Getting Old Sucks! LOL
I have come to the conclusion that getting older sucks.LOL Ok, from what I have seen in my family it sucks. I won't do it. I won't get old. I wish I wouldn't have to get old but everyone does unless they die young as my grandmother would say. But, it sure has not been a piece of cake for my mom, this growing older stuff. When I was a kid I thought that when you were 40 you were old. That was coming from my little ten year old brain at the time. I just couldn't imagine living 4 decades and still being young. Little did I know that after 40 or even before in some cases that it is all downhill in my family.
I had always imagined that old people get old but they could still be healthy and do what they always did basically when they were younger. That was in my kid state of mind still. When I turned 40 a year later I was pregnant with my son and at 41 had a baby with my last good egg. When I was younger I never would have thought that would happen. But, it did and I am glad.
Fast forward to my mom's age, 77. At this age she has had more health problems then I would have thought possible. I have seen the inside of hospitals too many times. Enough times to last me two lifetimes. I have heard nurses and doctors talking more medical language that I don't understand enough to last me three lifetimes. I have heard more doctors say that they don't know what is going on that they need more tests and more scans and more of this and that and then come back and say well, it could have been this or it could have been that we just don't know for sure. All this unknown. This unknown for someone who for the past 70 plus years has not had any problems. It really boggles my mind at times.
When my grandmother got older she had health problems too but basically hers was dementia and some blood thinning issues. She was basically healthy too until she was in her early 70's. I remember that my step grandfather used to take care of her the best that he could and she had a care giver, Mattie, who was the nicest person you ever wanted to meet. Mattie would do everything and anything with a smile and even threw them an anniversary party. My step grandfather had cancer but he always managed to do the best he could for my grandmother. Between him and Mattie she was well taken care of and so was he. Mattie was there looking after both of them when the family couldn't. My step grandfather died one year before my grandmother died and Mattie died a couple of years later.
I like to think that they are all still taking care of each other in heaven now.
So, now my mom has medications that would fill a small pharmacy. This for a person who never even wanted to take an aspirin when she had a headache. A big, big change. But, life is full of changes. Some good and some bad. I am not sure that getting old is a good change or not. The jury in my mind is still out on that one. But, I guess we all do the best that we can due to our own circumstances.
My uncle, my mom's younger brother called me yesterday, he was telling me his health problems and his eye problems and that he was giving up driving this year or next. And just when I was thinking okay not everyone in the family is having it hard in old age he called. LOL
Well, I want to get old, old enough to see my son grow up and hopefully not have too many health problems along the way.
I had always imagined that old people get old but they could still be healthy and do what they always did basically when they were younger. That was in my kid state of mind still. When I turned 40 a year later I was pregnant with my son and at 41 had a baby with my last good egg. When I was younger I never would have thought that would happen. But, it did and I am glad.
Fast forward to my mom's age, 77. At this age she has had more health problems then I would have thought possible. I have seen the inside of hospitals too many times. Enough times to last me two lifetimes. I have heard nurses and doctors talking more medical language that I don't understand enough to last me three lifetimes. I have heard more doctors say that they don't know what is going on that they need more tests and more scans and more of this and that and then come back and say well, it could have been this or it could have been that we just don't know for sure. All this unknown. This unknown for someone who for the past 70 plus years has not had any problems. It really boggles my mind at times.
When my grandmother got older she had health problems too but basically hers was dementia and some blood thinning issues. She was basically healthy too until she was in her early 70's. I remember that my step grandfather used to take care of her the best that he could and she had a care giver, Mattie, who was the nicest person you ever wanted to meet. Mattie would do everything and anything with a smile and even threw them an anniversary party. My step grandfather had cancer but he always managed to do the best he could for my grandmother. Between him and Mattie she was well taken care of and so was he. Mattie was there looking after both of them when the family couldn't. My step grandfather died one year before my grandmother died and Mattie died a couple of years later.
I like to think that they are all still taking care of each other in heaven now.
So, now my mom has medications that would fill a small pharmacy. This for a person who never even wanted to take an aspirin when she had a headache. A big, big change. But, life is full of changes. Some good and some bad. I am not sure that getting old is a good change or not. The jury in my mind is still out on that one. But, I guess we all do the best that we can due to our own circumstances.
My uncle, my mom's younger brother called me yesterday, he was telling me his health problems and his eye problems and that he was giving up driving this year or next. And just when I was thinking okay not everyone in the family is having it hard in old age he called. LOL
Well, I want to get old, old enough to see my son grow up and hopefully not have too many health problems along the way.
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