You Know You Are Old When

[bigtiller]

A question for the followers of this thread regarding "healing".

A year ago about this time, I popped something in my right knee. It took all summer to get so I wasn't limping. I needed a pillow under the knee at night to sleep
This past winter's skiing, I just needed to pay attention, and not do stupid things. Now, The one knee is no worse than the other (not saying they are good and solid ;-)

I am troubled about healing after injury.

I guess I might be getting old...

When my left knee aches like that, I get a cortisone shot. The Dr. sends me out for x-rays to make sure everything looks okay. But that cortisone really speeds up the healing.

 

[Sigarms]

Don't know if this has happened to anyone, but I use to be a pretty hairy guy on the legs, arms and chest.

I don't know when it happened, but sometime between the ages of 40 and 60, lost most of the hair on arms and legs, and although I still have hair on the chest, I was looking at a pic from a while ago my wife took of me laying in bed with the cat, and I couldn't get over how black my chest looked with all the hair, nothing like today.

I've also noticed with injuries that the skin is bruised or punctured, it takes like weeks or months if at all for the skin to look "normal" in the area in question.

For example, this is supposed to spell "HOT", and it stayed on me for like a week! And they weren't lying, it was HOT! Don't ask...

 

[Jstpssng]

I've been looking for my cant dog for almost a year. Last summer I hauled home a trailerload of roadside cedar to saw into cornerposts. I must have stopped and looked there 1/2 dozen times. Today I was driving past and saw this...
This is on a gated private road but it was open all last fall... plus multiple woods workers drove past and a guide has bear baits in there. For comparison; 2 years ago we opened a plugged culvert which took my shovel downstream. That night somebody grabbed it.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Don't know if this has happened to anyone, but I use to be a pretty hairy guy on the legs, arms and chest.

I don't know when it happened, but sometime between the ages of 40 and 60, lost most of the hair on arms and legs, and although I still have hair on the chest, I was looking at a pic from a while ago my wife took of me laying in bed with the cat, and I couldn't get over how black my chest looked with all the hair, nothing like today.

I've also noticed with injuries that the skin is bruised or punctured, it takes like weeks or months if at all for the skin to look "normal" in the area in question.

For example, this is supposed to spell "HOT", and it stayed on me for like a week! And they weren't lying, it was HOT! Don't ask...

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Certainly talk to your doctor (heart?).

 

[Engineer42]

Don't know if this has happened to anyone, but I use to be a pretty hairy guy on the legs, arms and chest.

I don't know when it happened, but sometime between the ages of 40 and 60, lost most of the hair on arms and legs, and although I still have hair on the chest, I was looking at a pic from a while ago my wife took of me laying in bed with the cat, and I couldn't get over how black my chest looked with all the hair, nothing like today.

I've also noticed with injuries that the skin is bruised or punctured, it takes like weeks or months if at all for the skin to look "normal" in the area in question.

For example, this is supposed to spell "HOT", and it stayed on me for like a week! And they weren't lying, it was HOT! Don't ask...

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Hmm. Looks like a muffler. I did that once years ago. Smarts pretty good.

 

[Engineer42]

No thanks.

Thanks to this topic though, I did spend $9 on shipping on a $9 Dillon calendar just because I want to see where they have gone with it...

The Ridgid calendar I remember

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When the Dillon comes in, I figure I can finger through it and then give it to my one buddy for his office LOL

Quite different from the one I remember.

 

[CalG]

Athletic guy I know was complaining of similar symptoms as you. Aches, joints, slow recovery after working out. Lots of tests, no results.

I suggested he might ask for a Lymes test...bingo! Treatments cleared up the symptoms for him.

There's a period of time needed for ticks to be attached to pass Lymes, so possibly not from the tick you found...but from the one a while back that you didn't find.

Something you might consider Mr. CalG.

I had that lyme disease a few years back. Delirious fever for a week, I couldn't tell if I was dreaming or awake. The wife finally got me to a doctor (I won't go on my own)
But a dose of Doxycycline fixed me right up. Might have been the start of some latent joint issues though.

I wouldn't wish lyme on anyone!
Dastard ticks!

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm on Doxy right now... 3:00 one morning I noticed something in a spot I can't see, so went back to sleep and forgot about it.
4:00 on the following morning I remembered, dug out a mirror and got it off.
Sent it off and $20 later, sure enough it was a Lymes carrier.
Damned ticks!!!

 

[WinterDeere]

I had that lyme disease a few years back. Delirious fever for a week, I couldn't tell if I was dreaming or awake. The wife finally got me to a doctor (I won't go on my own)
But a dose of Doxycycline fixed me right up. Might have been the start of some latent joint issues though.

I wouldn't wish lyme on anyone!
Dastard ticks!

A few of my neighbors have had it, as well as one of my dogs. It actually ended up killing the dog due to liver damage caused by Lyme, about a year after the Lyme itself was discovered and cured.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Everyone needs to know their body, i.e., if you one day feel weak, muscle or joints ache, have bloodwork done.