The symptoms of getting older.

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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. As we get older, we have the "symptoms" of our age. Like the damn acne when we were 17. Now, we're 50+. So what are the symptoms of being 50+?

For me. At 4:05 PM, I honestly can't remember if I took my 4 PM meds. And, yup, I got one of those things with all those little boxes for your meds. If it's empty, I took 'em.
 

I have those cute things some people call "age spots" but I call freckles!! :)
 

My thoughts on getting older means these are not the Golden years these are the Rusty years. Every joint hurts,you can't remember things as easy as you did before ,and if you don't get invited to a party you don't get made you say "Thank God ".
 
As big as the bags under my eyes are getting, I'm going to have to start wearing a brassiere hooked over my nose......

I've had two people this week alone address me as "Miss Jujube". That used to be a polite Southern way of speaking to elderly ladies. I have a dreadful feeling it still is....

It takes me longer to get out of the car than to drive where I was going......

I don't have to ask for senior discounts.....

I used to look for hip new joints but now I'm looking for a new hip joint.....

I buy all my wine at Target now because they're the only place in town that still ask me for my driver's license.....

I've finally got it all together but I can't remember where it is....
 
jujube said:
As big as the bags under my eyes are getting, I'm going to have to start wearing a brassiere hooked over my nose......

I've had two people this week alone address me as "Miss Jujube". That used to be a polite Southern way of speaking to elderly ladies. I have a dreadful feeling it still is....

It takes me longer to get out of the car than to drive where I was going......

I don't have to ask for senior discounts.....

I used to look for hip new joints but now I'm looking for a new hip joint.....

I buy all my wine at Target now because they're the only place in town that still ask me for my driver's license.....

I've finally got it all together but I can't remember where it is....
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Hugs to you.
 
I agree with most here, tho' nobody has yet called me
"Miss" anything, the aches and pains, struggling out of
a sofa or easy chair, etc.

lately I have been hankering after some of the kinds of
food I got when I was young.

Mike.
 
Sitting in the pro shop earlier this week and visiting with the Greens Superintendent. The GS's hair and beard are pretty gray. When talking about my golf game, he asked "Just how old are you?" I replied, "I'm 70 years old." His immediate response was "Oh my goodness! You are two years older than my dad!" I no longer like that guy!!!!!!!! :>)

When a gray-haired person is young enough to be one of our kids... When I see our eldest quickly approaching 50 years old.... When I read obituaries every day of those passing who are younger than us.... I "feel" my 70 years. When after 18 holes of golf and then taking the dog for a 3 mile walk I can barely move... I "feel" my 70 years. When I have to remember to carry reading glasses to a restaurant so I can read the menu items... I "feel" my 70 years.

OTOH, if something hurts I know I woke up this morning. OTOH, as 70 years old to be able to come within a stroke or two of shooting my age on the golf course... and taking quarters out of the pockets of the rest of the "geezers"... being 70 ain't all that bad!!!
 
jujube said:
As big as the bags under my eyes are getting, I'm going to have to start wearing a brassiere hooked over my nose......

I've had two people this week alone address me as "Miss Jujube". That used to be a polite Southern way of speaking to elderly ladies. I have a dreadful feeling it still is....

It takes me longer to get out of the car than to drive where I was going......

I don't have to ask for senior discounts.....

I used to look for hip new joints but now I'm looking for a new hip joint.....

I buy all my wine at Target now because they're the only place in town that still ask me for my driver's license.....

I've finally got it all together but I can't remember where it is....
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You have a marvellous sense of humour even for being an old lady! ;) Hang onto that and you'll always be fresh!
 
Reading where a couple talk about struggling to get out of a chair.... This past Spring, I had carpal tunnel surgery on both hands. Returning home from the first one being cut, it was a struggle getting out of my recliner. With my butt that close to the floor, I needed to have my hands assist me in getting up. Struggled doing that with one hand. Had some 3" PVC conduit in the garage I had "rescued" from an old jobsite. Cut two pieces of the 3" pipe and duct-taped them to the frame of my recliner. That raised the chair seat 3" higher. Now, I could get out of the chair without the use of my hands!!!! Wife told me, "As soon as those hands heal, the pipe and duct tape goes away! It looks terrible!!!" Well, that was almost a year ago. The pipe and duct tape are still in place. We'uns am gonna have a 'rassling match if'n she wants that thar pipe off'n MY chair!!! :>)
 
Mike said:
lately I have been hankering after some of the kinds of
food I got when I was young.

Mike.
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We have those discussions now and then. My wife has never made some of the things my Mom did. Cold beef tongue sandwiches... Beef brains & eggs... Beef liver & onions. We ate lots of rabbits, raccoon, muskrat, growing up. Ate the "entire" chicken or steer. Mom and I would fight over who got the neck of the chicken to chew on. Can't get a chicken neck at KFC!!!

Even though TODAY in our minds we remember how awesome these dishes tasted, could our memories actually be a tad bit skewed? If some of those dishes were placed in front of us today, would they smell/look/taste as good as we remember? I'll probably always suggest the fantastic dishes of yesteryear were so much better than today... as long as someone doesn't put it in front of me and make me eat it!!!! :>)
 
You guys are great. You know your old when the automatically give you the senior discount.
When going to the grocery store, I have a pad of paper in the kitchen to write down stuff I need, right then before I forget. The only problem with this is I forget to take the list with me to the store.
 
Apart from pain, I am just fine, my hair is still dark and long, I don't use glasses, I have my own teeth, my memory is perfect as are my bladder and bowel things, and my hearing is just fine. If it was not for my pain I would be out bee bopping right now.
 

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