Getting old

I get you mate.
I'm 52, have arthritis in both my knees, still got a decent head of hair although it's going slightly grey in some parts.
I played football for 35 years, was active, fit as a butchers dog and was forever on the go.

Now?

Sometimes I can't get up or down the downstairs and other days I'm fine. I've lost both my parents in the last 12 months and it makes you realise you need to try and look after yourself and on the flipside a kind of fuck it you only live once attitude kicks in every once in a while.

Generally I'm ok with being the age I am but I still feel young at heart, I love my music, I love my concerts, I love my football, I have the enthusiasm for things.

My mum passed away 4 days before Christmas just gone and ever since that day I've gone on a 45 minute walk and surprisingly my knees have felt great but the best part of doing it was for my mental health. An hour's walk in the fresh air clears the cobwebs in your head plus you get that positive feeling post walk where the endorphins kick in.

I have noticed that years fly by real real fast, a week zooms by like a day, time definitely seems faster the older you get.
 
manimanc said:
I get you mate.
I'm 52, have arthritis in both my knees, still got a decent head of hair although it's going slightly grey in some parts.
I played football for 35 years, was active, fit as a butchers dog and was forever on the go.

Now?

Sometimes I can't get up or down the downstairs and other days I'm fine. I've lost both my parents in the last 12 months and it makes you realise you need to try and look after yourself and on the flipside a kind of fuck it you only live once attitude kicks in every once in a while.

Generally I'm ok with being the age I am but I still feel young at heart, I love my music, I love my concerts, I love my football, I have the enthusiasm for things.

My mum passed away 4 days before Christmas just gone and ever since that day I've gone on a 45 minute walk and surprisingly my knees have felt great but the best part of doing it was for my mental health. An hour's walk in the fresh air clears the cobwebs in your head plus you get that positive feeling post walk where the endorphins kick in.

I have noticed that years fly by real real fast, a week zooms by like a day, time definitely seems faster the older you get.
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I know a few guys who played a lot of football into their 40s with completely buggered knees, in fact knee replacements in many cases I wonder if football caused it.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
How are you coping with it?

Had a good few tonight, granted.

By my user name, I’m now mid 50s. This week I’ve been to a funeral of a friend’s relative who was in their 60s. I have a friend dying of cancer and another in a stroke ward who was fine until this time last week.

Today I went for a walk and it was a park run in chaddy park. A lot of men older then me, running and all these bright young things loving life.

I don’t like getting old. How you all
Coping with it?
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We’re all different, one of our golf group is 82 and has seen off 4 younger siblings despite leading the least healthy life of all of them. He was a smoker until around 60 and can still knock half a bottle of whisky back but not everyday, it’s all about relative moderation. My mate doesn’t give a shite about life or worry about his health, anxiety is a killer.

You’ve got the potential to live many years at your age, don’t worry too much, if your numbers up there’s not a lot you can do, enjoy every day.
 
oakiecokie said:
I`m 75 and over the past 12 months I have had a new hip,cyst removed from my neck, cataracts removed,4 x lesions removed from my chops and yet I regard myself as lucky. I still have to walk with elbow crutches due to my continued back pain and I feel so fortunate that I`ve attended literally 10/12 funerals over the past 18 months, many of them younger than myself.
Now and again I`ll think about death but its more to do with those I love who`ll I`ll be leaving behind and I have planned my funeral arrangements with my wife and its all written down.
To date I regard myself as being a lucky person with my health, compared to a lot of other people.
I`ll keep taking the tablets and Guinness & IPA`s for as long as possible.
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It's all about hanging in there, and taking as much pension as you can.
 
Bill Walker said:
I know a few guys who played a lot of football into their 40s with completely buggered knees, in fact knee replacements in many cases I wonder if football caused it.
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I've had my meniscus done on both knees in my mid to late 30s and the surgeon said I would probably get arthritis in later life.
I was expecting around the late 60s but I got it mid 40s.
 
64 next weekend, retired last July as did the missus. So just getting on with it, I still think of myself being 25, even if the body doesn't always.

My biggest grief at the moment is wanting to move back to the Manc area, we have a house ready to move into, but the sale down south fell through after 6 months of pissing about with solicitors. We had great plans for the house ready to move into, and similar for once we get moved back to the area near family and friends, but now we're back in limbo.

I'd also hoped that last season was the last supporting City from afar, now I'm hoping this will be, more or less given up on driving to games (trains aren't a cheap option, even with a senior railcard), unless I'm making a weekend of it, but the constant fucking about with fixtures is beginning to get the better of me, and I'm struggling with the new rules this season, though it won't be an issue once the move is completed.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
How are you coping with it?

Had a good few tonight, granted.

By my user name, I’m now mid 50s. This week I’ve been to a funeral of a friend’s relative who was in their 60s. I have a friend dying of cancer and another in a stroke ward who was fine until this time last week.

Today I went for a walk and it was a park run in chaddy park. A lot of men older then me, running and all these bright young things loving life.

I don’t like getting old. How you all
Coping with it?
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It’s fucking awful I still think I can do stuff my kids can do and keep up with them,in my mind I’m like their age but the body won’t comply ..As Mel Gibson said in lethal weapon 3 was it we aren’t too old for this shit ..
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
How are you coping with it?

Had a good few tonight, granted.

By my user name, I’m now mid 50s. This week I’ve been to a funeral of a friend’s relative who was in their 60s. I have a friend dying of cancer and another in a stroke ward who was fine until this time last week.

Today I went for a walk and it was a park run in chaddy park. A lot of men older then me, running and all these bright young things loving life.

I don’t like getting old. How you all
Coping with it?
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Same age - hating it. I can’t play sport like I used to, the kids are grown up and both parents died within 6 months last year. Devastating. Oh and city were shit last year as well. Plus I look fucking awful compared to 10-15 years ago. Hoping this year will be better. Aches, pains, metal knees, memory losses etc Happy fucking new year lol. 50’s certainly isn’t what I thought it would be. Just taken up padel and going to play a bit of lower level cricket this year. Can’t give up. Or else it’ll be a Gary Speed situation. I don’t think people understand how hard it is to lose all your ‘superpowers’ as an ex-active male in his 50’s. It’s fucking hard. Anyway, onwards and upwards hopefully
 
I’m 61, skied for a couple of hours this morning, still clamber around scaffold at work, try to do as much as I can.
Having said that, I hurt right now.
 
Every day starts with one pain and ends with tanother but ti's grand.

Young people of Bluemoon, stop reading this and get strengthening your knees, hips and back while you still can. Oh and have loads of sex.
 
I'm 60 - after a few scoops at Foodie Friday last night, today (with a bit of a hangover) I have been building new desks for my home office (yes still having to earn a crust, but enjoying what I do still) - but everything is getting hard work, knees now sore after kneeling half the day, struggling even to get up off the floor after having been laying under the desks screwing them together - and thats without the fact that my eyes/ears are buggered, so faffing with glasses simply to read the instructions! Still that was Saturday, Sunday is now a day off and after cooking me and missus breakfast and walking the hounds, I will be watching City on the telly (has the option but didn't fancy a long day on the pop headed to London coupled with a very late night back early Monday morning) and the need to be on my A Game on Monday!
 
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