The medical side of my life is getting bigger.

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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I don't want this to sound depressing, but with aging comes with medical problems. I watched my parent's living room slowly turn into my dad's hospital room. My medical problems haven't invaded my living room, but they have me. Let' see. I wear glasses. Use a cane. Wear a back brace. Got false teeth. I daily stick myself for glucose checks. I used to catheterize myself, but ran into problems-so, now I have a permanent one in me. Hopefully for only a few more days. And, oh, yeah, at the last count I swallow 22,995 individual pills a year. Well, one good thing about taking all those pills, the pharmacy people know me by sight-never have to say my name. Some even have my birthday memorized.
 

Fuzzybuddy, sounds like you have a lot going on. The first things you list are pretty common in older folks, but I know from my mother/sister that glucose checks or insulin injections are terrible to have to do on a daily basis. I'm sorry to hear that you have to use a permanent catheter, now that does sound pretty serious to me....hugs, hang in there. :love_heart:
 
Thanks SeaBreeze. Hopefully, on Thursday, I can get rid of my permanent catheter, and go back to self catheterizing myself. It's kind of strange that I consider sticking a tube in me to urinate a bunch of times a day is a good thing.:) Something which I actually look forward to. But you don't got much of a choice.
Again, thanks for your kind words.
 

Fuzzyzbuddy, sorry you are having to deal with so much. Before I got my hips replaced, I was dealing with canes, walkers, wheelchairs, etc. and pain meds. I felt completely trapped in all that medical stuff and my life revolved around it. So I can certainly empathize with how you are feeling. I'm sorry you have to go through all this.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I don't want this to sound depressing, but with aging comes with medical problems. I watched my parent's living room slowly turn into my dad's hospital room. My medical problems haven't invaded my living room, but they have me. Let' see. I wear glasses. Use a cane. Wear a back brace. Got false teeth. I daily stick myself for glucose checks. I used to catheterize myself, but ran into problems-so, now I have a permanent one in me. Hopefully for only a few more days. And, oh, yeah, at the last count I swallow 22,995 individual pills a year. Well, one good thing about taking all those pills, the pharmacy people know me by sight-never have to say my name. Some even have my birthday memorized.
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Fuzzybuddy, I really feel for you, and know what you mean. I struggle trying to find good things about life to counteract the physical deterioration. But I ask myself, "Would I rather have my current life, with all the aches, pains, and disabilities, or be young again and have to get up early every day to go to work, worry about money, bosses, relationships, losing my job, etc., etc." I always come back to preferring what I have now, even with the difficulties.

I hope that you have in your life things and people that make it worthwhile to put up with all the garbage of an aging body.
 
bodumene said:
Fuzzybuddy, I really feel for you, and know what you mean. I struggle trying to find good things about life to counteract the physical deterioration. But I ask myself, "Would I rather have my current life, with all the aches, pains, and disabilities, or be young again and have to get up early every day to go to work, worry about money, bosses, relationships, losing my job, etc., etc." I always come back to preferring what I have now, even with the difficulties.
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Some days I'm not so sure I agree . . .
 
You're not alone. I've got many issues too and they ran test after test until I finally said no more! Some doctors keep you coming back, I think in some cases they see seniors as cash cows! (excuse the analogy) I try to do the best I can, I try not to let it all get me down. I look at it this way, I am still getting around, able to take care of myself and the house and I have it a whole lot better than a lot of people. Hey, you ought to see my pill cabinet! More supplements than scripts but still ordered by my doctors. Just the way it is. We slowly wear out!
 
When I was going thru cancer I had the same issues an believe me it was depressing. I did recover ,thank U God, but I still take meds ,not alot. An it's seems I still have very bad days.
With that said I'm thankful to be here an be where I'am in life. I would not want to go back to being young again. We had a new addition to the family an she's such a joy. An I'm back
kind of going an doing the things I used to do. Aches an pains are still there but I'd rather be on this side of the grass. So sorry that you are having all these problems. MY heart goes out
to you, but I'm sure there are people that are still glad your here, we are some of thoses people.......keep truckin buddy.
 

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