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PatB
I have hearing aids and have never been able to get used to them.
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 24, 2016 at 3:05 PM
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I have never been a person with a lot of girl friends. I suppose I am not a women sort of a gal. People like you are very rare gems as far as I am concerned.
Still the few I did have, mostly died of cancer, people drift in and out of your life but these were for real.
So yes, I enjoy every day. There is always something positive, even being invisible. I wear clothes that are comfortable,, and that I like. Wiley thinks I am beautiful in everything and would be way less impressed if I paid hundreds of dollars for something instead of 20.00. Actually I love being invisible.
When I was teaching student nurses they would nearly always tell me that they weren't going to nurse old people.
I would tell them they better think about their career then because of three things.
More old people end up in hospital than young
it is almost impossible to get into pediatrics
and really bad news, they too will get old.
posted by
Kabu
on August 24, 2016 at 8:53 AM
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As you say Pat there is a lot of luck involved. When I was very young I thought , I wonder if I shall see year 2000. I suppose 3000 is pushing it a bit.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 24, 2016 at 8:03 AM
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Pat
Sorry to hear about the lady Lois! And you're right, of course - there is luck involved; but it does take more than that, namely a little doing on our part! If, for example, I hadn't quit the ciggies when I did, I'm sure I would never have run a Marathon, and I probably wouldn't even be here... Oh, and it isn't the whole world yet that's gone around the bend - some of us are still making our way along the shady, tree-lined avenues of reason...
posted by
Nautikos
on August 24, 2016 at 7:46 AM
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So sorry to hear that about Lois. I'll bet she will have lots of memories about that place, and you will miss her. One never knows what life will throw at us at any age.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 24, 2016 at 6:31 AM
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