"cyncie;c-18125981" wrote:
"ignominiusrex;c-18125940" wrote:
A good idea, but maybehave some real retirees vet it, because I'm not there yet, but have found out that things I never saw coming, become troublesome when very common things like carpal tunnel, rotatorcuff issues, and arthritis set in. Churning butter would be right there with tennis and fencing, for aggravating these issues, and tango is dramatic and fun but those deep movements are very challenging to anyone with back or knee issues which is most everyone by middle age.
Would love to hear what the retirees on the forums suggest?
Read my posts. I’ve been mostly retired for two years. I just did a 5 hour music rehearsal and have a concert tomorrow. Retired people are still pretty active for years before feebleness sets in. I know people who have done all of the things I listed. Yes, health issues have to be managed, but you don’t just suddenly go from working full time to a wheelchair. There’s a nice, active in between.
True. You and your parents must have what all of us would aspire to or wish for, being relatively healthy into our 70s, free of serious medical problems.
My grandmothers died in their 70s but weren't well for many years prior, and my father was very unwell before his early death, and my mother did in fact go from working fulltime to a wheelchair, due to a degenerative disease, in midlife, and was increasingly unwell until her death in her early 70s. None of them were the image of healthy aging at all, I'm sorry to say. My aunt didn't make it past her 60s, and was very unwell for many years prior to her death. They all had ancestors who lived to be nearly 100, too. But perhaps if we were working a farm our whole Iives, eating nothing processed, rising at dawn and sleeping soon after dark, maybe we could be, if not as healthy as people born before potent man-made endocrine disruptors became ubiquitous, at least a good deal healthier than otherwise.
I still hope to try ? what I can to affect my own outcome now, for whatever good it might do.
