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Today something made me realise I was getting older

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  • #52
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    mine goes direct to medical centre 24/7 so I would be pushing the popularity a bit lol lol


  • #53
    New Home
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    Riiight. Maybe not a good idea, so.


  • #54
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,773 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    My mum had one and refused to wear it till she fell in the hall of her apartment and was stuck there for several hours. Fortunately in a warm apartment, uninjured and on a good carpet. Put manners on her though!


  • #55
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    An elderly relative had a fall quite hear his home, couldn't get up, nobody around, so he used his mobile phone to call his daughter who lives about a 10 minute drive away. Its a lesson to us all to carry some form of emergency communication at all times.


  • #56
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I think posting in this forum for probably the first time means I'm getting on a bit lol.

    Right for me its medications.

    I'm very fit, strong and active. I'm a competitive Judoka (Judo), I jog 5km most days. Cycle, lift weights and swim so I'm always on the go.

    But since turning 50 I now own a medicine cabinet and have a daily medicine box in the kitchen for my morning meds and one at my bed for night time.

    I'm now on TRT (testosterone replacement therapy. Guys if you haven't been tested ask the doc to test your levels. Its very important for all kinds of reasons but going on TRT has felt like the clock getting turned back twenty years).. I'm on a tablet for gout, Metformin for diabetes (type II 18 months now) and last week I'm on Lipitor now for high cholesterol.

    Oh and I need reading glasses now.

    Physically there's nothing I can't do now that I could do when I was half my age, and in fact I'm fitter than most half my age.. But emotionally I've been suffering with anxiety & insomnia for no apparent reason's.

    And sometimes I'm scared that I've lived more than half my life years now, and stupidly I count what I might have left. Completely ridiculous I know, but these things didn't happen at any other time in my life but these are the things which remind me that I'm getting older.


  • #57
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭Alice1


    Hello Makikomi, might be worth checking with your doc about drug interaction. Anxiety and insomnia are hard to live with


  • #58
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Alice1 wrote: »
    Hello Makikomi, might be worth checking with your doc about drug interaction. Anxiety and insomnia are hard to live with

    Oh I've had anxiety and insomnia long before I had this cocktail of meds lol.

    Started off after a tour in Lebanon, I was diagnosed with ''PTSD due to combat experiences in Lebanon'.

    The insomnia went away for a long time, then came back in my late 40's and of course the Doc latched onto the PTSD issue and couldn't see past it.

    Anyway that all sounds like its a bigger deal than it all is, so back to the thread.

    Thanks all the same :D

    I'm thankful at least that physically I'm in great shape.

    Does a preference to sit down at concerts now instead of booking stand area tickets mean I'm getting on a bit?.. 'Cause that's what I do now.


  • #59
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I can barely stand at a bus stop for ten minutes these days without my back giving me gyp! I'm so glad I'm past the standing-at-concerts-stage now.


  • #60
    Wyldwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭Wyldwood


    Well, I've reached that roundy number that dictates that I had to go form in hand to my GP to be certified as fit to drive. Can't believe it as I still feel 20 in my head :)

    Thankfully, she gave me a shocked look when I asked her to fill in the form and said that she hopes she'll be in as good shape when she's that roundy number, took some of the sting out of it.


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  • #61
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Sheer mythology is that!
    No it isnt for someone only in their 40s.


  • #62
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    A remark a nurse said the other day made me feel younger again.

    I was getting the seasonal flu jab. The nurse asked was I ok with injections, I'm grand with them. But putting the plaster on afterwards she say's 'red heads always bleed more'.

    Now its been awhile since I've been recognized as a red head so I'm guessing there's some still left.. One of the things I missed most the older I got was my shock of red hair, I loved it.


  • #63
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,512 ✭✭✭Wheety


    When 3plus sent me notification of a presale for someone called Anne-Marie.

    Playing the 3 Arena and I've literally never heard of them before.


  • #64
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Declan Eager Lever wrote: »
    No it isnt for someone only in their 40s.

    ah well true indeed. lol...I keep tryin g and hoping but go down and down. Glad there are two strong men to help me in and out of the ferry.... ;)My knees ...


  • #65
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    I'm thinking of getting one of those garden kneeler/stools. It would be handy for loading the washing machine or getting at a low press. I have a sticky knee and need something to hold on to to get back up again.


