Through what part of your body do you inhale?
I’m just full of excuses.
I don’t think anyone’s mention the increased need for fiber. I get plenty of fiber in my diet, but lately I still need more. I’m up to two capsules a day.
That’s the thing I refuse to complain about until after I retire. Even if I can’t go out walking in the mornings anymore because my body betrays me and waits until I’m at the furthest point of my walk to suddenly make me have to go NOW. And it won’t fall for the ol’ “Lets wait a bit before walking so I can go beforehand” trick.
My body is well-trained in this regard, kind of like a dog. Whenever I start making motions that I’m leaving the house, my bladder gets excited and wants to “go” even when there isn’t that much there. I regard this as a good thing.
What if it isn’t the BLADDER that is the problem I’m on meds to control THAT problem, otherwise I’d be terrified to go on a long drive anywhere.
How about this: I need to find a fall-prevention class targeted at the elderly. I was reminded about this when posting in the broken-bones thread.
I’ll be with you in that class, having fallen three times in the last year (one with a serious injury). To add to the problem of falling, there are balance problems associated with certain drugs, mostly blood pressure meds.
I started early. I have bulging discs in my back, in both the lumbar and cervical areas, and those have been active since my early thirties. When my dad was 40 years old, he was laid up on his back for a month with bulging discs; I never stopped working.
I’ve also had sporadic tinnitus since my twenties, but I lay that at the feet of extensive concertgoing. Two Bob Mould shows and a Laibach gig are the biggest culprits for that, I’m pretty sure.
As for my knees, they’ve been barometric sensors since forever. I remember being in second year at uni and one knee practically seizing up on a particularly cold and dry winter day. Currently the temperature in Toronto has been on a crazy roller coaster, shooting up and down a dozen degrees or more overnight sometimes. My sinuses are all explodey this month.
ETA: how could I forget about my eyes? Been wearing bifocals for a few years, while I can sometimes read 12-pt text by tilting my head up and looking down my nose through the bottom half of the glasses, being able to read CD liner notes or the instructions on a pill bottle is a skill completely in my past. I’d love to get laser surgery, but my insurance won’t cover enough of it.
I decided to google fall-prevention class and the first thing that popped up were those fall warning devices you wear. No, you idiots in marketing, I’m trying to not fall in the first place!
Try using this site to find your closest Area Agency On Aging, then contact them to ask about fall prevention classes.
https://eldercare.acl.gov/Public/Index.aspx
Otherwise, a physical therapist would be able to work with you on fall prevention. If all else fails, call your nearest public library and ask those incredibly well-trained information specialists there if they’d help you search for classes. Librarians are all about putting together people with the information they need. In these days of Covid I suspect they are a little lonesome too. Make a librarian’s day!
And if you take blood pressure meds, try to find ones that don’t come with a “dizziness” warning. They contribute to balance problems, and can result in falls.
Maybe you’ll get lucky and develop cataracts - which will correct that vision just fine, and insurance will pay for it
Go to YouTube and put the following in the search box:
Elderly senior fall prevention
See if any of those videos suit.
Exercises for seniors who are prone to falling.
Pretty sure at least two grandparents had cataracts. So who knows.
I thought insurance only pays for plain lenses, not corrective lenses.
I used to be pretty deadly with iron sights on a bolt action rifle. Now it’s…kinda focus on the target, put the far sight on it, then make a weird grunting noise when trying to resolve the near sight…there’s no hope of being able to get both in focus anymore…and looking through progressives doesn’t always make things better…esp if they’re sliding down your nose…Peep sights used to be GREAT…now they’re a dot swimming in a field of blur.
I’m 52 now, the progressives were…okay, once I got used to them, but now I think I need another pair of single vision computer glasses…when I first noticed the decline in my early 40’s…well, my optometrist was my age and lets just say he had no sympathy for me as he was going through the same stuff.
I think that’s how it used to be. I was unusual in that one of my eyes developed cataracts years and years before the other. When I had that first surgery I would have had to pay something like $2000 OOP for a corrective lens. When I got my second eye done, they put in a corrective lens without even asking me…it was automatic.
A good friend on Medicare had it done last year. She had to pay the cost of the corrective lenses out of pocket. My private insurance policy won’t pay for it, either.
Guess I was lucky. I got my insurance through my company, and once I had surgery to remove a tumor on my toe when I was still working. The person taking payment for the surgeries said I had no payment to make, and that I must have really good insurance. Maybe that carried over to the supplemental version they also pay for now that I’m on Medicare.