Do you accept or resist old age?

I am good with my older self. Do I have aches and pains? Yes. Are all my days rainbows and butterflies.....nope. But you know, I am content. I have had some challenges the last 15 years or so, but I have move on and kept looking forward.

Things are well here.
 
Muskrat said:
I do not know exactly what this means. I never resist doing something simply because i am older. I would roller skate, ride a horse, play tennis or hike. If it hurts i do not do it. For instance i might not try to jump that far..and bungee jumping is a nonstarter. On the other hand…might hike across the grand canyon again soon…still can so better do it.
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...a person after my own heart.....:love:
 
We must all learn to accept everything that happens to us such as pain, impairment and, yes, even death. I'm 89 and was already in Vitas Hospice several years ago. Very few leave Vitas Hospice ALIVE! I left after only 3 weeks. My geriatrician has been telling my I have only 1 year to live. He's been telling me that for 5 years already. He told me he will NOT treat me for cancer or heart disease if I contract either of those terminal illnesses.

I'm 89, my neck is bent from arthritis and walking is difficult. I try to walk 1 twenty minute walk every day to avoid a wheel chair. Luckily, my wife is still alive and she has become my care giver.

To keep my mind active I play chess at Chess.com and Civilization VI at Steam.com every day. I lose myself in the games so do not dwell on my age.
 
Well in certain ways I accept old age and very glad that I do : 1) I hated working (now retired) 2) I don't have to bother with colouring my hair (gray hair is fine by me) 3) I don't worry about being super slim (as I used to compare myself to thinner women) however, I am at a healthy weight which is good enough for me.

And in other ways, I don't accept old age which means to me, possibly being immobile. 1) I keep a healthy weight as previously mentioned. Since I don't drive, I walk everywhere and I make sure I do a lot of walking. 2) I don't ever talk about being old and tired as I have heard other seniors do at the Seniors Centre. I think by just talking about stuff like that, you attract low energy.
 
On the introvert/extrovert continuum, I am somewhere in the middle. I love to get out and talk to people but I also have the time to spend hours in contemplation.

Physically, thanks to modern surgery, I am more active than I was in the preceding decade and I am very grateful to be free of pain.

All in all, I quite like being 81. People are kind and helpful and I am grateful for that too.
 
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I'm adjusting realistically to my aging. I'm never going to try hiking again down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and then back up, but I do walk a minimum of 10,000 steps every day.......I can easily walk 2 miles in half an hour....I do squats, lunges and pushups every day.......but I monitor the signals my body gives me.....if (or when) it becomes clear that I should lessen my activity level, I will......just enough to hold any pain in check. But I intend to keep moving and eating healthily and doing my volunteer activities.
And in the end, I think it should be interesting to go into the next world......the afterlife. I just hope my exit from this material world isn't dragged out in some horrible, pain wracked, humiliating way.
 
hollydolly said:
you do know don't you, that Mick has had heart Surgery ?
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No I didn't, so I looked it up and found that his symptoms were very similar to my wife's. But my wife's heart problem is the electrical circuit, it's causing her heart to beat irregularly. The corrective surgery will be a similar procedure to that of Mick Jagger, The surgeon will make a small incision in the leg artery. A valve is advanced up to the position of the old heart valve and the new valve is placed inside. During this procedure, the heart is still beating and the patient is often still awake with a light sedative.

It's both amazing and scary, but her surgeon has reassured her that all will be well. He even said that there's a back up they do if the valve fails to work and that's to fit a pacemaker.
 
horseless carriage said:
No I didn't, so I looked it up and found that his symptoms were very similar to my wife's. But my wife's heart problem is the electrical circuit, it's causing her heart to beat irregularly. The corrective surgery will be a similar procedure to that of Mick Jagger, The surgeon will make a small incision in the leg artery. A valve is advanced up to the position of the old heart valve and the new valve is placed inside. During this procedure, the heart is still beating and the patient is often still awake with a light sedative.

It's both amazing and scary, but her surgeon has reassured her that all will be well. He even said that there's a back up they do if the valve fails to work and that's to fit a pacemaker.
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When does mrs HC get her surgery ?.. Is it surprising that she should have heart issues given that she's been someone who has looked after her health all her life, particularly with good exercise?.. did they say what's caused it?
 
I guess I'm resisting, or in denial. The more oldies I encounter the younger I feel. I thought that the Senior Center was scary last year.

Yesterday I went in for some lab work and as a walk-in I sat and waited for an hour. I don't think I've ever seen such a parade of painted gnarly chicken feet, varicose veins, and feeble T-Rex arms in my life. And those were just the ones without walkers or wheelchairs or huffing and puffing through Covid masks. Enough to give one flashbacks to the Crypt Keeper (Tales From The Crypt).
 

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