OT: I'm Getting Old

[pmulcahy11b]

I just joined AARP, and in two years, I'll be old enough to eat off the senior menu...

[LT. Ox]

You know I have to add to this one

I just joined AARP, and in two years, I'll be old enough to eat off the senior menu...

Being the Senior (age only) active member, Welcome to the good life.
When I got out of the Service in '70 I went into the Oakland Ca. VA.
I very nicely listened to the "old" guys tell their war stories, I got my tests done and signed up for my group. ( some may know what kind that was)
NOW I Tell the stories and the young guys nicely listen.

[Olefin]

Just hit the big 50 myself - including the fun fun of my first colonoscopy (which should be used as an interrogation technique)

[pmulcahy11b]

Just hit the big 50 myself - including the fun fun of my first colonoscopy (which should be used as an interrogation technique)

I get one on the 17th. I've been getting them since age 43 every 5 years since my biological father died of colon cancer.

[LT. Ox]

I sue the VA for everything

Went in with blood coming out the PP and found I had bladder C. They had me in the surgery in five days and in the chemo that next day after the surgery.
But we have a very good one here and the Town is not all that large so better and more personal care.

And fifty is not OLD! heck you can make your dex roll no sweat.

[Olefin]

At least its easy to remember my birthday - its the day the game starts - still remember how surprised I was to find that the game start date was my 35th birthday

[Legbreaker]

I get one on the 17th. I've been getting them since age 43 every 5 years since my biological father died of colon cancer.

I've been getting blood tests annually since I was 39. Avoided the colonoscopy to date as apparently it's unnecessary unless the blood test comes back abnormal.
5 years between seems like a VERY long time. I've known people (and family) to be diagnosed, go through chemo, etc and be either in remission or dead in less time than that!

[Bullet Magnet]

Just hit the big 50 myself - including the fun fun of my first colonoscopy (which should be used as an interrogation technique)

Maybe it was banned for use in interrogations by the Geneva Convention

[swaghauler]

Always remember that it's not the age...It's the mileage!

[LT. Ox]

Well

Always remember that it's not the age...It's the mileage!

Perhaps the number of stitches or replacement parts might be a better indicator.
Nurse well "LT. Ox. We have to go over your file and make sure it is correct." This said after the young lady had asked how WE are. I am not a crabby old man, cause I ain't old, but I hate that sweat soft voiced and we garbage.
I say ok and think I am going to enjoy this no matter what.
"First thing is Dear, How old are we" OK now I am ready to use her in my next hand to hand class.
"I have no idea, sweetie" I smile back. She looks down at the case file that says CRAZY in code all over it and nervously smiles back.
"Oh well we can figure it out how..." At that point I interrupt her and tell her I know when I was born and can add and subtract just fine, but. Now I give her the straight face serious look.
" My teeth are fifteen years old, my left knee is but two and my ears are almost twenty-five, my eyes are less then six months and my left shoulder nearly ten, I have to add them all up and divide."
YEP it's the parts that give you away.

[Targan]

I had my first big motorcycle accident when I was about 23. Had a handful of moderate accidents over the decades since then. I had my last big accident in June last year at 42. In winter time the old injuries come back to haunt me. My son was born 6 weeks ago and I'm going to have to make some hard decisions about riding, I think. I don't heal the same anymore.

[Legbreaker]

I feel your pain and share it. Came off the bike about 8 years ago and screwed up my ankle, and now at near 43 I'm up for my 4th (and probably not last) op on it.
Had a baby girl early last year too (making three kids - the other half wants at least one more).

If only our bodies were more like machines - break a part so you head over to the shop and pick up a replacement to bolt into place.

[Targan]

I feel your pain and share it. Came off the bike about 8 years ago and screwed up my ankle, and now at near 43 I'm up for my 4th (and probably not last) op on it.

Part of my compensation payout from last year's crash was meant to cover some of the costs of a knee replacement within the next 10 years. I suffered (among other fractures mostly in my foot) a tibial plateau fracture, and apparently once you've had that sort of fracture, knee joint replacement surgery is all but inevitable. Not looking forward to that

[Sanjuro]

Targan, if it makes you feel any better, my dad fell off his motorbike aged 16 and broke his leg, rode it again before he was healed and broke it again. For the next 45 years he had a steel pin holding that knee together. It stopped him doing National Service (potentially all the fun of the Malayan Emergency) and made him pretty unfit.
Fast forward to 1997: both knee joints were replaced (he'd ruined the other one by that time, just by favouring one leg for all his adult life) and while he was in, gave him a triple bypass. Within weeks he was looking healthier than I remembered since I was a kid, and after a few months (and some physio) he was walking further than he had in a couple of decades. He's still going strong (both knees were done again about 5 years ago).

[Targan]

Targan, if it makes you feel any better, my dad fell off his motorbike aged 16 and broke his leg, rode it again before he was healed and broke it again. For the next 45 years he had a steel pin holding that knee together. It stopped him doing National Service (potentially all the fun of the Malayan Emergency) and made him pretty unfit.
Fast forward to 1997: both knee joints were replaced (he'd ruined the other one by that time, just by favouring one leg for all his adult life) and while he was in, gave him a triple bypass. Within weeks he was looking healthier than I remembered since I was a kid, and after a few months (and some physio) he was walking further than he had in a couple of decades. He's still going strong (both knees were done again about 5 years ago).

Great outcome!