Don't age, it isn't worth it. I'm falling apart

brian];1652441 said:
I'm only 24 - have been for a wile now. Not sure how long as I quit counting ;)
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That worked for me for quite a while, too. I think I was passing 55 or so when I realized something was different.
 
Fun thread.
I had emergency spinal cord surgery in 2010 (being paralyzed sucks, man - not being able to pee sucks even worse) that ended my 40 years of practicing medicine while running multiple businesses.
Next few months were a bit rough (but the bazooms on my physical therapist were something to look forward to three times a week) However the past three and a half years have been great. Felt like I was ten feet tall and bullet proof. Blew a bunch of money on farms and tractors and such, been having a ball.
About the end of harvest, roughly 7 weeks ago, I started gimping on the left leg. Then it got worse. Then I couldn't even put on socks, etc. Muscle spasms, felt like the bone was being crushed (the leg bone :). Can only sleep two hours at a time before the pain wakes me up. Seems a bit better past couple of days but barely can do anything.
I was getting the boat ready to go to Florida till spring- well, all I can say is that it will not shine like brand new on this trip.
MRI scheduled for next week
I suspect it was caused by hitting a pot hole while in the tractor hauling grain to town and getting a stiff shot to the spine. I distinctly remember mumbling I was going to pay for that - but after a half hour I shook it off and forgot about it, till a couple of weeks later.

A decision will have to be made after the MRI. I am not willing to have surgery and lose my winter trip. OTOH I am not willing to have surgery in the spring and lose planting season. (mumble, mumble ^&%$#!)
At least I can still stagger to the hangar and fly
Oh, and I can still pee even if it is a bit slow
 
ClimbnSink said:
If you think you are old you will be old. Many use that as an excuse to be lame. Yes physical limits change but not as much as people believe. We take kids to a 12' jumping rick across the lake and the number of 30-40 year old dads that stay in their boats is appalling. Always get out of the boat.
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That is why I'm ready to learn how to jump off mountains. Every few years I learn something new. Windsurfing was one year. Learning to fly was another. Taking a bareboat charter course (and then going to the islands to charter sailboats) was yet another. Time to learn to jump off mountains.

And last year was a real reminder, NOW is the time to do stuff, not when you retire.
 
I tried Viagra once. It got stuck in my throat and I had a stiff neck for three days....

My wife is almost 20 years younger than me.

One day she came up to me and said, "Honey, lets run upstairs and make love."

I said, "We can do one or the other...."
 
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write-stuff said:
That worked for me for quite a while, too. I think I was passing 55 or so when I realized something was different.
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Yep.

We bought this hotel when I was 51, with the intention of renovating it from stem to stern. I figured it would take me three years.

I'm now 56, and working on the last two rooms. :goofy:

The difference between when I started, and now, may not be noticeable to others, but it sure is to me. I might still work a 12 hour day, but the 6 hours spent swinging a hammer are now interspersed with many more breaks, and my "hustle" speed is about what my "regular" speed was in 2010.

Still, I can't complain. I get more done in a day than most of the 40 year olds I know. What worries me, though, is that we just bought a hangar and we are STILL "the young folks" at the airport. :mad2:
 
docmirror said:
Well isn't this just peachy.

Last week, just before xmas my molar crown fell out. Sure, I was munching on Turkey and stuffing, but come on - crowns are supposed to stay in the mouth. Meh - went right on munching.

Then, over the wknd, I've always had a problem with one of my knees, and sure enough, right after skiing it locked up almost tight. The doc says it's some kind of cartilage stuff that builds up around the joints as you age. After a few hours and a glass or two of wine, it comes back around. But after a day in a ski boot my big toe is still numb.

Yesterday I got a hair cut. Hmm, just not as much hair leavings as I was used to a few years back. My comb-over ain't makin' it too well these days.

I was looking at the instrument panel, and the darn thing is getting a bit fuzzy again, in the evening. I'm already wearing bifocals, and the opto said it might be time for tri. GAH!

Today, I knelt down to check the tire pressure on the Porsche(no TPMS on the oldies) and each time getting back upright was tougher, and tougher. I'm vertical again, but it was a job.

Oh well, vertical is better than horizontal I guess. And stay the hell off my lawn!:redface:

/rant(sorry)
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Entropy is immutable :sigh:

Cheers
 
49 I would say I feel like I am in my late 20s early 30s. I try to keep active and don't think of myself as old. The one thing that does bug me now is when I do get hurt instead of thinking will this go away in a few days I start to wonder if I will live with this forever?

I think the big key is to stay active mentally and physically.
 
64, but still moving pretty well. I run, swim, and bicycle, but none of them very seriously. I do have some vision problems that keep me from flying, but they don't seem to bother me enough to do anything else I want to do. One thing though, I live in San Juan, PR during the winter and we don't have a car down there. We live way up on a hill and have a third floor apt. When we get down there I question my investment in such a place. By the end of two weeks I'm doing pretty well. By April, I will be seven or eight pounds lighter and running up the hill. We live a very active life down there, and that helps a lot.
 
Maxmosbey said:
64, but still moving pretty well. I run, swim, and bicycle, but none of them very seriously. I do have some vision problems that keep me from flying, but they don't seem to bother me enough to do anything else I want to do. One thing though, I live in San Juan, PR during the winter and we don't have a car down there. We live way up on a hill and have a third floor apt. When we get down there I question my investment in such a place. By the end of two weeks I'm doing pretty well. By April, I will be seven or eight pounds lighter and running up the hill. We live a very active life down there, and that helps a lot.
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You know, I hadn't been to San Juan in decades. Then in October I was there on business thinking - not a bad place to spend a little time!
 
brian];1652821 said:
You know, I hadn't been to San Juan in decades. Then in October I was there on business thinking - not a bad place to spend a little time!
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We like it down here. We have a nice little apartment in Old San Juan.
 
