This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

I hope your surgery went well, Heez. Rather frequently, my right ear gets completely clogged up and I also cannot pick out individual speakers or tell where sounds are coming from. It really struck me how having even just a marginally difficult time hearing can immediately feel isolating.

Getting old is so f’in weird

Seconded.

Hope I don’t die soon!

Planning to live to 90 like my grandparents done did

Every time I get carded I’m like, “this is the last time I’m gonna get carded”

/romero

last got ID'd in Morrisons of all places when I was 40. I assume that will be the last time unless I go back to the USA at some point or somewhere else where they card OAPs

I get that they think I’m a narc…I guess

fell in the bathtub this morning. cut my chin open. i wouldn't call it a serious fall, but at my age i can't just brush off falls like i could when i was younger. scariest thing is that i live by myself. i mean i don't feel like i'm the age where i'd want a lifealert bracelet or something but yeah, if i seriously hurt myself by accident it'd be a while before anybody came to check. had a pretty bad fall last december... was on my way out to an event, it was icy, forgot something upstairs, went up the outside stairs too quickly and banged myself up. still went to the event, though, without even so much as cleaning myself up. i guess i can say i'm learning - i wouldn't do that today. i think the fall back in december was probably worse. hard to say. it's getting around. my balance has never been good. i had a fall in my garage back in '19 and my ankle stability has been really bad ever since.

anyway my QPP is gonna be over in a bit to check... in the meantime i'm just shook... got a towel in my mouth waiting for the bleeding to stop.

I turned 40 last week. Woof. For some perspective, I started reading ILX as a teenager so not only am I old, we’re all old.

I was 20 at the beginning and now 44, so I feel every year of that comment.

welcome, Allen

Hi!

Did you just turn 40

yes, it's my 40th birthday

Happy birthday : )

happy birthday!

Thank you!

Hb!

I will be bang on 45 in August.

I used to sneeze in twos and threes, now its fours and fives

Welcome fellow kids!

Don't you mean welcome in?

One year and a summer left on my ticket

how much is being old supposed to hurt?
not physically
in my soul
it hurts in my soul

i was never _young_
i never will be _young_

i feel _wrong_. i feel like something... that there's something i need and i don't have, can't have
all of those years that were taken from me
there's nothing in their place. half my life is just _missing_ and i'm supposed to act like it's ok and it's _not ok_
is it _ok_ for y'all? do you ever want to vomit digital artifacts and scream and cry for nothing, for no reason at all? is it just me?

i don't know
47
hitting 47 was _hard_