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2019-04-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Getting Old is Not as Bad as it's Supposed to Be

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Posted by Bobby 2019-04-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 "Supposed to be".

According to whom?

I'm turning 70 shortly and think that getting old really sucks in some ways. No dementia but I have way more aches and pains than ever and don't have the energy I need to do half the things I want.

Not depressed and lonely just occasionally annoyed. Of course then there are the Democrats trying to ruin everything which is the worst of it.

Posted by AlanC 2019-04-25 08:10|| 2019-04-25 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm right there with ya AlanC. Can't do stuff I did only 5 years ago.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2019-04-25 08:16|| 2019-04-25 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I have a new found love of the porch

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-25 08:19|| 2019-04-25 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 "Supposed to be" according to everything else I ever read.

At least, if I remember correctly.

Posted by Bobby 2019-04-25 08:57|| 2019-04-25 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 On Wednesday evening at 6pm a 101 year old, soon to be 102, walks into Bible study meeting when he is not running in a national track meet for the 100-105 age group.

He just turned over his oil investment portfolio to his decendents which he created himself and managed to make enough to be sitting on $4,000,000.00.

As a WW2 trainer of pilots, yet wanting to actually fly in combat but told they needed him to be a trainer instead, they finnally gave him the honor of being one of the pilots to fly a strata-fortress over Moscow and nuke it for many years until the went with a Ballistic delivery systems, sadly.

He encounters the same symptoms as everyone else but he says he works through them. He is very shy and a very good man but I would hate to be his enemy. At 101 he came charging out of the Wednesday night Bible study like he had an important appt and I accidently got into his path and it felt like I was about to get hit by a locomotive as I quickly got out of his flight path. He just sold his Camaro and that is a shame. I will never get to race him.

A few weeks ago I saw him approach a three flight set of stairs, look at them and determindly procede to climb them. The elevator he could have taken was near the stairs but that was not on his list of options at this geographical encounter. The man could still survive on a remote island by himself. Seriously.

If you are fortunate enough to witness this 101 year old go by a time or two, you realize he will not be stopped.

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-04-25 09:08|| 2019-04-25 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 #1 and #2--Youngsters.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-04-25 09:14|| 2019-04-25 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Getting old sucks, but is preferable to the alternative.

Posted by Regular joe 2019-04-25 09:54|| 2019-04-25 09:54|| Front Page Top

#8 ninety-one percent of Americans aged 85 and older are not in nursing homes.

This is a bit misleading. "Nursing Homes" (AKA skilled nursing facilities) are at the most extreme end of the eldercare spectrum. Many more people are in assisted living facilities, and even more are in independent living (55+) communities with nurses etc. on staff.

Still the headline is correct. My grandfather died at 78. My parents survived into their 90's. My mother was in independent living at age 95.

It is great to see people in their 70's and 80's playing golf and swimming. A generation earlier they would have been dead.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2019-04-25 09:55|| 2019-04-25 09:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Fake news.

Posted by Bigfoot Croting8845 2019-04-25 10:26|| 2019-04-25 10:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Bench 225, Squat 300, Deadlift 350 on my 68th.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-25 11:17|| 2019-04-25 11:17|| Front Page Top

#11 re: #6 - I've out lived almost all my previous generations of relatives already. If I make the end of the year I'll have surpassed both mother and father; way past all grand parents there are only a couple of Aunts or Uncles that made 80.

Those long life genes seem to have missed us.

Posted by AlanC 2019-04-25 11:33|| 2019-04-25 11:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Keep exercising until those aches and pains go away.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-04-25 11:49|| 2019-04-25 11:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Not living longer, living better longer.
Thank you every/anything/one for making this possible.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-25 15:35|| 2019-04-25 15:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Good numbers Skidmark. You need to up your squats, though.

Posted by Regular joe 2019-04-25 16:52|| 2019-04-25 16:52|| Front Page Top

#15 #11 A wish for a long, happy and healthy life AlanC.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-04-25 18:11|| 2019-04-25 18:11|| Front Page Top

#16 John Q C hat's what I tell the 60-year olds I know.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2019-04-25 18:48|| 2019-04-25 18:48|| Front Page Top

#17 My refrigerator magnet says, "Getting Old Ain't For Sissies".

Posted by KBK 2019-04-25 19:30|| 2019-04-25 19:30|| Front Page Top

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