Well I guess I'm caught between the two!! ~sigh~
At 54 I'm gaining on the oldsters tho!! I love corn on the cob but can't bite the freaking kernels off any more. But by goodness I can still gnaw on a right rare steak! YUM Cut off it's horns, wipe it's butt, wave it over the grill and it's mine! I want to hear the echo of the MOOO. The only things I take so far is Advil once in a while and Glucosamine/Chondroitin for my protesting knees. Can't stand Grape Nuts cereal and don't even put the Bran Flakes in front of me. (shudder) But by goodness let a doctor get a hold of me and I'm gonna be in trouble! Will probably have me on so much garbage that there wont be any room left over in my tummy for that monster rare steak. As to the teeth? I will have to cage a visit to Jenny and Dan's place so I can go to Mexico to get my choppers taken care of.
Would love to do the holistic thing if I could find a good herbalist.
I know what ya mean about how some older folks are when telling of their ailments. And I think Nan has a good handle on a lot of them, they have been letting ailments rule. Everyone is gonna have ailments but how you deal with it is the telling factor. Let them rule and drag ya down or get off your duff and do something. Life style, work history and genetics play a huge role. My Mom could run circles around me! Gads take that woman shopping and while you were ready to drop from exhaustion she was still good to go for hours. And you were in major trouble if it was rummage sale season!!!
People are funny tho. Some youngsters don't have the energy God gave a snail. Their vision is so narrow that they do nothing but eat, work and sleep. They don't take care of themselves. Those are gonna be the ones later on that sit in the rockers, taking their meds and letting life pass them by and complaining all the while. And some of the oldsters can leave any young'in in the dust!! They are my hero's and inspirations.
Me? I gonna enjoy a rocker once in awhile, take a few meds, run the roads in whatever RV I can finally afford, raise he77 when ever I can for as long as I can then when it's time to make my journey to the Rainbow Bridge to have a reunion with some old friends??? I think of that one forwarded email that goes around once in awhile! I gonna go into a power slide, tires screeching, hair flying and yelling at the top of my lungs. Hot damn what a ride!!!!!!
And it will be a ride cause my CB handle is Wild Ride!
Looking forward to meeting you and the DH when the daughter and I finally manage to get out there!!!