I am getting to an age when I forget the simplest of things....and I am feeling my age.
- I have to retrace my steps regularly in an effort to find my car keys, or to locate my cheque card or the dogs' leads and I am finding that I very occasionally call people the wrong name and almost not notice it.
- .My left knee is painful when I kneel down and I am sure I have the start of arthritis in my right big toe!
- When the tv or the radio is on I miss what Chris says to me ( he does mumble too!)
- And it "pisses me off" that I get up in the middle of the night to have a pee!
- My goatee is now almost a lovely shade of grey
- My hands look like my father's did when I was but a teenager
- and I know I will get sort of excited when I am given a nice warm fleece hat for a pressie!
- I need to resume my old weightwatcher regime....This objective is an easy one. I lost over three and a half stone without too much trouble a couple of years ago and just need to get myself focused again...this time Chris will be joining me.....a lighter weight means a less painful knee and less embarrassing offensive bowel sounds ! (oh the shame of breaking wind in front of a supermarket check out!)
- I need to get my flu jab! (work is busying up with suspected swine flu cases)
- I need to moisturise more and drink more water and less white wine
- I need to buy some reading glasses from Debenhams (I tried some on when out Christmas Shopping and was so bloody excited when I could make out the small print on EVERYTHING!
- and I need to wrap up warmer when I am out!
.....and so my health kick has started....
like I said It wont be hard....
I have an incentive
Underneath this grubby, slightly dishevelled exterior
I am rather vain!
I am
honest!
3 and a half stone on Weight Watchers?! Seriously? I just got another earful from my doctor, and I was sitting here searching for
ReplyDelete"healthy" recipes that a.) don't taste like cardboard, and b.) would actually be eaten by a teenager. Yeah. Right. And while I'm at it, I will also look for the Grail and tonight's Lotto picks.
I think maybe you work too hard and don't play enough, your warranty isn't due to run out for another year and a half!
ReplyDeletePossible gout in your big toe? I ask, because I have gout. (in my right big toe and also same type of spot in my right hand - Dr Dxed - of course, I was thrilled)
Getting old is really the pits, so much for "the Golden Years".
Yes you should take care of your health! You know as I say, much easier to keep it then to get it back!
ReplyDelete3 and half stone? I will guess, is that 35 lbs?
Reading glasses? Didn't you just go to the eye Dr? But then I wear reading glasses over my contact lens, maybe you need them for over contacts :O)...otherwise if that eye Dr missed your vision by that much I would say he needs to lick that calf again..see if he can get it right this time! :O)
tex I actually lost 51 lbs!
ReplyDeleteI have problems hearing through the hair on and in my ears. I miss the noise my nose hairs make while breathing. It reminded me that I was still living.
ReplyDeleteMy lady highly recommends the Vegetarian Planet cook book, John. Even if you aren't a vegetarian it has really yummy recipes that use foods she can find at a regular market.
ReplyDeleteGoing grain or gluten-free can fix that embarrassing bowel noise problem. I know what you're going to say - fad diet and too hard! - but it's worth a try.
ReplyDeleteHad to laugh at this one, but here's a couple of tips.
ReplyDelete1. take a po to bed
2. cough loudly when you fart.
If I think of any more I'll let you know. lol
OMG, the pic of the busty lady, I gotta show my husband!! ROFLMAO
ReplyDeleteI don't know what 3 1/2 stone equals. Oh, 51 pounds, that's great.
ReplyDeleteI had to have CATARACT surgery on both eyes in 2010, I'm 54 years old.
I have to write and leave notes to myself in my truck.
Mike and I joined a gym, but we're lucky if we get there 3 X's a week, however, it's a good place to take a shower.
I try to empty out before I go to bed, but I still have to get up in the middle of the night, and I HATE it. On the toilet, I tell myself, "don't think, don't think about anything."
It's kind of scary how it starts creeping up isn't it? The hubster and I just joined the YMCA and are determined to try and get some semblance of the finely-tuned athletic bodies we once had back again. (He was a skier, I was a gymnast. Now we are both happy tubs.) I imagine I need to lose about 3 1/2 stone too (now that I know how much that is. Good on you for losing that much btw. Wow. I mean really. WOW.) We both feel like we better get a handle on our health now if we plan to be as active as we'd like later on.
ReplyDeleteAnd...yes. There's some vanity, too. But I'll use any motivation I can get!
:-) Dia
A - That picture is definitely of a fat man, upside-down in a car, who has swallowed a woman who is now making her exit during his stunt display (yes, 'stunt')
ReplyDeleteB - Speaking as a male over 10 years older than you, I know that it is impossible to get your nob back into your trousers after a pee, without several large drops (or squirts) going down your leg or underwear. It has always been this way, it's just that it has never worried you before.
C - Any accidents in public will only serve to train that slobbering dog you have inherited to do it outside the house - but just don't take her for a night out 'al frescoe'.
