So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Trenchfriend]

When I would reach 84, we will be 50 years far from now and I don't like the imagination of 2068, I tell you.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

When I would reach 84, we will be 50 years far from now and I don't like the imagination of 2068, I tell you.

I don't like to imagine it either but fortunately I won't be around......good luck anyway.

 

[1mach1]

I don't like to imagine it either but fortunately I won't be around......good luck anyway.

Ha! You and me both! Thank God. [emoji16]

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[1mach1]

As someone - as noted above - who didn't have a check up from college until turning 40, I used to think there was no reason to go to the doctor until I was sick and hadn't gotten better after a long period.

But the logic of getting a check up is too compelling. Today, many things can be caught early and treated relatively easily during an annual checkup that could kill you if ignored until "it" becomes noticeable to you.

That is why I changed and force myself - against my default setting - to get an annual checkup.

Is this a guarantee of anything - nope. I can still drop dead at any moment. But life is about playing the odds - and getting an annual checkup seems to be the smart money.

And playing against type, super girlfriend is worse than I - I have to beg and cajole to get her to go for an annual or to the doctor even when sick. For our first years together, we both supported each others "don't go to the doctor" view. Now we push each other to go.

Very wise, Kemosabe.

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[Fading Fast]

I'm less about the number than the condition - as long as I have reasonably decent physical health and ALL my mental faculties - I'm willing to play on. Although, at 53, I think I'll have had enough of all of it by 80 - health or not.

That said, from the older people in my life (and there are exceptions), most did pretty well through their 70s, but their 80s, to be direct, have not been good as both the physical and mental decline has been noticeable and greatly diminished their quality of life. What's amazing is how consistently this has played to for 90+% of the people in my life who have made it into their 80s.

Life in their 70s wasn't that much different than in their 60s, but their 80s have all had a dramatic decline.

 

[2jakes]

I'll take a nice even 70. I have no desire to live past the point where I can live and support myself alone.

I used to think the same but now that I turned 71, I’ll take a nice even 100.
I have so much energy and about the only discomfort is when I stay on the tennis
courts for hours that I get muscle cramps in the night sometimes.
Other than that, I’m ok.

Although this “liquid diet” preparation for Monday’s visit to the doctor sucks!

I believe Fading Fast mentioned that the worse part is the prep.

I hope you are right pal...

 

[triple-d]

I used to think the same but now that I turned 71, I’ll take a nice even 100.
I have so much energy and about the only discomfort is when I stay on the tennis
courts for hours that I get muscle cramps in the night sometimes.
Other than that, I’m ok.

Although this “liquid diet” preparation for Monday’s visit to the doctor sucks!

I believe Fading Fast mentioned that the worse part is the prep.

I hope you are right pal...

LOL.....The PREP is something special.....it will be seared into your memory banks.......wishing you well on the test results.

 

[2jakes]

LOL.....The PREP is something special.....it will be seared into your memory banks.......wishing you well on the test results.

What is seared into my memory banks is the “MRI” I had done ten years ago.
Something that I will never do again, unless it’s not enclosed completely.
I was amazed at my ability to control my mind and not panic.
But nevertheless it was very unnerving.

It stems back to when I was kid playing and I rolled inside a huge floor carpet.
I couldn’t move or see, I panicked. I hate or fear being in tight places ever since.

 

[Fading Fast]

I used to think the same but now that I turned 71, I’ll take a nice even 100.
I have so much energy and about the only discomfort is when I stay on the tennis
courts for hours that I get muscle cramps in the night sometimes.
Other than that, I’m ok.

Although this “liquid diet” preparation for Monday’s visit to the doctor sucks!

I believe Fading Fast mentioned that the worse part is the prep.

I hope you are right pal...

Prep is major unfun, but the sleep they "give" you for the procedure is the best I've ever had. Good luck my friend, I am rooting for an all-is-good result.

 

[2jakes]

Numbers or “act your age”.
I have never associated the age number and how I behave.
I always have enjoyed sandlot baseball with kids, still do,
or have a discussion on historical events with the grown-ups.

 

[1mach1]

I used to think the same but now that I turned 71, I’ll take a nice even 100.
I have so much energy and about the only discomfort is when I stay on the tennis
courts for hours that I get muscle cramps in the night sometimes.
Other than that, I’m ok.

Although this “liquid diet” preparation for Monday’s visit to the doctor sucks!

I believe Fading Fast mentioned that the worse part is the prep.

I hope you are right pal...

Good luck man. Thinking about you.

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[Zombie_61]

I'm less about the number than the condition - as long as I have reasonably decent physical health and ALL my mental faculties - I'm willing to play on. Although, at 53, I think I'll have had enough of all of it by 80 - health or not.

That said, from the older people in my life (and there are exceptions), most did pretty well through their 70s, but their 80s, to be direct, have not been good as both the physical and mental decline has been noticeable and greatly diminished their quality of life. What's amazing is how consistently this has played to for 90+% of the people in my life who have made it into their 80s.

Life in their 70s wasn't that much different than in their 60s, but their 80s have all had a dramatic decline.

Spot on. The quantity of life is less important to me than the quality of life. I wouldn't mind living to a ripe old age of 90 or 100 as long as I'm mentally and physically healthy, but if I'm stricken with some form of debilitating disease or condition that leaves me bed-ridden and unable to care for myself at 72 I hope someone will pull the plug immediately.

 

[tonyb]

I'll take a nice even 70. I have no desire to live past the point where I can live and support myself alone.

