The Things you struggle with as Age creeps in!.

Hi Tony, Diabeties has been a problem to me for a while, Gotta manage the good life a little better...Lol.
Cheers.

The greying temples reminds me of another yarn, Keith.

Old fellar, like most of us responders to this thread, is in Centrelink and he's forgotten his license. No proof of age for these officious types.

He's being attended too by a mature age lady, who frowns severely when he explains the missing ID.

"Open your shirt!" She demands.
"What?" He queries.
"Open your shirt........I want to check the hairs on your chest"
He opens a couple of buttons on the shirt, she looks, and with a big smile says: "Yes, with those grey hairs, you're definitely over 60."

Bob

I know how you feel!

HaHaHa,....Very True,...

Or the joke doing the rounds, think it was back in late '60's, when Jackie Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis.

What did she feel on her wedding night?

Old age creeping on!

Bob

I have a T Shirt with the wording

"Tell it how it is"

..... and I do

Just noticed that the advertisement at the top of the page for this post was for funeral insurance!!!!!!!

Baz, when my father was 92 he had a Uniry tract infection and a dose of pneumonia - it temporiarily gave him an associated delirium/vagueness. Like many old WW2 vets would not go near a doctor or hospital. Eventually an ambulance had to be summonsed to drag him off to hospital. When the paramedic was assessing him among other questions, he asked him how old he was. Dad was a bit unsure but he replied.."79 or 80?". .... When the ambo said "No Harry you are 92" He just crumpled and said "Oh Cripes....." Didn't know he had gotten old. He survived that one but passed away a few years later from the effects of a stroke - he would not take medications so may have made 100 if he took his blood thinning meds - who knows.
What did keep him and my mum alive and young in their heads was travelling and prospecting.... When that ambo asked him his age that night ...at 92 they were still living in their caravan on our property...Dad still drove very well prior to that. They assumed they could move on at any time if they needed to. He was 85 last time they went bush in North Qld (Towed the van every year from Sunshine Coast) to spend 3 - 4 months camped at Binbee digging for amethyst. He'd get the annex up and they would have a fire out the back and they would put in 6 to 8 hours a day digging and yapping to other gem hunters... They couldn't return the next year as the gem field was closed due to insurance and public liability concerns by the landowner...I do wonder when they would have eventually given up (and acted their age) if not for that closure.
... so yes you are only as old as you feel.

That's a great story Kerry!

Thank's for sharing....Baz