boy and i getting old

[Lloyd Smale]

built a deck yesterday. Just a basic 8x16 treated wood deck. I even already had the posts cemented in last week. I am about crippled this morning. My knees are raw and the one i had replaced is throbbing like you hit it with a hammer. Both of my elboes are raw. I cant stand and shoot screws in because of my back so i had to either kneel or most of it lying down propped up on my elbows. This was a birthday gift for the wife. We have two other decks but there both roofed and she wanted a deck to lay out in the sun. I just dont understand that but to each there own. I told her if i never see another deck screw or treated board in my life ill be a happy man.

[Dee]

Wait till you hit 70. You ain't seen nuthin yet. 

[oldandslow]

Wait until the mid 80's and you will realise you're still a spring chicken at 70. As to building a deck I couldn't do it now. Getting down on my knees is instant agony plus getting up is seriously not fun and bending over is almost as bad. Still, anytime I go inro town I almost always see someone that is worse off then I am.

[Dee]

Wait until the mid 80's and you will realise you're still a spring chicken at 70. As to building a deck I couldn't do it now. Getting down on my knees is instant agony plus getting up is seriously not fun and bending over is almost as bad. Still, anytime I go inro town I almost always see someone that is worse off then I am.

And there always is.

[Ranger99]

Well it happens
I can't bust my butt for hours
like I used to could.
The only way I can deal with
it is to work until I can't, then
rest up a short while, then chip
away at it again until I can't

I over did things a few weeks back
and it didn't show for about two
days, then early one morning I
could barely get out of bed, my
lower back hurt so bad
It gradually subsided and one
day just disappeared, no pain

It's just a part of getting old.
Either you get old, or you don't.
No middle ground

[Lloyd Smale]

 Dee with two hip replacements a knee replacement an ankle replacement and 8 back surgurys i think most 80 year olds wouldnt trade bodys with me. But then if i would have lead the sedate life many do and didnt have the muscle tone i do have i would be chair bound by now. I do fear what i will be like in 10 more years. the last 10 havent been exactly kind to me. But pain is just a mental thing. Its when you stop working through it that the real problem starts.

Wait till you hit 70. You ain't seen nuthin yet. 

[Lloyd Smale]

I always give my wife a hard time. Im 66 now and most people think im 10 years younger and if i wasnt half bald when i take my hat off theyd probably think i was younger yet. I always piss her off. I tell her that in a few years people are going to ask me if shes my mother. My dad was the same. He always look younger then what he was. He died last year at 90 and could have passed for a 70 year old. He even still had his hair. That im envious of. Ive got major scaring on the back of my head. My whole scalp in the rear was tore off and sewed back on that theres some UGLY scaring when i take my hat off. Looks about like mountain terrain back there. some of that scaring is a good 1/4 of an inch deep. The military doctors back them weren to conserned about doing plastic surgery or minimizing scars. I always say if i got arrested and they tried to list the scaring on me it would take a small book to list them all.

Wait until the mid 80's and you will realise you're still a spring chicken at 70. As to building a deck I couldn't do it now. Getting down on my knees is instant agony plus getting up is seriously not fun and bending over is almost as bad. Still, anytime I go inro town I almost always see someone that is worse off then I am.

[Dee]

Dee with two hip replacements a knee replacement an ankle replacement and 8 back surgurys i think most 80 year olds wouldnt trade bodys with me. But then if i would have lead the sedate life many do and didnt have the muscle tone i do have i would be chair bound by now. I do fear what i will be like in 10 more years. the last 10 havent been exactly kind to me. But pain is just a mental thing. Its when you stop working through it that the real problem starts.

Wait till you hit 70. You ain't seen nuthin yet. 

LOL, you may be more beat up than I am. I just haven't had any of it replaced.

[ironglow]

Yep, themid 80s are no fun.  First, those Itis boys,  Burse Itis, Neur itis and Arthiur Itis..are misery, not to mention the parts of the old body that I mistreated over the years .

  I am slow to take any unnecessary meds if possible, but if I have a busy day planned, I might take one 500 mg
  Acetaminophen (generic Tylenol) to start the day.. That seems to help a lot.

[Ranger99]

Just me-  I'm not letting anyone
cut on me again as long as whatever
is functional and I can go after
taking some medicine. Every time
I've been in the hospital, it cuts
my functionality back a notch

[phalanx]

I’m taking the gummies, and i don't hurt nearly as much.