding myself?
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Post by Kimby on Mar 27, 2017 18:46:45 GMT
So two weeks ago, in the midst of major stress about his 93-year old Mom having surgery to repair a hip broken in a fall, still dealing with the financial & legal issues related to his fathers death in November, AND reeling from having to "put down" our sweet kitty girl the day before, Mr. Kimby got up from a restless night, took a few steps and fainted dead away!
I heard the crash from downstairs and raced up to investigate. He was getting up from the floor, rubbing his arm where he'd hit the dresser on the way down, knocking over picture frames and denting the wood. He said he'd also nearly fainted when he got up in the night to pee. Until that day, he'd never fainted in his life.
He got in to see the doctor the next morning, and is now fitted with a monitor that will record his heart's activities for two weeks before being mailed off for analysis. Hope it's nothing serious. No strange flutters since.
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Post by mich64 on Mar 27, 2017 21:43:16 GMT
Goodness Kimby, hopefully it was just some physical reactions to all the stress he has been under and nothing more serious than that.
Many people do not pay attention to warning signs and may have let something like this pass, I am glad to read that you did not.
I had been having some dizzy moments as well lately but determined that I had not been drinking enough water, since I upped my intake morning noon and night, I have been feeling much better. Fainting should be taken seriously.
Hope with each day he feels better and better.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 29, 2017 1:01:39 GMT
mich, just hope that doesn't increase wee hours weeing... having to get up and go to the loo.
Fortunately, I've always been able to make it to the loo.
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Post by mich64 on Mar 29, 2017 20:20:05 GMT
Lagatta I keyed in loo to google, it means a toilet, correct? If so, no, I have not found much of an increase in waking up through the overnight but I understand how this could affect that. Sometimes I recognize I might be a bit dehydrated. When on my own, like today, I forget to drink and eat. My husband calls me 3 times throughout the day when he is working a shift and he either asks me if I have eaten or he reminds me to so.
I had some accidents the first few years.
A friend had a heart attack a few months ago and I did some internet searches and the one thing that I noticed was the importance in drinking water every day. Some people have also told me to drink a glass of water before I go to bed.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 29, 2017 21:38:54 GMT
Evidently that does not make one "go" more.
Yes, it is important to drink water, and it seems that as we get older we have less of a thirst).
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Post by Kimby on Apr 1, 2017 21:35:46 GMT
My MIL's MO was to drink a glass of water everytime she went to the bathroom. If you keep a glass next to the sink where you wash your hands, it makes it easy to remember to stay hydrated.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2017 2:45:40 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Apr 2, 2017 16:22:19 GMT
I like your typo!
I keep a little metal cup (for camping) by the washbasin. I've broken two Duralex glasses there; they don't break if they fall on the kitchen floor, but the bathroom floor is hard ceramic tiles.
Yes, some fitness enthusiasts do drink too much water, but it isn't very common.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2017 17:15:17 GMT
Fixed the typo!
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 3, 2017 11:59:11 GMT
Evidently that does not make one "go" more. Yes, it is important to drink water, and it seems that as we get older we have less of a thirst). Not as far as wine is concerned.........
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Post by lagatta on Apr 3, 2017 13:08:41 GMT
Ha! That is more an issue of pleasure. However, I do find that I can't overindulge at parties the way we did sometimes when younger...
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 3, 2017 13:30:13 GMT
Absolutely not! After 2 hours I have usually had enough.......
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 3, 2017 13:42:50 GMT
My problem is getting easily distracted and forgetting to finish what I started.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 3, 2017 14:08:59 GMT
I need to learn to say, "In a minute, dear. Let me finish what I'm doing first." Otherwise I'll never get back to it...
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Post by kerouac2 on May 30, 2017 11:48:22 GMT
Based on Questa's suggestion of talking about some of our own age-related problems, I thought I would kick off this new thread.
I'll be 65 this year, and so far I think I have been pretty lucky since I don't have any major problems. However, I have noticed that I had many more health issues as soon as I retired after being the sort of office worker who could go five or six years without missing a single day of work. There is a French expression "le travail c'est la santé" which more or less means "working keeps you healthy." The point is debatable because healthy people continue working while people in poor health have to stop -- it's not rocket science. Nevertheless, when one has been healthy all through one's working years it seems a bit unfair to fall ill the moment one retires. Yes, older people will have more problems, but I would like to think there is a healthy margin of a number of years of good health before the inevitable decline.
