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You know you're getting old when.....
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Haus
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No Mall Santa...
I couldn't even grow a goatee until I was in my late 20's. Late 30's before I could get everything to connect into a decent beard.... But I've caught up.
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56 bro it's not happening. My brother has a 'beard' that looks like an unshaved pussy on his jaw.
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Hoss
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He needs a pollock wife. I hear they grow bushes that look like a viking beard.
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I don't have a long beard, but it's 100% white now. I've always had facial hair but having to shave it off to get into some facilities I never really grew it real long. My dad made a big deal and had an award for winning a beard contest in 1976 which was one of the bicentenial deals. Not for me.
BrutulTM
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Same here. Even now it has to be at least an inch or longer or it looks thin and scruffy. A barber totally fucked me once because I asked him to trim it and he just put on a half inch comb and shaved it. Took me a good 6 weeks to get it looking decent again. It keeps getting longer though. I didn't know it just stopped at a certain length for some people. I keep it like 2.5" though, never gone for the full Santa Clause look.
BrutulTM
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On another aspect of getting old, my right knee has been injured 3 times in my life. I had surgery on it when I was 21 and it's always bothered me a little since then but this spring I was limping on it really badly, to the point where I was avoiding stairs and such. Went to the ortho doc and he gave me some steroid that only lasted a week that just totally cleared it up and made it feel amazing and then Celebrex for maintenance after that. Pretty much as soon as the steroid wore off, it was back to normal and I was limping around again. Last week he gave me a cortisone shot and the knee feels like new again. I know it's a temporary solution and I'm headed for more surgery or maybe a knee replacement down the road but it's amazing being pain free for the time being.
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Haus
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Yeah... pass a certain age and that "check engine" light comes on. Very often in the knees.
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Sheriff Cad
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Not trying to be a downer but every cortisone shot where the pain goes away is another opportunity to injure it further, because when it stops hurting you go back to using it normally without resolving the injury that was causing the inflammation.
It's good to use those shots as diagnostic tools to know what the actual problem is, but you don't want to be relying on those. Look into knee replacement or tendon repair, thats the only thing thats going to resolve your issue depending on whats wrong.
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Siliconemelons
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Most pathways to replacements require you (or so says the insurance) to go through the steps of getting a shot or two, documenting its effectiveness rate and duration etc. to then go "oh I guess you need a knee replacement" - while in the real world 9/10 if they just said "hey, lets just do a knee replacement" that would be the best and long term solution. Also - this process can take YEARS - if someone is fairly aged, you now are looking at surgery for a say, 62 year old rather than a 58 year old.
Insurance still works under generally 1) old ways, that these types of surgery are super last ditch, evasive, low result high recovery - rather than now days with modern stuff, are almost an oil change. 2) doing this long process produces more money for someone drawn out longer at the determent to the patient.... or both.
Like my dad gets the shots in his knees, that then help his back from compensating - but he cannot "be eligible" for replacement until all the "low impact" treatments have deemed "fail" - but if they were to have given him replacements say, 10 years ago- he would be now, in WAY better health etc.
So it works out better for those that break sooner rather than those that break down later in life.
Sheriff Cad
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No argument there. I got what amounts to a tommy john surgery in my right arm about 10 years ago, I did get a couple rounds of shots beforehand but once they did an MRI and saw my tendon was basically half torn, they went right to the surgery.
BrutulTM
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My doctor told me the cortisone was just a temporary band-aid but I'm enjoying it while it lasts. Also I had a rotator cuff surgery like 3 years ago and the recovery from that fucked me up in ways I won't go into but I'm not savoring the idea of another big surgery. I've also heard since those artificial joints have a lifespan it's good to wait as long as possible to get one but I'm not sure how true that is now. My Mom had a double knee replacement probably 10 years ago and it was life changing for her.
Hoss
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It's true of all your hair. The hair on your arm doesn't keep growing, does it? The only difference is how long it takes to get to it's max length. Head and beard hair takes 7 years I think. Because it grows in waves you'll get to max length in less than 7 years, but it'll continue filling out until every hair has gone through it's full cycle.
Hair grows in 3 waves. At any given time approximately 1/3 of your hair is growing, 1/3rd is dead and ready to fall out, and 1/3rd is just existing.