When Your Body Is 65 And Your Brain Thinks You’re Still 25 …

[Jemagloh]

Hope all goes well with the surgery, @gbesq.

 

[blufinz52]

gbesq

I’ve met too many folks in Connecticut where I’ll be retiring who play pickleball and remind me of the “athletes” in this video.

Well, retiring in Connecticut is your first mistake

 

[gbesq]

Larry S

So does this…

Agreed!

 

[gbesq]

blufinz52

Well, retiring in Connecticut is your first mistake

Yeah, I know, I lived there for 20 years, but it’s a nice quality of life and there are family considerations as well.

 

[peatnick]

Dsloan

Getting old sucks. . .
It still beats the alternative
.

 

[sheepdoll]

blufinz52

Well, retiring in Connecticut is your first mistake

Did not seem to bother Samuel L. Clemens. Then again he had a lot to say about the weather.

 

[STANDY]

Had an extreme meniscus tear repaired about twelve months ago. Had 6 weeks off work and just able to kneel properly.

Don't rush the mend is my only advice. (As was my surgeon and Physio,s)

 

[YYTIN]

Hope you'll recover fast !

I'm hesitating myself between getting back to some routine to avoid aging too fast ...or just going this way :

 

[RevZMan123]

Be well! Hope you mend quickly.

 

[Pastorbottle]

Golf = paddock pool
do you know why they called it Golf?.......all the other 4 letter words were taken!

 

[Cenzo]

gbesq

This is what happens …

So in my youth I was an avid rock climber, skier, tennis player, jogger and tried lots of other sports including surfing, windsurfing and kayaking. So as I aged, I thought it prudent to slow down a bit and take up golf. So the result? A torn meniscus in my right knee from teeing off a bit too exuberantly. Surgery next month. Well, I’m going down swinging. I’ll drown in my sea kayak before I give that up!

You don't stopping doing those things because you get old - you get old because you stop being active. Sorry to hear about the knee issue, but wishing you are on the mend soon and remain active. I am 59 and still play hardball baseball fast pitch with others in their 50s. Father time is undefeated and some day I won't be able to play anymore. But not looking to slow down nor stop.

 

[Zman4eva]

It's just a scratch. Walk it off.

Get better soon!

 

[gbesq]

Cenzo

You don't stopping doing those things because you get old - you get old because you stop being active. Sorry to hear about the knee issue, but wishing you are on the mend soon and remain active. I am 59 and still play hardball baseball fast pitch with others in their 50s. Father time is undefeated and some day I won't be able to play anymore. But not looking to slow down nor stop.

Up to a point, that’s true, but I wouldn’t advise a 59 year old to engage in sheer face rock climbing or ice climbing. Guts will get you only so far and then they’ll get you killed.

 

[fiberguy]

gbesq

I can still do this and it beats the shit out of golf …

Most everything beats the shit out of golf.
Healing thoughts coming your way. This body older than your mind realizes thing is a bit of a drag from time to time .. I too have first hand experience

 

[ghce]

Two torn minuscus, left and right knee, two torn rotata cuffs left and right in the last couple of years and a myriad of other nasties I assure you I know exactly the feeling.
All done doing things I used to do 30 years ago.

 

[gbesq]

 

[blufinz52]

Greg realizes he's not 25 anymore.

 

[gbesq]

blufinz52

Greg realizes he's not 25 anymore.

“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Lol.

 

[Pastorbottle]

gbesq

“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Lol.

How come.....every time I have to bend down, some bastard has moved the ground further away?
And worse every time I go to get up, the bastard has moved it even further!

 

[JwRosenthal]

I had to go to the emergency room in Monterey, CA about two decades ago while there on work travel (put a box cutter through my hand trying to open a tube of graphite lubricant- one of those moments you realize as you are doing it- oh, this isn’t going to end well). When I walked in it was a sea of grey hair wearing Calloway swag holding ice packs to their knees, ankles, wrists, face.

I realized I wasn’t going to get seen ahead of such carnage despite leaving a crime- scene trail across the waiting room floor, so asked a nurse to just look at my hand and tell me how to treat it myself. She gave me a list of things to get at the local Walgreens and with my mental check list, I patched myself up in the sink of the local motel and thanked my lucky stars I didn’t have to risk my life at Spyglass the next morning.