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You know you are getting old when:

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I was instructed not to drive for at least a couple of weeks post-op, to give the sternum a chance to knit itself back together before risking what might happen to it in a car wreck.

It wasn't but a few days beyond that when I attended a family function about an hour's drive away. Kicked my behind, man. Just driving for an hour was a real chore.
It's surprising how quickly the body can get "out of shape". After surgery in 2004 to repair a herniated disc in my lower back I was instructed to do nothing more strenuous than walking from the couch to the bathroom for the first week afterward. After a week-and-a-half my wife asked if I felt up to accompanying her on a quick shopping trip, and after sitting for ten days I jumped at the chance. Hoo boy. The walk from the parking lot to the section of the store my wife needed to visit was only about 100 yards, but by the time we got there I had to sit and recuperate for 15 minutes to prepare myself for the walk back to the car. And I was only 43 years old at the time. :eek:
 

2jakes

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Took a year to recover from a chronic back pain when I loaded 20 bags of cement mix
which I bought at Home Depot for a home project.
Made two trips loading the 80 lb. bags to my truck.

At the time I thought it was a good idea to do it myself instead of paying for delivery.
After unloading the bags, I proceeded to work on the project.
It was the next morning that I awoke with severe back pain & unable to get up.

When I thought I was getting over the pain, I would go play tennis.
Afterwards I would aggravate the back again.

Polo had no sympathy for me. :mad:
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”not going to jakes’s pity party.”

I’ve fully recovered, but as a precaution I apply ace bandage wraps on my wrists,
arm,knees & ankles when I go out on the tennis court.
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Polo gets spooked....
Serves him right !:D
 
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green papaya

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you know your getting old when your friends start passing away and you realize your not so young and invincible anymore yourself.

people you knew as a kid start getting ill or die from cancer, heart attacks, or other diseases
 
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you know your getting old when your friends start passing away and you realize your not so young and invincible anymore yourself.

people you knew as a kid start getting ill or die from cancer, heart attacks, or other diseases
Timing is everything. I was on Farcebook earlier this evening and a birthday reminder came up for a very close and long-time friend who died from cancer in 2011.
 
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Members of the Beastie Boys are dying of natural causes.

And one of your favourite bands growing up, The Ramones, are now known as The Ramone.

And he wasn't an original member...

Yet, The Rolling Stones, whose members are twenty-plus years older than I are still going strong - that always gives me hope.
 

tuppence

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My Dad told me when I was Young(er) that time speeds up once You pass 30.
Nowadays it feels like You've just recovered from one Christmas when the shops start bringing out decorations for the next Christmas.
 

LizzieMaine

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Wow amazing I love Bea Wain.
Maybe we need a thread on who is still alive.

Bea and Doris Day are the last surviving name-band singers of the 1930s, and Doris barely squeaks under the wire. She was with Les Brown for a short time in 1939, but Bea was a prominent singer on radio and with Larry Clinton thruout the latter part of the decade.

The only surviving major radio star of the 1920s is the actress/comedienne Rose Marie, who was signed to a contract by NBC as "Baby Rose Marie, the Child Wonder" in 1929, when she was six years old. She'd been singing on various local stations in New Jersey and New York since she was three years old, where she was well-known for her unusually mature voice and sense of rhythm. She is also the last surviving major radio star of the 1930s.

The last surviving major radio star of the 1940s is Jerry Lewis, and he, again, barely squeaks under the wire. "The Martin and Lewis Show" began on NBC in April of 1949. He was left the last man standing when Alan Young, the bright young comedy find of 1944, passed away earlier this year at the age of 96.

There are still a few supporting actresses and actors surviving from 1940s and 1950s radio, many of them former child actors, but they are dropping fast.
 

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