Getting old sucks!!!!!

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Well, hunting season is just around the corner, and guess what? I'm a phoquing year older them last year. What does that mean? Well, there is less oxygen in the air. All the hills are now 15-20 degrees steeper, someone filled my hunting pack with rocks. But those are just your normal, year-to-year stuff. But, for the last 20 years or so, I've had tinnitus. Not very bad, just sounds like leaves rustling when there is no background noise. Which is enough to drive you nuts when you're in your stand. But now, oh, joy! I've added floaters. They're little black spots that scoot in front of your eyes. SO now, when I'm in my stand, I'll hear deer rustling in the leaves, and catch side glimpses of them out of the corners of my eyes. Can't wait for the season!
 
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Well, hunting season is just around the corner, and guess what? I'm a phoquing year older them last year. What does that mean? Well, there is less oxygen in the air. All the hills are now 15-20 degrees steeper, someone filled my hunting pack with rocks. But those are just your normal, year-to-year stuff. But, for the last 20 years or so, I've had tinnitus. Not very bad, just sounds like leaves rustling when there is no background noise. Which is enough to drive you nuts when you're in your stand. But now, oh, joy! I've added floaters. They're little black spots that scoot in front of your eyes. SO now, when I'm in my stand, I'll hear deer rustling in the leaves, and catch side glimpses of them out of the corners of my eyes. Can't wait for the season!
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At least you won't be bored!
 
The floaters suck. I had them all my life and in a much higher quantity than normal. Then a few years ago I had the wonderful experience of my left eye having three bright flashes of light which lead to even more popping up.
 
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I hear you brother! A couple of years ago I decided that enough is enough, I've hunted deer in what I now consider silly rough terrain, Caribou in -55 and absolutely miserable conditions.
At a certain age your body wants a break, not your fault, just the way life is.

I finally accepted the fact that my body is not as tough as my mind so I made the ultimate deer stand with all the comforts that I mocked and looked down at fellow hunters for building.
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67 here. Getting just a little harder every year dragging a deer out of the bush or carrying a limit of greater Canadas back to the vehicle. gonna keep on truckin though till I can`t.

DF
 
This year we got a moose draw. My hunting partner just turned 90. He is so excited he is already packed. He will likely do most of his hunting off an atv.
 
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The floaters suck. I had them all my life and in a much higher quantity than normal. Then a few years ago I had the wonderful experience of my left eye having three bright flashes of light which lead to even more popping up.
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Ironers, get your eyes checked, I had bright flashes in my right eye and the optometrist confirmed that part if my retina had detached. Sent me to the hospital and after a 20 minute laser treatment it was sealed and cured.
 
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The floaters suck. I had them all my life and in a much higher quantity than normal. Then a few years ago I had the wonderful experience of my left eye having three bright flashes of light which lead to even more popping up.
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My eye doctor told me after a while, your brain will learn to ignore them and you won't see them . :)

Grizz
 
I may be getting older but I refuse to grow up!

Don't use the word old . . . old is when you're best before date and expiry coincide.

It is all just a frame of mind . . . if you don't mind it don't matter!
 
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But now, oh, joy! I've added floaters. They're little black spots that scoot in front of your eyes.
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Go see your doctor. Floaters that you were born with are one thing but new ones could indicate a torn retina.

We just went through this with my wife who had retinal tears in both eyes. A long drive followed by laser welding in both eyes seems to have fixed her up.

If it is indeed a torn retina the sooner you get it looked at the easier it will be to fix.

https://www.asrs.org/patients/retinal-diseases/26/retinal-tears
 
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I am almost 60. I was welding a rock crib together for a dock and to level it I lifted one corner(200lbs). 1 Crunch later my back hurt. Then I went shooting and shot a reload that would slow a mack truck. I should have been standing instead of sitting at my bench. That 45/70 reload was enough to wrench the back injury even further(see the hematoma pics). I have spent 20 hours a day on my back trying (10 or more days)to heal the injury. Heat, physio, drugs and stretching and it is taking too dam long because I have things to do.
All this is to make everyone be aware of your limitations. I guess I need to slow down. Just haven't realized it yet.
Positive side is Doc says it will heal (after x-rays)and that I didn't break my back.
Doesn't my back know I have load development to do. 338 to 3000 but I can't lift the dang target yet.
take care.
 
Wfie says, "yer up early".
Yee-up, aches less standing.
Ohhhh, gonnah bee a busy week and I t'ain't even jest begun...………...:onCrack:


Wax awn, wax awf, pain tuh fence.

One gooder thing 'bout liv'in upp'ear, never gonna run owtah things tuh dew.
Deer much'in the lawn, so less tuh mow.
 
We're all in the same boat. I was injured a couple of years ago and after all the treatments and physio I am still trying to recover. I didn't even bother getting a tag this year but I still go for the occasional early morning walk with my favourate o/u broken over my shoulder. Even though I still have 25/20 & 30/20 vision and my hearing seems fine (don't know how I got away with that), my days of lifting 200 + lbs are over. It's frustrating because on a good day at physio (which is few and far in between) I am barely maxing out at 180lbs. Ahhhh... to be 20 again. I'll even take 30 or 40. Well if it gets to the point where I can't hunt, I would still like to go out but to mentor an apprentice/junior hunter but it seems like the majority of today's young foke do all their hunting in video games.
 
Yep, I'm getting old (65) and my dog died of old age in April. She was not only instrumental in finding half of the birds we saw, she was great for retrieving them once they hit the ground. We hunted with her for 14 seasons (last season being the first she ever missed). My hunting partner's the same age as me. He has nerve damage in one leg after suffering a hemotoma, has fingers that have lost all feeling, and now seems to be in the early stages of some sort of palsy. Me, I've somehow contracted rheumatoid arthritis and I seem to have developed an ability to bruise more easily than a banana (for example, just holding my phone in my hand for too long can make it tender for days).

But, both of us live for hunting and we shoot international trap for fun. Not a chance we're going to stop. Spending time out at the cabin is better than any medication or therapy. We refer to ourselves as 'gentlemen hunters' now. We get up at noon, hunt half days, and generally take our sweet time for everything. What we lack in speed, strength, and stamina, we make up for with knowledge of game tendencies and superior shooting.

I just bought yet another gun last Saturday and the closer we get to hunting season, the younger I feel.
 
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