What age do you want to reach?

pchrise

pchrise

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If you are 75 plus please tell me how life is, do you enjoy it? How much can you still do each day. Do you now spend 80 percent of your time at a doctors office or hospital, and does social security end at the higher ages. I know 90 is pushing it for me, it all depends I guess.No I'm not 90
 

78 here and doin ok. Lot's of doctors appointments (wifes and mine, she no longer drives), aches and pains sometimes but my mind is still good so I take it a day at a time and I put no deadline (pun intended) on my longevity.
 
When my mom was in her early 80's she used to say..."don't get old Marty" and she would giggle.
Her health went down hill in her 80's. She got dementia, more serious hearing loss and macular degeneration, soon becoming blind in one eye with poor sight in the other.
My poor mom... I miss her lots. She died at age 92.
Of coarse everyone is different, as you know. My sister's husband was 88 and very active. He traveled around the world when he was in his 80's. Went cross country skiing. He worked until the day he died. He died of a massive heart attack. Found because of co-workers when he didn't go into work that day.
 

AZ Jim said:
78 here and doin ok. Lot's of doctors appointments (wifes and mine, she no longer drives), aches and pains sometimes but my mind is still good so I take it a day at a time and I put no deadline (pun intended) on my longevity.
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Not sure which is worse Sound mind and failing body or Failing mind and body in great shape or a few broken items. The comment do not get older, nice try not going to happen
 
77 and counting. Just want to outlive my wife, she needs me (we've just got each other, and she's disabled and I'm not).

It's pretty good though. Wake up, open an eye, it's dark, close it again.

Wake up, it's light, look out of the window, don't fancy it (for whatever reason) go back to bed.

Get up, have a pond of sausages all to myself for breakfast. Lunch, am I due for green vegetables? Don't think so, pretty sure I had some last week, though my memory;s not what it was. Pizza then, large, all mine. Half a litre of mint choc chip while I watch some football.

Time for bed.

What silly bugger said school days are the happiest days of your life?
 
I'm only 73. I haven't been to the dr. in several years. I don't take any prescriptions and I'm doing fine. I grow a big garden and my wife (75) and I can and/or freeze what we grow. I still use the chainsaw and cut and split firewood. I hope to stay active until age 100 or more. I enjoy life too much to think about dying.
 
rkunsaw said:
I'm only 73. I haven't been to the dr. in several years. I don't take any prescriptions and I'm doing fine. I grow a big garden and my wife (75) and I can and/or freeze what we grow. I still use the chainsaw and cut and split firewood. I hope to stay active until age 100 or more. I enjoy life too much to think about dying.
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It helps if you have a friend and purpose and do not break anything along the way.
 
I saw my late mom in a nuring home. they were all sitting in wheel chairs with their heads down. no. I don't wanna last that long
 
Not sure what age it will be for me, but when I cant do the basic care for myself that is the age I will not like at all.
 
Like several folks here said, I got to watch as two of my aunts aged and lived until they were 92. Neither were happy or well even though both had excellent care and love all around them. After watching their last years, I've marked my calendar :) for the Big '85th'. It's an appointment that I hope to keep.
 
I kind of have a "window into the future" by watching my older siblings. I am 64-my brother is 77 and oldest sister is 75. My brother is actually in better shape than my sister,no doubt because he quit smoking many years before she did. She has COPD. He has played a minimum of 18 holes of golf every day since he was 12 years old,and does not use a cart-he walks the courses. So he`s in pretty darn good shape. I was concerned about him when we went to the hospital last Saturday because we got the call that his wife was not expected to survive (so far,she has,and is slowly improving). Anyway,I noticed that his hands were shaking a bit and he looked older than I`ve ever seen him look. But he had just spent 36 hours at the hospital with her and I know wasn`t eating or sleeping. Once hubby took him home for a shower and change of clothes and we all went out to eat,he looked and sounded much better. Our dad and mom died at 65 and 70, both of heart attacks,so they are outlasting them. I figure 80 will most likely be the max for me,and that`s fine I guess...
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
I kind of have a "window into the future" by watching my older siblings. I am 64-my brother is 77 and oldest sister is 75. My brother is actually in better shape than my sister,no doubt because he quit smoking many years before she did. She has COPD. He has played a minimum of 18 holes of golf every day since he was 12 years old,and does not use a cart-he walks the courses. So he`s in pretty darn good shape. I was concerned about him when we went to the hospital last Saturday because we got the call that his wife was not expected to survive (so far,she has,and is slowly improving). Anyway,I noticed that his hands were shaking a bit and he looked older than I`ve ever seen him look. But he had just spent 36 hours at the hospital with her and I know wasn`t eating or sleeping. Once hubby took him home for a shower and change of clothes and we all went out to eat,he looked and sounded much better. Our dad and mom died at 65 and 70, both of heart attacks,so they are outlasting them. I figure 80 will most likely be the max for me,and that`s fine I guess...
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So sorry for all they went through I did notice those from the era when smoking was OK seem to have a harder time. When younger I worked in a nursing home for a short time all were just waiting to die and could not care for themself at all.

 

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