Entropy
My body was in reasonable shape until about fifty years of age. I knew I was getting older. But after fifty, entropy became really noticeable. Things began to go wrong. Joint pain, backaches, hair loss in one place, and annoying hair growth in another, vision changes requiring intervention, weight gain, and nascent medical problems of a more serious nature, also demanding intervention. The rate of entropy has increased since then. I can imagine a future where I’m an old man living on soft food - on soup and tofu. If I live long enough, adult diapers will be in store for me. Joint pain is already bad enough to affect my mobility.]
I remember joking in high school that I would not live to an age younger than I am now. So, in a way, I’m surprised that I’m even still alive. I’ve come very close to death twice in my life.
I’ve experienced more than one ambulance ride to a hospital Emergency Room, and I have accumulated a small list of medical procedures and surgeries that will only grow as I age. So far, I’ve had these procedures:
General Anesthetic Local Anesthetic
wisdom tooth trigger finger
retinal detachment angiogram
broken knee 2 root canals
more tooth extraction