Just curious how many of us with lyme disease are 50 and over.
[ 17. January 2007, 08:10 PM: Message edited by: kam ]
Posted by Cassie (Member # 2106) on :
That be me 52 in April
Take care your friend Cassie Posted by meg (Member # 22) on :
Oh, what a nice way to put it...."Nifty Fifties Plus"
Count me in Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
I guess I count fer dat. Three times over,,,since I am 156 these days!!!
Posted by trueblue (Member # 7348) on :
24 days left until niftiness. Posted by TNJanet (Member # 10031) on :
I'm over 50 just a bit, but feel like 100 most of the time. Have to remind myself not to stoop over and do the old age shuffle!
I'm hoping when I get better that I can repeat at least the last decade I lost. Wouldn't that be great!
And of course I would be in the market for a 40 something guy. And I'll be running circles around him!
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
56 going on 30!! Posted by meg (Member # 22) on :
This list better grow tomorrow, or I'll know somebodys lying Posted by hopeful123 (Member # 3244) on :
almost out of my fifties, if you know what i mean Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
quote:Originally posted by meg: This list better grow tomorrow, or I'll know somebodys lying
meg, noticed you didn't commit to your YOUNG age over 50!
57 until march
i'm 18 in an 81 yr. old body; what happened? Posted by stymielymie (Member # 10044) on :
chronologically 53 mentally 10 or 86 take pick physically 60-85 depending on day.
tutu i'm mad at you !!!! you missed my birthday in november. i will never forget this omission. beside surgery and divorce ,you couldn't even wish me happy birthday.
i'm very untouched.
new wife however will not be in this group. the formula is half age plus seven. so my new wife will be 33.5. anybody 33.5 want to live in west palm beach. if donnie can do it why not me!!!!! maybe the 200 billion dollars is missing in the picture.
docdave, available Posted by Jill E. (Member # 9121) on :
Hey, docdave,
Equal rights is only fair - I'm going to use your formula to check out younger guys! If Demi Moore can do it, so can I!
Well, 52 here. That means I got my AARP card two years ago. After the initial shock, I decided I liked the idea of getting discounts.
I was at the health food store the other day. The woman in front of me said to the cashier, "I'm special."
I thought I was pretty special, too, but don't go around bragging about it in public.
Then I realized it was the store's secret code to ask for a senior discount, which starts at age 60.
Jill
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Dave, I have no clue what happened. I know I was out of state soon AFTER that time. Maybe I missed it since you posted it on the 9th, I don't know.
I'm sorry.....but you could have sent me a little reminder by PM. I'm far from perfect and have indeed missed birthdays.
I missed several in early January because I could not get to a computer.
Forgiveness is a healing thing for YOU.
Posted by meg (Member # 22) on :
Betty said ""meg, noticed you didn't commit to your YOUNG age over 50!""
Wellllll, the question of this post WAS....."how many of us are 50 and over?".....so our ACTUAL age wasn't requested.
I COULD say, SORRY you all gave your age HA!! ------but that wouldn't be very nice.
fyi---Kam and Don didn't give their age either. Posted by kam (Member # 3410) on :
KAM...whispering....56 next month. Looking around...who said that?? When did that happen? How do I deal with that? Jump under the covers and pull them up to my eyeballs.
Nope. Rosie will not let me do that. Bless her.
Enjoyed reading all the posts. Laughed at a few. It does kind of seem like family at times.
Good to read about each others lives while we are in lyme land.
Thinking an imaginary muscle care drag race for the nifty fifties plus would be fun.
Posted by stymielymie (Member # 10044) on :
tutu docdave
Posted by meg (Member # 22) on :
OK, Kam did I can too.....56 in April, ouuuuuch
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
see women DO tell their age. Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
Gee everyone,,,did you 'KNOW' Meg needs glasses???
I SAID I was '156' years old on my "first" post!!
Can we start a contribution fund for Meg's NEW glasses??
Smile Meg,,,I am!!! Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by stymielymie: tutu docdave
Thanks.....same to ya!
Now, ya gotta promise to post your birthday next Nov and give me a second chance!!!!!!!!!
Don....I'll donate 50 cents!! Posted by tdtid (Member # 10276) on :
Looks like I can jump on this bandwagon as well. I'm 53.
Cathy Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Just received this in an email!
PERKS OF BEING OVER 50
1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
3. No one expects you to run---anywhere.
4. People call at 9 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake you?"
5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
7. Things you buy now won't wear out.
8. You can eat dinner at 4 p.m .
9. You can live without sex but not your glasses.
10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
12. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.
13. You sing along with elevator music.
14. Your eyes won't get much worse.
15. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
16. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.
17. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.
18. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size.
19. You can't remember who sent you this list.
Posted by meg (Member # 22) on :
JD sez: Can we start a contribution fund for Meg's NEW glasses??
TuTu sez: Don....I'll donate 50 cents!!
Well, you hooligans are gonna be collecting a loooong time at that rate! Meanwhile--I can't see! Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
Whadda mean we will be at it a LONG time.
Put tutu's 50 cents along with my quarter I HAVE!!!
And we are WAY up to what,,,$.75 already,,,who said I cant do math!!!!
Couple nickels there,pennies from heaven,,,and we will have enough to buy you,,, a pair of reading glasses,,,from Walmart.
PS,,, Thats what I wear cause I break them too fast!!! BUT I do 'need' a brain transplant!!!
Posted by OptiMisTick (Member # 399) on :
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Posted by meg (Member # 22) on :
Well....I'm not being ungrateful, thank you much (< my new "handle")
Posted by kam (Member # 3410) on :
TuTu,
YOur post reminds me of an email I recieved a while back. If it comes around in time, I will post it here.
Something about do you remember...
coke in a glass bottle
telephone numbers that start with letters
milk delivered to your door
Posted by lymednva (Member # 9098) on :
Well, you can count me in the group, too. Sure are a lot of us who are the same age! Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
aw come clean you 2 new ones in the 50s league with the rest of us; how YOUNG are you?
after all, WE'RE THE BABY BOOMERS COMING CLOSER TO SS AGE! Posted by charlie (Member # 25) on :
well past nifty but not quite to medicare yet... Posted by stymielymie (Member # 10044) on :
I GOT MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY
DOCDAVE Posted by kam (Member # 3410) on :
At one time, I wondered if age had something to do with it.
Perhaps we had been infected earlier and the bacteria didn't get to the point that it stopped us in our tracks until around 50.
But, then I considered all the kids going through this too and that proved that theory false.
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
hey doc,
you're not the only one with medicare and social security! THANK GOD OUR DISABILITY PAPERWORK WAS APPROVED FOR THESE 2 BENEFITS! Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by kam: TuTu,
YOur post reminds me of an email I recieved a while back. If it comes around in time, I will post it here.
Something about do you remember...
coke in a glass bottle
telephone numbers that start with letters
milk delivered to your door
Oh yeah. I got that too. I remember all of the above.
Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
Better yet, than phone numbers starting with letters,,,our phone on the wall was 'party' line,,,so you didnt say anything the neighborhood couldnt hear!!
Also our ring was a LONG-short-LONG. Everybody had their own code ring so they knew who the call was for!! In those days I can remeber telephone meetings at our house.
The crank on the side was what you called people with. One long for "central"("telephone operator")
All people on our line met and determined rates and fees and what work needed done. Replace poles,wire, or tree trimming. (themselves) cause it was THEIR system, the users.
AND the wires were down every little breeze. Limbs everywhere, nothing to be out of phone service as much as up and running. Specially winter blizzards.
Now a days underground and VERY reliable.
And as for glass pop bottles,,,yes indeed,,,my major source of income, they were worth either a penny or 2 pennies so we went along the major roads with our horses and or our bicyles and gatherd as many as we could, then took them in by the case!!
The 'long' neck beer bottles were also sought after,(worth 2 cents I think. Maybe 5!! the short necks worthless,,,we left them lay!!
They 'used' to refill these bottles, can you believe,,,were a few 'meeces' found inside once in a while.(yuck)
I still have a bottle of Mountain Dew I bought back in 1970,,,visably had a bug in the bottom of it. Never opened it but saw it the other day,,,mostly gone thru dehydration NOW and the bug has disintergated. I always thought it cool so I kept it!!
Also have old Budweiser beer can(all steel)(rusted thru now) with the label on upside down. Has the old style original pop top(non connected type),,,first improvement over the 'church key'
They stopped making that kind of top when they found too many fish and other wildlife that had swallowed them, plus they made more litter. We used to collect pop tops and make chains out of them!!!
Plus most people would NOT remember a car or any vehicle with a 6 volt starter/battery combo and how bad those were!!
Or NON radial tires,,,how few miles wore them out. Think most you could expect on old bias tires was 10,000 miles and that was IF you werent a kid and took high speed corners or burnt rubber coming off the gravel onto pavement. (those cars didnt have enough HP to do it otherwise)
Or how many flat tires those bias plys had. Everyone including ladies 'knew' how to change tires and jack up cars!! I kept 2 jacks in trunk at all times and generally 2 spares or more!! And those junky jackhandles/lug wrench combo which was generally 'wore out'. never a fancy 4 way wrench like now days!!
