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Old age creeps up on us all - animate and inanimate alike. Sometimes fast sometimes slow but over time even the memory of them evaporates.
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Among the ailments that my parents and in-laws have endured over the past few years are dementia, diabetes, cataracts, brain haemorrhage, stroke, stents, leg ulcers, sepsis, and hip replacements. Lockdown had a very deleterious effect on their mobility, horizons and independence. But it could be worse.
Happy new year everyone. |
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I've noticed that its taking me longer to recover from excessive celebrating this Christmas than it did last! Starting to feel every one of my 60 years now!
Wishing you a niggle-free 2024 and beyond. |
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If niggles there have to be, 'tis best they arrive on a nice regular basis. In that case they may be annoying, but at least they're predictable.
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Got a niggle in 2023 myself. A lot of people have it. Most people will never know I have it. There are ways to mitigate against it. It'll likely get worse though. But at least it's just a niggle.
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I've picked up several niggles in the last few years. None of them particularly dreadful,I'm glad to say. But investigations continue. One thing I have learnt though, when they say such-and-such a procedure "won't hurt", it quite often does hurt, though fortunately only briefly.
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All these niggles, can’t you get some anti-niggle pills on the NHS?
Btw, check your guarantee for best before date. When I found mine, my guarantee had run out - about fifteen years ago. 😉 |
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We're roughly the same age. My best wishes to you with coping with, managing and even ignoring the niggles as much as possible for as long as possible. My interpretation from your posts generally is that we are both fortunate to have been able to "retire" from traditional work at a reasonable age and are both fortunate to have a surviving parent (although obviously two would have been much more preferable). Compared to most of humanity over most of history, we are pretty fortunate. Hopefully we can both enjoy a physically and mentally healthy life for many years yet and can then come to terms with the inevitable "limitations" with happy memories of what we have achieved previously.
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I wonder if one of these is presbyopia and another presbycusis? Both pretty much universal niggles for generation x. If so, I hope the others are as relatively innocuous and as solvable.
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Isn't DG a very last-gasp Boomer?
dg writes: no |
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I'll consider myself lucky that 2023's little niggle was something curable with an intense dose of antibiotics, but only with a 75% chance. And my luck held out there.
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