Nemo2
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No, we're in mixed company!
OK..I sometimes get a little behind......oops.
No, we're in mixed company!
1) It's why couple live longer than singles. 2) Not sure non-ill person always feels completely borked. After all, they have a relationship.If one person in a couple gets a serious illness that requires the other person to care for him/her 24/7 then 2 lives are borked at the same time: the life of the care giver and the life of the ill person.
1) It's why couple live longer than singles. 2) Not sure non-ill person always feels completely borked. After all, they have a relationship.
Not sure non-ill person always feels completely borked. After all, they have a relationship.
Oh, yes, they can be. I got off easy, DH was really dependent only for the last 2 months of his life but it was still hard on me. Count out all his pills and make sure he took them. Monitor supply, refill as necessary. Whatever his poor, screwed-up appetite wanted- go out and get it even though he might eat only a few bites. If he drops something. pick it up- he might fall if he tried to (he did once). Wake up in the middle of the night when hickory nuts thump on the roof because it might be DH falling again. Pick him up off the floor. (By that time he weighed less than I did and I was 15 years younger- thankfully my back forgave me.) Worry every time you leave the house. Deal with the consequences of constipation and the reaction when he uses too much medication to reverse it.
I'd do it again in a heartbeat- he died peacefully at home and I have more good memories than bad of that time- but I wasn't working for a living and it didn't go on for years. As I said, I got off easy, and it's one reason I'm very reluctant to get into a relationship at this age where I might have to do it again soon, not after 13 years of marriage.
I know, I know, it doesn't matter, but have you colored your hair with a temporary color to see how you like it? I notice in gatherings with friends who cover the gray, women and men, that they seem to act differently than the ones who don't. Sort of interesting.
It's kinda like being a kid's party balloon when the helium starts leaking...one minute you're tight and banging up against the ceiling, the next you're saggy and floating near the floor..........and the fact that you have an upbeat slogan across your middle doesn't help one iota.
Some time back I identified this as my new theme song...still is:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/...ng-well-from-a-105-year-old-cyclist.html?_r=0At the age of 105, the French amateur cyclist and world-record holder Robert Marchand is more aerobically fit than most 50-year-olds — and appears to be getting even fitter as he ages, according to a revelatory new study of his physiology.
Bop 'til you drop, use it or lose it, life rolls on, with age comes.....fitness?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/...ng-well-from-a-105-year-old-cyclist.html?_r=0
Most people cannot react that way to exercise. The phenom being witnessed is good health in old age=ability to exercise, not the other way around.
I would love to go quickly, but I know that might not happen.
Bop 'til you drop, use it or lose it, life rolls on, with age comes.....fitness?
At the age of 105, the French amateur cyclist and world-record holder Robert Marchand is more aerobically fit than most 50-year-olds — and appears to be getting even fitter as he ages, according to a revelatory new study of his physiology.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/...ng-well-from-a-105-year-old-cyclist.html?_r=0
This healthy centenarian is a very small man at 5' tall and 115 lbs!
It is known that big dogs have a shorter lifespan than small dogs. Wonder if people are the same.
This healthy centenarian is a very small man at 5' tall and 115 lbs!
It is known that big dogs have a shorter lifespan than small dogs. Wonder if people are the same.
In the village of Acciaroli celebrating 100th birthdays is commonplace with one in 10 of the 700 residents expected to live to the grand old age.
And the answer, they revealed, is simple – a healthy Mediterranean diet flavoured with plenty of rosemary.
Not only do the residents of Acciaroli live long lives, those lives are relatively healthy ones the experts noted, with low levels of dementia, heart disease and other chronic conditions linked to the ravages of age.
Dr Maisel said Acciaroli was unusual in that the numbers of very old people were split evenly between men and women.
He was probably significantly taller when he was younger. People shrink with advanced age.
It is known that big dogs have a shorter lifespan than small dogs. Wonder if people are the same.
No. He was probably somewhat taller when he was younger. Not enough to make a difference as to longevity on the basis of --Large specimen of a species vs small specimen thereof--
Most people cannot react that way to exercise. The phenom being witnessed is good health in old age=ability to exercise, not the other way around.