Getting un-young

I graduated high school in 82. Made it to 50 before needing readers and started with 1.25, now 10 years later I’m at 2.5 and just got a prescription last month for distance glasses. Turns out those old 1.25 readers work great for distance now. Lololol

 

First and only. Surprisingly, I failed 4 of 6 classes that year, made up my English F in summer school and moved on to junior year. LOL

 

That explains quite a bit around here....

 

82 I was out of bootcamp and going thru two years of tron school in Great Mistakes I'll.
Saw so many bands in the area and started my EDM addiction.
Pizza sucked. Music was epic. Weather sucked.

 

I'm living a plus/minus side to all of this. I work daily with elderly,and everything in between. I try my damndest to love all of them.
I got gifted a heart monitor for 2 weeks to wear,and my first ever adult toof pulled this week. That shit Hurt!!!!!!
Its required I read patient charts,and that shit's disturbing, and scary to know ones possible future.
Type 2 Diabeetus my friends!!!!! Rampant!!! We have soo many amputees,and of course 1/2 substance abuse. Were all dying,but some folks
burn the candle from both ends..

 

In 82, I was 5 years out of high school.
I've had readers scattered everywhere for years.
I have one pair in the Mexico garage with only the left lens in it.
But that's OK, I lost vision in my right eye when my brother hit me with a BB gun. On Christmas eve. Yeah, there's a movie about it, lol.

So, I'm blind in one eye and can't see out of the other.

 

Ha Ha ..born in 82? You probably don't even remember Reagan. I was born Harry "the buck stops here" Truman was Prez....You missed the JFK assassination, the moon landing and the whole Viet Nam fandangle...what a wasted life.

 

Started readers a year ago at 54...Low light is what gets me. If its bright light, i can read construction blueprints without readers and see for miles and miles. I read line 9 on my annual CDL med test.

I ask the doc if beating on rocks for the past 37 yrs is keeping me fit and healthy and he said no. So far so good though.

 

Wearing readers doesn’t bother me, not being able to get stuff done like I used to does.
Mounted two sets of dirt bike tires yesterday with tubliss setups in them. Wore my old ass out.
Was at the dragstrip a month or so ago with the Grandkid and he was trying to shimmy up a tree, I had to tell him how to, 20 years ago I would have showed him…
Now to go ride a two hour Harescramble today.

 

You will have truly graduated when you must take a picture with the phone to read a jet # or a frame number.

 

listen up geezer!!!

 

I do that all the time with old motor placards, the paint is all worn off (or painted over) and the stamping is so fine I can’t make out the numbers.

 

How about balance issues? No I'm not talking about vices or work/life, I'm talking about feelings by a little less sure footed these days.

And don't even get me started about memory.

 

Bunch of goddamned Methusalahs up in here. Just post your PSA numbers and be done with it. Your missing reading glasses are on top of your head. If you can't shit, drink more coffee.

 

If you can't shit drink a coffee while having a fat pinch of Copenhagen

I put hot peppers on my dinner pretty much daily to keep my stomach regular.

I take 1x tums a night so I don't wake up with acid stomach....vicious cycle but I'm not taking pharmacy meds.

My biggest issue is I can't get my blood pressure down.

 

turned 71 last week and graduated hs in 1971. never expected to make 30! it is all bonus time since then wake up breathing!
tim

 

Probly/maybe due to incipient vision stuff and inner ear. Peripheral vision affects balance and inner ear may be due to seasonal allergy issues or prelude to hearing slowly going south. This is all speculation on my part. Of course. Being the beeb and all.

 

You doing anything for that? I started taking magnesium supplements and it helped a lot. Vasodialators is what you what...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articl...sium intake of 500 mg,showing no change in BP.
https://nutrigardens.com/blogs/blog...ZPmjcAlA7mVYzNHvt-t13lSVAAhpZ68fptGj2Pk-X2NsS

Think of it like plumbing - bigger pipe, same volume = lower pressure.

 

It can also be helped by exercises. It's often caused by crystals forming in the ear canal and they can block the flow of the fluid which is essential for balance. The exercises help move these crystals back to where they do no harm.

 

I'm at 2k miles cycling for the year and a normal work day with my dog walks mixed in is 6-10 miles

I'll try the magnesium, thanks