Tag: Aging
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Pain in the butt
I’ve been told as you age random things start happening. That been true for me, quite literally. My butt has been hurting, a gradual thing developing over six months or so. Initially I mistook the pangs I felt for a hemorrhoid. But no, it wasn’t that, at least when my doctor checked. So I mostly […]
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Be like Bob
From looking around, there aren’t many people out there like Bob. Bob is probably 95 years old. Should I make it that long, I want to be like Bob. Bob knows how to live. I live in a retirement community; in that you pretty much have to be age 55 or older to live here. […]
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Old man
The boundary between middle age and being an old man is increasingly fluid, but I figure I’m officially a geezer. Today I turn sixty. Which means I can’t realistically call myself middle age anymore. So geezer works, except it’s no big deal to be in your sixties these days. And since most of us will […]
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Ten years later
One of the benefits of writing a blog that’s been around a really long time (this one started in December 2002) is that you occasionally get to go back and look at posts made a long time ago and compare it to where you are in the present. In July 2005 I tried imagining my […]
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Not a saint, but saintly
When I entered his hospital room, I had this strange feeling of déjà vu. It was not so surprising. I had been here before, but it was in 2004 when my mother was in intensive care. I even blogged about it. And here it was ten years later and I was back wandering the halls […]
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Gasping for breath
Age is catching up with my father. At nearly age 88, his mind is willing but his body is not always capable of keeping up. This was obvious to me when we visited him a few weeks ago. We shuffled off to one of the local dining establishments in his oversize retirement community, and shuffle […]
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Sex, the aging man and the journey toward being fully human
Men will notice some changes to their libido as they age. With rare exceptions, your libido is going to go down. This is primarily because the level of testosterone in your blood is going down. It decreases with age. This is generally greatly disturbing to the middle aged man. That’s because they envision themselves as […]
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Aging gratefully
Another birthday rolled around yesterday. For once the first of February felt like it should: bitterly cold and snowing. I am not much on celebrating birthdays, which is probably why I scheduled an outpatient procedure on my birthday. Specifically, I had a colonoscopy, a distasteful but necessary procedure for us insured humans age fifty plus. […]
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Aging: this ride is not an E ticket
Another birthday rolled in today. Curiously, what also came in my mailbox on my birthday was my new drivers license. Before I shredded my old license I looked at its picture, taken ten years earlier. Comparing the two photos was rather shocking. I was ten years older and I looked ten years older. Maybe I […]
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