re: When did you realize you were getting older and not a spring chicken anymore?

39 and diagnosed with cancer. Never sick longer than 3 days before up until then, but for the last year I've been through the friggin ringer medically.
It was December '20 when I took my first ride in the back of an ambulance because of severe abdominal pain - I knew life as I knew it was going to change. Since then I've been in 4 different hospitals, have had over 100+ appointments with several different specialists, 7 surgeries, and have spent weeks in patient for procedures.
I'm still holding out hope that my life can go back to somewhat normal once all of this is over HOPEFULLY in a few weeks after this stem cell transplant. I'm dying to go back to work and be able to visit family and friends again.

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I'm 44 and still feel fine but I definitely don't feel 28 anymore either.

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I think what happens as we get older, or at least what I try to do, is compensate by making better choices.. i dont drink nearly as much at 45 as i did at 25, so i usually feel better than i did back then and have fewer hangovers.. not b/c im not aging, but only becuase of those choices.. same with sleep; i feel better rested most days than i did at 19, not becuase of anything other than the fact that i try to make sleep a priority.. at 19 I’d sometimes try all-nighters, or try to get by on 2 or 3 hrs of sleep.. if i tried that now it’d be pointless b/c i wouldnt even be able to function.

As a woman, how does that make you feel?

When I was a kid a group of us were playing basketball in the driveway of a friend's house. The friend's dad (mid 40s) rolled up and started talking crap about how he was a great player in high school, how today's game was all style over substance with no fundamentals or discipline and how he could single handedly beat all of us together in a pickup game.

About 10 seconds later he crumpled to the ground with a pulled hamstring screaming in pain while four 12 year olds stood there laughing at him.

I'm guessing that was his "moment"

Recently when I have about 3 prescriptions to take every morning for joint pain caused from football injuries and high cholesterol.

I find it odd I have high cholesterol but am not fat though I could stand to lose a few lbs, and I don’t have high blood pressure. It’s a recent phenomenon

When I turned about 38 and blew out 3 discs in my lower back. It's been downhill ever since, and I'm only 41.

When what ailed me could not longer be cured with a shot. In fact, the shot also ailed me. And ailed me for three damn days!!

A lot of physical stuff referenced, but at about 35-36 my precision in some things at work started to decline a little, mainly in writing. I proofread well, but from 25-35 I rarely found drafting errors, typos, missed words, etc. I could bang out finished product quality stuff pretty easily.

Now I feel I have an error in something I've written more often than not.

When kids started putting Mister in front of my first name in the neighborhood.