Pitching(With a pitchfork) out the chicken coop every month or the barn couple times a year rank right up there with what I DONT miss!!
The "BEST" part of the good old days was
"I was younger then!!"but still--just don--
Posted by kam (Member # 3410) on :
VEry interesting Don. Posted by trueblue (Member # 7348) on :
After reading Don's last post I started to think about this.
We also used to find and return bottles. 2 cents for small ones and a nickel for big ones. We would find them while we were out playing in the woods or around the neighborhood.
We mostly used them for candy money. A candy bar being 4 cents worked out pretty well and there was all that great penny candy. (I lived next to a store with a soda fountain as a small child.)
What I was wondering about was...
who was leaving empty soda bottles all over the place? Did I live in the land of litterers?
I may be better off not thinking. Posted by kam (Member # 3410) on :
I recently purchase coke in a glass bottle for a friend. It was a 6 pack. She drank it while visiting and left the 6 pack.
I had a hard time tossing the bottles in the trash. Throw backs from being a kid I guess and turning in glass bottles for cash.
It did say that there was a refund on the bottles but not for the state I lived in.
Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
Kam, You GIVE those bottles to somebody traveling the direction of the nearest state that pays,,,thats what happens here we dont have deposit bottles and cans, neighboring state does, they all end up over there!!
Wish we did have deposit cans and bottles too,,,wouldnt be in EVERY ditch from here to Sunday!!
Picking up aluminum cans just for selling to alluminum scrapers is a no can win situation unless you are looking for the walking excercise itoffers.
Still see a few on nice days out walking roads and ditches for cans,,,has to be a slow boat to China. How many cans does it take to make a pound these days with the new thinner cans???
I nickel or dime a piece and there wouldnt be one in miles. And maybe less hamburger ally trash too!! Who just eats and throws everything out the window??? Think the quick eat places should charge a deposit on their junk too!!Or pay for cleanup,,,and that is MOST of the litter.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
When my husband was in grad school back in the 70's there were times we were really strapped for cash since we were living on my small paycheck.
I can remember cashing in Coke bottles so I could buy bread. Of course, I don't know why I was spending money on the Coke's to begin with!! Posted by kam (Member # 3410) on :
I keep flashing back to a time when my husband was over seas in the Viet Nam War.
I recall getting a specially painted VW that I had lots of fun in.
What I keep seeing in my mind is pulling up to the gas station...and I think..gas was 25Cents a gallon.
I think a $5.00 would fill the tank.
I also picture the green stamp machine and getting lots of green stamps with my purchase.
I recall taking them in and getting things with them. And thinking the store was really displayed nicely.
Funny what we recall.
Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
Dont remeber any green stamp stores in these boonies. WE had to save stamps and redeem them by mail.
I do remeber our first carpet. We had to send a whole bunch of rags away to get the carpet made. It came back after an extended manufacturer time frame.
I remeber gas wars where every station tried to have the lowest prices,,,unfortunately we could NOT get a lifetime supply(nor could we afford one then).
I remember the time of a particular gas war we had all our 'on the place' country tanks(held about 250 gallons) filled up for the big whooping price of 9 cents per gallon. The neighbor kid whose dad had three or four tanks like that,,,we were in awe of!!!
Dad bought an irrigation rig back then and he still thinks diesel should be 9 cents a gallon today,,, cause it was THEN. You really shoot alot of gallons in the air with one of those.
I still drive a car when filling it holds about 9 gallons so costs around 18 bucks these days. And drives a long way before needing MORE!!
I used to work in a gas station back in high school for 75 cents an hour as a work training deal thru FFA.
You would be surprised how many people pulled in(FULL service everything was back then)) and ask for a dollars worth of gas. sometimes if real prosperous they ask for 2 bucks worth.
Very very seldom did any one ever ask to 'fill'er'up'. But all wanted their windsheild washed and their oil checked and check that leaky tire on the right rear too, while your there!!!
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
quote:Originally posted by just don: [ Wish we did have deposit cans and bottles too,,,wouldnt be in EVERY ditch from here to Sunday!!
Picking up aluminum cans just for selling to alluminum scrapers is a no can win situation unless you are looking for the walking excercise itoffers.
Still see a few on nice days out walking roads and ditches for cans,,,has to be a slow boat to China. How many cans does it take to make a pound these days with the new thinner cans???
I nickel or dime a piece and there wouldnt be one in miles. And maybe less hamburger ally trash too!! Who just eats and throws everything out the window??? Think the quick eat places should charge a deposit on their junk too!!Or pay for cleanup,,,and that is MOST of the litter.
don, IOWA has had pop/beer can/bottle redemption for 15-20 years. last year the grocery chains REFUSED to take them anymore!
