Polls: Health & Fitness

On any article or video the golden starting point for any advice for aging people seems to be 40.

So what do you reckon?

At 40, do I have one foot in the grave?

Personally, I feel fitter and healthier in my 40s than I did in my 20s. I think I'm pretty cool and youthful looking, also. Most of the frequent seasonal illnesses don't happen any more. All of my little bodily niggles have pretty much melted away.

I still have 11% body fat.

Or our standards for aging so low, as we don't know how to age in the West without falling apart by the age of 30?

And how do you feel for your age?

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I am glad I didn't take it. I never got Covid. I have not had a cold in 30 years , only the flu once in my life as a child. I believe , my health would have suffered more long term than a short term treatment.

Now will I get them at 80? I can't answer that now.

No doubt the numbers they fed us were wrong. They were counting suicide victims and people hit by cars as Covid deaths. They also predicted Billions would die from it which never happened.

Basically old people and very sick people died from complications Healthy people only got sick and didn't die.

I've been thinking, and I've come along a train of thought which holds not wanting to ask for help as a culprit for a ton of issues I've faced in the past.

As a guy, there is a desire to not rely on others for help and to handle things alone, but this is a dangerous idea as it encouraged me to step outside my lane out of a desire to prove I can handle it.

This is a huge barrier to progress as a desire to handle things alone doesn't mean I will succeed, it just means I need to step back and humble up, ask the right questions, have an experienced person handy, and then maybe.

But this "I gotta do it alone", that needs to stop. While I don't intend to rely on others, I do intend to educate myself more, explore my natural skillsets while gaining new ones, and knowing my place.

One instance where I felt ashamed to accept help was last year when I was hospitalized for a serious lung infection which came as a result of my alcohol problems leading to being taken off Trikafta, a medication for my Cystic Fibrosis which has done nothing less than give me a new life.

Now alcohol is gone, Trikafta is back, coughing and labored breathing are gone, too. But in the hospital, I recieved IV antibiotics, but the IV machine kept on stopping.

Not wanting to keep bothering nurses when all I needed was the IV machine to go back to working, I asked one nurse how to fix it, so I wouldn't be such a burden on the staff.

She giggled and playfully hit me with a newspaper, she was right, those liberties aren't mine to take, the whole reason I was sick, at all, is because I was an irresponsible mess who drank more rum than Jack Sparrow.

This issue was fixed by a PICC line being inserted in me, which I used to finish my rounds of antibiotics and from there, I changed my life but I still feel ashamed to keep hitting the call button when I just needed the machine to work again.

Have you felt ashamed to ask for, or accept assistance from others?

You've had a fantastic night of restful sleep and it's now time to wake up.

What's the best way to wake up in the morning?

Please vote in the poll.

I'm getting better and better. I sleep better when she's home... she's away at times... that's how I know.

I eat better... she's exposed me to better more nutritious options and I'm motivated to cook and try new foods, so we eat better.

I'm exercising and physically better now than years ago.

Mentally, I'm less stressed as we share the work load at home and I don't have to work so hard.

Spiritually, she supports my pursuits to see God and serve others.

... I hear so much "bad" in relationships, but there is so much good and wonder how you others do.

Health insurance like any insurance only works if the majority of people aren't using it. If everyone is using it the whole system falls apart or needs to charge more money.