  • #66
    Duck Soup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭Duck Soup


    I looked at the back of my hand one summer and thought to myself - wow, loads of freckles this year. That winter, the freckles were still there and I realised they were liver spots. Then the year I spent squinting, asking myself why my eyes were always tired when I wanted to read. Eventually I accepted that my eyes weren't tired, but that I needed reading glasses.

    I tend to treat infirmities of old age as negotiations with death.


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  • #67
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,773 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    madmaggie wrote: »
    I'm thinking of getting one of those garden kneeler/stools. It would be handy for loading the washing machine or getting at a low press. I have a sticky knee and need something to hold on to to get back up again.

    That's a great idea, I might get a second one for indoors, the one that lives in the garden is always full of booby trap water and snails.


  • #68
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Duck Soup wrote: »
    I looked at the back of my hand one summer and thought to myself - wow, loads of freckles this year. That winter, the freckles were still there and I realised they were liver spots.

    This made me smile... My fingers are now bending at the top joint, ever more inwards.. over and over they go.. used to make folk smile when they saw me knitting at the market stall..


  • #69
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    (Polishes fingernails on shoulder!)

    who's nails and who's shoulder? and I am not sure that is polishing them as to me it looks like you are stropping them


  • #70
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    who's nails and who's shoulder? and I am not sure that is polishing them as to me it looks like you are stropping them


    I posted that so long ago........I forgot why! :confused::D


  • #71
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    no idea why it showed up so late on my 'puter


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  • #72
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I posted that so long ago........I forgot why! :confused::D
    Rubecula wrote: »
    no idea why it showed up so late on my 'puter

    Well, the thread is "something made me realise I was getting older". :)



    Lately I seem to get more muscle strain from lifting or hauling than I used to.


  • #73
    New Home
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    Today was a day that made me feel like I was in my mid-90s, and not quite right in the head.

    1. I kept mixing up my words (Spooner would have been proud), and I couldn't remember the word "glaucoma" so I had to ask the internet.
    2. I was supposed to go to the post office and then to a specific shop in the next town to get some presents for Christmas, and before leaving the house I had to be reminded to go to the shops, because the thought had gone right out of my head.
    3. I lost track of the number of times I said the same thing to the same person at 10-15 minutes intervals. :/
    4. My eyesight today is shot.
    5. At one stage, as I was about to get out of a parking spot, I had to think long and hard about what side of the road I was supposed to be on.
    6. I forgot what else I was going to say, but I know I had something else to add.

    For the time being, I'm going to blame chronic sleep deprivation. :/ If I catch up on some lost sleep tonight and I'm better tomorrow, grand, otherwise I think a visit to the doctor might be in order.


  • #74
    BBFAN
    Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭BBFAN


    New Home wrote: »
    Today was a day that made me feel like I was in my mid-90s, and not quite right in the head.

    1. I kept mixing up my words (Spooner would have been proud), and I couldn't remember the word "glaucoma" so I had to ask the internet.
    2. I was supposed to go to the post office and then to a specific shop in the next town to get some presents for Christmas, and before leaving the house I had to be reminded to go to the shops, because the thought had gone right out of my head.
    3. I lost track of the number of times I said the same thing to the same person at 10-15 minutes intervals. :/
    4. My eyesight today is shot.
    5. At one stage, as I was about to get out of a parking spot, I had to think long and hard about what side of the road I was supposed to be on.
    6. I forgot what else I was going to say, but I know I had something else to add.

    For the time being, I'm going to blame chronic sleep deprivation. :/ If I catch up on some lost sleep tonight and I'm better tomorrow, grand, otherwise I think a visit to the doctor might be in order.

    Are you sure you're not in your mid 90's :D:D:D:D


  • #75
    New Home
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    Uhh.... I forgot...















    :pac:


  • #76
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Today was a day that made me feel like I was in my mid-90s, and not quite right in the head.

    1. I kept mixing up my words (Spooner would have been proud), and I couldn't remember the word "glaucoma" so I had to ask the internet.
    2. I was supposed to go to the post office and then to a specific shop in the next town to get some presents for Christmas, and before leaving the house I had to be reminded to go to the shops, because the thought had gone right out of my head.
    3. I lost track of the number of times I said the same thing to the same person at 10-15 minutes intervals. :/
    4. My eyesight today is shot.
    5. At one stage, as I was about to get out of a parking spot, I had to think long and hard about what side of the road I was supposed to be on.
    6. I forgot what else I was going to say, but I know I had something else to add.

