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I am 56 now. My dad died at 54, and I have felt a bit "old" since I passed that milestone. But it doesn't bother me - in fact, each year I live feels like an accomplishment. After all, my goal when I started out was to hopefully be old someday.
I was at a birthday party for the wife of a co-worker. She had turned 40 and her brother did the black balloon thing and was razzing her for being SO OLD. Her response - "Yay, I'm 40!!!" She is a cancer survivor twice over - good perspective.
Despite the mobility problem from a leg getting a blood clot in my final pregnancy, I was declared fit as a fiddle and nothing is wrong with me. In a way I was a bit disappointed as I can be a bit of a hypochondriac. I went in prepared to have her order this test and that, and she said I don't need them based on recent and past results.
One thing to remember is to have your BP checked by the assistant on both left and right arms. My numbers were 20 points different from one arm to the next! Then I have the doctor herself take the BP in the exam room, as those very first readings on intake are often elevated due to white coat syndrome. When the doc did this, my BP read even lower and in a great range.
The only meds I take (knocking on wood) are nutritional supplements. So right now I feel less than old, and this kind of medical feedback has me even more into upping the exercise and staying away from sugars. Maybe I can postpone thinking I'm old for a few more years.
At age 71, at a hotel, I walked up a flight of stair that had a large full length mirror hanging on the wall as you reached the top. I saw this old guy walking towards me, and just about that time I realized I was looking at myself.
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when I first feel old? Probably at age 29 when a military Dr. told me I had that old man's disease~ arthritis. When did I start to feel better about it? that weekend when I was at Reno when I was TOLD ~ not carded~ that I had to be 21 to play the slots and I should leave.
Then I saw a billboard along a road on my 56th birthday that said " which is older *xx* or dirt? Happy 50th birthday" ~ then a week later had a high school kid on his first day on the job ask what he should do~ I said you are supposed to at least keep up with me~ I'm old. He quit at end of day because he couldn't.
Interesting mix here folks! Seems divided between, I felt/feel old for a long time already, to "What, me feel old?" (Mad magazine style). I'm in the age is just a number camp. Continually wonder who that old guy in the mirror is. That's certainly not the person behind the eyes. Though I have to admit I started feeling oldER, when retirement became a very real, near future event, and I find myself looking forward to it and dreading it at the same time! So much of what so many here said is very applicable to myself. I'm determined to be that 97 year old guy that still has it all together. Anything's possible!
Hair loss for me started in my 20s, but as a male engineer, it just makes me look the part. We used to say, "Can't grow grass on a busy street!", and "Too many U turns under the bedsheets". My wife just rolls her eyes when I say stuff like that.
Try taking Biotin daily. Over the counter. It has helped both my hair and nails tremendously.
Thanks! I'll try it. My nails are a lost cause because of my job. I have thick and healthy nails but when they break it's usually down to the quick 'snap' right off.
[quote=Curmudgeon;40227746]I'll be 69 in less than two weeks. Despite some serious, physical/medical setbacks with lasting deficits I've yet to consider myself "really old." I truly believe that age is as much in the mind as it is in the body. I don't think old. Heck! I barely think grown up.[/quote]
You actually don't lose hair off the top of your head. What happens, I'm convinced, is that gravity works its insidious way and the hair is pulled in, then spills out in lower places, like the ears, eyebrows, and nose.
You know, I heard that once and wondered because a LOT of the older men I knew seemed to have that happen. I haven't noticed it so much in women though so I guess I can be glad I'm a woman! LOL j/k
And speaking of that...people have asked me why I don't date. Well, there are plenty of reasons why but one I used to give...and it made them shut up!...was that I didn't want to date guys my age because I'd become so fascinated with counting the nose and ear hairs I wouldn't pay any attention to them!
When I looked in the mirror and saw an old lady looking back at me.
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