Health Warning - Don't turn 30!

[Eddie Jones]

I wish all youse buggers would change the subject. I turn 60 soon!

(sob......)

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Yer ailments are getting younger, eh?

Ummm... I don't quite know how to put this, but let's just say that if you're jewish, nappy rash would be the last thing I'd be worried about!

[AlexS]

Aaah, growin' old's no fun, but it sure beats the alternative.

[bsrlee]

Young Whipper Snippers!

Look at this way, getting Chicken Pox at 30 means you will probably be over 100 when you get shingles - just giving you something to look forwards to

[ian]

The Doc confirmed it the next day. Same doc. Looked me square in the eye and said “You have chicken pox – how old are you?”
“Thirty”, came my sheepish reply. I could tell he wouldn’t approve of my decision to turn 30.
“Thirty? Oh wow – you’re going to be really sick!”
I love my doctor.
He was right, of course – I was really sick. Not just itchy, but really crook. I slept several times a day and anywhere between ten to sixteen hours at night.

Now, if I look back on my life since I decided to turn 30, I see a decided pattern. It all started with a crook back, which is an ailment often reserved for old-timers. Then I busted a rib – something that an active teenager may complain of. The lurgy can fit into any time of life, but the chicken pox is usually for kids under the age of 10. My ailments seem to be getting younger and younger! What’s around the corner?? Nappy rash???:confused:

So to all the younger members of this Forum; if you are thinking of turning 30, please take my advice. Don’t. It’s not worth it.

I remember turning 30.
hadn't met my wife
still had both parents
didn't have kids, or a morgage, or major responsibilities drove my own choice of car

then I turned 40
only one parent left
had a wife and a morgage and two cats
was reduced to driving the wife's choice of car (red MX-5 )

then I turned 50
still have one parent (now pushing 85) plus the darling wife and a kid (who coincidently also has chicken pox!) plus a morgage, two cats and four fish (but at least I get to drive my choice of car )

now 50 is more than a year ago and in the past year I've found I can't read or do anything involving detail without glasses and sometimes a magnifing glass, still have the morgage, cats and the fish
Plus measles in May and wait for what else is brought home from school...


and you complan about turning 30!


get better

ian

[journeyman Mick]

Brendan,
it's quite possible not to turn 30 if you want to. It seems that not everybody knows that your age is not directly related to how many years you've been around. For about ten years or so, when people asked me my age I'd tell them truthfully that I was 21. I lived life, partied, drank, bought expensive toys and generally behaved like a 21 year old. That lasted till I was in my early 30's. I did mature a bit then and I was a 25 year old for nearly ten years then. Didn't party so hard or drink that much, but still had expensive toys and few responsibilities. Unfortunately you can't hold back time forever and I woke up one morning and was 40 years old.:eek: Bugger that was a real shock, let me tell you, from 25 to 40 overnight.
If you reckon turning 30 has been a shock, wait till you hit 40, your eyesight fails, your muscles weaken, your hair turns grey (if it hasn't already fallen out ), you need more sleep etc etc.

Hang in there mate, hope you get better soon.

Mick

[coastie]

Elizabeth Klubler Ross has written some good books on the alternative!!!
Hopes this makes all you whinging bludgers feel better!!!
I had a nice experience regarding this yesterday ,I was just sitting down and was about to watch an episode of the Sopranos when my next door neighbour
cam screaming up the driveway yelling my name and looking distraught
"Come quickly,I think Allan (her husband) is dead".So I raced over to her house to find him slumped in his favourite chair with no discernible movement. I looked to see if his chest was rising and falling but could not detect any movement, he was a paler shade of white I then looked closely at his eyes and could detect the slighest movement just then his chest began to shudder,and he began breathing very shalowly but breathing,poor old bugger had a stroke,went to visit him tonight he,s f***** ,cant speak ,doesnt recognise any bodyetc etc .He was a great old bloke 79 years old had an old xp falcon that he had done up and used to show and had won a few prizes with ,one of natures gentlemen he was.I hope this is not the end of him.So you see fellas the alternative ain't got much going for it!!!!

[bennylaird]

Has anyone seen the Friday thread???????

It is Friday after all?????

[Felder]

Benny,

Please don't hijack my Illness/Self-pity Thread. This is serious....

I've already discovered that I've probably caught the chicken pox through the Forum, thanks to Ian. He is the only person I have heard of that knows someone else with the plague! Makes sense, really...

:eek::eek:My computer can now pass a virus to a human!!:eek::eek:

[bennylaird]

Had to post here mate, knew everyone would look so as they could pity you and your woes.

[Terry B]

Benny,

Please don't hijack my Illness/Self-pity Thread. This is serious....

I've already discovered that I've probably caught the chicken pox through the Forum, thanks to Ian. He is the only person I have heard of that knows someone else with the plague! Makes sense, really...

:eek::eek:My computer can now pass a virus to a human!!:eek::eek:

What a skill! I must remember to disinfect my keyboard- Oh doesn't matter, I had the zoster when I was a kid so I'm immune. :eek: :eek:

[silentC]

I had chicken pox as a kid and then had shingles at 22. Both caused by the Zoster. Shingles is FAR worse than the pox. I still have the scars :eek:

[MajorPanic]

Brendan.........Mate!!!






You are gonna be ABSOLUTELY STUFFED by the time you turn 40!!!!!!!!
So as a mate,... I'd recommend doing an action plan to help you over that milestone

[kiwigeo]

Brendan,

Situps for the back (yeah, I didn't believe it either, but it's true)

Tex

Be careful with these...you can make the problem worse. If youre dead set on situps then do the Pilates style situps where you dont go all the way up. Get a physio to show you how to do them.

Plain old walking is good..

[Munga]

SilentC, off & on through my life I'd heard about these shingles things but didn't realy know what they were & then about three months ago I got them in the eye, man I agree with you something one could do without.

Felder hang in there mate getting older has it's moments like sitting back wondering "how did I survive or get away with that" & "look at that young bugger he don't what he in for thats gonna hurt"