Aging is like the seasons (anniversary, wife, older, Cary)
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If your body is failing at age 62 you didn't take care of yourself in spring, summer and fall.
Not necessarily.
I've had medical issues from birth. Although I was full term, I came out like a premie.
They have just gotten worse as I've aged.
Now at 54, I'm facing my 22 surgery, a full knee replacement.
I take 18 prescriptions to keep this poor body running.
I have 25 chronic continuing continuous medical conditions.
The discs in my spine, for instance have been degenerative for about 20 years, something you can't control and is actually agrivated by strenuous exercise. Who know where the compression fractures in my spine came from. Could have been a fall on the ice and snow, could have happened by the routine beatings i received as a child.
I've been prediabetic for about 10 years, and now have type 2. I didn't ask for it, and whike diet, exercise and weight can be controlled by the individual, if you're going to develop it, you're going to, it's also considered hereditary. As are a lot of things that can hit someone anytime.
A personal trainer on tv had had a heart attack, though he was in great shape, exercise regularly and maintained healthy weight by eating healthy. He said it was hereditary, that he had some genetic marker thingy ( something called like "A-1 trilipase phade 2 enzime") that meant he was prone to it, regardless of what he did.
So, no your statement is not exactly correct.
My family has cancer all over it, on both my mother's side, and my father's. My fathers,paternal grandfather died of cancer, likely prostate, my grandfather died of complications from prostate cancer, my father had prostate cancer, I'm having prostate issues, wanna bet I turn up with or not? 4th in direct line of men who had it? My father lost both parents to cancer, his siblings have it or died of it, and my mother's sibling and grand parent died of cancer. Gee, you think I might stand a chance of getting it?
Good luck to those with genetic predispositions or family hereditary illnesses!
well..... i gotta admit, i hate this growing old thing.... young people dismiss you, no one will hire you, even though you still have half a great brain left.... the thing i hate about aging the most? that i am living a life with no purpose....oh sure, volunteering is OK, but you do not get to be heard, your ideas for doing things a bit better way fall on deaf ears because you are "just" a volunteer. you really do become invisible and are expected to be seen and not heard once again, just like when you were five and wanted to sit with the big people at the real table.
I used to be a compassionate care giver at a hospital, and did the weekly cancer dinners for caretakers, but was "fired" for being too compassionate and involved. I wasn't supposed to help the families, or be relied on to help keep tabs on what was happening with their loved one while they were working or not able to visit...sheesh. People loved me and relied on me to care for their loved one!!!!
I was also volunteering on an organic local farm, which also encourages people with disabilities and mental health problems to participate.... i got to encourage these much younger folks who truly are struggling with awful problems, and are really down on themselves, giving them positive outlooks and new ways to look at their challenges, but the powers that be don't see me as truly making a difference with the kids. I'm told not to get involved, become their friend, even though i sorely need a friend, am just as lonely. I have stopped going to the farm so much, i just want more for myself, more connections, more input.... I want to hug another human being. I need them, it's hard being alone. I recently left Facebook after that whole privacy controversy, had 300 friends from around the world, but still felt so alone. I won't be accepting any friendships on this forum either... it's just too hard to type with arthritis, or try to get to know anyone online, be able to define who is real....and who is just playing games. been used and abused online way too often and because of my good heart, been scammed outta lots of money. so no. no online friends need apply, lol.
I forget who said it, but it went something like this: the greatest tragedy about life is not death, it is living a life without purpose. yup. i agree.
I guess my clock is off I love retirement the last 10 made up for the first 60 Rough childhood
Same here.
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