Marchbanks
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Oh blimey, it’s going to be a rapid decline over the next eight months from reasonably fit and happy to miserable and pill-filled...65 and three quarters…
Oh blimey, it’s going to be a rapid decline over the next eight months from reasonably fit and happy to miserable and pill-filled...65 and three quarters…
Oh blimey, it’s going to be a rapid decline over the next eight months from reasonably fit and happy to miserable and pill-filled...
Ah, you mean sleep...You know your getting old when it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night!
You know your getting old when it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night!
Apparently I have the hip of a 65 year old,
Oh yes, I had almost forgotten that I have those too. Strangely (and this also goes for an occasional stab of neuralgia in my left thigh), I haven’t been aware of any discomfort since my birthday. Perhaps these things are all lying in wait, lulling me into a false sense of security before storming back at ten times the previous intensity on the day I turn 65-and-three-quarters.At 74 and with only a few minor ailments (...slightly arthritic thumb joints)...
and this also goes for an occasional stab of neuralgia in my left thigh
Yep, that’s the one. What I did discover shortly before it disappeared, hopefully permanently, was that I could bring it on at will by squeezing the back of my left wrist. This is a pain in the top of my thigh, remember. So it’s very possible the cause of your pain is situated well away from where you feel it. The body is a wonderful thing.When the zapping, electric, sort of linear searing pain occurs in my left arm I yelp with gusto.
Then it usually happens again a few times that day, and maybe week, then nothing for months sometimes. I have kept an event diary for a year, didn’t help.
I had the shooting weird pain yesterday, and today twice so far. Gets on my pip.
Oh blimey, it’s going to be a rapid decline over the next eight months from reasonably fit and happy to miserable and pill-filled...
Yep, that’s the one. What I did discover shortly before it disappeared, hopefully permanently, was that I could bring it on at will by squeezing the back of my left wrist. This is a pain in the top of my thigh, remember. So it’s very possible the cause of your pain is situated well away from where you feel it. The body is a wonderful thing.
I wouldn’t say I was particularly fit - I don’t swim, play any kind of sport, ride a bike in a lycra-and-dropped-handlebars way or (shudder) go to the gym, although I take regular five-mile walks and ride a bike in a sitting upright, 10mph way. But I feel pretty healthy - I don’t have any pains I can’t deal with, or any internal malfunctions that require medication or component replacement. I put it down to a long-standing Rochefort and Châteauneuf-biased diet.I’m 67 and apart from a painful heel after walking, as fit as a fit thing. I put it down to a long-standing avoidance of anything resembling hard work.
I’m 67 and.... as fit as a fit thing. I put it down to a long-standing avoidance of anything resembling hard work.
As someone who needed a new hip at 65 after putting up with agony for several years and could do nothing get yourself down for a new hip.Just been to the doctors following a set of X-rays for a suspected muscle injury. Turns out it’s arthritis in my left hip. Quite severe. Apparently Its the extent expected in a 65 year old, at 45. Bugger.
In the words of John Mayer, ‘so scared of getting older ,I'm only good at being young..’
As someone who needed a new hip at 65 after putting up with agony for several years and could do nothing get yourself down for a new hip.
It’ll take a bit longer because of the covid crisis but it’ll be worth the wait.
I just got back from winning our four ball stableford at golf this afternoon.