You guys are complaining more than my Mother, and she'll be 100 in April.
You guys are complaining more than my Mother, and she'll be 100 in April.
It sounds like a magnet could really do some damage to some of you folks. I felt like the old man at 52. Some of you sound a bit older. Life is good even with daily back pain, neck aches, and bones popping.
I'm "only" 58, but my back is about 111.
Somedays I can barely get outa' bed.
But, you know, it could be a lot worse.....
Grumpy Old Men
Lets see, 9 brain surgeries, 4 (5? Cant rememeber) ventricular peritoneal shunts installed, 3 VP shunt failures 2 disk replacement surgeries (well 1 actually. The second was to clear my airway after it threatened to close) and 2 more disc replacements or fusions to go. Have no feeling in my right leg, and virtually none in my right hand. When its not completely numb, it feels like I'm being stabbed in the hand with a knife. Oh, and really bad tinnitus due to hydrocephalus, and too many years playing rock and roll bass. Forced into early retirement. And i'm not quite 53 yet.
On the good side: i have a healthy and happy 9 year old daughter (with ASD) who is already 5' 3" and sharp as a whip. I get to be home when she gets home, and got to take her running in the park 2 or 3 times a day. I get to work in the shop every day, whenever i feel up to it.
So, in balance, can't complain.
Paul
Somebody tell me after mine 50th - if you wake up and no pain - you are dead. I wake up every morning and happy that I have some pain - here or there.
Ed.
I'm hoping that what I'm experiencing pain-wise at 41 is just training to be an old codger. By the time I'm in my 60s and 70s, I'll be so used to the pain that I won't care about it. I've got what I think is a partial tear in my left rotator cuff, plantar fasciitis in my left foot, and tennis elbow in at least my right elbow (left hurts a little, too, but I'm not sure it's tennis elbow). I cut down and cut up a 24" diameter maple tree yesterday anyway--on a day off. My back's a little tight/sore from that.
My favorite line, from one of my elderly church brothers (this was a few years ago, but he's now about 77-78) was, "When you get to be my age, if it don't hurt, it don't work!"
Funny -- the Google ad toward the top of this page was for "Laser Spine Surgery and ACL Tear". How did they know?
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Last edited by Wade Lippman; 11-04-2015 at 11:11 AM.
That's what I used to think. Sorry, but pain is the only thing that doesn't dull.
I was still climbing and running in my 50s; oh to be that young again! Just wait until your 60's.
OTOH, my wife just got a respectable time in the Head of the Charles (crew) Regatta at 63. It is the toughest regatta there is. Considering all her medical issues, I am a bit surprised she survived it.
73 and it seems as though I'm getting older faster & faster.
- Hearing Aids
- Total Knee replacemeny
- Ulcerated Colitis
- Diabetes Type II
- Lower back aches
- Arthritis: both knees, both hip joints, 6 fingers, both thumbs
- Diminishing memory - use a spreadsheet to monitor/schedule meds - but I can still find the spreadsheet
Fortunately I have a very loving & caring wife!
Thoughts entering one's mind need not exit one's mouth!
As I age my memory fades .... and that's a load off my mind!
"We Live In The Land Of The Free, Only Because Of The Brave"
“The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living."
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill
On the other hand, my father was still farming and outworking people a quarter his age and 50 lbs bigger when he was in his 70's. He was tiny (5'7" and around 160 at his heaviest,) but never complained about pain. In fact the only time i heard him say anything about it, he was around 81 or 82 and his knuckles were swollen from arthritis, i asked him " doesn't it hurt to play?" (he loved the piano, and would spend hours playing for the other folks in the home for veterans we had put him in) and he said (gently) "of course it hurts." So i never brought it up again. But he kept playing, cause he loved it.
Paul