A Reality Check

[poliphilo]

We were comparing notes on the care of elderly parents- and what a trial they can be- and one of us asked him how old his mother was and he said, "56"- which is 6 years younger than me.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm not doing so badly for my age....:)

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

I hope you slapped him.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

He's a lot bigger than me....

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

LOL. And two years younger than me.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We're not doing so badly, are we?

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

Other than my bad knees, I don't feel much different than I did at 13. LOL.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

The 56 year old mum must be disabled. Nobody needs elder care at age 56 unless they're very ill.
Huh
Just a different set of circumstances. I'm 60 and nowhere near old.
;)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

She has emphysema.

[trixibelle-net.livejournal.com]

Haha! She must be doing pretty badly, to need care at that age. My parents are both nearing 60 and would probably disown me if I mentioned the word 'elderly'.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't mind being called "elderly" or "old". I've put in the time. I've earned the right.

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

I'm 56, but I'm still the baby of my family ;-). My oldest brother is going to be 70 next year. And we feel barely grown up...

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Curiously, I read earlier in the day of pyat opining that a new intern referred to "an old couple", later discovering that they were born in 1968 and 1969. ^_^;

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

Ye gods! The whippersnapper needs to be put over someone's knee and paddled for days.

[butterscotch711.livejournal.com]

There's an anthropologist called Helen Fisher (who studies being in love), who points out there are people in their 80s living middle aged lives now.

Which I kind of take to mean, you're middle aged until you're not.