You Know You Are Old When

[Jstpssng]

I know that I'm getting old. Saturday I was sawing lumber. Yesterday I was up and down a ladder in 10 degree weather. Completely unrelated but today my foot is swollen like a football and I am hopping around on one foot.
The last two times the Dr said gout but test results say no. This time I am going to find out what in the heck is going on. Not being able to walk is no fun.

 

[Oaktree]

I know that I'm getting old. Saturday I was sawing lumber. Yesterday I was up and down a ladder in 10 degree weather. Completely unrelated but today my foot is swollen like a football and I am hopping around on one foot.

My knees don't like ladders much anymore. I had a couple projects last summer where I was up & down a ladder all day...by supper time my knees were screaming at me.

 

[LouNY]

For the last year I've been one legging stairs and ladders of any kind. The left knee won't take and load when bent so it just stays straight when I go up steps or ladders even the cab steps are one legged. Bone on bone per the x-ray or so the PA said. See the orthopedics again this week to see whats up and what they may want to do.

 

[Jstpssng]

They've gotten very good at knee replacements.

 

[CalG]

Yesterday, my wife and I went for our usual 2 mile walk. I stopped to step aside and take a piss. she kept on, but then waited for me to catch up. It was about 60 yards between us, just about at the 1 mile turn around. I stepped up my game and broke out in a run to rejoin her.

MISTAKE!
My legs and knees are barking like mad tonight, and I could hardly snow ski today on the mountain. And we were busy with so many calls and wrecks!

This getting old, is getting old!

 

[bigtiller]

I tried jogging one day at the end of a 3 mile walk. I had a 20mph wind at my back so I gave it a try. For about 30 yards.

I decided I'm a plow horse, not a race horse.

 

[BackRoad]

Mr. CalG's comment reminded me...

YKYO when you quit downhill skiing...

Not because you can no longer ski, but because the risk of injury increases with age and the impact of a broken bone would be major...over a very long time.

From the top of Copper mountain 2 years ago - and likely our last ski adventure...

 

[masseyrider]

Mr. CalG's comment reminded me...

YKYO when you quit downhill skiing...

Not because you can no longer ski, but because the risk of injury increases with age and the impact of a broken bone would be major...over a very long time.

From the top of Copper mountain 2 years ago - and likely our last ski adventure...View attachment 2133236

I remember my last ski adventure vividly.
I always skied solitary even if at the hill with a group.
I just can't pace myself with the slowest person in the group.
The day starts slowly first thing in the morning.
By the afternoon you're a well oiled machine.
Used to love to tuch in and just whip down the main runs.
Only came in to get some liquids (water only) in and back out.
Never cared for the group meal wasting precious hill time.
My favorite part was the evening with the lights on and just leaning back swishing down the hill side.
The earlier day of moguls and black diamond runs over, just the relaxed flight.
You feel as one with the skis.
I used to go with bus trips.
Good memories of sitting back in the big seats, looking into the dark heading home taking a small swig of brandy.
You knew you'd be sore by the time you got home 4 hrs later and the next day but it was a good sore.

 

[Williy]

Burl Ives a Holly Jolly Christmas??
No mention of Gene Autry Rudoff the red nose raindeer??

Anyone remember the movie Ghost Riders in the Sky where Gabby Hays riding the wagon being pulled by a team of horses wagon crashed and that was the end of Gabby? Am I miss taken?? This was between 1945-9

I tell people that you can't do anything about growning old but you can eat right and poke fun at it! When I was 40 they told me I had spurs but I don't have a horse then when I was 80 they told me I had shingles and I don't do roofs either!

willy

 

[LouNY]

They've gotten very good at knee replacements.

I had one done 8 years ago. Really don't want to get one done this time of year needing to be able to get in the tractors and the worst kneeling down to shake the ashes down and pull the ash pan on the coal insert. May have to put it off a few months even if they are willing to with my other conditions, COPD, afib and a touch of Congestive heart disease.