Shocked by aging process

Posted by seniormiz @seniormiz, Jan 25 8:54am

My fingernails and toenails stopped growing and just keep breaking off. My hair is falling out. My memory is not as sharp and sometimes I feel a little woozy. I hate this. I want my body and my senses back.

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gravity3 | @gravity3 | Jun 28 7:19am

Perfect is boring!

capnjack | @capnjack | Jun 29 9:45am

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@gravity3 Unless, of course, you're a werewolf having a piña colada at Trader Vic's (his hair was PERFECT).

sandysurf | @sandysurf | Jun 30 4:10pm

I’ve found that putting powdered collagen in my coffee (it’s tasteless) and my nails are so hard, I can’t even cut them myself. I have short hair and it’s very fine, but when I get it cut, they always tell me I have a lot of it. I really don’t know why, except for the collagen. Try it for a couple months. The rest of me is falling apart and I’m in pain 24/7, but I have tough nails. I really think it would help. 😊

msol26 | @msol26 | Jul 3 9:42am

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@sandysurf my nails have always been paper thin, now I had PTE surgery clots in both lungs and anemic, so nails are worse. Going to try collagen.

cathyphillips | @cathyphillips | Jul 3 11:16am

In reply to @ray666 "Hi, @gravity3 A commonplace, or common book, is usually a notebook of sorts in which a..." + (show)

@ray666 Thanks for that clarification! I have done this for years, however I have never put a proper name to my many, many thoughts. I so enjoy looking back.
Ps-I also keep running thoughts in the “notes” app on my iPhone😊

Ray Kemble | @ray666 | Jul 3 1:52pm

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Hi, @cathyphillips

Ah, the "notes" app on your iPhone! You see how much more THIS century you are? I did finally graduate from a flip phone to a … a … whachmacallit? A not-a-flip-phone? It works, though (if barely). Think of it as a steam-driven phone. 🙂

Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)

hudsonlady | @hudsonlady | 5 days ago

Turning 84, I've just started to notice age seriously like balance, skin problems, and worst of all, memory lapses. HOWEVER I'm still trucking--hiking albeit slower, reading, travel, learning Spanish and keeping in touch with friends, especially those who have been awol for years. Treasures of family, health, and new insights on the world and everything therein make life still a journey of new insights and frontiers. Grateful that this time of life is so rich!

shmerdloff | @shmerdloff | 5 days ago

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@hudsonlady
Keep on trukin'

Ray Kemble | @ray666 | 4 days ago

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You have the recipe for living well, @hudsonlady, especially as we grow older and life's challenges, once mere pieces of cake, now are quite formidable, Attitude is everything. Attitude is the chief ingredient in the recipe for living well. A few weeks ago, I sat in front of this laptop to begin another day's work, only to find that my hard drive had been erased: all of my folders and files, gone. I reacted as many of us––perhaps most of us––do: I panicked! OMG! What am I going to do? In that moment, I realized how much of my life I had allowed to shape-shift into a digital life, and turned that digital life over to my laptop for safekeeping. My panic subsided, and when it had, I suddenly saw the erasure of my digital life as a glorious opportunity. It was like a New Year's Eve in July: an invitation to make––and with determination, keep!––a host of new life resolutions. Honestly? I'm having ball, enjoying my chance to "start over." What fun! What are the chances of a person of 81 will be given a fresh start? Not good, those chances. I'm one of the lucky few. Thanks for your post, @hudsonlady. It was just what the doctor ordered! 🙂 –Ray (@ray666)