Laugh All You Want

[BoatBuoy]

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Agree with all. I'm still waiting for those "Golden Years" I've always heard about. At what age do they start getting golden?

 

[Kiwi Phil]

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I'm 61 and my business involves manual labour.
Since i was about 55yrs I find I can't dig holes and lift heavy gear like before, and i am slowly becoming weaker.
I am eating less and the stomach is growing more.
I have stopped getting up at 4am and going to bed at 10pm...now need around 8hrs sleep.
Easily injure muscles with physical exersion, in strange places, like the outside of the shoulder (fore-arm actually), and it is really painful for a short time.
Joints can get a bit stiff when I stand up, but loosen up after a few strides.

But that ain't nothing.
My wife is 10yrs younger, and for a few years there she was like about 3 people all in one, and you could never tell which one was going to appear next....the sweet one, the snappy one, or the one wanting to have a gun fight to the death.
I use to tell her to go take a bi_tch-pill and jezzzz, that could really set her off, and the kid use to say, really slowly, 'now settle down Mum' to which she would repond with "don't you tell me what I should do".
Anyway, the medication helped, and it has all passed, except she has 'hot feet' in bed, and keeps kicking off ALL the bedding, and I am getting sick of being asked 'aren't you hot?', 'don't you want to come out to the pool to cool off?'.....No!! I want to sleep.

Don't get me wrong...I'm not complaining....life changes for all of us, and I reckon the sheilas get it worse than us.

Cheers
Phillip

 

[tashasdaddy]

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Chief this one does not qualify. "You drive all the way home and you can't remember one second of the drive." that starts a 18, too much booze.

 

[alumi numb]

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thank you lord!!!!!
65, perfect health still same weight and pants size as when i left high school.
don't have one friggen hair on my head however. LOL

 

[torijake]

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Guess we can all relate on this one @ 50 the memory thing is a bit shakey.The body is shot though having surgury tommorrow on my neck(2 level fusion with hardware) and in 1 month have to 4 level fusion in my lower back with hardware,which will be the fourth surgey on my lower back.So i'm not sure which is worst the mind getting squirrely or the body crappin out.This age thing is truly a pain!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DayCruiser]

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I am 48. One way to feel young is to hang around with old people. Stay away from the young generation. Whenever I tell a old person about my aches and pains. They say, "you're young. Just wait until you get as old as me and see what pain is all about" "Oh you are young, that should be no problem for you" "You have a long way to go before you get as old as me" Young people do not make you feel young. Stay away from the night club scene. You don't even want to see young people having fun haha. Don't invite young people on your boat.
Do everything in moderation. Get plenty of exercise. Don't smoke. Use Glycerin soap. I have had to cut back on Beer and that has been painful lol. Keep plenty of anti acids on hand for spicy foods. Don't lift anything too heavy

 

[chiefalen]

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I'm 55. I work with my head and think thru what i'm gonna do before i do it.

Used to be wanted to lift up the back of the riding lawnmower i walked over and picked it up.

Now i take the floor jack over to it. Sure beats laying on the heating pad all night.

I used to keep my 2 wheeled hand trunk on a hook in the garage nowadays i want to move a battery i just slide it under and wheel it over and use 2 hands to lift it. The hand truck stays on the floor in the garage.

I want to move a spare tire for the boat hand truck time.

Oh yea wifes 8-9 years younger then me ain't gonna figure out which. And she too is getting the changes.

Never know who she is Jekell or Hyde at any given moment. Wonder is that why when she comes home i suddenly remember theres all that work i got to do in the garage?

And the TV thats hooked to the cable in the garage i wonder why i installed that Hah.

 

[Tyme2fish]

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In the War on Aging I've discovered that my body already surrendered!!
But my mind still wants to negotiate the final terms.

 

[Navy Jr.]

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Nope, no "Dummies" book on aging. I think it's supposed to be a surprise!

The previous posts are great. When my father passed he was 92. He was pretty active up until age 91 1/2. He had lost most of his eyesight, but still enjoyed going on walks and out to restaurants. He always kept his mind active with talking books, magazine articles on tape and listening to C-SPAN, cable news and public radio. He learned to use a computer years ago and was still able to use it with special software that would read aloud what was displayed on the screen.

Dad was a retired naval officer (U.S. Naval Academy, Class of '35). He never complained about his situation, often saying how wonderful it was to be living in this country and in this era.

He learned to compensate, and when I complemented him for that one day in the car on the way to McDonalds for "the best coffee in the world," he quietly replied, ?Yes, there have been many compensations.?

I often heard him say, "Sometimes we just have to make the best of a bad situation."

 

[triumphrick]

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In the War on Aging I've discovered that my body already surrendered!!
But my mind still wants to negotiate the final terms.

HAH!!!

 

[idrownworms]

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You don't have problems until your stroke!!!!!!!
I fall frequently, drop things, spill coffee, forget things, fall into the lake( mostly when unloading and loading my boaif its warm and i'd like to cool down t)
I could go on but you get the idea. The only thing I can do try, and if that doesn't work try again. I aint dead yet so I'm not ready to give up
jamie

 

[JB]

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I am 73. I have had 4 heart attacks and a perforated ulcer, all in the last 20 years. My heart has 2 stents and a double bypass but just keeps on ticking.

