Getting old

[Parksy]

I'm enjoying my retirement but there's no doubt that age brings health issues that could have been shrugged off before the clock had moved this far.
I've spent the last couple of days in hospital having all sorts of tests including a CT scan for what turned out to be an inner ear infection which caused loss of balance, nausea, hot sweats etc.
At one time I doubt if such an infection would have laid me low or put me in hospital but because I'm old-ish my GP took no chances and he sent for an ambulance, complete with blue lights and sirens which had the neighbors getting ready to organise a collection for a wreath.
I'll keep taking the tablets. :cheer:

 

[Dodger524]

The stock reply to any ailment query to my GP is "You must expect this sort of thing at your age" to which my reply is usually "I do but I also expect you to do something about it".

 

[Gabsgrandad]

Up to 3 or four years ago 'fittish' (overweight!) but didn't ail a deal. But how it changes, now I have enough pills in the morning I call it breakfast! Only have to walk through the surgery door and the doc. adds another, "If I start taking them doc can I knock something else off?" -- "I wouldn't if I was you!" -- But things keep ticking so that's Ok innit? - Had pipes and tubes up where you wouldn't show your mother, pictures taken of nearly everything! Electrodes and wires attached and 'carted' about for 24 hours. Fortunately still laughing and joking about it.
That feeling of a younger invincibility does gradually seep away, - but I keep 'b*******g' in! - Oh, and enjoying it!

 

[colin-yorkshire]

I'm enjoying my retirement but there's no doubt that age brings health issues that could have been shrugged off before the clock had moved this far.
I've spent the last couple of days in hospital having all sorts of tests including a CT scan for what turned out to be an inner ear infection which caused loss of balance, nausea, hot sweats etc.
At one time I doubt if such an infection would have laid me low or put me in hospital but because I'm old-ish my GP took no chances and he sent for an ambulance, complete with blue lights and sirens which had the neighbors getting ready to organise a collection for a wreath.
I'll keep taking the tablets. :cheer:

hope you get it all sorted Parksy that is exactly how mine started but I don't think the doctor caught it quite as quick [or I didn't go early enough] by the time it was diagnosed there was too much damage done. I had gone stone deaf in the left ear. had acute Vertigo and was so sick that first couple of weeks I was no longer chunky and lost 3 stone.
still have the Vertigo but it is manageable with yet more pills. it could have been avoided I think but is now just one more ailment to take tablets for that is not going to cure it's self.

 

[Dustydog]

Fortunately Colin I discovered Slimming World and got rid of 3 stone this year. The Beer is a distant memory but at least the knees and lungs are working well.
Parksy was the inspiration.
He's a mere shadow of his former self, thanks to Weight Watchers.
All is not lost . I met two couples last year near Ullapool. Both chaps were 91 and tugging Avondale Avocets. They reckoned caravanning was the thing that kept them going and healthy :cheer:
Keep the pot half full rather than half empty as they say B)

 

[colin-yorkshire]

yeah it's definitely better being 13 stone rather than 17 as I was but the ailments just keep coming. some days you feel 120 and do next to nothing and other days feel fine and cram all the things in you haven't done while sick.
as for caravanning really good luck to al those who can continue to enjoy it into old age but sometimes it is better to stop than do something you have lost interest in.

like working :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[RayS]

Some years ago I bought a house from an older chap and we got on pretty well. When I asked him how he felt about retirement and getting older, he thought for a minute and then said ' It's pretty good really but I do seem to meet an increasing number of stupid people'

How right he was.

 

[Nieuwoudt]

Hi, I am new to a few things- pension, caravanning (must say it is the second take that I am doing- the first one was in the 80's in South Africa: this one is what the Ausies will call SKI holidays= Spent the Kids Inheritance) and obviously the life after 68. So hope to learn a lot from the more mature group.