(August 20, 2023 at 11:22 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Absolutely. Every waking moment of every day I feel like someone has wedged a kbar into the joint of my knee. I get headaches that would make me punch a toddler. My back and my shoulder are perpetually on fire, even with the medication. I have blackout curtains in every room, so that no errant light makes it in. My tractor has mirrored tint. I was 210 at peak, I weigh upwards of 250 now (it seesaws, I break three hundo from time to time), this is after dieting. Just hauling my own ass from one side of a field to the other is exhausting...and fills me with shame.Join the club, I've been bald on the top of my head for 30 years, but refuse to cut my remaining hair. Why the hell would I want to look like every other bald guy with your hair trimmed short. I haven't cut my hair for 30+ years, but mine isn't even as long as yours is in your avatar. My hair takes forever to grow.
I don't deal with it, so much as ignore it. There's nothing (that I can afford) to do about it. It's been like this for a long time. I'm getting pudgier and pudgier...to my eternal disgust, as the clock ticks. Fun fact, that pick up there, with the imperial mullet. I actually can't grow any hair on most of the right side of my head. That's why all my pictures are from the left. Im fucking gorgeous from the left.....
It definitely gets harder trying to stay in some kind of decent shape as we get older. I've made myself swear that I won't die an old fat man like so many others do, so I've been going to the gym off and on ever since I had to retire. Before my second spinal-fusion surgery in my neck in late 2018, I was going to the gym 5 days a week. During covid, I didn't go for almost 2 years, then last august, I got a severe case of tendonitis in my shoulder that kept me out for almost another year.
I've started going back about 3 weeks ago, and I really like going and lifting weights and walking. It gets me out of the house. I'm still a work in progress.
