Sign of my age?

[Burnham]

I think so...I have two friends that each are having a full hip replacement done this week. That's a good thing for them, in my experience...mine has been a true life changing benefit for a dozen years or so now.

Both are having surgeons who do this prosthesis installation by a new surgical technique that has been developed since mine was done...and mine was done with a procedure that was new and better than what had been the standard before that.

Better being less invasive, less pain, fewer risks involved, and quicker recovery.

Old, I am...but some things are improved even so.

 

[flushcut]

Keep on creek’n tin man! Lol
Glad to hear your replacement was a success.
Now if my mom can get an ear transplant that would be something! It took me the better part of a decade to get her to go in for hearing aids that she uses 10% of the time but it’s something.

 

[Burnham]

That's another story .

 

[stikine]

That's another story .

What did you say? Lol

 

[flushcut]

Mom says “pardon” it drives my fuggin nuts.

 

[Mellow]

"We can make him better than he was."
"Better?"
"Stronger, faster."

I'm that old. Still have all my original parts, though.

 

[Bodean]

You guys getting the neural implants? Level of intelligence based on monthly subscriptions.
It’s gonna be great. Why bother thinking just space out and let the tech AI manage ur life.

 

[gf beranek]

Nope.

Not going there.

 

[Burnham]

Just in, news from another of my also old friends . He has had hearing trouble for years. His right ear is completely deaf. His left ear works, sorta, and he has been using a hearing aid to help with that one. He has always been frustrated by the lack of directional input from only having one ear...he has a great deal of difficulty locating the source of sounds he can hear, which can be bad in some situations; think driving, or walking in a congested area, or locating someone speaking to him in a living room crowded with partygoers.

He now reports that in a few months he is going to receive a cochlear implant for his deaf ear, in the inner ear. A processing unit is implanted under the skin of his neck, that receives sound from the environment and transmits it to the cochlear implant, which stimulates the nerves in the inner ear and makes sound in his brain.

This stuff is not new, but it used to be pretty much the province of completely deaf people. Pretty amazing tech.

 

[Mick!]

How old are you B?

 

[Burnham]

I'll be 71 in February of '25.
As I said in the wood splitting thread...I'm at the new 45 years old .

 

[Mick!]

Ok thanks, I was 61 a couple of weeks back, just seeing what the future holds.

 

[stikine]

You must have not got the new memo @Mick! about your 60's being the new 40's. I think I missed it as well. I'll turn 61 in January.

 

[Mick!]

You must have not got the new memo @Mick! about your 60's being the new 40's. I think I missed it as well. I'll turn 61 in January.

An older mate once said to me ‘you leave your 50s a very different man to the one that entered them’
I’m grateful for every day I’m cutting and climbing and earning a quid.
If I can make it to 63/4 the plan will come together and I can reap the rewards.
Fingers crossed.

 

[Burnham]

Your friend made an extremely accurate statement there, @Mick! I was unstoppable at 50. Maybe not quite as strong as at 35, but on any measurable scale I was better at my many jobs by miles.

I was just close to recovered from a full hip replacement at 60. Different man, indeed.

 

[flushcut]

On Golden TreeHouse, for a new thread title? Anyone Bueller Bueller.,..?

 

[pigwot]

I’ll hit 69 in March 2025… lining up the doctor visits for January and February already. Have to get in before the warranty expires in March! 🤣

 

[cory]

I'm 67 and have a bunch of small things crop up lately, smh and pita

 

[Burnham]

Normal for most folks I reckon, and surely so for those who have worked a physically demanding job all their life.

Although being sedentary all one's working life carries another set of hazards in old age, also just as surely. Different stuff breaks down, maybe.

 

[cory]

exactly🎯

 

[stikine]

Yeah, they say that sitting is the new smoking these days.

 

[flushcut]

You rest you rust

 

[Cobleskill]

I am 71. My back has been giving me trouble the last couple years. First time to a chiropracter just recently. He helped me a lot. Just stiff now. Thankful I am not more beat up, but my stamina has taken a nose dive.

 

[cory]

Nose diving stamina is par for the course.

Re your back, if you can find a good physical therapy person, have him show you how to strengthen your back, it's probably weak from....life.

I recently found an amazing guy, he's 3 for 3 resolving problems I had.

 

[treesmith]

My dad is 83. I asked him a while back at what age one starts going to the doctor. I’ve known old folks for years who go to the doctor every few weeks for something or other. He replied, “I don’t know. I’m not there yet.” He doesn’t do doctors. That’s how I am. I don’t do doctors. Last two times I’ve been in for medical treatment, I rode in an ambulance.