The pain of getting older

Tell me about getting out of bed in the morning.
Or getting up from your chair after a nap.
 
Last week I got thrown off a Jet ski twice. Caught pure hell trying to get back on.
 
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Chdamn's Wife said:
I just bought reader glasses. It’s all down hill from here!
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Being nearsighted all my life I've never needed reading glasses. But according to my daughter I officially became an old man when I bought this:
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Inglis said:
That's nothing. Look down when you are in the shower..
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OK I see a big beer belly, but I've had that since I was young.

I feel my age today though, months laid up sitting on my ass and now I'm baking outside and helping to lay subfloor in the new edition. NC summer is pure hell for us colder climate folks.
 
Years ago I was in a four bed ward that had one poor soul crying over his pain day and night. At the shift change a male nurse took over the ward and had heard all the crying he was going take so when his guy started up with his banter the nurse grabbed were the pain was coming from and told the man if you’re not feeling pain you’re dead. From that day forward that has been my revelation when it comes to living with pain. Getting old and living in pain is to know you are alive so live it up the best you can.
 
Pack72 said:
Being nearsighted all my life I've never needed reading glasses. But according to my daughter I officially became an old man when I bought this:
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Oh no! I bought one of those when I was about 42!
(I guess to kids, that might be ancient, though.)
 
Majicmike said:
Last week I got thrown off a Jet ski twice. Caught pure hell trying to get back on.
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I just got back from my daily bike ride. I was taking a corner at about 25mph or so. I hit a small rock or stick, I didn't see what, and almost tucked the front wheel. It slid a little but I managed to stay upright. A broken collar bone and road rash is just what I need at 60 years old!
 
My daily pains remind me of how I got them.

Some came from work. Some came from being young and stupid.:rolleyes: Some came from jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
Some came from chemo....and those are the ones that got me the extra 15 years I've been lucky enough to have! LOL. So I'm all good.
 
I just finished mowing the grass before the storm hits. I am always glad when I mow that I am looking down on the grass from above and not looking up at it from below. I earned all my many aches and pains from 69 years of active and happy living and hope to earn many more. I figure that I will be dead for a long time when this body finally quits and that I should get the most out of it while I can. There is no here there, and I will deal with there when that time comes.
 
Just got off the mower after not standing up for 3 hours. Talk about stiff
 
GreatGazoo said:
Look, when you have more hair growing on your ears than on the crown of your head, you can complain. :eek::p:eek::p:eek::p
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well I've been able to complain for more than a few years. I mean you have hair growing everywhere but on top your head and you've started to hurt from crap you did 40+ years. Not only that your taking more meds than you used to take for fun as a youngster
 
Chdamn's Wife said:
I just bought reader glasses. It’s all down hill from here!
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Get 4 pairs....

One to keep on you at all times, but you’ll eventually set them down and forgot where you put them...it happens. Keep a pair in your car and the other two placed strategically in the house.

I keep a pair in the truck, a pair hanging from my shirt collar, a pair in my workroom and a pair on the nightstand.
 
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Chdamn's Wife said:
I just bought reader glasses. It’s all down hill from here!
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wsfiredude said:
Get 4 pairs....

One to keep on you at all times, but you’ll eventually set them down and forgot where you put them...it happens. Keep a pair in your car and the other two placed strategically in the house.

I keep a pair in the truck, a pair hanging from my shirt collar, a pair in my workroom and a pair on the nightstand.
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I put my wife's readers on last night when we were playing Yatzee just cause. I gotta' say, everything was bigger and clearer on the score card although I can still see without them. My days are numbered...
 
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GreatGazoo said:
Look, when you have more hair growing on your ears than on the crown of your head, you can complain. :eek::p:eek::p:eek::p
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Earbeards. I have to trim them weekly.

AR10ShooterinNC said:
How stiff I feel after just a 2 hour drive...
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You need something more comfy. I think B.O.B. is the only one older than me in this thread and I drove 7 hours in the F150 today. I’m raring to go.
With a beer and keyboard, anyway.
 
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wsfiredude said:
Get 4 pairs....

One to keep on you at all times, but you’ll eventually set them down and forgot where you put them...it happens. Keep a pair in your car and the other two placed strategically in the house.

I keep a pair in the truck, a pair hanging from my shirt collar, a pair in my workroom and a pair on the nightstand.
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It took me long enough just to buy my first pair. I may have to slowly work my way up to buying multiple! I have had vision like a hawk up until this point, so throwing in the towel on my good vision run has been hard. But your advice is noted. Will expect to have to buy several pairs.
 
Chdamn's Wife said:
It took me long enough just to buy my first pair. I may have to slowly work my way up to buying multiple! I have had vision like a hawk up until this point,
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Same here...20/10 in each eye. Far off, vision is still great, but up close, it ain’t worth a shite.
 
Let me encourage you youngsters to do more than just buy readers. Get your eyes checked once a year. Not so much to see if you need glasses, but the health of your eyeballs. One of the simplest and most important things they do is very easily and painlessly check the pressure in your eyes. If the pressure ever goes up, you won’t know it or feel it at all, but it can kill the optic nerve. This is glaucoma. My mom is nearly blind due to this.
 
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Windini said:
The pain of getting older

...is best shared with younger generations.

Never let them escape the constant reminders of how much suck their future holds.

Never.
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I recall a bumper sticker on an old(er) fart's old Buick parked near my office some years ago.

BE NICE TO YOUR KIDS
THEY’LL PICK YOUR NURSING HOME
 
fieldgrade said:
Earbeards. I have to trim them weekly.



You need something more comfy. I think B.O.B. is the only one older than me in this thread and I drove 7 hours in the F150 today. I’m raring to go.
With a beer and keyboard, anyway.
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I was waiting for you to post old man. :p
 
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