What are some "scary things" to you?

[Kika]

My balance has deteriorated a lot over the past year, so falling is a fear. In fact, I fell outside Monday working on my golf cart. Soft landing and no damage.

Please try to see your doctor and explain the balance issues, and most importantly, the fall. Your doctor can then prescribe physical therapy paid by your insurance. Basically, strength exercises for your legs and using arms to maintain balance. Some are individual and some in groups.

My husband had Parkinson's and was really unbalanced and afraid of falling. He went to Physical Therapy "Before the Fall" classes and loved it. After not too long he was walking around with confidence.

He had "homework" of practicing 15 minutes a day. And he was sorry when it ended. He had some dementia, but knew enough to tell the doctor he was "afraid he might fall" which got him another stint of PT. Pretty slick.

 

[Jaiden]

The only thing that scares me is becoming dependent on someone else. I have handled a lot of scary things in my lifetime but being dependent is something I do not believe I could accept.

I feel exactly the same way. I hesitated before moving in with my son's family for just that reason, but they started listing all the ways I could contribute, so I felt better about it. As long as I can pull my own weight and help out, it will be OK.

 

[Pappy]

Please try to see your doctor and explain the balance issues, and most importantly, the fall. Your doctor can then prescribe physical therapy paid by your insurance. Basically, strength exercises for your legs and using arms to maintain balance. Some are individual and some in groups.

My husband had Parkinson's and was really unbalanced and afraid of falling. He went to Physical Therapy "Before the Fall" classes and loved it. After not too long he was walking around with confidence.

He had "homework" of practicing 15 minutes a day. And he was sorry when it ended. He had some dementia, but knew enough to tell the doctor he was "afraid he might fall" which got him another stint of PT. Pretty slick.

Kika: I have a walker I’ll use when needed. Also doing some balance exercises.

 

[Kika]

Kika: I have a walker I’ll use when needed. Also doing some balance exercises.

That's great. The exercises really do help, as well as the walker.

 

[DGM]

My mother once told me "there are things I fear a lot more than dying". At this age I agree with her: I fear my wife dying. I fear being disabled and not being able to care for myself.

 

[Trish]

Heights! I could never jump out of a helicopter or anything like that - even fairground things which go up in the air! Actually, I don't like fairground rides at all.

 

[jujube]

I've never liked spiders. Another thing that makes me sweat just thinking about it is getting stuck in small places, specifically crawling into a place I can't get out of. On the other hand, I'm not claustrophobic per se, just in certain cases.

Other than that, not much scares me. Except politics. Definitely politics.

 

[senior chef]

I am afraid of cruise liners. I hate the very idea of being trapped on an over crowded ship. Even if I won a free trip on a cruise liner, I'd turn it down.

 

[DGM]

I am afraid of cruise liners. I hate the very idea of being trapped on an over crowded ship. Even if I won a free trip on a cruise liner, I'd turn it down.

 

[helenbacque]

My greatest fear is running out of money before I run out of life.

 

[Kika]

Bugs of any kind inside my apartment. Could be a fly, an ant, spider,
and especially a waterbug....eeewwww

 

[Aunt Mavis]

I am afraid of cruise liners. I hate the very idea of being trapped on an over crowded ship. Even if I won a free trip on a cruise liner, I'd turn it down.

Good for you, evil monsters they are.

 

[Pepper]

Bugs of any kind inside my apartment. Could be a fly, an ant, spider,
and especially a waterbug....eeewwww

You forgot to say 'cockroach'........ even typing it makes me sick. Waterbugs, the worst.

What floor do you live on?

 

[Kika]

You forgot to say 'cockroach'........ even typing it makes me sick. Waterbugs, the worst.

What floor do you live on?

I live on 7. Thankfully the last time I saw a cockroach in anyplace I lived at was in the 60s.

Every few years, when it is hot and humid one will appear. I have had fine mesh screens placed over the vents in the kitchen and bathroom and plugged the overfill holes in the tub and bathroom sink.

I have not seen any since I did that.

 

[Pepper]

@Kika
The apartment below me was recently totally renovated. Now I have a roach problem (which I haven't in decades!) and the neighbors 2 floors below me do too. I use Combat, which always worked incredibly well in the past, and now is working, but I still have them, though less than before. I keep the kitchen light on from sundown till I go to bed. It has made me sick, not kidding, sick to my stomach.

I will have to involve the bldg's exterminator, which I loathe to do, because of the smell and worries about my cat. In the past, Combat has always worked better than the exterminator.

I'm so grossed out.

 

[Right Now]

I am afraid of cruise liners. I hate the very idea of being trapped on an over crowded ship. Even if I won a free trip on a cruise liner, I'd turn it down.

While I'm not afraid of them, it's certainly not my idea of a fun trip! Too confining, don't wish to be at sea, I'd rather smell earth, dirt beneath my feet. Then I can go wherever and whenever I want to.

 

[Kika]

@Pepper sent you a private message.

 

[RadishRose]

I read the book, "The Exorcist". It scared me so badly to this day I have never watched the movie.

Don't watch the movie, @DebraMae. If the book scared you that much, you might never get over the movie.

I haven't. I don't even want to think about it. Now here I am, thinking about it....

 

[win231]

I am afraid of cruise liners. I hate the very idea of being trapped on an over crowded ship. Even if I won a free trip on a cruise liner, I'd turn it down.

I had no fear of cruise ships........UNTIL I heard about that one where the plumbing quit working & all the floors were ankle deep in............stuff.
At that point, the bottom of the ocean would look really good to me.

 

[down2earth]

Edgar Allen Poe and I both fear being buried alive. I told my children to poke me several times with a needle to make sure. I'm also afraid of eating the wrong mushroom in a forest....going into paralysis....and being unable to scream for help. Wait. What good would screaming for help do in a forest anyway?

 

[MissRJ]

I am afraid of elevators, flying on planes, large bodies of water. and heights. Most people have no problem with these phobias, I just wonder why I do? But what scares me the most is old age and not being able to do for myself. The other phobias I could handle, but old age is the one I fear the most. Do you think fear is helpful or harmful? Why? All people fear something. What are some "scary thing" to you?

I am concerned with the effects/affects that aging will have on me.

 

[win231]

I am concerned with the effects/affects that aging will have on me.

We all are. We just don't all admit it.

 

[win231]

Don't watch the movie, @DebraMae. If the book scared you that much, you might never get over the movie.

I haven't. I don't even want to think about it. Now here I am, thinking about it....

I was laughing & making Pea Soup jokes during that movie. Later, my friends & I had fun quoting some of the dirtier lines.........

 

[senior chef]

I am concerned with the effects/affects that aging will have on me.

You and me, both. I live alone and if I had a stroke, or some other immobiling disease, I'd likely lie flat out until someone found my dead body.

 

[MissRJ]

You and me, both. I live alone and if I had a stroke, or some other immobiling disease, I'd likely lie flat out until someone found my dead body.

After my grandfather passed away,my grandmother lived alone for twenty years before passing away.
My father was there for her.