eh?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:19 (one month ago) link
jk sry
Ha! I’m having surgery in a month. They think one of those tiny lil ear bones lost connection so they’re gonna put a prosthetic in. Should get a lot but not all of it back. It’s seriously disorienting not to have hearing in one ear. I cannot geolocate sounds for the life of me.
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:57 (one month ago) link
this happened to my husband about 10 years ago. never got the hearing back. he can't tell where any sound is coming from, it's pretty bad. plus tinnitus :(
― kinder, Friday, 29 March 2024 22:14 (one month ago) link
I don’t wear bifocals or glasses of any sort but I do now (in my forties) understand why older people who do will tilt their head down when they look at something across the room and up when reading something in small print
― calstars, Saturday, 13 April 2024 21:10 (two weeks ago) link
I've got a painful foot/big toe. I've done some reading about gout and spoken to my dad, who suffers periodically, so pretty sure it's not that. I think it's probably a pressure/RSI from all the walking I do? It's manageable but is just another one of those 'it's always there' aches that makes up my body map.
I'm also now the proud owner of a 'bunion sleeve', which sounds like a rejected name for a 'combine two nouns' death metal band.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:32 (two weeks ago) link
My left knee inflammation only really cleared up this week. Reaggravated it shortly after it got better when I went ziplining due to the upstairs climb. Can finally bend it again lol.
Now minor left hip twinges showed up but not painful, but enough to where I'm walking a LITTLE different
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:53 (two weeks ago) link
i bought a cute pair of Vans for fun after mostly wearing semi-orthopedic shoes for the past 5 years . i wore them to the movies, and i maybe walked half a block to and from my car. YET NOW I AM IN PAIN WTF i now have this stupid pain in my instep/arch and can barely walk and it’s like cool great fuck me ever buying “fun” shoes again i fucking hate being old
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 01:03 (five days ago) link
Gotta get into a stretching practice again, and make sure the chair I sit in for work had some lower back support. I’m paying the price for not doing these things tonight.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 01:11 (five days ago) link
― sarahell, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 01:42 (five days ago) link
I think they have a line of vans with better support now
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 02:25 (five days ago) link
Wait til your Insoles start reeling like the devil’s breath
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 02:38 (five days ago) link
Oops reeking
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 02:39 (five days ago) link
these Vans were like v low profile maryjanes w glued-in insoles, i realized i would have had to semi-wreck them to wear insoles in them comfortably so i just returned them instead
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 03:36 (five days ago) link
i tried to wear ballet flats once. _once_.
in the meantime i have all kinds of fun stretches for my feet to do. fun stretches for _everything_ haha
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 14:12 (five days ago) link
when I think about my feet and feminine shoes, I really wish I had insisted on wearing men's shoes much earlier in life ... I have wide feet so I have to buy wide width shoes in women's anyway
― sarahell, Thursday, 25 April 2024 16:42 (four days ago) link
File under the Fear of becoming invisible dept: I ordered a slice at the pizzeria. Several minutes passed and server asked how he could help me
― calstars, Sunday, 28 April 2024 17:16 (yesterday) link
Lol thought it was only me shit that happened too.
Did you say "waiting on the five slices I ordered and paid for"?
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 April 2024 20:18 (yesterday) link
depends on how many other people are at the establishmentif 0, sure go ahead and take it personally if you mustif many, cut some slack? it's probably not about you.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Sunday, 28 April 2024 20:31 (yesterday) link
Exactly… I had this experience in my 20s … it definitely isn’t middle age
― sarahell, Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:19 (yesterday) link
I had this experience once, in an airport Dunkin Donuts, when absolutely no one else was in line or being served. I gave it a minute, then left and just got coffee and OJ somewhere else.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:50 (yesterday) link
(I’m 47 - this happened maybe two years ago)
This can reflect the invisibility of the single person - rather than the older person, ime.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:58 (yesterday) link