maybe but every time I drink a beer, my arthritis goes away 
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They usually are but I guess during the work day they get looped into the loops or whatever than when I pull themā¦ 
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One of the old Senior NCOs in my platoon used to say this, and I believe it.
āGETTING OLD IS NOT FOR PU**IESā
Especially those of us with military backgrounds and the extra wear and tear to prove it.
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59, blind as a bat, separate glasses for driving, night driving, reading, shooting and modeling, optivisor for detail work, and itās very hard to do fine detailing anymore. Growing up sucks 
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Ha! All this talk of āgetting old.ā I donāt need to get there, Iām already there! ā¦ Uh-oh, I need to get up nowā¦ 
āmike
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I am near sighted and started wearing bi-focals in 3rd grade so close up vision was never a problem until I had cataract surgery. The surgery corrected my vision but I had to go to an optivisor for close work
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And then, one at a time, my retinas tore and ultimately detachedā¦ I did not enjoy the extremely painful reattachment surgery one bit.
āmike
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Long ago, 20/15 vision, never dropped a part, 6+ hour sessions cleaning small parts without discomfortā¦
Thirty years later, 20/20 w/bifocals but need optivisor to see same as before, had to find new tool to hold onto small parts (rhinestone picker/wax pencil), after an hour need to move around. Some nerve damage from carpel tunnel so I canāt build quickly anymore. I drop items far more frequently as my grip isnāt what it was before carpel tunnel surgery.
Itās much easier to stop, think, take a break and make a plan to overcome obstacles now instead of just pushing forward.
No complaints really, other than the heavy visor makes my neck hurt and wish Iād got the carpel tunnel surgeries much sooner.
Truthfully, Iām grateful to be able to build and paint again because before surgery, five to ten minutes cleaning parts and my hands went numb.
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Cheaters are the guys with the little blue pillā¦ 
We mean having to wear magnifying glasses of some type.
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Dr told me you are starting cataracts. Surgery in a few years. Yeahā¦ oh well. My dadās 93 and trucking on so maybe I will get lucky.
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Several years ago a nice looking young gal told me my Chinese father in law had a cataract.
I said, āNo, I tnink he drives a Rincoln.ā Poor girl was trying so hard to be professional and not laugh.,
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A late dear friend of mine was a WW2 pilot. He always told the story about his health check up at enlistment. Dr asked him to read the bottom line of the chart. His response was, āproperty of the Commonwealth of Australiaā. He passed the eye exam.
He was a GREAT modler. Could put anything together and do it better than anyone i know. Brass train kits were his forte. Passed away at 92 and he could still see well enough to put a diaper on a flea!
Piloted for the last time in his mid 80s.
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And I thought I was the only one ā but Iām here to reassure you itās not an ageing thing, been doing that since I was a kid. Itās just a matter of examining the lace intertwining before pulling the ripcordā¦yeah who does that? Drives me crazy, but sandalsā¦in the winterā¦?
Otherwise Iām 68.5, still perfect distance eyesight, and only 1.5 readers since I was 58 ā except just in the past few months 2.0 isnāt crystal clear either so maybe Iām on a slippery slope. What bothers me more is the beginnings of what I believe is called an āessential tremorā in both hands. It sure aināt essential for my purposes. Most of the time nothing, but just when I need fine-motor-skills the fingers go uhuh-ohoh-III- gggottt-thethe-shakesheiks. An infusion of shiraz usually quells it, so far anywayyy.
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53 now and wearing glasses(near sighted) since 6 years old.I donāt use them while modelling as with age I got some far sighting mixed in.
Iām āblindā and I live with that, my main problem is- due to the nature of my occupation I frequently deal with aggressive construction materials and get my finger puppils flat.So a lot of dropped bits and hours spent kneeling(you know-knees, backbones e t.c.).Various cremes help remedy the grip, but also leave nice marks on plastic surfacesā¦
Bottomline-life is the most wonderful thing and I enjoy it very much!
Cheers,
Angel
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H.P.
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My kids, all grown up these days, still make much of the occasion when, upon returning from a Remembrance Sunday commemoration, and the resulting intake of alcohol, espied me struggling with my shoe laces; I had a Gordian Knot moment and took a knife and sliced through them.
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Gentlemen!
Remember this: when the shoelaces starts giving you too much problems there is always these
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So redolent of decrepitude - but the time will come! Just not yet I hopeā¦
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