Projects Nature has a way to eliminate no longer productive people

Mine always seem to put in appearance when I,m welding

 

Just noticed in last couple months there is a very pronounced 'click' in my little finger, joint nearest hand. You can see the finger jump and even hear a click when I bend it. Probably only a couple years 'til I am crippled by arthritis.

 

Isn't getting old just a blast but we are all in good company. I'm not getting old just that OEM stuff is wearing out! Paying for the abuse I put my body through in my youth. Two new knees, hearing aids, two shoulder surgeries with screws and just last year fractured my T7 vertabrae. Still enjoy working on the old cars just tough getting off the garage floor and I learned to stay from under the dashboard of my cars. Seems I got stuck under the dash of the Model A and couldn't extract myself.My wife came to my rescue after she heard me laughing so hard I almost peed myself.

 

Probably trigger finger. Wife has it easy fix. BTW I'm not a doctor

 

The secret is to just keep moving it, with no pressure on it, whenever you think of it. My mother in law had RA so bad that at age 92, her fingers looked more like a Chinese puzzle than part of her hands. The thing was, that she kept knitting, and the movement kept her hands flexible, even without medication.
The secret to the human body, is use it - or lose it.
Bob

 

When the rheumatologist saw me during an autoimmune flareup, (polymyalgia rheumatica), he asked me, if I could, to touch the floor. My response was, "Do you mean way down there?" There was no way I could bend, let alone touch the floor, it might as well have been the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
Bob

 

Tried to put a headliner in my car. With rods and screws in my neck I can't bend it very much. Hard to look up so I gave up. I will let someone else do it.
I thought I was in pretty good shape for my age before reading this thread. Now that I see how I relate to all these ills, I don't feel so great anymore.

 

I just barely passed my eye test for my annual DOT physical. So I went to get glasses.
So they give me fixtures to correct my astigmatism, I'm thinking, no problem then....
I find out it's ME that has been peeing on my boots and I damn near put an eye out the first time I went to pick my nose.
At least I still have all my own tooth
Old age is grand!

 

I do that. If I move it enuf it'll go away for awhile.

 

That one there made my laugh pretty hard! Thanks!
The next thought was "that was truly an old man line of thinking", kind of scares me a little thinking that may not have been a bad idea, for a few seconds....

When I've come to the point when I'm working on something that is going to require me to get into a difficult position, I often make a trip to the bathroom before I start. These days, it never fails that when I finally get into that difficult position, the damn phone rings! Leave a message, maybe I'll call back.

On this old age thing, I'll be 64 next week. I never expected to live past 50 (everyone told me that), so any health related issues I have were self imposed years ago. I didn't get this body I have from taking care of it. Every day above ground is another gift, I intend to enjoy every minute of what ever I get. Gene

 

The most beautiful sunrise is the one you are looking at. My favorite place is where I am. My favorite song is ...well I won't go that far.

 

Well, I'm 65, never thought I would be, 65 year olds were old men, I now are one. Mary needs collector gaskets, for three days I been gonna do it, but that involves lifting her and me laying on the floor, if I wait long enough, maybe it'll do itself, or, the noise will go away.
I've been an equipment operator all my working life, its taken the best part of my hands, they hurt all the time, way more if I pull wrenches. I ignore the pain mostly, don't take pain pills, god knows I take enough pills for diabetes and heart medication, but right now, as I one finger type, I gotta stop and clench my hand.
However, I'm glad to be here, had two bad scares, both missed being fatal by minutes, got lotsa dead friends and workmates, they didn't make 65, so, I'm not bitching. I ride motorcycles, tool around in hot rods, I'm the coolest dad-grampa-great grampa, of anyone my kids know, anyone my grandchildren know, don't see well, don't pee well, try hard not to whine, wish I was this smart 40 years ago.
Hoping for at least twenty more, I still look at girls, even if I get the "dirty old pig" look back, still think I'm a good looking twenty five year old who could get em if I tried......who's old.....I sit in the mall benches and dream.....

