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Posted: 2/25/2021 6:23:44 PM EDT
Vitreous detachment. It happens to everyone at some point as you age, it seems. I just spent half the day between my regular eye docs and a retina specialist getting checked out. Crazy stuff. Weird flashes at night, floaters. No retinal tear at the moment. Go back in two weeks. |
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Hemorrhoids. Anal fissures. Anal warts. Saggy balls. Skin tags and homosexual tendencies??
Oh wait...... |
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I heard old folks joking about aches & pains...it ain't no joke.
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For the past 20 or so years I've spent an awful lot of time working with geriatrics. For the first 5-7 of those years it was mostly with advanced dementia (Alzheimers) patients.
There is a book out there on geriatrics, if I find it I will post - the shit is sobering, sad but at the same time, it is what we get if we are lucky to live that long. |
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I've had problems with it since I was rear-ended at a light in town last year. They said after I started having issues that its just part of the aging process that was exacerbated by the collision.
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Things they never tell you?
Huh... my dad seems to talk non-stop about this condition or that one... and for some reason, all the elderly folks I know talk a lot about pooping issues... |
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That our Republic has been deteriorating for many decades.
Since long before any of us were born |
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That the older you get the more meds you're on. I already use my former beer money for prescriptions.
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I do have to say, though, proudly--that my last lab test showed a perfectly normal PSA and Testosterone levels.
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Quoted: I've had problems with it since I was rear-ended at a light in town last year. They said after I started having issues that its just part of the aging process that was exacerbated by the collision. View Quote Yeah. I fell on the ice a couple of times a few weeks ago trying to walk up to my cabin when I couldn't drive up. That may have kicked it off. |
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Gettin' some strange means putting some whey protein powder in your oatmeal.
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It use to be one bad day a week and then went to two or three bad days a week. Now I just hope for one or two days a week not feeling like total crap.
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Your cakfro gets out of control. Why is this not taught in phys ed?
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I bleed much easier than I used to. Worked on cars all the time when I was younger and scraped knuckles were common. Now it seems that anytime I work on anything, the smallest scratch will have me bleeding like a stuck hog.
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losing friends, family
seeing generational changes in society those GDFing clouds... longer to heal body failing fucking clouds cognitive decline, memory loss, mammary gain getting fingered and those fucking clouds getting old is not for the weak. |
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Your feet get bigger due to your arches falling.
That really messed with my cache of shoes as I thought shoe size would stay constant. |
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Waking up feeling worse than when I went to sleep.
Apparently the bed is my enemy now. |
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I'm only 41, so nothing is broken yet.
I was pretty fuckin' fat there for a while (with high blood pressure, and terrible blood work in general), but I went and fixed all that (diet and exercise). I'm actually in better health than I was at 31. About the only thing I've noticed, is that when I do get hurt, it takes a bit longer to get over it than it used to. Also - my eyesight isn't what it once was. I'm not at the point of needing reading glasses just yet, but I'm pretty sure I will be 5 years from now. |
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Your boots get heavy, your pants get tight, your balls they swing from the left to the right, to the left, to the left, to the left right left.
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Quoted: I'm only 41, so nothing is broken yet. I was pretty fuckin' fat there for a while (with high blood pressure, and terrible blood work in general), but I went and fixed all that (diet and exercise). I'm actually in better health than I was at 31. About the only thing I've noticed, is that when I do get hurt, it takes a bit longer to get over it than it used to. Also - my eyesight isn't what it once was. I'm not at the point of needing reading glasses just yet, but I'm pretty sure I will be 5 years from now. View Quote |
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When I was young I could piss the bark off a tree. Now sometimes I'm lucky to get it past my toes on the last dribbles.
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Losing altitude. Went to the doc for my six month check up, nurse told me to step on the scale (BTW, new nurse is about 5'0" 100 lbs, nice little rack and a phenomenal ass) but I digress.
I have been 5'10" for as long as I can remember. She calls out, "5'9"" Wait, what?! I'm an inch shorter? Apparently my deteriorating discs are REALLY deteriorating. |
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I'm 68.
Everyday it's new aches and pains, that I've never had before. The worse part is coming to the realization of how old you really are. |
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I shot a PRS match a few weeks back and I thought some of the positional stuff is what made me sore. THEN I remembered my heel slipping on the bottom step on the motorhome and me ending up in a pile on the ground. Thank goodness it wasn't the match. Now I hurt because I was on the tractor all day yesterday and today. It's like I'm vibrating and can't stop. Now we get to the FUN part,,being on BP medicine If I even mildly bump the back of my hand on something I get a bruise. My hands look like they've been in a car wreck. Oh well,,,In general I'm doing pretty good just keeping on keeping on. My little tractor and seven large loads of road base will be an issue tomorrow I suspect. Only about 10 hours left on the tractor to finish resurfacing our road. It's about a half mile in length and getting it REALLY smooth and level takes a LOT of seat time.
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Quoted: Vitreous detachment. It happens to everyone at some point as you age, it seems. I just spent half the day between my regular eye docs and a retina specialist getting checked out. Crazy stuff. Weird flashes at night, floaters. No retinal tear at the moment. Go back in two weeks. View Quote Been there....done that....both eyes I didn't have detached Retinas but I had HUGE floaters There were a couple of times I wished that I weren't behind the wheel in traffic. I had Vitreous fluid replacement, then new lenses. Except for the reading glasses, I can see like I was 30 again |
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