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evapilotaz said:
I refuse to be a typical overweight middle age man. I hit the gym at 5am almost everyday before work.
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4:30pm for me three times a week, and run two days a week. And I bicycle to work on decent weather days.
 
evapilotaz said:
I refuse to be a typical overweight middle age man. I hit the gym at 5am almost everyday before work.
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Mind if I hate you just a little bit? ;)

signed; Typical overweight middle age man.

Seriously, I do need to drop some weight. I'm not too bad, but I'd be better 20 lbs less. There is just no way my life would improve enough for me to be up at 5am on any day unless I'm headed out skiing or the boner is working overtime.
 
docmirror said:
Anyone ever see "Cocoon"? Maybe I can find one of those egg pods.

As for still doing stuff, I'm in the process of putting T&G on my CO house. The job is about half done, and I've put up a ton of board feet, and still have a lot to go. Last month I started the restoration of another Porsche 928 by doing the motor mounts, timing belt, water pump and seals. That's the hobby stuff. On the work front, I'm working on a new flexible kind of network for Intel to solve a problem they have, and buying some new properties to develop later this year. So yeah - I'm still out there, still have my hand on the tiller, still moving the ball down the field. I just wish the stuff I used to be so good at was as easy now as it was then.
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I looked in that pool the other day, eggs are gone. :( (My dad lives where they shot the movie :D)
 
so I'm sittin at the bar last week watching the Ranger game with a bud and some dude next to me starts in about how he doesn't know much about hockey but it seems pretty cool (I'm living in Charlotte now where more people watch paula fkng dean than hockey) so I'm yapping away about this and that and about how when the rangers won the Stanley cup in '93/'94 yadda yadda.......the dude says "I wasn't even born in '93". ugh, I'm freakin old.
 
When I was 12 years old I lived in a wheelchair (JRA). At 56 I walk the dog twice a day and play golf, only because my cardiologist fixed me. Life is good. But I do miss my friends that didn't make it this far.
 
I skied into the lift line and the lift ops guys had the boom box on and the Kinks were playing "You really got me". The kid running the lift was making some comment about how this crappy band can't do the song right, like Van Halen did it. I had a chuckle, and told him that was the guys who wrote the song in the 60s, and Van Halen did it 30 years later. Man I'm old.
 
Stewartb said:
When I was 12 years old I lived in a wheelchair (JRA). At 56 I walk the dog twice a day and play golf, only because my cardiologist fixed me. Life is good. But I do miss my friends that didn't make it this far.
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I say the same thing daily....

With all my racing stuff, and medical issues with a death sentence 25 years ago and test flying a HIGHLY overpowered experimental.. And, being named "least likely to live to 18" in my high school year book.. I am SHOCKED I made it this far...... I truly am...:yes:

I open the newspaper and see people in the obits younger then me and shake my head in disbelief.....

My therapy is to head to the airport and make a lap around the valley in the most beautiful place in the world..... Get in the hottub later in the day with an adult beverage and thank god I made it another day........


LIFE is GOOD.....:yes::yes::yes::):):)...

Ben.
 

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N801BH said:
I say the same thing daily....

With all my racing stuff, and medical issues with a death sentence 25 years ago and test flying a HIGHLY overpowered experimental.. And, being named "least likely to live to 18" in my high school year book.. I am SHOCKED I made it this far...... I truly am...:yes:

I open the newspaper and see people in the obits younger then me and shake my head in disbelief.....

My therapy is to head to the airport and make a lap around the valley in the most beautiful place in the world..... Get in the hottub later in the day with an adult beverage and thank god I made it another day........


LIFE is GOOD.....:yes::yes::yes::):):)...

Ben.
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Damn man, that sounds like you all ready died and went straight to heaven. :rofl:


I'm all in! YOU AND ME IN THE HOT TUB! :eek: :rofl:

Okay, Geico is still working on the drunkest post ever. :rofl::rofl::rofl:
 
Geico266 said:
Damn man, that sounds like you all ready died and went straight to heaven. :rofl:


I'm all in! YOU AND ME IN THE HOT TUB! :eek: :rofl:

Okay, Geico is still working on the drunkest post ever. :rofl::rofl::rofl:
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Maybe not DRUNKEST. I'm thinking some other -est.
 
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Well, this thread sure went pear shaped.
 
evapilotaz said:
Jackson hole = heaven. I guess I been to heaven. I rode the ski lift during the summer there. It was beautiful
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I went on a ski trip there a good while back, and did a day long backcountry snowshoe excursion. I think I enjoyed the snowshoe day better than the ski days.
 
I belong to a R/C flying club. I would say the average age mid 40s to mid 50,s. Majority of them are sporty a oversize tubby. My wife said I'm destined to be a tubby hubby like them. I said no way as I head out to the gym. I'm 46 years old.
 
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Every stage of life brings rewards and benefits. My goal is to maximize the benefits while maintaining a happy outlook.

Act like wherever you are, that's the place to be. Rule 3, Fast times at Ridghmont High. (Which is a paraphrase of Philippians 4:12.)
 
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tinerj said:
Act like wherever you are, that's the place to be. Rule 3, Fast times at Ridghmont High. (Which is a paraphrase of Philippians 4:12.)
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And before that:

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"Remember; no matter where you go, there you are."- B. Banzai
 
Bill Jennings said:
4:30pm for me three times a week, and run two days a week. And I bicycle to work on decent weather days.
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That's about what time I go to the bathroom for the last time for the night. I get up somewhere between 8 and 9 in the morning. Early enough that it isn't too hot to go running.
 
And remember, just because you wear a Depends doesn't mean you've been born again.
 
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