I don't doubt the sincerity of this statement at all. But I question if people really know how they'll feel about living with certain trying conditions until they find themselves in those circumstances.

I'm well acquainted with a few disability rights activists -- wheelchair users, mostly. Prior to making those acquaintances, I might have been given to saying things like "I wouldn't want to live with (whatever disabling condition)."

These people I know find such talk offensive, for reasons that would be obvious to anyone who dropped their defenses long enough to give a little thought to how it must feel to be on the receiving end of such commentary. For it is essentially saying that their lives aren't worth living, that theirs is a diminished human existence, and, further, that they are burdens to the able-bodied.

You can see how that might rub the wrong way.

 

[tonyb]

LOL.....The PREP is something special.....it will be seared into your memory banks.......wishing you well on the test results.

First time I had a colonoscopy (I've had a few now; long story) it occurred to me during the prep the night before that people pay good money to visit Niagara Falls while my performance that night was equally impressive.

 

[GHT]

I'm less about the number than the condition - as long as I have reasonably decent physical health and ALL my mental faculties - I'm willing to play on. Although, at 53, I think I'll have had enough of all of it by 80 - health or not.

Your first sentence and your last sentence are at odds with each other. My guess is that if you are going strong at 80, you won't even think about, time up. It's true that you don't even consider your age if you have all your faculties, even when you find that they are slowing down a little. When I was in hospital recently, following surgery, I needed to get all the disinfectant off my body. A bath or shower were out of the question so a nurse washed me down completely, she gave me the flannel to wash the crown jewels but she washed right down between my buttocks. I thought then that I really wouldn't want to face all that indignity if I became infirm due to the ageing process.

I used to think the same but now that I turned 71, I’ll take a nice even 100.
I have so much energy and about the only discomfort is when I stay on the tennis
courts for hours that I get muscle cramps in the night sometimes.
Other than that, I’m ok.

Although this “liquid diet” preparation for Monday’s visit to the doctor sucks!

I believe Fading Fast mentioned that the worse part is the prep.

I hope you are right pal...

Hey come on, let's scroll back to November when I posted that I was going in hospital for a hip replacement. You and others were a great source of comfort, you'll be fine but, if like me, and I'm also 71, you will experience a sense of trepidation. It's ok to be scared, truth be told, when the surgeon was injecting the epidural in my back prior to surgery, I felt like a child, all I wanted was my mother, but she died when I was a small boy, so I just wanted the compassion of my wonderful missus. It must have been the vibes I gave off because the next thing that I remember was the theatre nurse curling her fingers around mine, she then just touched my shoulder with her forehead, and I did the same to her. I needed that, I was so grateful to her, what she did for me, in theatre, wasn't part of her remit, but it was a kindness I won't forget.
Like you with your tennis, I'm active on the dance floor and I am really looking forward to getting back to it, these last four months have been the most inactive all my life.
As I said, you'll be fine, thinking of you.

 

[2jakes]

^^^^^
Thanks GHT
An hour ago, finished taking 20 pills at intervals of 4 pills every 15 minutes each time
with an 8 oz. glass of water.

Now I feel like throwing up!
So far...no Niagara Falls!

At 9 pm...I gotta take 12 more.
I’ll be glad when this is all over.

Just found out it’s Oscar night!
Maybe that’ll help!.

Goodnight!

 

[Zombie_61]

^^^^^
Thanks GHT
An hour ago, finished taking 20 pills at intervals of 4 pills every 15 minutes each time
with an 8 oz. glass of water.

Now I feel like throwing up!
So far...no Niagara Falls!

At 9 pm...I gotta take 12 more.
I’ll be glad when this is all over.

Just found out it’s Oscar night!
Maybe that’ll help!.

Goodnight!

Pills and water? That's it??? Boy, things have changed.

 

[triple-d]

^^^^^
Thanks GHT
An hour ago, finished taking 20 pills at intervals of 4 pills every 15 minutes each time
with an 8 oz. glass of water.

Now I feel like throwing up!
So far...no Niagara Falls!

At 9 pm...I gotta take 12 more.
I’ll be glad when this is all over.

Just found out it’s Oscar night!
Maybe that’ll help!.

Goodnight!

Move the TV to the restroom....

 

[tonyb]

Pills and water? That's it??? Boy, things have changed.

I guess! That stuff they had me drinking was just nasty. I'm hoping the pills will work for me, seeing how I'm due for another session with scope in a few months.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I don't doubt the sincerity of this statement at all. But I question if people really know how they'll feel about living with certain trying conditions until they find themselves in those circumstances.

I'm well acquainted with a few disability rights activists -- wheelchair users, mostly. Prior to making those acquaintances, I might have been given to saying things like "I wouldn't want to live with (whatever disabling condition)."

These people I know find such talk offensive, for reasons that would be obvious to anyone who dropped their defenses long enough to give a little thought to how it must feel to be on the receiving end of such commentary. For it is essentially saying that their lives aren't worth living, that theirs is a diminished human existence, and, further, that they are burdens to the able-bodied.

You can see how that might rub the wrong way.

With me, it isn't so much about the physical aspects of it -- although the steady deterioration of my vision is not pleasant -- as it is not wanting to get shoved into a home because I can't live on my own anymore. With a few exceptions, such as those here on the Lounge, I've come to realize that I don't particularly like most people my own age, because I just don't have much of anything in common with them -- and the thought of being warehoused with them in a room full of jigsaw puzzles as I wait to die is enough to make my blood run ice cold. No thanx.