Old age and getting run down

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I don't think it's humans of a certain age feeling done in,I think most active,working humans feel the same.
25th of March 2025 I fell off the bed of my wagon & broke my leg in 4 places,I have no ankle now& have an 8 inch plate with 4 screws in the Tibia.What's left of my ankle fragments is held together with 2 screws & my foot is screwed into the bottom of my Tibia.
Last year was hard but by June I was out shooting with a friend with my moonboot on.
I started ferreting again in October & I wouldn't let it beat me but it's been bloody tough at times.
I now have a different outlook on my life in general & I now have a shunting job on a artic instead of tramping up & down the country which I did for around 12 yrs.
I have a perspective now that I work to live not the other way round & being in the countryside around nature,watching my ferrets work helped me through that difficult period...everything else in just noise.
 
Smellydog said:
COVID buggered me.
Not been right since that bastard second jab!
Anyway at 59 my body periodically says a big fat no!
Constant joint pain, disturbed sleep.
I noticed things going wrong at 46.

Started my annual logging for next winter and it fills me with satisfaction doing it but chit, the next bloody day!

When I see an old buck with his head down low...its like looking in the mirror!
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Surprised you took the 💉 SD😲
 
Rake Aboot said:
Not that I’m old 😂
I’m 58 now and have had a lifetime of keeping very fit . Road cycling mostly with all sorts of sport thrown in
Football , mountaineering racquet sports , you name it I’ve tried it

In between all that has been the constant hunting, Guns , lurchers , ferrets etc

I retired 3 years ago and have not had a single day idle until December last year when a chest infection flattened me for weeks
On the back of that, a disc issue in my back cost me the last of my season beating and loading

Right now, I feel like I’m struggling to get back to it .
My mountain bike is laughing at me and I’ve got so much to do but it’s really a hard fight
Some told me that after 55 things got hard and got harder to get back to , I’m beginning to appreciate that.

Am I the only one or this an actual thing ?
Should I drink more and not worry about it ? 😂
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Yes and no....! By all means drink through it. but it sounds like your chest infection slayed you...I went through course after course of antibios from repeated chest infections in my 40's, finally made better by a couple of sessions of acupuncture and a Chiro sorted out my fecked back. Now nearly 60 and been good for years. Not as fast, was never agile, but now back in the gym 3 times a week, realise I am now pushing "ladies weights" and forty press ups is 4 x 10 with a short pause for a cardiac incident, but working on it. I think you have to make an effort not to be too much of an old fecker.
 
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Rake Aboot said:
Not that I’m old 😂
I’m 58 now and have had a lifetime of keeping very fit . Road cycling mostly with all sorts of sport thrown in
Football , mountaineering racquet sports , you name it I’ve tried it

In between all that has been the constant hunting, Guns , lurchers , ferrets etc

I retired 3 years ago and have not had a single day idle until December last year when a chest infection flattened me for weeks
On the back of that, a disc issue in my back cost me the last of my season beating and loading

Right now, I feel like I’m struggling to get back to it .
My mountain bike is laughing at me and I’ve got so much to do but it’s really a hard fight
Some told me that after 55 things got hard and got harder to get back to , I’m beginning to appreciate that.

Am I the only one or this an actual thing ?
Should I drink more and not worry about it ? 😂
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If you haven’t already get your heart checked out. Possibly why you are slowing down.
Worked hard physically all my life , never smoked or drank, got to 48 started to slow down thought I was pushing 50 and a little extra weight so normal. Hadn’t been to the doctors for years. Cut to the chase had a funny turn walking dogs one day , scared me , told the wife , went to GP, diagnosed with severe heart problems given 3-6 months to live without surgery. They call it the silent killer, too many men especially drop dead Live in Wales, cardiac services were **** , cardiologist told me as an out patient wouldn’t get surgery in time Sent me to hospital to bed block, that took too long so had to go private. Open heart surgery, very lucky , got back to normal,that was 12 years ago. Just had to have open heart surgery again, scheduled, Recovering at home.
IMOA, take responsibility as much as possible for your own health.
Keep busy and doing what you want.
Get private health care as young as possible. I didn’t
Since Covid/Great reset the. NHS is failing
 
I'm 68, retired 2 years ago, which was a bit of a struggle to settle into tbh.

Bought a mountain bike (gravel and cross country not the loony downhill sh!t!!}, walk a lot, beating twice a week through the season, stalking more and had never been so fit for many years.

Along comes a week of man flue followed by all the crap weather and the its became a struggle. Solution - keep putting one front in front of the other, force that extra mile and it starts to come back. Replace "can't be bothered" with "will do"
 
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Covert said:
Get private health care as young as possible. I didn’t
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An alternative is to invest the money you would give to a private health service yourself;
If you are lucky, you will live a healthy life, maybe having to rely on the HNS for some services, and if you get to a ripe old age, you can cash in your investment and enjoy your money rather than putting it in someone else's pocket.
 
Bo Diddley said:
An alternative is to invest the money you would give to a private health service yourself;
If you are lucky, you will live a healthy life, maybe having to rely on the HNS for some services, and if you get to a ripe old age, you can cash in your investment and enjoy your money rather than putting it in someone else's pocket.
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I should have added that, in the event that you need to go private, you will have a pot of money to fund the treatment.
 
Now mid 80's but feeling 110. I was ok until late 70's but now need help stalking Fallow.
One leg shot too bits, other holes as well. Arthur Itis is a mate and if a screw comes loose my foot will fall off (worth more dead in scrap value) ache everywhere and itch like hell. Fractured vertibrae 33 years ago in cast for a long while and had AF for 20 years, can't walk on rough ground keep falling. Got p...ed off with wife's problems so after a fair break took to my pipe again along with the amber liquid. I still get round the estate but wonder after a life's intake of lead why I am still here.
Probably because I'm just an ornery old git.
 
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