You Know You Are Old When

[WinterDeere]

You just described how I feel everyday, anymore. I thought it was just normal aging.

 

[Jstpssng]

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.

My last dog had it when I got him at a year old. Funny thing, they didn't have a problem diagnosing it; I hadn't gotten two miles from my vet's office when they called and told me to go back and get some (more) meds.

He also had lungworm when I got him, which they told me was from licking slug trails. Actually it was from eating them, since he was on the end of a rope and wasn't being fed regularly.

 

[sixdogs]

Even with my spine fusion a few months ago I still take the stairs two at a time, just slower. It's a habit I picked up in my youth. We had about 150 steps down to a lake in our back yard. If you took them one at a time, it was way more tiring than two at a time, and a heck of a lot faster.

I won many a race against much older/bigger kids that would visit our house. Down and back was the race. Most had to stop before they made it back up.

Then I'd grab two oars, an anchor, a life jacket, a tackle box and a fishing pole and run down and back again. For a tiny kid, I was in pretty good shape!

Spine fused? What happened?

 

[airbiscuit]

You'd think in these modern times they'd use circuit breakers

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Here's what I found happens when you get old working on something, and explains why my Dad before he passed at 88 his garage is still waist deep in everything you can (and can't) imagine everything disassembled.
Whatever you're working on if you need something you won't have it. Doesn't matter you can have six tractor trailer loads of hardware you can never find what you need regardless of how many hours you look. What you WILL find is the thing you needed last week but couldn't find but no longer need.
So if you fabricate what you need at the exact point of completion where it needs just a light touch with a grinder or wire wheel it will fly off at Mach 2 into a black hole somewhere never to be seen again, no matter how well clamped it was with Vice Grips.
When you need a Band-Aid, and you WILL, it will be in a tin box you throw away because none will stick they're so old. Later you'll see one like it sold on ebay for $50 as an antique.
I know...because this was how my day went.

 

[TractorGunn]

Here's what I found happens when you get old working on something, and explains why my Dad before he passed at 88 his garage is still waist deep in everything you can (and can't) imagine everything disassembled.
Whatever you're working on if you need something you won't have it. Doesn't matter you can have six tractor trailer loads of hardware you can never find what you need regardless of how many hours you look. What you WILL find is the thing you needed last week but couldn't find but no longer need.
So if you fabricate what you need at the exact point of completion where it needs just a light touch with a grinder or wire wheel it will fly off at Mach 2 into a black hole somewhere never to be seen again, no matter how well clamped it was with Vice Grips.
When you need a Band-Aid, and you WILL, it will be in a tin box you throw away because none will stick they're so old. Later you'll see one like it sold on ebay for $50 as an antique.
I know...because this was how my day went.

Truth ^^^^^^^^^

 

[Jstpssng]

When you need a Band-Aid, and you WILL, it will be in a tin box you throw away because none will stick they're so old. Later you'll see one like it sold on ebay for $50 as an antique

If I'm buying, the only thing I can find is a valuable antique worth it's weight in gold.
If I'm selling it's junk, only worth scrap value. Sometimes for the same item six months later...

 

[MossRoad]

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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[MossRoad]

Spine fused? What happened?

I dunno! It just started hurting in March to the point I couldn't walk 100' without grabbing a wall. Who knows? Anyhow... $438,000 later it's all better.

Insurance "negotiated" it down to about $132,000. I had to pay two deductibles because it spanned two years. I have high deductible because we (or our kids when they were on the policy) rarely get ill. I have an HSA so I paid the deductibles out of that. Still it was 1/2 my money and 1/2 my employer's. But not taxed. Anyhow, after deductibles I had $144 out of pocket.

100% satisfied with the outcome! ZERO leg issues. I can walk several miles no issues. Just stiffness where they did the surgery. Working with physical therapy to regain core strength so that's going away. I'll take that over the pain any day.

 

[MossRoad]

You'd think in these modern times they'd use circuit breakers

Wouldn't it be nice if you could just reset it?