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greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1832
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 5:17 pm: |     |
I feel as if I have been run over by a truck. At this point, feeling like s*&t would be an improvement.
Let's see.... in September, I was home one week. Hit 4 time zones in 3 weeks. Got that horrible, awful crud disease that was going around the 2nd week of October. Went to Montreal for a few days anyway. Came home. Recovered. Got in a car accident & got a nasty case of whiplash. A couple weeks later, symptoms subside & I can carry my laptop again. Beginning of November, got bronchitis. Two trips to the doc, two sets of meds. Finally started going away. Actually did some yard work last Sunday & visited my niece and nephew.
Went to Vegas on Tuesday for a two-day meeting (I hate Vegas - see archives). Spent 2 days inhaling smoke. Bronchitis kicked up again on the plane on the way home yesterday morning. By the time we landed, all the old people were either convinced I had typhoid or were trying to give me motherly advice. Tried to cough up a lung last night. Went to bed at 10p. Woke up at 3am, running a fever, joints burning, coughing, headache.
So, now it appears I have the flu. This totally sucks. I hit my 40th b-day & started to disintegrate. Why is it when I was 25, I could go three days without sleep, work a full day & go drinking every night when I had a cold.
P.S. - I'm watching the news. Channel 7 just announced that the next story will be about the flu season kicking off to a rough start. I gave the t.v. the finger. |
Lizziecat
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Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 106
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 6:40 pm: | |
From someone a lot older: getting old may suck, but consider the alternative. |
vermontgolfer
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Username: Vermontgolfer
Post Number: 229
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 10:37 pm: | |
greentree,
you think 40 is bad, just wait! |
bpaandco
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Username: Bpaandco
Post Number: 55
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 11:27 pm: | |
The thing I hate about getting older is that I really have to pay attention to what I do and eat. It affects me like all get out if I don't take care of myself. If I don't take my vitamins, I get all dragged out. If I don't get enough sleep, I'm wiped out for the next day or two. But on the bright side, I'm much cuter now! I also make myself try and enjoy life more by slowing down a bit and taking the time to smell the roses, watch a sunset, take a walk, or simply sit and listen to life around me. Today I watched the waves. Biggest waves on Kauai in recent history. Outrageous. Huge mountains of water that crested and as they peaked the wind caught the spray and threw foam into the sky. If I were younger, I wouldn't have been able to appreciate as much the magnificent sight I saw today. |
ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1648
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 12:48 am: | |
get a face lift, eye job, eyebrow lift, lipo, whatever, and stop all this kvetching. |
gemini
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Username: Gemini
Post Number: 225
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 7:02 am: | |
Greentree hope you are feeling better. It's tough hitting an age milestone when you still feel like a 20 something inside.
Go buy yourself a funky neclace and matching earrings; after you rest!! |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 1093
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 6:54 pm: | |
"A Poem: "The Cat In The Hat On Aging
I CANNOT SEE
I CANNOT PEE
I CANNOT CHEW
I CANNOT SCREW
OMIGOD HAT CAN I DO?
MY MEMORY SHRINKS
MY HEARING STINKS
NO SENSE OF SMELL
I LOOK LIKE HELL
MY MOOD IS FOUL, NOW CAN YOU TELL?
MY BODY'S DROOPING
HAVE TROUBLE POOPING
MY HAIR IS THINNING
IT'S THE BEGINNING:
THE GOLDEN YEARS HAVE COME AT LAST
THE GOLDEN YEARS WILL SOON BE PAST
THE GOLDEN YEARS CAN KISS MY ASS!"
--Soda
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emmie
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Username: Emmie
Post Number: 159
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 8:09 pm: | |
Greentree, sorry you have the flu, you probably got it out west where it is heavier than here. (Right now anyway.) When I think of aging and my birthdays I think of my good friend, ten years older than me, who died of cancer last summer. I'm sure she'd give anything to be alive and even have the flu. Since she died I've got a new spin on life, yes, getting older beats the alternative doesn't it? I don't even dread my birthday (which is Thanksgiving Day) anymore. I am much, much older than you, but psychologically still feel 25.
Soda, I love your post! |
bpaandco
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Username: Bpaandco
Post Number: 57
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 8:53 pm: | |
Happy Birthday Emmie! My birthday is on Thanksgiving day this year too. I'll be 49 and am looking forward to many more. |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 2210
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 3:59 pm: | |
Happy Birthday to Emmie, bpaandco and everyone else who has a birthday coming up. Celebrating life is important and that is what birthdays should be about.