Isn't aging a 'bitch'! Yes,drink more water and lose a little and you may feel better. As far as the memory.....maybe, just maybe, you have quite a bit to do in the run of a day Mister! No wonder you can't remember things! I will give you some advice if you don't mind. Why not give yourself, and only yourself,no dogs,5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes in the evening and just sit and DO NOTHING!!! Listen to the sounds around you in the house first and then to the sounds outside. It helps to slow down the mind a bit and not think about the 'stuff' you have to get done.
ReplyDeleteGive yourself this little bit of time and you will feel better and hopefully not be so overwhelmed with it all and start to remember again.
So there, a little well-intentioned' advice from your senior blog buddy.
Jim
Tom
ReplyDeleteI am sending you some wet wipes
Jim
I love cloud watching....I lay on my back in the field and just watch the sky...I will try and do some more of this
the neighbours are used to it!
What I have learned to watch out for are distractions. You get so darned easily distracted when you're old. It's not so much forgetting as not being able to pay proper attention when something interrupts either an action or a train of thought. Hence the keys get lost, etc. How that works for peeing in the night, I have no idea. Hope this makes more sense to you than it does to me.--Inger
ReplyDeleteIs that photograph some new-fangled airbag?
ReplyDeleteshe's an ex jac
ReplyDeleteOh how I know the feeling...in a womanly way of course and I am 10 years older than you! Today is the day I'm starting my Zumba Dance (at home)...it's nearly supper time and I still haven't started. I CAN'T go to be without giving it a try! Good luck to you John :)
ReplyDeleteJohn, knock it off. You are only as old as you feel. Eat healthy and take a nice brisk walk everyday. You are too young to have all that stuff going on.
ReplyDeleteAttitude, my dear. It is all in the attitude.
It wasn't my mug it was hubby's! Wear yellow pants then they won't show the stains, oh, except the skid marks...xxx
ReplyDeleteYou are a spring chick...I am fifty-six!
ReplyDeleteWhen I remove my bra, my wrinkles in my face go away so there are some advantages to aging.
Hey, you young pup, it's all downhill from here!
ReplyDelete51 pounds is awesome! Congratulations!
I recently thought the same thing about my hands. I looked down and could have sworn my Mom was typing on my computer!
ReplyDeleteYour self-diagnosis indicates beyond doubt that you are in the early stages of Alzheimer's. I hope that Chris proves as good at nursing as you have been in your career because he will soon need to roll up his sleeves and molly-coddle you.... "YES JOHN! IT'S JANUARY!...I SAID JANUARY! NOW EAT YOUR RUSK! IT'S BATHTIME!"
ReplyDeleteIf you think it's bad now, wait until you turn 50....
ReplyDeletechin up.
Oh, and Happy New Year, too!
ReplyDeleteOMG!
ReplyDeleteI laughed so hard that I started coughing.
Then I coughed so hard that I started gagging.
I gagged so hard that I started crying (well, had tears anyway)
The crying made my nose run.
I'm going to go blow my nose now...
You should be getting paid to write this stuff! Nothing unusual about what you are going through. Join the club!
ReplyDeleteWell, I am a bit younger and I don't have to wake up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, but everything else I can relate to. And of course, I have no goatee, but my hair is turning gray, mostly on the most exposed places (of course).
ReplyDeleteEating healthy, get some exercise done and maybe some meditating should do the trick. I started my diet on Monday (of course) and I am still on it.. that is a big success for me. Keep us posted on your progress:))
I so know how you feel..........you have my sympathy...
ReplyDeleteGill in Canada
I`m sure your warranty has at least another hundred thousand miles John!
ReplyDeleteYour list could oh so easiley apply to me too - including the goatee!!!!! That last picture looks like the girl who has just moved into the house next door to me - her hubby is the same size too. They are both on benefits as they cannot work through obesity!!! they both get a mobility car, their rent paid and sit and laugh at the rest of us getting up at ridiculous oclock to go to work/shovel snow etc (they make my blood boil, can you tell?!!)
ReplyDeletePS Package in the post. xxx
No, despite my advancing years I can't say I suffer from any of those afflictions - thank God!
ReplyDeleteNo, John, I'm not buying it...you're not old...whatever you're feeling is just the winter blues...
ReplyDeleteAh, the aches and pains of getting older. Wether we like it or not it's happening. And it isn't nice!!!
ReplyDeleteI leave myself notes. Couldn't tell you how many times I have 'lost' my glasses or cell phone. Just the other day, after several hours of being outside, I realized I didn't have my phone with. Searched in the house and ended having my one daughter who lives here call my phone so I could find it! Yup, there it was right where I had put it....just forget where that was!
You always have a way of making us smile.
xoxo
Good Lord ....I'll be 48 in February - there is no hope for me !!!
ReplyDelete....wait a minute - I went to weigh in today & had lost 3/4 of a pound over Christmas - there IS hope !!!
Hey. Aging sucks. But I'm loving the fact that I've entered the stage where I don't give a #$@% about what everyone else thinks, and it's sooo liberating.
ReplyDeleteI now pursue my passions and obsessions passionately and obsessively.
Go for it.