MANY BROUGHT IN FILTHY, etc. vs. rinsing out.
has nebr. got the ADOPT A HIGHWAY PROGRAM to clean up all that trash you were talking about?
iowa's had that for 15+ years now too. Posted by hopeful123 (Member # 3244) on :
i remember owning roller skates that were ajusted with a key to fit over your shoes.
i remember penny candy at the little store across the street from the school playground which sold multi-colored dots and little wax bottles filled with some sweetened liquid.
i remember watching tv with 3 channels and lots of time without any programming at all.
i remember black rotary dial telephones with wire cords, not plastic.
i remember voting in my first presidential electiion for mcgovern (i think it was mcgovern).
i remember where i was when i learned that president kennedy was killed and where i was when i learned about martin luther king. and bobby.
i remember wearing skirts and dresses to college. no jeans or slacks unless it was finals.
i remember signing anti-war petitions in the sixties.
i remember hiding under the desks at school in case there was a nuclear attack.
i remember that everyone seemed to be older than i.
Posted by meg (Member # 22) on :
I've got more for the list
Drive in movies, all day movie theaters for .50, all day roller skating for .50, petticoats, clotheslines, the first tv, delivered milk, car hops, the ICE CREAM truck!, cracker jack, .15 McDonald's hamburgers, Sat morning cartoons, polio shots/cubes, American Bandstand, bellbottoms, Sunday Morning paper on the doormat, Fuller Brush Man (check out the Fuller Brush company prices now )
Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
Hopeful. I didnt know you were as OLD as me, I was 'thinking' you were one of those early twenty something youngen specials. My youngest child qualifies as one of those NOW!!!
If you voted for McGovern did you KNOW his wife just died yesterday??? She was 85 and reported to be in failing health for many years. heart problems,,,and she had open heart surgery,,,a bypass, I think last year. Services pending!!!
Wow I just cant IMAGINE all these ladies that remember things like skate keys, I never had those cause you couldnt skate in the soft sand,,,all we had here,,,everything dirt,,,cept for a 6' sidewalk. A little short for learning how!!!
And the few times we got to go to another town to roller skate,,,we got full shoe skates from them. You dont learn to skate backwards, getting to go at most once a year!!! You barely can stand up for a round or two!!!
I went back a few years ago,,,to the place I learned to skate. Put some skates on, took about three turns around the floor and took them off. It looked like a dirt bike track,,,you know those that are up and down hills like an obstacle course. The roof leaked and the floor was so buckled you couldnt stand up for all the bumps!!
I think there is surely hope for hopeful since we DO have SOMETHING in common. Hopefully hopefulls friendship!!!Confused??no--just don--
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
i've enjoyed everyone's memories of the 50s and those wonderful emails that come along outlining all we lived thru back then. Posted by Karenelee (Member # 11044) on :
Hi,
My sister sent this to me, and since it's right on topic, I thought I'd pass it along:
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because : WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING !
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms....... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them . . CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
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Of course some of the above could explain a few things like Lyme...
Posted by Cassie (Member # 2106) on :
Karenelee, that is so good and so true, I remember all of that. There was also hide and seek. Knicky nicky nine doors
I worry about my grandson he is only 5 and he is hooked on XBox and gameboy. When we are with him we try to get him to do other things but it's like pulling teeth
Take care your friend Cassie Posted by KENNEDY (Member # 9628) on :
Most people's response to all past things mentioned, would be,........"I hate to admit it, but I remember all things mentioned".
But, I am so thankful for all those great memories, they were good times and it's great when someone brings them up.
I have to admit, I do remember the party lines but I don't remember having a special ring.
Here's something no one brought up. Remember before color tv's there was a piece of film you put on your tv screen? It had 3 colors, top was blue, bottom was green and I'm not sure the middle color, was it red?
And I thought I played all the kid games..... hop scotch, double dutch jump rope and when we played dodge ball during recess we played in a large circle. One person was in the circle and I'm not sure how many people were lined up around the outside of the circle ,as you ran from the person who had the ball without going outside the circle.They play it different nowadays.
But I never remember playing nicky nicky nine doors.
Also, I know most people don't like to tell there age, but I'm glad for every year I get.
I'll be 54 in August.
This was fun. Thanks for the memories.
Posted by tory2457 (Member # 10384) on :
I turned 50 on Jan 24th!
But, I also celebrated my 30th in '87 with extreme vertigo and loss of coordination, tingles.. Neuro gave me steroids and told me to live my life.
Diagnosed 3 years later - MS.
In treatment since past November...I love turning 50! not as much fog, already less tingles! yeah!
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