I have COPD and an abdominal aortic aneurism. BPH (the prostate enlargement that nearly every man gets) was fixed by surgery 12 years ago.

I have neither the strength nor the stamina I had 20 years ago, but I work out 20-30 minutes 3 times a week and walk a couple of miles the other 4 days. I am in about the same shape Dad was when he was 73, except he didn't have a bad heart and he had his aneurism repaired (Bad trip. The anesthesia cause brain damage).

So. I survived middle age and am doing alright with old age. My brain still works very well, thank you, and I am a lot less aggressive that I was when young.

So, to my point, and it is a serious point about male middle age. It is more psychological than physical, but it can ruin your life. It is sometimes called "Mid-life crisis" and sometimes "Male menopause". It comes on anywhere from 35 to 55.

It is the realization that you haven't experienced a lot of interesting and exciting things in your life and that you are running out of time. There is the potential to make serious mistakes that cannot be un-made.

When it hits go slowly, get a lot of advice and accept that you cannot start your life over. Appreciate the life you have and count your blessings.

 

[luv2b0at]

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At 42 next Thursday, I am feeling a bit of the mid-life crisis thing. I do a lot of different stuff. I am finally able to afford to take the time to do them, but my body aches, I have bad tennis elbow, etc. I have to force myself to slow down. I hunt, fish, boat, hike, camp, backpack, scuba dive, spear fish, free dive, abalone dive, mountain bike, and work. I sometimes wish I didn't have so man y hobbies, but when I think about giving any one of them up to concentrate on another, I can't do it. I enjoy them all so much. I guess I'll slow down when I am forced to.

 

[mars bar]

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I'm sorry to say this fellas but like me, your are suffering from a condition known as Carpenters disease. Don't fear though it only means that your chest fell into your drawers hahaha. Sorry couldn't resist.

 

[Tim Frank]

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I'm 61 and my business involves manual labour.
Since i was about 55yrs I find I can't dig holes and lift heavy gear like before, and i am slowly becoming weaker.
I am eating less and the stomach is growing more.
I have stopped getting up at 4am and going to bed at 10pm...now need around 8hrs sleep.
Easily injure muscles with physical exersion, in strange places, like the outside of the shoulder (fore-arm actually), and it is really painful for a short time.
Joints can get a bit stiff when I stand up, but loosen up after a few strides.

But that ain't nothing.
My wife is 10yrs younger, and for a few years there she was like about 3 people all in one, and you could never tell which one was going to appear next....the sweet one, the snappy one, or the one wanting to have a gun fight to the death.
I use to tell her to go take a bi_tch-pill and jezzzz, that could really set her off, and the kid use to say, really slowly, 'now settle down Mum' to which she would repond with "don't you tell me what I should do".
Anyway, the medication helped, and it has all passed, except she has 'hot feet' in bed, and keeps kicking off ALL the bedding, and I am getting sick of being asked 'aren't you hot?', 'don't you want to come out to the pool to cool off?'.....No!! I want to sleep.

Don't get me wrong...I'm not complaining....life changes for all of us, and I reckon the sheilas get it worse than us.

Cheers
Phillip

Just remember....real women don't have hot flashes....they are called "power surges!"
And I think Bette Davis summed it up best when she said "Growing old is not for sissies".

 

[DayCruiser]

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Just remember....real women don't have hot flashes....they are called "power surges!"
And I think Bette Davis summed it up best when she said "Growing old is not for sissies".

Oh man, my wife already has hot flashes for over a year now. Like Archie Bunker told Edith: "Edith would you go ahead and change already!!!"
me---Honey I think you are over reacting a bit don't you? she--just go to hell.
me-- ok excuse me for breathing haha
Then she is back to normal like nothing every happened. You don't need a electric blanket when you have a women with hot flashes. Saves me on the heat bill

 

[Kiwi Phil]

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Just remember....real women don't have hot flashes....they are called "power surges!"
And I think Bette Davis summed it up best when she said "Growing old is not for sissies".

Tim, I'm going to tell the wife that you said!!!!

(The one thing you have on your side mate, is that she is all past the mood swings and is back to being a very pleasant person....)

Cheers
Phillip

 

[mthieme]

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My wife hasn't gone through menopause yet (although she swears she's been going through it for the past 17 years)...something really scares me here...
How do you tell the difference with the mood swing thing?

 

[puddle jumper]

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Just remember....real women don't have hot flashes....they are called "power surges!"

Now there's the truth right there. Jeckle and Hide hide me please comes to mind.

 

[Kiwi Phil]

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My wife hasn't gone through menopause yet (although she swears she's been going through it for the past 17 years)...something really scares me here...
How do you tell the difference with the mood swing thing?

Looking back, the best advice I can give is....get her an appointment with the Dr....because when things go sideways, there ain't nothing you can do or say that will make the slightest difference.
Of course, mine saw some carp TV ad about natural herbal therapies, and take my word for it, she may as well have sucked on a lemon for all the good they do.
Fortunately, she has an older friend who we watched go thru the changes some years before, and she use to comment like "if I get like that Phillip, you make sure you get me to the Dr".
So one day I told her "you are as bad if not worse than X was"....holy ****e, did that give her a power surge....anyway she quietened down, we talked, she got an appt, and everything was sweet.
So...don't be the hero...you will always be out of your depth.

Cheers
Phillip