Not As Young As I Used To Be

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:05 am

Dude I can throw my back out sitting on the couch using the remote or putting my pants on or eating cereal !:rolleyes:

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:07 am

How old are you anyways? You are so right that dancing becomes painful as we get older but that still doesn't stop me. I love throwing darts, but cannot do it much any more as my shoulder and hand won't let me.

The one thing I miss the most that I used to do and now just cannot do is scrubbing floors on my hands and knees. I get down there and I'm never getting back up.:wah:

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:17 am

Guess we all can make that claim!! When I was younger I walked or rode my bike all over. It was nothing to ride my bike to the next town to visit a friend to go swimming or something!!

I remember once, in high school. A friend and I walked to the local K-Mart. Cross town, about 3 miles one way. Shopped a bit, then walked home. Upon arrival home, I realized that when I used the rest room, I had taken off my rings to wash my hands, and left them on the counter. So....we walked back. Right away. Now why I would take off the rings in the first place is beyond me, but needless to say, that was alot of walking in one afternoon. Now I think twice about walking across the street more than once.:driving:

theia · Post by **theia** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:46 am

The time here is actually 23.45 but this post will say it's 1 something and will appear in the middle of this thread

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:38 am

We played volleyball again last night. I'm hurting today. My back and thighs hurt pretty bad. But my right wrist looks like it's broke, because of the knot I have on it from hitting the ball. :rolleyes:

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:57 am

You name it, I'm slower at it!

I can still play the piano well, but it takes more exercise time to keep my fingers limber. That is the only thing about growing old I worry about.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 10:01 am

chonsigirl wrote: You name it, I'm slower at it!

I can still play the piano well, but it takes more exercise time to keep my fingers limber. That is the only thing about growing old I worry about.

I know what you mean.

My Nana played the piano in a restaurant in Boston up until her 87th birthday, when sadly, she started to 'lose it' with Alzheimers.

But even in the nursing home, right up until the very end, she would move her fingers along the sheets as if she were playing a keyboard.

It was very touching. :-4

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 10:19 am

Oh, that is so sweet. She never lost her love for music!:-4

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:17 am

chonsigirl wrote: Oh, that is so sweet. She never lost her love for music!:-4

Susie

I wish the same for you, my friend :-6

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:28 am

Oh yes I can relate to cleaning the floor.. wooo !!~ that getting back up is murder. My knees are shot from baseball (catching) not a position my body want to do ever again.

I can still play soccer (Football) fairly well.. Just not as fast as I use to be.. so I choose to watch the young people play the game, and just run up and down the sidelines..

The only surfing I do thise day is to paddle out and rest on it away from the crowds on the beach...:wah:

Yep in your 20's you can just about do anything. In your 50's everything you did in your 20's just becomes a good story to tell..

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:44 am

Well, my vision isn't quite as good.

My Dad's credo has always been: You don't use it, you lose it.

And he's right, that's how a man in his 70's could still ride, train,

and shoe horses and mules and unload 2 ton of 100 pound plus

bales of hay all by himself.

Me, I do as much as possible so I'm still (at 53) going strong. Little

minor squabbles from some muscles after my horseback riding a

couple months back, but that was only because I hadn't done it in

a long time. If I got to ride every day or every week, that would still

be good, too!!

:-6

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:48 am

valerie wrote: My Dad's credo has always been: You don't use it, you lose it.

Oh Val

My Dad's credo is: every morning that I get up and put two feet on the ground

Is a good day :-6

I ask myself

"Was my dad always this wise?

Or did it just take me this long to realize it?" :-6

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:55 am

valerie wrote: Well, my vision isn't quite as good.

My Dad's credo has always been: You don't use it, you lose it.

And he's right, that's how a man in his 70's could still ride, train,

and shoe horses and mules and unload 2 ton of 100 pound plus

bales of hay all by himself.

:-6
I take it he is obviously in good health?

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:05 pm

Peg wrote: I take it he is obviously in good health?

Bursting with it!! But then again, we have longevity in our genes, which

is really nice. My paternal grandmother lived to be 98, this after having

a child about every 2 years from when she was 20 to when she was 40.

(Last baby, my Dad!!) He will turn 80 end of September.

Oh and I forgot, he also used to keep a chin up bar in the barn and did

usually 60 chin-ups a day!! (I don't think he's had one since he moved

to Idaho last year, though!)

Sorry gang, I obviously love to brag about my Dad.

:-4

Rain · Post by **Rain** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:12 pm

Sitting on the floor ANY way. On my knees? Nope. Cross legged? Oh, no way. And don't even think I can just get up easily. I have to roll over to my stomach and kind of look like a walrus. Yep, with all the noises that go with that. It's not pretty folks :yh_beatup

As for cleaning up the floor, someone invented the mop. WTG! :yh_clap Or, the old trick of wetting a cloth, throwing it on the floor and swiping it around with my foot. More than 1 way to skin a cat folks.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:15 pm

You should! He is so lucky to have good health. My grandmother always swore that when the doctor insisted she retire, is when her health went downhill. I believe it's true.

Sometimes, with this RA, I feel like a 45 year old trapped in a 95 year old's body. I push myself to keep going and push some more. I hate it, it depresses me, but I also know that I am way luckier than a lot of people my age.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:16 pm

Rain wrote: Sitting on the floor ANY way. On my knees? Nope. Cross legged? Oh, no way. And don't even think I can just get up easily. I have to roll over to my stomach and kind of look like a walrus. Yep, with all the noises that go with that. It's not pretty folks :yh_beatup

OMG! You just described me perfectly!:wah:

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:19 pm

Now I can still sit cross legged on the floor all the time, but I no longer mop the floor by hand-no way!

woppy71 · Post by **woppy71** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:20 pm

Keith W wrote: Hi All,

I am finding out the hard way that I am not as young as I used to be...

I was going through my extensive music collection and playing some top tunes when I decided to show my wife my dance moves, BIG MISTAKE!

I am now suffering big time, old bodies are not designed to do the dance moves you executed with perfection when you were 20

So gang what things did you all do as youngsters that you would find hard or impossible to do today?

Take care, Keith

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!

:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

woppy71 · Post by **woppy71** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:35 pm

Keith W wrote: Oi!

Glad to see you found that funny! :sneaky:

You are a constant source of amusement to me, I love ya all the more for it bruv!!:-4

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:53 am

Oh brother bad knees here as well, from playing hockey

When the weather gets cold my joints of my right hand barely work due to being slammed in a car door in my teens.

I miss long hikes gaads as a kid my dad and brother and I hiked for hours over every kind of terrain you can imagine.... now the old knees protest loudly this really makes me sad.

Whats even sadder my hints of the aches and pains mirror my father's and he is in really bad shape when it comes to mobility