Greenetree:
I am sorry that that are feeling poorly. From your post it sounds like you have had more than your share of illness and aggrevation lately. May your future be very much brighter than your present.
Soda:
I also liked your post. It reminds of the little known book by Dr. Seuss entitled You're Only Old Once: A Book for Obsolete Children. This is a must read for those who feel their bodies have outgrown their youthful enthusiasm.
Joan |
emmie
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Username: Emmie
Post Number: 160
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 4:14 pm: | |
bpaandco, Happy birthday to you too.
Greentree, hope you are feeling better today and that your luck changes for the better.
Joan, thanks and I agree with you. |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2470
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 10:50 pm: | |
Dear Greenetree:
Age is a state of mind.
You're posting on MOL, fer cryin' out loud! That makes you younger than most folks.
Very truly yours,
Nohero (44, but only chronologically) |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1833
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 1:03 pm: | |
Thanks for all your POVs! You are, of course, quite correct. When I think of last year's T-giving, when The Spouse had a cardiac scare (everything turned out fine, but she'd been admitted to St. B's telemetry unit for 24 hr. observation) I am glad to feel like I've been run over by a convoy.
I still feel awful; I'm a very bad patient with no patience for being unwell (in two years, I'd had 2 sick days & this month I'm on #4). But - I guess this is life's way of kicking me in the ass & telling me to get a grip & slow down.
Re: the aging thing..... Blessings aside, I have a hard time dealing with the physicial betrayals even when I am well. Like, what is the f*&king point of saggy eyelids & uncontrollable grunting like my father when I bend over? I've gone from petite, cute and curvy to a middle-aged, short Jewish woman with my grandmother's hips. I've turned into Rhoda's mother.  Nothing against Nancy Walker, but not the self-image I had in my head 20 years ago..... |
mas
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Username: Maplemas
Post Number: 61
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 5:08 pm: | |
hi again greenetree,
I'm only 42, but since the age of 25, if I don't visit my chiropractor, I turn into an 80-year-old woman. I'm serious: knee, forearm, back, shoulder all scream at me!
It's all about maintaining the nervous system .... yet another gift from God, but one that turns into Satan if we're not careful.
If you want a referral to a CHEAP and loving chiropractor here in MW, let me know....
Check your insurance policy, they probably pay for it, along with periodic massage therapy.
Dick Clark gets a massage every day, and he's always smiling.
And there's always Epsom salt, hot baths (again, is cheap), or yoga stretches.
just my 2 cents... |
mas
Citizen
Username: Maplemas
Post Number: 63
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 5:47 pm: | |
oh god, here I go again.....
Herbal soaps also help (me, at least). Life is too short to use Ivory, or whatever crap Madison Ave. tries to sell us.
Check out herbal, natural soaps, they're invigorating, and get into your bones and muscles, making you feel alive again!
You go, girl!
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Cynicalgirl
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Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 185
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 7:17 pm: | |
Personally, I believe in spending as much money as the budget allows on the occasional high end hair coloring, style, makeup, waxing routine coupled with trying on -- and buying -- an outfit that's completely NOT what your eye normally goes to on the rack.
At more healthful moments, I also go for exercise. Hard, sweaty, routine exercise kept me looking/feeling a whole lot younger. Since moving, I've dropped it and must get back to it. At 49, I need it.
Pyschologically, I find that doing things that are out of the routine is invigorating. Taking a different way home. Trying an event/meeting that isn't your usual crowd. Travel by myself, however brief. Anything that breaks me outta my rut. Oh, and taking a class or doing something a bit scarey...
I feel about 35 tho at the moment (see the lack of exercise, above) I don't-quite-look-that-young! |
mlj
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Username: Mlj
Post Number: 165
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 12:35 pm: | |
Greentree, sorry you have not been feeling well. A long rest, and no travel is in order. This is as young as you are ever going to be! I know it is depressing when you realize that things are not how they used to be, with the loss of youth and the aging process.
On Oprah yesterday, there was the story of a very young and beautiful woman with great plans for her life. She was burned in a car accident, and her face, well, melted. She regained her eyesight through cornea transplant, only to see her image, which she described as an alien from another planet. Her fingers are gone and she has had 50 surgeries, with many more to go. Well, after I finished crying, I was startled to realize how goddam lucky I am that I have stopped whining (for now) |
ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1658
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 2:37 pm: | |
everyone stop watching oprah and go out and buy a pair of shoes! |
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