Getting an annual physical at the doctors

[Yander]

My 90 year old neighbor passed away a couple weeks ago. I didn't know him real well but I would plow his drive when it snowed and he would call me to help him with things on occasion. He had a great memory, sat there one day and told me all about my own property and my FILs property, because he was born and raised in the house across the road.

He was very self sufficient for his age. He couldn't walk very far and always rode his golf cart. He was still mowing his and a couple other yards for his sister in law down the road. His truck is still parked there so now I drive by and see that and feel sad that he is no longer there. But, he had a good run.

That's the way to go out, still maintaining your property. I hope I'm self sufficient until I'm off this earth.

 

[Sigarms]

She is not likely to die from it as age will take her first.

My father was born in 1932. My dad smoked from 1952 to around 1973 (21 years of smoking). He died 50 years later after giving up smoking.

The death certificate for my father still listed smoking as a contibuting factor to his death at age 90.

Old age doesn't kill you, it has to be something else nowadays for the state...

Go figure...

 

[dstig1]

I have an acquaintance who went in for his first colonoscopy when he turned 50, like they tell you to do if you don't have a family history of it (40 if you do). They found a golf ball sized tumor and did surgery to remove it shortly after. He had no signs whatsoever of a problem. Prognosis good since they caught it.

Yeah I don't like doing these things either, but the downside is worse... Both my wife and I are on the early track as my father and her mother both had it. So we got the start early and then go every 5 years instead of 10.

 

[Torvy]

My father was born in 1932. My dad smoked from 1952 to around 1973 (21 years of smoking). He died 50 years later after giving up smoking.

The death certificate for my father still listed smoking as a contibuting factor to his death at age 90.

Old age doesn't kill you, it has to be something else nowadays for the state...

Go figure...

Our dads were so similar. Mine born same year. Started smoking at age 14 (1946) until Jan 1, 1983 (cold turkey). He had 1/2 a lung removed in 1955 (or so) and started smoking again 6 months later. He's currently on O2 and mostly home-bound. I'm sure the Drs at the VA already have his pre-written, just waiting to fill in the date and time.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Old age doesn't kill you, it has to be something else nowadays for the state...

Go figure...

Somewhat like being shot by a cop or falling off a roof and the cause of death was declared to be Covid?

 

[Jstpssng]

Our dads were so similar. Mine born same year. Started smoking at age 14 (1946) until Jan 1, 1983 (cold turkey). He had 1/2 a lung removed in 1955 (or so) and started smoking again 6 months later. He's currently on O2 and mostly home-bound. I'm sure the Drs at the VA already have his pre-written, just waiting to fill in the date and time.

There was an older guy on oxygen I used to see at the local general store. One day I heard home telling his friends that he was going to take up smoking again.
"I can't go fiddleheading or fishing anymore, or any of the other things I like to do. But I can still enjoy a cigarette."
I don't know if he did, as I never saw him again. Yet it's hard to argue with his logic.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

At 71 I've been looking at obituaries almost every day. So many people we know have passed and we've been with some who have crossed over. I was with my grandfather when he passed next door at home. He was an M.D. (D.O., surgeon) and going to his office early that January morning when he knew he was having a heart attack. He said "I need oxygen and don't let them lay me over." It took forever for the local rescue squad to arrive and I said "oxygen...now" as the volunteer fumbled with trying to connect hose & mask to bottle. Unfortunately, my back turned, I saw another volunteer lay him over as he regurgitated which caused suffocation. He died, he was 86.
We lived in the country and he had this habit of relaxing at home wore size 11 moccasins.
It snowed a couple inches that night and next morning I saw footprints around his house, a little smaller than my size 13, smooth sole prints. That night Dad was sitting by his fireplace in deep thought. "Did you see the footprints?" "Yes" I replied. I had followed them, they went around his house then started way down over the hill at the property fence. No prints on the other side! Following the other way they went down past his lake, over to a property fence again, no prints on the other side.

 

[ultrarunner]

I've been around some hard to explain things when people are in trouble or at the time of passing...

Almost all involve elderly and it does give one pause...

 

[MoKelly]

Our 100 year old grandmother got a cancer diagnosis... So what. What does it really matter at this point?

My grandma (who was a saint by the way) had open heart surgery when she was 88. At the time, I thought that seemed strange given her age.

She lived 11 more wonderful years.

For our family it was a blessing.

 

[Torvy]

There was an older guy on oxygen I used to see at the local general store. One day I heard home telling his friends that he was going to take up smoking again.
"I can't go fiddleheading or fishing anymore, or any of the other things I like to do. But I can still enjoy a cigarette."
I don't know if he did, as I never saw him again. Yet it's hard to argue with his logic.

Wife's grandmother was terminal with various cancers when we got married. She figured she may as well keep smoking since she was going to die anyway. Tough old bird. Buried 3 husbands. She passed 4 months after our wedding. It was Thanksgiving, but we were in the PNW with family, couldn't even make the funeral.