You know you're getting old when

[Terrel L. Shields]

You know you are old when you are lying on your back looking up at the blue sky and wondering how you got there...in the snow...and wondering if you can crawl over to the porch and get a hold upon a porch post to pull yourself up. Ask me how I know.

 

[Tom D]

Knowing our ages. On any snow, ice day you should walk different than normal. You walk more flat footed on snow or ice. Kinda the biden walk. With only part of you foot hitting the ice you have less foot to stop that slide. And most of use have a balance problem. You should be able to stand on 1 foot for 15 seconds at our age. Besides exercising you should do some balancing for a couple minutes each week. It does work, so you just don't fall over anymore, even when tripped.

 

[Tom D]

The researchers looked at brain images of over 10,000 healthy adults, then tracked blood protein changes in half of them to look for "brain age gap" (BAG), a sign of cognitive aging.
Their findings, published in Nature, suggest that most people experienced peaks in brain aging at three ages: 57, 70, and 78.

At 57, there were protein changes related to wound healing and metabolism; at 70, with brain-cell function that could increase the risk of dementia; and at 78, with immunity and inflammation.

Most of us think of aging as a slow, inevitable creep—an accumulation of gray hairs, wrinkles, and aches. Yet, according to scientists at Stanford University, this story is far from linear. They discovered two distinct periods of dramatic molecular change, occurring around the ages of 44 and 60. These “peaks of aging” reveal that our bodies may transform more abruptly than previously thought.

 

[TC]

The researchers looked at brain images of over 10,000 healthy adults, then tracked blood protein changes in half of them to look for "brain age gap" (BAG), a sign of cognitive aging.
Their findings, published in Nature, suggest that most people experienced peaks in brain aging at three ages: 57, 70, and 78.

Uh-oh, I only got one left!

 

[Tom D]

You know you are getting old when as a lefty they keep repeating the same comrade parrot talk, unable to have an original thought, or a correct one.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

You should be able to stand on 1 foot for 15 seconds at our age.

One foot I can, one foot I cannot. Been the case for decades - "trick knees" - Subluxation of the Patella. That's what hurt the most, it popped out and back in and extended up the thigh on a muscle. I had cleats, I just didn't think I'd need them.

 

[Fernando]

I'm getting old and absent minded.
I just realized that I charged my alkaline batteries thinking they were rechargeable ones.
The charger has been in there for over a month. Forgot the charger was there.
When I took out the alkaline batteries, my hands go greasy. That's when I realized my mistake.
Hope they aren't toxic and absorbed into my skin.

 

[Tom D]

Anything important you should think about it more than 5 seconds. You know you're getting old when you don't remember where you put something 2 seconds ago without thinking about it.

 

[Fernando]

I was at the farmer market today and live dungeness crab was being sold.
The guy picked up this crab and I paid it.
When I got home, I realized right side was missing almost all its legs.
Why didn't I see it before?

 

[Tom D]

I didn' follow my walking rule and walking looking up at the house slipped on some mud and wenr down. Thank God is was grassy and not the concrete sidewalk. I also fell the way i have trained myself to fall. Palms out and knees been a little. Was a perfet 4 point ground landing.

The getting old part was forgeting the mud part while looking up.