Joe Riley
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Getting Old
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Axel Slingerland
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If you listen to this song on their album "Hittin' The Note", his voice steady and strong. I like this version better because sounds more like what he is singing about. An old rocker getting old before his time from too many years on the road. I can absolutely relate to that... I started performing when I was 8, playing Classical guitar with a piano player. We played together until I was 15. Then my Dad took me to see the Allmans in NYC and I turned into a Blues Rocker.
Don Alaska
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Most looked pretty good, although a few had obvious plastic surgery and some of the phots were very complimentary. I have seen recent pictures of Robert Redford that did not look so good.
Bobby Cole
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Yup. I’m old today but thankful because somehow I’ve made it this far and to be true, I’m younger than I will be tomorrow.
Boogie Down !
* just a little boogie, not a big one please. The sciatica in my right leg kicks in quick. *
Boogie Down !
* just a little boogie, not a big one please. The sciatica in my right leg kicks in quick. *
Shirley Martin
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I had an attack of sciatica a few months ago. It was the worst pain I ever had. The doctor gave me a pain shot and a cortisone shot. She prescribed cortisone pills for a few days. That cleared it up.
Bobby Cole
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Just read this one:
You’re not truly old until you’ve saved a box just because it’s really a Great box !
You’re not truly old until you’ve saved a box just because it’s really a Great box !
Krystal Shay
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That would be me!
I also saved a grocery plastic sack to store other plastic sacks in.
Krystal Shay
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Been there.
Bobby Cole
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When I told my doctor about it he said, “find yourself a better cushion to sit on”. (We’re switching doctors)
I think mine is due to an impingement around my low back which is the source of the nerve. I’m working with a good chiropractor and doing some exercises that might free it and let it heal.
Shirley Martin
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If he said that I think it's time to change doctors!
Don Alaska
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My wife had hip pain that had troubled her for decades. She could never get it cleared and she had all kinds of treatments. Somebody (a chiropractor, I think) told her that he thought she had a form of sciatica and gave her a series of exercises. Bingo! The pain she had since she was a young woman magically disappeared. No more pain killer stuff, and when it starts to rear its ugly head, she restarts the exercises and it goes away again. I had sacroiliac pain when I did heavy stuff, but that has disappeared as I don't do that any more. I do, however, have ack spasm since my accident, so when that appears I put heat or a patch on it, or get a massage. Chiros don't seem to help that.
James Gale
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I fully understand how you feel , it takes alot of a person .
Mary Stetler
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Probably because he is dead?
He looked pretty good in Walk in the Woods. I Think he always wore a toupe in the last few decades to keep that full head of hair.
Mary Stetler
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That's cuz we are old bag ladies.That would be me!
Kate Ellery
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Some may say …omg there she go’s mentioning dancing again , but we are partly motivated by the people in there late 80’s and late 90’s who are still dancing / keep fit and rarely visit doctors …and I think at times OMG what a wasted life my and hubs parents had in their 50’s and 60’s
sitting around boozing ….they all died in their 60’s with the exception of hubs father who lived to 70
sitting around boozing ….they all died in their 60’s with the exception of hubs father who lived to 70
Although I can walk 10-15 miles, and further, I suppose, since I'm not tired out or sore after 15 miles, getting up from a chair involves some pain and I sometimes begin walking like a hunched-up old man, but once I get moving that goes away. As mentioned in another thread, I've fallen three times, but that was over a period of as many years, so I'm not overly concerned. I just don't want it to happen while I'm on a roof or standing on a cliff or something. So far, the main thing I have noted is that everything takes longer to heal than I have grown used to. No, there is also the reduction in muscle tissue, I guess. I can no longer even lift or carry a ladder that, a decade ago, I was able to move around by myself and raise up to the top of our house. It's a big ladder with the ropes that allow it to be hoisted to reach upper floors, but it's aluminum, not steel.
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Beth Gallagher
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I'm still pretty mobile, thank goodness. I do have to make sure my knees and hips are OK after sitting for a while, though.
One thing I really HATE about being older is how thin my skin is. Just the smallest bump will cause a bruise that looks awful and stays for a couple of weeks. Lately I always have blue and purple spots on my hands and arms from the smallest bumps from everyday things like making the bed. I was expecting my hand to look horrible after having an IV last Thursday, but surprisingly it didn't.
One thing I really HATE about being older is how thin my skin is. Just the smallest bump will cause a bruise that looks awful and stays for a couple of weeks. Lately I always have blue and purple spots on my hands and arms from the smallest bumps from everyday things like making the bed. I was expecting my hand to look horrible after having an IV last Thursday, but surprisingly it didn't.
My wife has that problem. I sometimes worry that people will think I beat her.
Axel Slingerland
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I have to stand up very slowly, with a good grip on something solid.
I asked my 70 year old Neuro about that, and he held out his hand so I could the bruises on his hands and said "It's an incurable disease called Getting Old.
However, my PC Doc to me it was from taking NSIADs. The mess with your blood platelets. So I stopped taking them and the majority of the bruises, but then arthritis in my hands made them all but useless. So I have to deal with it. I have people in Doctors offices asking me all the time if I am being abused. I just laugh and say I fell down the stairs...
Don Alaska
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NSAIDs do make bruising easier, especially aspirin, but vitamin K1 deficiency can also make it worse. I think women tend to bruise more easily as they age because the decrease in estrogen causes a loss of lipids in the skin layers and it makes the skin look thinner. Men don't seem to have as much problem with it until they get very old--90 or over. I don't know why that is, but men have fewer lipids stored in their skin, in part why we don't have the nice curves that women haveI have to stand up very slowly, with a good grip on something solid.
I asked my 70 year old Neuro about that, and he held out his hand so I could the bruises on his hands and said "It's an incurable disease called Getting Old.
However, my PC Doc to me it was from taking NSIADs. The mess with your blood platelets. So I stopped taking them and the majority of the bruises, but then arthritis in my hands made them all but useless. So I have to deal with it. I have people in Doctors offices asking me all the time if I am being abused. I just laugh and say I fell down the stairs...
