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I am 80 and it surprises me how quickly it comes, and who, by the way is that old woman staring out of mirrors and window reflection? You still feel much more young inwardly if you are so lucky as to be fully able in your later years.
So, how quick it comes and how fast time flies when you are there (breakfast every 15 minutes, basically) and how you still feel young (and even uncertain) "inside".
I hope the admins will move this to discussions where it will be longer-lived. An interesting question.
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freqflyer Nov 2022
AlvaDeer, I had my question in "Discussion" to begin with, and the Admins/software moved it to "Questions", much to my surprise. I even didn't include the ? mark so it would stay in Discussion. Oh well.
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I'll be 66 at the end of this month. At 64 everything seemed to hit. I had to start dialysis, Insulin went up to 4 shots a day, my husband died. Had two serious falls in less than a year and the last one landed me in a wheelchair. It's either I'm getting old or i have really bad luck. I think it's age.
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lealonnie1 Nov 2022
Yes, I had a few pretty hard falls myself as I got older (65 now) and it takes quite a while to recover from them. I think it's mostly age related and partly bad luck :)
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I have always had to watch my weight even when in my teens. I hardly eat anything now to maintain it. And I hate the water gain. I feel bloaty.
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I’m dismayed by the fact that even when in respectable health and good fitness, how fast you lose ground if there’s any setbacks, and then how much more time & effort it takes to reclaim what was lost, if even possible.
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How hard it is for me to get UP when I'm sitting on the floor playing with my grandson. I have to find something to hold onto in order to pull myself up, or I can't seem to do it.
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Cover999 Nov 2022
That can happen to people at any age.
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I hate hate hate that my body is failing one little piece at a time.
First it was my eyes - multi focal lenses here we come, but no matter what I do I still can't really see fine details any more.
Then my feet went wonky; I need toe separators and arch supports and metatarsal pads and no sooner do I fix one thing than something else crops up.
Weight gain and muscle loss post menopause - I used to be someone that people hated because I could pig out on anything and never even think about it, now I must be obsessive about getting my 20,000 steps every day or my weight begins to creep up.
I need a jar opener now.
And my back hurts.
I can't balance on one leg to put on my shoes or socks... plus I have trouble even bending that far because my hips just don't want to do that.

This is why getting old isn't for sissies, god help me I'm only 62 and the women in my family tend to live into their 90's!
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For me, at 66 which I don't consider old by any standard--it's just the fatigue that has hit this past year.

It could be that in 2022 we: moved to a new house that needed a total re-haul and we're still not done, 2 weeks of COVID and the long haul of feeling just not 'great', DH's plans to retire and he keeps putting off all the paperwork, etc, so it looks like he won't be retiring, watching him get 'dottier' by the day. His natural spaciness is much worse, he can't remember anything outside of work details (and there he is brilliant, so I know it's not dementia)...still rehabbing a major foot/ankle surgery from last year, having a cardiac ablation a few weeks ago, mother dying in the midst of all this--family becoming fractured and needing to have the estate settled so we can go back to ignoring each other...

I HAVE to take a 2 hr nap everyday or I can't make it through the day. This drives DH crazy. He doesn't GET IT..and frankly, neither do I.

Always been the kind of person who can juggle 6 balls in the air. Now I don't want to do ANYTHING.
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JoAnn29 Nov 2022
Did you not go thru chemo for cancer? I have heard people say their strength is never the same after treatment. Put COVID on top of that.
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Even though I'm only 63 and "technically" not a senior yet(unless there's a discount involved)the thing that surprised me the most(and I must say pleasantly surprised me)was the fact that I no longer tolerate people's bulls**t, and am able to call them out if needed. I also don't hold back on something that I feel needs to be said, in fear of what others may think, as I am my own person, and that too is a good thing.
I had always heard that as we get older we tend to lose our filters, but thought that that applied to those 80 and above, so was surprised that it has hit me as young as I am. But I guess when you've been through as much as I have in my life, I've earned that right to say what I want, when I want.
My friends and family have just gotten used to it and will say that I don't have a problem just calling things as I see them, and I think that's actually a good thing, as life is just too short to pretend you're someone or something you're not.
I call it having wisdom and discernment, which more people should have, yet many don't. Perhaps that's something that doesn't come until we've had enough life under our belts huh?
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