With getting older you may need a change.

Hanshi wrote:Medical research is primarily privately funded.  The governments need to start setting up defenses to deal with the coming alien attacks.  They already have a good idea what solar system is the most likely to send a fleet, but there are billions of planets in the Milky Way.

Tom ole buddy, you got s to cut down on doz meds

Right! I bucked the system and want to live long enough to make all the people who have been mean to me rue the day they were born.

We are already making use of alien technology but I fear they are holding back on the really good stuff. I have no idea what planet will invade. I just hope they don't kill everything.

Multiple night time trips to the bathroom is sorta "standard fare" for...Ahem! mature adults such as we.  Just my experience, but if you're in your 60s or older and don't hurt at least somewhere, just look around for a pile of coal and a shovel, or if you have lived a righteous life just look in a mirror to see if you have wings.  That about sums it up.  Our friend, Pain, will always be by our side.  You can't run away from it, you can not get rid of it and you can't really safely dull it down to a barely noticeable minor thing.  You can, however, complain loudly and constantly but even that doesn't work.

There is a saying from the 1960s that bears mentioning, for what it's worth.  It goes like this: KEEP ON TRUCKING

Hanshi wrote:Multiple night time trips to the bathroom is sorta "standard fare" for...Ahem! mature adults such as we.  Just my experience, but if you're in your 60s or older and don't hurt at least somewhere, just look around for a pile of coal and a shovel, or if you have lived a righteous life just look in a mirror to see if you have wings.  That about sums it up.  

I share the same number of trips nightly, like said "standard fare", this always lets me lookout I then  check the surroundings for unusual activity. Then go back to bed and try to go to sleep ...

Our friend, Pain, will always be by our side.

Underline this remark ...

I remember what a friend said in a long ago conversation, "Old folks sit around and talk about their operations".  We've proven that point already.  

I'm still hurting from that bad fall I took on the 22nd of August.  The nose is still pretty sore from the hard impact with the street and it cost me a toe nail.  But I'm sure I'll be all healed up from it before too long.  But I cannot take my cane and go for a walk alone anymore, way too risky.  And there is the thing about me passing out briefly at times.  Earlier in the summer I had a wreck but don't remember what happened.  A witness said it looked like I was passed out before I hit the light pole.  The car (cah in Maine speak) was injured but I was not, probably because it was very slow speed.  I won't ever drive again, that's for sure.

Anybody know about "ocular migraines"?  I have them but thankfully it's rare.  The first one was well over 20 years ago at a friends wedding.  The symptoms are the same except that instead of crippling headaches I go....well, blind.  It's the same vise-like head pressure, nausea and I feel pretty bad afterward.  I had just a few more over the years and I'll include several, what I call, near misses.  In fact the doctor said he would pull my DL  if I had another bad one.  It would have certainly been awful to have one driving.  So far it has been years since I've even had a mild one.  I think I have "outgrown" them.  I really feel sorry for those afflicted with migraines.

I guess at 75 I am very fortunate. Due to a kidney I lost about 7 years ago, I drink 60-90 oz of water and coffee per day. Most times I only get up in the early AM, most times only when I have to go when I get out of bed between 6-7 AM. Can't really complain about what little pain I do have.

My work as an LEO and owning a dojo long ago got me use to working night shifts most all the time. With the dojo classes went on to 9:00 pm. So I've spent decades staying up late and worse. It's a hard habit to shake and I still only get in bed by 11:30 pm and when distracted I might stay up far later. But I now can sleep late and typically get up around 8:00 am to 8:30 am. On occasion I've slept until close to 10:00 am. Old habits die hard. Now long retired and crippled up I just want more sleep and need more than I used to. Oh, well.

Yep, that is a good description of what it's like.  Mine were somewhat frequent for a while but it now has been years since I had one.  I once describe it as like looking through a window made from shattered glass.  My squeeze had to lead me around like I was, and I guess I was, a blind man.  Once it looked to me as if I was looking down through water in a swimming pool toward the bottom.  Swirly and very disorienting.  

VA is sending me to an Ophthalmologist tomorrow to determine if cataracts need removal. The last optometrist the VA sent me to also asked me about the "halo's" that would occur every so often, and told me they were ocular migraines. Told her they didn't cause any headaches, just like a halo or hologram in my vision. Very infrequent so no big deal and will disappear in a matter of minutes. Apparently not a big deal since I can still put 2 shots touching at 80 yds.....with glasses on of course.

Hanshi wrote:There is a saying from the 1960s that bears mentioning, for what it's worth.  It goes like this: KEEP ON TRUCKING

Like said I keep this saying in the back of my mind, KEEP ON TRUCKING, Amen folks ...

Heading to Jonathan's in Eads, Colorado for the weekend.
Going to demolition derby today and Sunday picking up some more
chickens, and maybe some ducks, geese and Guineas(the birds, not the Italians)LOL!

Mustang65 wrote: Guineas (the birds, not the Italians) LOL!

Cheap shot Stan ....