    For the time being, I'm going to blame chronic sleep deprivation. :/ If I catch up on some lost sleep tonight and I'm better tomorrow, grand, otherwise I think a visit to the doctor might be in order.

    Similar happened a friend of ours and it turned out she had a potassium shortage, so some such, which was quickly remedied.


  • #77
    New Home
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    Maximiliano Yellow Opera wrote: »
    Similar happened a friend of ours and it turned out she had a potassium shortage, so some such, which was quickly remedied.

    Bananas it is! Thanks, S. :)

    Funny that the remedy for not going bananas is indeed bananas. :D


  • #78
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I had this jar opening problem recently. There was a speck of sunshine about the other day and I felt just grrrrrrrreat! Right, I'm going to start spring cleaning, sez I. Cleaning out some cupboards I found an old jar of mincemeat, you know the stuff you over-buy at Christmas and never use. Could I open it? Not a bit! Twisted and turned, grimaced and grunted, skin coming off my hands, blood vessels exploding on my neck, not a budge. I left it back on the shelf.....as you do. The next day I attacked it once more.....couldn't move it for love nor money. Handed it to himself. 'Open that for me', sez I. Well, he twisted and turned, grimaced and.....you get the picture. Total failure. I returned the jar to the shelf once more. The next day I held the top of the jar under the hot water tap, dried my hands, dried the jar, twisted it and.......it came off! Tah. Dah. As they say. :)
    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    (Polishes fingernails on shoulder!)
    Rubecula wrote: »
    who's nails and who's shoulder? and I am not sure that is polishing them as to me it looks like you are stropping them
    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I posted that so long ago........I forgot why! :confused::D


    Ahh, now I remember! Way back in April it was. :) Although it could have been referring to something else I suppose. Heaven knows.


  • #79
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    10th of april I believe jellybaby no idea why it showed up as the last post in the thread though


  • #80
    New Home
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    Rubecula wrote: »
    10th of april I believe jellybaby no idea why it showed up as the last post in the thread though

    'twas The Glitch Before Christmas... :eek:




    ...or a very belated, very surprising April's Fool. :pac:


  • #81
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,773 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    maybe I will hold off posting on Boards for a bit...


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  • #82
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Sorry about your medical woes Looksee. Hope you will be feeling better very soon and back home in the bosom of your family for Christmas. Health is definitely the most important thing, no matter what age we are. I lose words all the time, its most annoying.


  • #83
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    I think I may be getting past it when it comes to some Boards forums. I was reading through After Hours and, quite frankly, what now passes for fun or humour saddens me. Everything has become vulgar and foul. Discussions are more aggressive and insults or slights that would not been acceptable a few years ago are now commonplace. The senseless topics being raised and the, seemingly, inability of younger people to deal with common everyday situations or interactions are becoming alien to me. Even five years ago I could go with the flow but now I'm wondering if I need to look elsewhere.


  • #84
    GoneHome
    Registered Users Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭GoneHome


    Maximiliano Yellow Opera wrote: »
    I think I may be getting past it when it comes to some Boards forums. I was reading through After Hours and, quite frankly, what now passes for fun or humour saddens me. Everything has become vulgar and foul. Discussions are more aggressive and insults or slights that would not been acceptable a few years ago are now commonplace. The senseless topics being raised and the, seemingly, inability of younger people to deal with common everyday situations or interactions are becoming alien to me. Even five years ago I could go with the flow but now I'm wondering if I need to look elsewhere.

    I'm thinking similar, some of the gibberish in After Hours is beyond belief, I'm only mid 40s but I despair with the goings on there also


  • #85
    looksee
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    Mod Could the discussion on After Hours be taken to feedback please. https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=82

    Edit - can I qualify the above a bit by saying that Srameen's post was reasonable as a 'makes me feel older' post, but there is a general rule that forums don't get into discussions about other forums, so for that reason it would be better to leave it as an observation rather than becoming a discussion.


  • #86
    odyssey06
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    A major cycling race was won by someone born in ... 2000.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #87
    saintsaltynuts
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    Everytime i feel a fart coming along I always wonder will I follow through.


  • #88
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    I'm only in my early fifties but the grey haired woman in the pantene hair ad is to me the most attractive of the 4 women in the ad.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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