"He said I'm fine."
Jul 17, 2019 14:25:53 #
jerryc41 wrote:
On Thursday I went to a senior lunch nearby. A woman named Lillian came in. She's 91, has trouble walking, doesn't see well, and her hearing isn't very good. The woman next to her asked what the doctor said at her last visit. "He said I'm fine." 
As my 91-year Dad says: "So, what does some kid doctor know about it?"
Thing is, at first you notice that some of the police officers are just kids. Then it is your own childrens' teachers who don't seem quite old enough to be out of high school. After another year or two you are seeing lawyers and doctors who seem impossibly juvenile, and your District's Congressman is a younger, slicker, slightly oily version of Eddie Haskell. There has even been a US President who is younger than I am. Now there are kids who ask if I am the real Santa.
Jul 17, 2019 14:58:42 #
Jul 17, 2019 17:22:40 #
I had a patient in rural Maine many years ago. 84 years old. He had one of his legs removed at the hip when he was 10 years old due to tuberculosis. He adapted and it never slowed him down, and his attitude kept him going well into old age. When asked how he was doing, he would say: "you know how it is - one foot in the grave"! Laughing keeps you young!
Jul 17, 2019 17:45:08 #
Herb Myles wrote:
I am a going on 96 year old vet of WW2--trple by pass-replaced heart valve--pacemaker-walking with a cane--always being told that I look 70-75- have all the aches and pains commensurate with my tru age----old age ain't for sissies--but I'm still here---GUNG -HO
Yay!
Jul 17, 2019 19:23:11 #
Theres a chap I know (Reg) who is 96 and I remember him telling me that he hadn't had a days illness in his life, not even a cold or a bout of flu. He fought in the Desert and in Italy during ww2, he suffered a bad back when he eventually came home from the war because he couldn't get comfortable in a bed.. so he went back to sleeping on the floor until he got married!
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