You Know You Are Old When

   / You Know You Are Old When #5,141  
A question for the followers of this thread regarding "healing".

A year ago about this time, I popped something in my right knee. It took all summer to get so I wasn't limping. I needed a pillow under the knee at night to sleep
This past winter's skiing, I just needed to pay attention, and not do stupid things. Now, The one knee is no worse than the other (not saying they are good and solid ;-)

I am troubled about healing after injury.

I guess I might be getting old...
When my left knee aches like that, I get a cortisone shot. The Dr. sends me out for x-rays to make sure everything looks okay. But that cortisone really speeds up the healing.
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,142  
Don't know if this has happened to anyone, but I use to be a pretty hairy guy on the legs, arms and chest.

I don't know when it happened, but sometime between the ages of 40 and 60, lost most of the hair on arms and legs, and although I still have hair on the chest, I was looking at a pic from a while ago my wife took of me laying in bed with the cat, and I couldn't get over how black my chest looked with all the hair, nothing like today.

I've also noticed with injuries that the skin is bruised or punctured, it takes like weeks or months if at all for the skin to look "normal" in the area in question.

For example, this is supposed to spell "HOT", and it stayed on me for like a week! :ROFLMAO: And they weren't lying, it was HOT! Don't ask...

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   / You Know You Are Old When #5,143  
I've been looking for my cant dog for almost a year. Last summer I hauled home a trailerload of roadside cedar to saw into cornerposts. I must have stopped and looked there 1/2 dozen times. Today I was driving past and saw this...20250505_140224.jpg
This is on a gated private road but it was open all last fall... plus multiple woods workers drove past and a guide has bear baits in there. For comparison; 2 years ago we opened a plugged culvert which took my shovel downstream. That night somebody grabbed it.20250505_140729.jpg
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,144  
Don't know if this has happened to anyone, but I use to be a pretty hairy guy on the legs, arms and chest.

I don't know when it happened, but sometime between the ages of 40 and 60, lost most of the hair on arms and legs, and although I still have hair on the chest, I was looking at a pic from a while ago my wife took of me laying in bed with the cat, and I couldn't get over how black my chest looked with all the hair, nothing like today.

I've also noticed with injuries that the skin is bruised or punctured, it takes like weeks or months if at all for the skin to look "normal" in the area in question.

For example, this is supposed to spell "HOT", and it stayed on me for like a week! And they weren't lying, it was HOT! Don't ask...

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Certainly talk to your doctor (heart?).
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,145  
Don't know if this has happened to anyone, but I use to be a pretty hairy guy on the legs, arms and chest.

I don't know when it happened, but sometime between the ages of 40 and 60, lost most of the hair on arms and legs, and although I still have hair on the chest, I was looking at a pic from a while ago my wife took of me laying in bed with the cat, and I couldn't get over how black my chest looked with all the hair, nothing like today.

I've also noticed with injuries that the skin is bruised or punctured, it takes like weeks or months if at all for the skin to look "normal" in the area in question.

For example, this is supposed to spell "HOT", and it stayed on me for like a week! :ROFLMAO: And they weren't lying, it was HOT! Don't ask...

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Hmm. Looks like a muffler. I did that once years ago. Smarts pretty good.
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,146  
No thanks.

Thanks to this topic though, I did spend $9 on shipping on a $9 Dillon calendar just because I want to see where they have gone with it...

The Ridgid calendar I remember

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When the Dillon comes in, I figure I can finger through it and then give it to my one buddy for his office LOL
Quite different from the one I remember.
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,147  
Athletic guy I know was complaining of similar symptoms as you. Aches, joints, slow recovery after working out. Lots of tests, no results.

I suggested he might ask for a Lymes test...bingo! Treatments cleared up the symptoms for him.

There's a period of time needed for ticks to be attached to pass Lymes, so possibly not from the tick you found...but from the one a while back that you didn't find.

Something you might consider Mr. CalG.

I had that lyme disease a few years back. Delirious fever for a week, I couldn't tell if I was dreaming or awake. The wife finally got me to a doctor (I won't go on my own)
But a dose of Doxycycline fixed me right up. Might have been the start of some latent joint issues though.

I wouldn't wish lyme on anyone!
Dastard ticks!
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,148  
I'm on Doxy right now... 3:00 one morning I noticed something in a spot I can't see, so went back to sleep and forgot about it.
4:00 on the following morning I remembered, dug out a mirror and got it off.
Sent it off and $20 later, sure enough it was a Lymes carrier.
Damned ticks!!!
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,149  
I had that lyme disease a few years back. Delirious fever for a week, I couldn't tell if I was dreaming or awake. The wife finally got me to a doctor (I won't go on my own)
But a dose of Doxycycline fixed me right up. Might have been the start of some latent joint issues though.