My biggest complaint at the moment is that I always had excellent eyesight, and it annoys me no end when I have to put on glasses to read something. Some days yes, some days no.
Oh, and then there is that unfair thing about putting on weight.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 30, 2017 13:15:47 GMT
Good idea for a thread K2.
I'm 70 next Feb which I just can't get my head around at all. I then retire although I have eased myself into it over the last couple of years by cutting back the hours, then cutting back the days.
Health is decent - had a couple of stents in my heart 9 years ago and take daily tablets for blood pressure and had a bit of skin cancer taken off my ear last year but that's about it.
Had to wear glasses for reading for years but now have to wear other glasses for driving.
And then there's the weight...
Nothing that cutting back on wine won't cure although I'm always starting that tomorrow.....
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Post by kerouac2 on May 30, 2017 14:40:24 GMT
I take pills for blood pressure, too, but since the end result is "totally normal blood pressure," I don't begrudge the tiny inconvenience.
I was just at the dermatologist last week since it is a matter of concern to me. My biological father died of malignant melanoma at age 62 so it is something to which I pay attention, especially since my GP is always saying annoying things like "you really have a lot of spots on your body -- you should get someone to look at that." So I have regularly gone to a specialist for that (about every 3 or 4 years) and have always been told "all of that stuff is normal -- nothing to worry about."
I always think about how people lived 50 years ago when they had no access to such specialists...
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Post by mossie on May 30, 2017 14:53:21 GMT
Please don't say "declining", makes me realise that I am. If only it were a grammar thing, but I shall be 85 next month and it is all catching up with me. I have never believed in being ill, but you can only kid yourself for so long.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 31, 2017 14:51:37 GMT
I am just settling into being 60, tbh it's an age that suits me. I've been 6 going on 60 most of my life I think. I do get aching knees and hips but that's down to me being very overweight and something that I am trying to address. I'm deaf as a deaf thing...my right auditory nerve doesn't work at all (inner ear infection in the 80s)...constant tinitus (hence crabbiness). At social gatherings I tend to spend a lot of time saying 'I beg your pardon?' and miss quite a lot so often end up just sitting back and watching everybody else chopsing which is nice for me but perhaps a bit creepy for the watchee. I don't think about these being my declining years really, rather my reward for long service in the NHS. It's still a novelty and I often forget that I've not got to go back to work.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 31, 2017 14:59:25 GMT
I tend to lose track of the days of the week from time to time, but I think of it as a good thing because it means that I have left worklife behind forever with that MTWTF rhythm that we office slaves lived with.
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 2, 2017 18:33:39 GMT
I'm another lucky one, thanks to genes I suppose and a sensible upbringing. Approaching (unimaginably to me) 70, and on daily pills for blood pressure, cholesterol and excess stomach acid (but they're all working, or at least my last doctor's review decided I didn't need checking for a whole year). I use a push-bike from time to time, and likewise use the gym we have here (but only in moderation), and otherwise try to keep mobile and active, in the hope of staving off the prospect of "The Home" (can't bear the thought of moving house anyway). I'll be walking down some mountains in Austria in a couple of weeks once again, with my brother and sister-in-law. I've been retired 7 years now, but I do still sense the working week rhythm, if only because of my neighbours' movements and living with a primary school over the road: and I still find Sunday afternoons faintly depressing, for no obvious reason. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 3, 2017 9:20:18 GMT
Maybe because I worked most weekends I now love Sunday afternoons...altho you can't beat that Monday morning realisation that you no longer have to go to work imo....
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 3, 2017 11:21:15 GMT
altho you can't beat that Monday morning realisation that you no longer have to go to work imo.... Oh yes. Another pot of tea in bed with a book and the radio..... My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 4, 2017 7:03:42 GMT
Radio 4? I love Radio 4...and in the wee small hours when I can't sleep Radio 4 stops nd the BBC World Service starts
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