 

That reminds me of a guy I know. He was telling about how he thought this really young gal was flirting with him. When he was done telling about it someone said "You probably reminded her of her grandfather" Took the wind out his sails immediately

 

Well I always like the way Cats lived Eat, Play & Sleep!
I always said I wanted to live to be 150, so I could tell People
how things were back in the Day!
scince I am more than half way there I am going for it.
thats my Plan.!
Just mt 3.6 cents

Live Learn & Die a Fool

 

I like this thread, it makes me feel great!
While I’m sitting here anyway.
Amazed how many comment about dropping gear and forgetting stuff.
I’m waiting to see a hip guru and since my hips iffy, I drop shit all the time, never had to bend down so much and pick stuff up. Even worse I now smile when I drop shit knowing what’s coming.

 

I say thank yous out loud when I find the things I drop or the tool I've been looking for. It makes me feel better to think someone is looking out for me and helping me find stuff.

 

Twenty years ago, when I was teaching high school, I could walk down the hall, bend and pick up a pen or piece of trash without breaking stride. Now if I want something off the floor, it's set feet, plan balance, ease down, hope I can get all the way down on the first try. Something to hold onto is a plus.

 

Sunday morning. "Look alive!"
comb my eyebrows...
brush my tooth...

 

I found out that when a waitress or cashier calls you "sweety" or "sugar" or "honey"or "young man" that is when you have arrived at old age.....they are NOT flirting with you, only patronizing you.

 

How about when the young thing you are checking out opens the door and says, "Let me get that for you sir."

 

I don't look at them young things any more! Its too hard to tell if they are younger, or are about the age of my grandson, and I was married and had a child (his mother) by time I was the age he is now.
My mind doesn't need to go down that path, it has a hard enough time keeping up with the things that should concern me, like most of the stuff posted on this thread. Gene

 

How about when they give you a Senior discount at a restaurant.....

 

I made two cuts in my work area out back yesterday. I’ve been chopping steel out in the same spot for twenty five years. Sparks flying everywhere landing on the concrete below. A few minutes later I smell smoke, no big deal with all of Wild Fires we have going on in California. But when I see smoke that’s when the fun begins....luckily a six foot ladder was handy from installing security cameras prior. I looked over my six foot stucco wall to observe I lit the neighbors weeds and hedges on fire. Things were happening fast—OH SHIT—luckily I purchased a new garden hose that reached the crime scene. Well I got the fire out. Everything was caught on the security camera except the actual fire. I reviewed the footage later. It showed my old ass pissing and moaning mumbling about how if the Damn neighbors would keep their fff—-nn yard up and hedges trimmed. Quite the sight! It’s Official ! I’m OLD


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How about a seniors discount for medical pot?
Bob

 

Something similar happened here around ten years ago, except the fire spread so quickly that the whole town, including a sawmill a logging operation, and a substantial amount of forest, burned to the ground. I don't remember anyone being killed, but the economic cost was horrific.
In 1961, when I was just out of high school, I was working in the bush, driving truck for a gippo logging outfit. We got shut down because of the risk of fire, and at the time, the Provincial Government did not have professional forest fire fighters, and could commandeer anyone to fire fight for as long as they needed you. Our whole crew was sent to a raging, uncontrolled, fire in another district.
It was a crown fire, and if you ever saw one up close, I guarantee that it would require a diaper change, and change your opinion of fire forever. They make their own wind, jump fire breaks, and burn until everything is gone. When the tree tops catch fire, they literally explode into flames.
I am grateful that you were able to extinguish the fire. This is a bad time for the west coast, and I feel for the people affected by the fires and the smoke.
Bob

 

Erectile disfunction really helps set priorities. It's much easier to tell what is impotent.

 

They say an erection has no conscience but why does it have to lose ìts memory!

 

I take shots for that.... A hell of a lot better than Viagra!!!!!.....

 

You don't have to worry about any of this stuff. When you go upstairs and can't remember why and then you go back down and mess yourself , that's when you got to worry