I wouldn't wish lyme on anyone!
Dastard ticks!
A few of my neighbors have had it, as well as one of my dogs. It actually ended up killing the dog due to liver damage caused by Lyme, about a year after the Lyme itself was discovered and cured.
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,152  
A few of my neighbors have had it, as well as one of my dogs. It actually ended up killing the dog due to liver damage caused by Lyme, about a year after the Lyme itself was discovered and cured.
My last dog had it when I got him at a year old. Funny thing, they didn't have a problem diagnosing it; I hadn't gotten two miles from my vet's office when they called and told me to go back and get some (more) meds.

He also had lungworm when I got him, which they told me was from licking slug trails. Actually it was from eating them, since he was on the end of a rope and wasn't being fed regularly.
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,153  
Even with my spine fusion a few months ago I still take the stairs two at a time, just slower. It's a habit I picked up in my youth. We had about 150 steps down to a lake in our back yard. If you took them one at a time, it was way more tiring than two at a time, and a heck of a lot faster.

I won many a race against much older/bigger kids that would visit our house. Down and back was the race. Most had to stop before they made it back up.

Then I'd grab two oars, an anchor, a life jacket, a tackle box and a fishing pole and run down and back again. For a tiny kid, I was in pretty good shape! :ROFLMAO:
Spine fused? What happened?
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,154  
You'd think in these modern times they'd use circuit breakers ;)
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,155  
Here's what I found happens when you get old working on something, and explains why my Dad before he passed at 88 his garage is still waist deep in everything you can (and can't) imagine everything disassembled.
Whatever you're working on if you need something you won't have it. Doesn't matter you can have six tractor trailer loads of hardware you can never find what you need regardless of how many hours you look. What you WILL find is the thing you needed last week but couldn't find but no longer need.
So if you fabricate what you need at the exact point of completion where it needs just a light touch with a grinder or wire wheel it will fly off at Mach 2 into a black hole somewhere never to be seen again, no matter how well clamped it was with Vice Grips.
When you need a Band-Aid, and you WILL, it will be in a tin box you throw away because none will stick they're so old. Later you'll see one like it sold on ebay for $50 as an antique.
I know...because this was how my day went.
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,156  
Here's what I found happens when you get old working on something, and explains why my Dad before he passed at 88 his garage is still waist deep in everything you can (and can't) imagine everything disassembled.
Whatever you're working on if you need something you won't have it. Doesn't matter you can have six tractor trailer loads of hardware you can never find what you need regardless of how many hours you look. What you WILL find is the thing you needed last week but couldn't find but no longer need.
So if you fabricate what you need at the exact point of completion where it needs just a light touch with a grinder or wire wheel it will fly off at Mach 2 into a black hole somewhere never to be seen again, no matter how well clamped it was with Vice Grips.
When you need a Band-Aid, and you WILL, it will be in a tin box you throw away because none will stick they're so old. Later you'll see one like it sold on ebay for $50 as an antique.
I know...because this was how my day went.
Truth ^^^^^^^^^
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,157  
When you need a Band-Aid, and you WILL, it will be in a tin box you throw away because none will stick they're so old. Later you'll see one like it sold on ebay for $50 as an antique
If I'm buying, the only thing I can find is a valuable antique worth it's weight in gold.
If I'm selling it's junk, only worth scrap value. Sometimes for the same item six months later...
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,158  
Don't know if this has happened to anyone, but I use to be a pretty hairy guy on the legs, arms and chest.

I don't know when it happened, but sometime between the ages of 40 and 60, lost most of the hair on arms and legs, and although I still have hair on the chest, I was looking at a pic from a while ago my wife took of me laying in bed with the cat, and I couldn't get over how black my chest looked with all the hair, nothing like today.

I've also noticed with injuries that the skin is bruised or punctured, it takes like weeks or months if at all for the skin to look "normal" in the area in question.

For example, this is supposed to spell "HOT", and it stayed on me for like a week! :ROFLMAO: And they weren't lying, it was HOT! Don't ask...

View attachment 3419706
:ROFLMAO:
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #5,159  
Spine fused? What happened?
I dunno! It just started hurting in March to the point I couldn't walk 100' without grabbing a wall. Who knows? Anyhow... $438,000 later it's all better. 😖

Insurance "negotiated" it down to about $132,000. I had to pay two deductibles because it spanned two years. I have high deductible because we (or our kids when they were on the policy) rarely get ill. I have an HSA so I paid the deductibles out of that. Still it was 1/2 my money and 1/2 my employer's. But not taxed. Anyhow, after deductibles I had $144 out of pocket.

100% satisfied with the outcome! (y)(y) ZERO leg issues. I can walk several miles no issues. Just stiffness where they did the surgery. Working with physical therapy to regain core strength so that's going away. I'll take that over the pain any day. ;)
 

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